Introduction: Home for Christmas / Joseph Leininger Wheeler -- Waiting...waiting for Christmas / Elizabeth King English -- His guiding star / Mary Agnes Jackman -- Holly at the door / Agnes Sligh Turnbull -- Christmas is for kids / Nancy H. Rue -- The bells didn't ring / Isabel T. Dingman -- A rose in winter / Jodi Detrick -- An ill wind / Frederick William Roe -- Carla's Christmas gift / Judith Wade -- Bulger's friends / O. Henry -- The town that gave us joy / Marian Jeppson Walker -- The forgotten friend / Grace Livingston Hill -- How an unborn baby saved its mother's life / Joseph A. MacDougall (as told to Douglas How) -- A Christmas experience / Author unknown -- Like a candle in the window / Margaret E. Sangster -- City of dreams /Joseph Leininger Wheeler.