Friedrich Schleiermacher — Christmas Eve: A Dialogue on the Celebration of Christmas, translated by W. Hastie (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1890).
Schleiermacher’s little dialogue of 1806, set in a German household on Christmas Eve, in which a family and their friends keep the feast with gifts, music and conversation, and each in turn gives an account of what the birth of the Child means: a feast of the feelings and of the home, in which the person of Christ is the centre of all religious joy. The translator’s preface and an appendix by Dr. Carl Schwarz on the dialogue are included.