We are constantly reminded, especially by those stunted sceptics who seem never to get beyond one step in thought, that many of the popular customs of Christmas are pagan things. In one sense it is true, though in the sense they mean it is untrue. Most of us were pagans before we were christened; but that does not necessarily make us pagans now. And this is quite as true of an institution as of an individual.

-December 24, 1921, Illustrated London News