The record-union., 1894-12-24
CHRIST'S ADVENT ON THE EARTH.
Commemoration of the Birth of the
Savior.
Services Yesterday at Many of the
Churches-At st. Pau's and the
Cathedral Tomorrow.

Ten of the city churches held special
services yesterday appropriate to Christ
mas Day. Many of them were neatly
decorated with evergreens and flowers.
and the services were of an unusually in
teresting character.
AS customary, however, in the Epis-
copal and Catholic churches, these de-
nominations will hold their Christmas
services on Christmas Day.
Those at st. Paul,s Church tomorrow
morning will be as follows: Early service
and communion at O'Clock; service and
communion at 10:30. The following music
will be rendered during the services:
organ, christmas Offertore". "............ Thayer
Trocessional Willis
" Crofton
1e Deulii IN D-.......-.-.. LeJael
"Hark the e-.,id s,oc;; iitiiis
kyrie ... Hodges
@shont the Glad TidingS;; Siisei
Onertory, "Cantque de Noel' A dam
Signor Tomasso
Eucharistic Hymn... ........................ Hodges
Gloria in EXcelsiS Lenner
Organ. "Christmas March, .............. .Rechman
The choir will be as follows: Sopranos
Mrs. Moynihan, Misses McCausland,
Burgess, Taylor and Hart.
Altos-Misses Wheat, Schubert md
Winn.
Bassos-Messrs. Crocker. Reynolds.
Week and Lovdal and Signor Tomaisc.
Tenors-M essrs. Williams, AshHorth
and Mcgowan.
Mrs. a. I. Pinkham, organic and
cholrmaster.
AT THE CATHEDRAL.
The following exercises will he held in
the Cathedral: First mass at p. NJ, and
every three-quarters OF an hour afterward
ull $50. There will be solemn high mass
at 1880. The ceiebrant will be Rev.
Father McGlory, the franciscan clergy
man; Deacon, Rev. Father Grace; Sub
deacon, Rev. Father Walsh. There will
be sermon by Father Grace.
The music accompanying the solemn
mass will be of high order and ex-
ceedingly impressive. At the entrance
OF the officiating clergy NovelPs grand
Christmas anthem, 'Adeste E'idelis,"
will be rendered by the full choir. The
'Kyrie" and Gloria" are from .'Giorzas
First Mass in f." which mass is one OF
the most melodIous ofthis prolific church
writer's works.
The orchestration for this mass is the
work OF Z. A. Neale of this city. The
"Credo," 'Sanctus," "Bened ictus'' and
"Agnus Der' are from Gilsinu's Grand
Italian Mass" arranged from masses by
Rosslni, Bellini and Donizetti, The
composed for festivals OF the church
when the occasion allowed of celebration,
and the solos, duets, and concerted
pieces were composed expressly for cele-
brated virtuosi.
In Professor Gilsinn's arrangement not
only are many of the most beautiful
morceaux retained, as originally written
but the whole mass is successfully ar
ranged within the compass OF the general
church choir. The mass is regarded as
the creme dc creme of the sacred works of
the three foremost modern composers of
Italy.
The orchestration for this mass is Gill
Sims. For the otfertory Verdps 40,
Jeau, Del NIvp' will be sung, by request,
10y Mrs. j. ii. Coppersmith NJ essrs j.
u. Genshlea and Walter Longbottom.
Mrs. Coppersmith, besides a numbe of
solos throughout the mass, viii also sing
Mendelssohn's "Veni Creator" with
violoncello Obligato.
Solos will also be rendered by Miss
Leda Peltier, Mrs. Frances Moeller.
Messrs. Walter Longbottom, j. G.
Genshlea, 9. Nj. Phinney and Giuseppe
Ciotfi.
During the elevation" the organist.
Miss Lizzie NJ. Griffin, and II. Wander,
hoof, violinist, will play Schuman's
'Iraumerei." a flute and string quartet
Will assist throughout the mass The
choir Is as follows:
Sopranos-MrS. j. IL. Coppersmith,
Miss Rosa Heusch, Miss Marie Dunster.
Altos-Miss Leda Peltier, Mrs. J. q.
Genshlea, Mrs. Frances Moeller.
Tenors-Walter Longbottom, Harry
Blair, Giuseppe Giofti.
Bassos-J. G. Genshlea, C. NJ. Phin-
ney.
1nstrumentalists-Flu C. a. Neale:
first violin, II. Vanderhoof; second vio-
I'm, K. Coggeshall; viola, C. KEEL; violon-
cello, +. Jay Lewis; organist, Miss Liz
Zie NJ. Griffin.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
The children of the First Christian
Sunday-school will give a Christmas
cantata entitled santa Claus IL Co." at
O'Clock on Tuesday evening. There
will be no admission lee, and all visitors
will be cordially welcomed
NO PAPER WEDNESDAY
Matter for Wednesday should be
Handed In To-day or This Evening.
The employees of the RECORD UNION