New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-24
FINE SINGING BIZ THE CHoIRs AND oHohUshs-
WHERE SPECIAL SERMONS WERE PREACHED


WHERE SPECIAL SERMONS WERE PHhAohSD'
The Christmas music and Christmas sermons III
On. churches Yesterday attracted to the services many
who are not habitul church goers Tho numpcr VI
churches both In this city and In Broohiyh' WIZ"
d.narted from their usual Sunday service 10 ceeoraS
the great Christian festival was unusually larsc' anu
a great deal Of elaborate music was proPaacu ioi ~
day. Most Of the churches which had no Cnfs
service yesterday will repeat next sunday inc soi
vice to be given omorrow. Few OF inc onu1.n.o
were decorated but this morning they VIII rapdly
tab. on IN. tovfuI holiday look. and before night
the decorations which in many cases arc W s"P"''
all previous years. will be completed
Elaborate musical services tho special features
of most of the celebrations yesterday Az the
OF the Divine Paternity Fifth-ave and Forty
q large chorus choir. accompanied by harp Vioioh
cello and a cornct, and led by quartet, consisting
of Mime. f. [. De Carlo Mrs. Helen Lnddington' An
drew W Ead,e and Emil senger, presented unusually
fine music The professional. anthems, SOL ana
ofertory were particularly fine church music Al
St. Johns Methodist Episcopal Church In west flity
third-st carefully prepared programme was rem.
dered by a choir Of thirty voices At the second
Collegiate Reformed Church in Lenox-ave In ahduon
to the special music In the morning. new cantata'
Jesus of Nazareth" by c. B. Rutsnber, was sung
for the first time by the choir, assisted by chorus
of 300 voices at the evening service At the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church the pastor, the Rev. DR..
Thomas Armitage, preached The Music OF the
Nativity and there special music by the
choir The Rev. DR.. Robert Collyer also
preached Christmas sermon at the Church OF the
Messiah. An elaborate musical programme py a
quartet, chorus harp and was presented at the
Central Congregational Church. in West Fifty seventh
st., and the Rev. William Lloyd peacbed on Light
from the Manager of Bethlehem
There were also elaborate Christmas services at
the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Threth
Street Methodist Episcopal Church. the Bedford Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, the Madison Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church, the Madison Avennc Re
formed Church, the First Collegiate Reformed Church,
the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, All Souls Church
I'm Fourth ave-, /Ahc New-Jerusalcm Church In East
Thirty ffth-st, the Universast Church in Eleventh
St, and many others. The lecture at the Hebrew
Temple Emanuel, IN Fifth ave-, was on The Origin
and Meaning Of the Modern Christmas
The services In the Brooklyn churches were equally
as elaborate as those in NewYork The music at St
Stephens Catholic Church, Hicks and Summit sts;,
under the S,c.n direction S1e programmc
the direction of Walton n Ellis At the Emanuel
Baptist Church, Lafayette ave and St James Place,
Brstow's Light flashing into darkness" Shelley
tie Deumn In b fiat and an offerOry anthem, while
shepherds watch their fochs," from Vogfch, were
ist Episcopal churches which had especial services
for the day, the DC Kab Avenue Church. Grace
Church in Seventh-ave,, and the Simpson Church, at
Clermont and Wflloughby ayes There was Christ
mas sermon at the Hanson Place Baptist Church. and
the Rev. DIR. Wesley Reid Davis preached At the
the Rev. J. ". Chadwick preached Christmas sermon
on "The Blessed Mother Many other churches
had especially prepared programmes Of Christmas
music.