, 1889-12-25
CHRISTMAS EVE.
Celebration of the Yule Tide in City
Churches.
Happy Lot of Children at the Meth
odist Mission.
Trees and Concerts for the Various
Sunday Schools.


reporter has spent the early Christmas
eve at the West End Mission of the Meth
odist society Of this city. 1t is a Sunday
school conducted by Peter HANNA and
some Christian ladies and the quarters
are now a big room in Milton Taylor's
Wyoming block on Seventeenth. The
scholars are for the most part waits
gathered in from the BY ways, though the
membership includes some of the bright
est children in the city and in the happy
assembly that partook of Christmas cheer
yesterday were boys and girls who cannot
but make good men and women and this
result will be due in a large measure to the
Mission influence.
In 1887 the children couldn't be kept
quiet and orderly with clubs; a year later
their behavior showed the favorable effect
Of kindly discipline and yesterday they
were under perfect control, with not an
unruly one in the entire lot. The little
girls were gentle and the boys genteel.
Improvement in other directions is
marked. The apparel is neater and the
standard OF personal cleanliness is higher.
The Mission Christmas tree was a large
evergreen with smaller ones on either
side and every limb was loaded. About
seventy-fve children we're in attendance
and each one received a present. During
the distribution they were a sight to make
one glad. The spectacle would find a re-
soouse in the heart of the most prosaic.
Give a little bow a pair of toy horses. n
couple of books. a handkerchief. two bags
of candy. an orange and a pop corn
ball and girls the same with
dolls instead of horses and watch
watch The effect. The earnest efforts to
eat DOE corn, hold a hymn book and
everything else and sanplo the candy oc-
casionally. were intensely amusing. The
chatter was exhilerating, being the char
actcristic overflow of grateful and bappy
hearts upskilled in artificial thanking.
The projectors of the tree must have been
more than satisfied.
Revs. RAIDER and Bright we're present.
There was singing BY the school, with or.
gan compartment.
The Baptists had a big Christmas tree
adorned with fine souvenirs and the church
was filed. A concert and Rotations fol-
lowed scriptural reading BY Rev. Lamkin,
the pastor. The church was brilliantly
lighted with pretty effect.
An elaborate treat was given the Meth
odist children. Besides lots OF presents
they were the recipients of enough candy
to start a wholesale store. The tree trim
-c NJ
mins was very af.is.'' 'ne mofA Vi nrs'
bright ana other iadies. Ihere was mu-
sic and Rotations.
No church was ~prettier than the Epis-
oopA iA'' en 'ee Wa neai 'ne
entrance and was DIG one. MUSIC was
by the boy choir and was grand.
The big parlors of the Congregational
cbrrcb were fIled With children of ,bo
"e,e VII u inc
SUNDAY school' lhere was the usual en-
tertainment and distribution of presents
from the tree. At the Methodist the
walls carried timely sentences.
A spreading tree with boughs dropped
by the weight of mememtos had taken
root in the Presbyterian church and nearly
every seat was filled at its stripping. The
mus;c on this occas;on was exoellent
-
Az the caeheorai. whicn mas oeen oeau-
tifuily decorated, there were services OF
the confessional order last evening.
Following is the programme for to-day
a nd sh,o unp,n ~ CT A1arpta anthAlro1
m H;gb mass ami sermon bv
Father Luzzi' s. ],
At "a Low mass,
Al Cb;ldren's mass Mt which everv