Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
in London
Christmas is the greatest day of the year in England
and this was the first Christmas day I ever spent in a
foreign land.
In the morning the church bells throughout
London chanted for meeting and the Saints also met for
service. After morning service comes what gives the
halo of glory and jolity to Old Christmas—the dinner. The
service of the day is something like the blessing before meat
but the Christmas ^dinner^ is an institution with the nation and
Christmas holds his feast of State in every city town and
hamlet—in every palace mansion and cottage and comfortless
is the wretched place which merry Christmas enters not
Our Christmas dinner was eat with brother
Morgan and family and the evening was spent with the
Rev. Mr Albon in conversing about the things of God.
