On Christmas Day '08, SOAPnet aired a marathon of General Hospital Christmas episodes.
The second episode was from December 24, 1998:
General Hospital Episode #19989151 (original air date 12/24/98) Lucky and Liz say they love each other for the first time and then exchange gifts with Nikolas and Emily; Monica asks Edward to play Santa and Alan to read the Christmas story at the hospital party.
Part 3 of 5.