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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Christmas Angel (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Abbie Farwell Brown (1871-1927) was an American author. Brown would write collections retelling old tales for a contemporary child audience.Excerpt:"What do you want?" Norah flushed; but she was hardened to her mistress's manner. "Only to ask if I may go out for a little while to see the decorations and hear the singing." "Decorations? Singing? Fiddlestick!" retorted Miss Terry, poker in hand. "What decorations? What singing?" "Why, all the windows along the street are full of candles," answered Norah; "rows of candles in every house, to light the Christ Child on his way when he comes through the city to-night."

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"Not since Charles Dickens laid down his pen forever has there been a prettier Christmas story written, one more full of the real spirit of Christmas or conveying a more seasonable lesson than Abbie Farwell Brown's 'The Christmas Angel.' How a disappointed and embittered lady of middle age, occupying herself on Christmas eve with sorting over and throwing away the Christmas toys of her childhood, becomes unwittingly a minister of Christmas pleasure, and how her own Christmas is unexpectedly brightened in consequence, - this is the simple story, but it is exquisitely told." -The Living Age "In a parabolic form, this story deals with skepticism, doubt and even hatred on the part of a worldly-wise woman, and, somewhat after the manner so charmingly used by Dickens in his 'Christmas Carol,' the skepticism, doubt and hatred are swept away and are replaced by resolution, decision and finally charity, which is easily the great of them all." -The Independent "Tells how a little toy Christmas angel brings joy into the lives of a lonely spinster and an unfortunate little girl. The story is an absorbing one, full of tender human pathos, but with a happy ending." -Boston Journal "An appealing holiday story." -Publishers Weekly "The author has invested the delightful story with the real Christmas spirit of joyousness." -Philadelphia Record "'The Christmas Angel' of Abbie Farwell Brown has his little sermon to preach, it is true, but he preaches it so sweetly, and it is such a good and useful little sermon of love and thoughtfulness for others, that the little preacher deserves to be made welcome in many a home." -The Bookman "Should find warm welcome; the story is touching and effective in the same way as 'The Christmas Carol.'" -The Nation "A tender little Christmas idyl with a very real and human interest in it." -Richmond Times-Dispatch "A little story of tenderness and power, beautifully presented....It is in the spirit of the Dickens Christmas stories and with some approach to their machinery, but with its own delightful characteristics." -New-York Observer

She stooped once more to pick up something which had fallen out when the cover was jarred open. It was a pink papier-mâché angel, such as are often hung from the top of Christmas trees as a crowning symbol. Norah stood holding it between thumb and finger, staring amazedly. Who would think to find such a bit of frivolity in the house of Miss Terry! The Christmas Angel is a stirring reminder of what really matters at Christmas and throughout the year.

Introduction and Afterword by Joe Wheeler What would people do if they found her childhood toys lying in the street? Act selfishly? Miss Terry tossed each toy one by one to the snowy sidewalk in front of her house. But her heart is moved when she sees the Christmas Angel kicked aside. Remembering all the years it graced her family mantel, she rushes to rescue it. Back inside, the Christmas Angel comes to life, and reveals the actual destiny for each toy, and for Miss Terry, that she could have never imagined. The Christmas Angel, part of the Focus on the Family Great Stories collection, includes an in-depth introduction and discussion questions by Joe Wheeler. It is a stirring reminder of what really matters at Christmas and throughout the year.

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