{"id":361,"date":"2017-01-04T20:11:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/?p=361"},"modified":"2017-01-04T20:11:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T20:11:27","slug":"a-christmas-sermon-robert-louis-stevenson-on-wikisource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/a-christmas-sermon-robert-louis-stevenson-on-wikisource\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Sermon &#8211; Robert Louis Stevenson on Wikisource"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_362\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Robert_Louis_Stevenson-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"size-full wp-image-362\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson-1xmas7770.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Louis Stevenson (public domain pic from Wiki Commons)\" width=\"290\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson-1xmas7770.jpg 290w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/wir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/Robert_Louis_Stevenson-1xmas7770-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Louis Stevenson (public domain pic from Wiki Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Across_the_Plains_with_Other_Memories_and_Essays\/A_Christmas_Sermon\"><em>A Christmas Sermon\u2019<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>a short public domain text available on Wikisource, Robert Louis Stevenson meditates on the holiday season, death, morality and man\u2019s main task in life: \u201c<em>to be honest, to be kind\u2026<\/em> <em>to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2018A Christmas Sermon\u2019 appeared in a collection of essays entitled \u2018<em>Across the plains: with other Memories and Essays\u2019<\/em> (1892) and was written, along with <em>The Master of Ballantrae<\/em>, shortly after Stevenson&#8217;s father had passed away and while Stevenson himself was recovering from a lung ailment at Lake Saranac, New York, in the winter of 1887.<\/p>\n<p>More openly-licensed Christmas texts can be found at Wikisource\u2019s <a href=\"Christmas\">Portal:Christmas<\/a> including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Is_There_a_Santa_Claus%3F_(New_York_Sun)\">Is There a Santa Claus?<\/a> (1897).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikisource<\/a>, the hyper library hosts over 340,000 out-of-copyright longer texts (plays, poems, short stories, novels, letters, speeches, constitutional documents, songs &amp; 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