as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
These lines so aptly describe the spirit of christmas. It is one time where the differnce between various segments of people fade away. May be we should carry on with this spirit and world will be a better place and will have less people like scrooge.
