Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-24

| N"1iStiuds music at the Assembly Pres
byterian Church. corner 9Th and 1 streets
northwest. Rev. Geo. o. Little. ID. D.. pas
tor. Sunday. December IT. at IL am and
| Pm Morning service-Anthem The Story
OF the Christ Child. Shepperd: solo. Rejoice.
from the Messiah Handel. Mrs. Speer.
sesper servfce-organ, Romance. Petrali;
duet, Christmas. Shelley. Miss CulIey am,
MIS- MIS-. brown; anthem, o Zion That Bringesi
1000 1000 Iidings. Brown: solo. Miss Gene
| Buker; anthem, While Shepherds Watched
Iheir EIocks. Marston; postlude, Mendels.
SOM. The music will be rendered by the
FAMOUS ladies' choir of the church, the only
s;s;aa OF lis kind in the country. as
| sisted by Miss Buker FIRST sopranos
Misses Isabelle Culey and Minnie Keene
| ana Mrs l.. j. Speer: second sopranos
Misses Misses Ellen l. King. Ella c. Lyman and
= pr H,ochton- FIRST altos, Mrs. Blanche
| brown. Misses Gertrude Davis and
| Helen Willis; second altos Misses blanche
Amson, Florence keene and Bertha KIM
oal. organist and director, Theo. L King.
OTHER DENOMINATIONS.
Services of Congregations
aiists, tnfversalfsts. Swcdenborginn,.
| AT the First Congregational Church. cor
ner 10th and G streets northwest. Rev. s.
M. Newman. d. D.. pastor, Sunday even
| ing, at 1870 the Christmas music will
be presented in the form of a service STYLED
An Evening With the Choir, with the-foI-
lowing program: Organ prelude; invoca-
tlon; Sing, o Heavens. anthem, Tours;
| Night or Nights, contralto solo, Vande-
water; 0 Holy Night. soprano solo and
| chorus. Adam; Christmas soprano solo,
| Sheiiey: Nazareth. bass solo and chorus.
Gounod; address: offertory selected: Com
| fort Ye. and Every Valley, tenor solo. Mes
| siah. Handel; o, Thou That Tellest. con-
IraI-o solo and chorus. Messiah. Handel:
Thus Saith the Lord. and Who May Abid..
bass solo, Messiah, Handel: Hallelujah
| Chorus, Messiah, Handel benediction; or
! gan postlude.
The choir Of the First Congregational
Church is composed as follows: Organist,
| DR.. John w. Bischoff: assistant organist.
| Mrs. Elsie B. Bischoff: librarian. Walter
Allen: quartet. soprano, Mrs. Hattie Meads
Smith: oontralto. Mrs. Annie l.. Powell:
tenor. Mr. Douglass G. Miller: bass. Mr..
| j. Walter Humphrey: chorus. soprani. Mrs.
Florence l.. Barringer Mrs. Elsie b. Bisch-
off, Mrs. Isabel Bradford Miss Annie F..
Bdrltnganie, Mrs. Mary Campbell, Miss
Mabel +. Clafiin, Mrs. John J. Costinett,
MISS Margaret b. Crawford. Miss Helen a.
Davis Miss Narifa Hancock, Miss Marga-
ret A. Lewis. Miss Adelia +. Mathewson,
Miss Mamie Moffett Miss Mary !. Morgan,
MISS Julia NJ Pond, Miss Louise Powell.
Mrs. Elsie E. Raymond. Miss Grace /.
Ross, Miss Helen +. Rowe and Miss Jessie
| b; Stevens: alti Mrs. Emily f. Allen, Miss
Alice Atkinson, Mrs. Julia G. Burnett Miss
Miss Mary Cushman. Miss Minnie l..
Doane. Miss Letta Fisher, Miss Zaidee W.
Gibson, Miss Lydia r. Hughes Miss Ger
trude M. Johnston. Miss Anne Lamborne
thews, Mrs Georgia L. Myers, Miss Alice
n. Peabody. Miss Mabel V Platt. Miss
Mary Il. Pond; tenori Messrs. Bella w.
Beebe, David l.. Burnett. Elmon L. Bur-
ton, Thomas X. Cliff. Philip W. Coleman.
