THE FIRST CHRISTMAS BOXES
Wo: all like Christmas boxes, oven if we do not get. many. .'ln ancient days, equally as now, they were given and refused. The Church begun the practice by placing a box at the church door for Chnatmus alms, which same wero to bo distributed among the poor. The Catholic Apostolic, "or Irvingite, Church j'eipehjat.es the custom to tins. day. It was Die City of London which led llio wny 500 years ago agiiinsl the begging of Christmas boxes. Tho Court, of Aldermen declared that :" It is ordered that no Sergeant of the City »h»ll in future beg or require of any person of any *si>k any money• on pain of losing hie office."
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 150, 22 December 1922, Page 15
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118THE FIRST CHRISTMAS BOXES Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 150, 22 December 1922, Page 15
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