9781501822704

God Bless Us Every One

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Macro Editor: Ramona Richards

Published in association with Wheelhouse Literary Agency

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Everson, Eva Marie, author.

Title: God bless us every one : a contemporary Christmas carol / Eva Marie Everson.

Description: First edition. | Nashville, Tennessee : Abingdon Press, [2016]

Identifiers: LCCN 2016012082| ISBN 9781501822698 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501822704 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Christmas stories. | GSAFD: Christian fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3605.V47 G63 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016012082

Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

Epigraphs taken from Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (London: Chapman & Hall, 1843).