Thomas J. Ehleider. John w. Gardner
Henry A. Hazen. George c. Johnston. VIM
Al. kimball. Thomas H. McGin Henry
Player, David G. Proctor, James s. Ray
Thani. VIM n ", J.: Reed. A Bonnie Shaw and
Gharies H. Wright: bassi, Messrs Edward
X. Allen. Walter E. Allen. Arthur ".
Baehe, Horatio X. Bradford. Jesse c.
brook Ke David H. Clark, Samuel s. Gard
son. Orlando NJ. Mcpherson, Frank A.
Mute. Henry NJ. Paul, n. Willis Pomeroy
and Jasper E. Snow.
The New Church,
At the New Church (Swendenborgian,
10Th and Corcoran streets, the Rev. Frank
Sewal, pastor, the music on Christmas day.
| beginning at IL am, will be as follows:
introlt, Adeste Fideles; chant o Zion That
| brlnsest; Gloria, Gregorian; Benedictus, W.
! W. Gilchrist; Roll Out, o Song, Smyth:
! Blessed is He, quartet Mozart; offertory'
" Ihou That Tellest Good Tidings, from
! the Messiah; the holy communion. chants
| In the ritual. Choir: Misses Meem SewaI
Haisted, Sigsbee, Mrs. Beukert. Mrs. Kit,
telie, Mrs M. Barnard. Messrs H. Donald
son, Ralph Barnard, Felix Beukert, A. N.
Prentiss; quartet, Miss Edith Meem. Miss
Gertrude Meem, Mr.. Harry Meem, Mr..
Prentiss; soloist, Mrs. Ralph p. Barnard.
orsanist and director Miss Maud A. SeWaIl'
| AT the Sunday school festival. with Christ
| mas tree at the church on Christmas eve
at O'Clock, will be sung the Old carols
| Noel! Noel!'' "Hark, the Skies,' Come
Children! with a Christmas story and reci-
tations. All are welcome.
Church Of Our Father,
At the Church of Our Father Universal
istr, corner 18th and L streets northwest
Rev. Leslie Moore. pastor. the order of
CHRISTMAS worship on Sunday, at IL am,
| will be as follows: Organ prelude. Sonata
Pontificale, Lemmens; When MarshaIed on
the Glittering Plain, Henry Kirke White
choir; The Angel Story, Cawood, pastor and
cnolr' GLORIA Patri, Greatorex: invocation.
organ response; hymn so, Calm on the
Listening Air, Sears, congregation: re-
sponsive reading; Gloria Patri. mage
l9i, pastor and congregation; anthem.
Ihere Were Shepherds, Dudley Buck; an
nouncements; organ, offertory, SaIome:
Scripture lesson; hymn 27l. Lord Thy Per,
feet Word, Beddome. congregations; PRAYER.
response, Hear Our Prayer, Adcock choir.
SOLO, Night OF Nights, Van de Water Miss
Burton; sermon, A Babe-A Revolution; an
them, Hark, Hark, My Soul Shelley; bene-
diction; postlude, Batiste. The choir is as
follows: Soprano. Miss Josephine NJ. Bur
ton; alto, Miss Irma G. Callahan; tenor.
MI. Edward Saxton; bass, Mr.. ]. D. Van
Scotch; Miss M. Minke, organist
All Souls Church.
At All Souls Church, corner 18th and l.
streets northwest, the program for Christ
mas music will be as follows: There We're
shepherds, Buck; Hark, What Mean Those
Holy Voices? Nevin; The Grace of God
That Bringeth Salvation, Barnby: The
Prince of Peace, Nevin; o Sing to God.
Gounod: Sing. o Heavens, Tours: Grant Us
Thy Peace, Nevin; Noel, duet, soprano and
alto, Adolpha Adams; Hail the King Bart
lett Choir, Mrs. H. Clay Browning, So
prano; Mrs. James F. Oyster contralto.
Mr.. F. knoop. tenor; Mr.. J. Henry Kaiser,
bass; DR.. Geo. Walter, organist.
St. Elixabeth's Chapel.
At st. Elizabeth's Chapel the Christmas
service will be sung Sunday afternoon.
Rev. w. G. Davenport of Anacost!a will Of
ficiate. The program to be rendered is as
follows: Hymn. o Holy Night, Adam; O
Blessed Morn; o Come Ye Mortals to
Adore Him; occasional, Adeste Ffdeles
The personnel of the choir is as follows: