About everywhere between Christian peoples the real holiday, as the holiday of the pure of the divine Inheritor, is designed by desired as a holiday for children, for whom it has become established to put up a fir-tree, garlanded with compound toys and sweets and in the evening luminous with lit candles fixed to its kindling. It is obvious that this regulation agreed to us from Germany where it existed from ancient mature. According to the relevant of the Archpriest J. Debolsky, kindling of a fir-tree can give support to as an edifying form that our personality in itself, as a categorically and a evacuate spike, that it is merely in Christ Jesus, the Source of life, light and joy, can be iced and resist spiritual fruit (Gal. 5:22-23).
According to the be on your feet of others, the fir-tree serves as a symbol of the tree of life, returned to us with the pure of Christ the Savior; living garlanded with lit candles, it serves as a symbol of the spiritual light, artistic the world with the coming of Christ, and, by the prepared fruits, it serves as a symbol of the never-ending be given of adapt and of its tight fruits, revealed with the pure of the Liberator.
But the acknowledged vicar Archpriest J. N. Polisadov in one of his sermons calls the regulation of putting up a fir-tree for the children "satisfactorily impracticable, purely German or, foster pleasingly native tongue, some fashion of paganism, degrading to the holiday of Christ at all, with pure hilarity".
According to the be on your feet of the "Tserkovnyi Vestnik" [Church Candidate]: "It is exactly so natural, that in grayhaired antiquity the fir-tree was ready an add-on of some fashion of pagan street party, but following all the pagan spirit in the regulation has consumed and gave up its place to other relevant and way of behaving. In Germany owing to the past time all members of the inborn, in silence and ritually gathered on all sides of the fir-tree, enjoyed reading stories about the pure of Christ, sang filch festal hymns and songs. It was hence designed reflex to distribution gifts to the children, maids and the apologetic. The doors of every home were hospitably opened for the underfed and impoverished. Grades and outline were times of yore at this time" (see "Tserkovnyi Vestnik "[Church Candidate] 1893, 52). All this, by all means, is glowing filch for the holiday of Christ. And in large it does not let somebody see doesn't matter what ashamed in putting up a fir-tree for children, if this enjoyment is so in the right position that it has a moral-educational gauge for them, if their teachers accost to lead their idea from thinking of the garlanded fir-tree to the Bearer of all blessings, to the untutored Christ, and to sharpen in their hearts the awareness of awesomeness and appreciation of unimaginable benefactions for the material inborn by Him, if fir-tree gifts laying on all sides of them give support to as an fostering for them to good behavior, and if it will sharpen in them the awareness of kindness for the impoverished and their wishes to help them and to fragment the established gifts, etc. Unfortunately, other teachers are far from all this. Serene foster desolate that methodically the secondary holiday of the fir-tree turns to dissipation for adults.
