The Christmas tree displayed in front of Providence City Hall could use a little of Dickens' " Spirit of Christmas Past ". No hint of the religious meaning of the Holy Day ? No Jesus and Joseph statues, no Baby Jesus , no Gift of the Magi , no gentle beasts keeping the new born infant warm ? . Not even a fat jolly Saint Nicholas: " Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house... "
" Bah Humbug ! "
[ "Dickens put such a character in a kind of hell or purgatory (it's not clear whether the punishment is permanent) in A Christmas Carol -- Scrooge's partner Jacob Marley. Marley's ghost explains to Scrooge that he is doomed to wander through the world and "witness what it cannot share," bearing a long chain comprised of his deeds in life, Scrooge protests, 'But you were always a good man of business.' Marley cries back, 'Business! Mankind was my business! The common welfare was my business!' ]
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