The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.

From Luke 2:20:  “The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as it had been told them.”

Robert Collyer (1823-1912) was an English-born pastor.  Early in his adult life, he emigrated to the United States and would later resuming preaching after having done so in England.