1. 'The Christmas Miracle' is a short story written by Charles Egbert Craddock the pen name of Mary Noailles Murfree. The story follows a man named Jubal Kennedy who was of the temperament impervious to spiritual subtleties fain to reach conclusions with the line and rule of mathematical demonstration. Thus all unreceptive he looked through the mountain gap as through some stupendous gateway on the splendors of autumn; the vast landscape glamorous in a transparent amethystine haze; the foliage o