Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-26
The Rsuss Of Nope.


At this church there was grand rally of
the children, net only of the Home school
bat of its two offshsots, the Fort street
and the Harvester Works mission. At
half past ten the children of all the
schools assembled in the school room and
were arranged, each class With its teacher
at its head, and after all had gathered,
they filed in martial order into the body of
the church, the Fort street mission sohool
OCCUPYING the east side, the Home school
all the center, and the Harvester school the
west. Nowhere osuld moro happy look
ing or bettsr clad number of children be
found. They were there, it might be
said, the listle toddlors at the knees, TO the
full growD young lady and gentleman, but
all to- day children again. The gallery and
the wings of the shursh we're filed by the
paters and matters, by the big brothers and
sisters and the friends, all enjoying the
scene which recalled to them the days of
happy childhood, whom, they too, were
more directly the rsoipisutsI of Christ
mas gifts, and made thsn almost Wish
they wore children again, especially when
they saw ihe happy blythe looks of she
future msa and vsnsn of our country.
LILO aOOOI&bkOAo Va suU CuQTCu wore low Out
in excellent taste. The platform, reading
desk and niohe IN front of the organ was q
mass Of evsrgreens in fsstoons and clust-
ers, whilst in the centre of the platform
ives pyramid Of evsrgresns with the
word
sURP7IsH
running down the centre.
On the trent Of the organ was q hand
some evergreen five pointed star, with q
border of white flowers, unique in design
and chaste in appearance. sFsstoons of
evergreens hung in loops from either aide
OF tbs wings and encircled the pillars form
ing the support of the organ niche. At
tentive ushers seated the large assemblass
rapidly and noislsssly, and the programme,
q copy of which had been given to every
one present, was proceeded With.
Tbs scholars, who have been under the
Instruction of Mr.. G. Willrich, the ohoirster,
sang excelisntly the different anthems, and
those present were highly delighted with
their sweet voices and choice rendering of
some of the different measures. There wa.
wonderful accord, and Mr.. Willrioh may
well be congratulated on his great sue
cess.
Ihe programme was as follows:
Anthem Onward, Christian Soldier
Prayer, in which Mr.. Thss Cochran, Super
intendent of the Honse OF Hope led
Responses Scripture Reading
Anth ;m-1t came upon the midnight clear
Address by the Rev. Il. C. Woods, of Wood.
land Park Baptist Church.
Anthem-lhe Children's TIE Deum.
SURPRISE
Anthen-Christmas Chimes.
Can you Find it (?
Presents Distributed.
Portuguese Hymn.
The address by the Rev. DR.. Wood, wa:
one that will not be soon forgotten by
those present. He began by wishing those
present Merry Christmas, and narrated
the manner in which he had been i'm
pressed by Mr.. Cochran to address the chill
dren and the older ones present, rs hard
ly knew what 10 say that would be of liter
est to them. This, TO him, wss neS
place, new faces he saw before him, and he
wished to ssy something neg TO them. Bn
what could he says BE had come to tbs
conclusion thas at this time what would b;
the most pleasant to hear would be tn,
best, and he would fail back on the old
old story, which was always new. For yesri
we have heard the words merry Christ
mas" and il sounded, and was as pleasan
10 .hs saxs as sne Hrss tine Nc hoard it