The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-23
SANTA AN EARLY BIRD
He Will Begin his Work n
this City to-day.
UPSEVERAL DAYS
SUNDAY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS
UPSEVERAL DAYS
SUNDAY SCHOOL CHRISTMAS
TREES TONIGHT.
TOMORROW NIGHT THERE ARE OTHERS.
Children Make Christmas, So Make the :
dren Happy and the Poor Comfortable ano
Il will be a Merry Christmas


christmas carols in the distance. Even
as we listen they come nearer. Tonight
they will be heard in reality and, thanks
10 Great Hearted Humanity they will
not die out for many days.
And may their echo live until another
Merry Christmas come. Aye, more,
may it not die till the Christmas carol
Of the anges-the Gloria in Excelsis-
shall be forgotten.
There are many children in this city
and it is no easy matter for Santa Claus
10 nav them all visit; so he has decid-
ed to begin early and take several days.
rather than one short night in dlstrlbut
sing his books, toys, candy bags, doiis
and other heart-g laddeners to the child.
rem. He begins tonight.
All the Sunday school rooms IN the
city have been decorated and made beau-
tiful with the green holly, waxy mistle-
toe and wreaths and festoons of hoWers
Is it not fitting that IN these sacred pre-
cincts Santa should first appear and see
how much of heaven upon earth he can
make?
I, THE bells from the Methodist and
Christian churches will this evening
start the jingle, jingle. jingle Of the hap
py-hearted eason, and numberless lit
tie tots and big tots too, will hasten
there to have "a merry tine together,
watching for all the good things of
which they've, dreamed these many
weary winter days.
The children of the Edenton Street
Methodist and the Christian Sunday
schools Will tonight give their Christmas
entertainment. The exercises will be
conducted by the children and are COM
posed Of songs and recitations. The pub
lie is invited, bss rtr
These exercises will interest the grown
people and charm the children. The
children of Edenton Street Sunday
school under the direction and training
of Miss Matte Reese, have been pre-
pairing their entertainment for several
days, and will make the evening very
pleasant for all their parents and
friends.
The Christian church children like
wise promise a very pleasant occasion
for all who attend their entertainment.
Tomorrow afternoon, Christmas Eve,
at 5 O'clock, will be a glorious time with
the children of Christ church. The Sun
day School teachers are all around at
the stores buying presents for their pu-
pills. and the scholars will surely be de-
lighted with the many surprises they are
to be given on Christmas eve.
The Christmas entertainment of Ep-
worth NJ. u. Sabbath School will be held
on Friday evening at 1880 o'clock. A well
come will be accorded all who may wish
to attend. Sunrise prayer meeting at
Epworth church ON Christmas morning.
The Tabernacle Baptist church, as IS
its usual custom, will have several en-
tertainments, so large is its Sunday
School-the largest and best organized
in the State. 1t will begin the pleasure
of the week tomorrow evening by open
ing the doors of the church that all who
wish to give to the poor may send contrl-
buttons between 4 o'clock and 3 O'Clock
D. IN. Saturday night, in Metropolitan
Hall, the infant department. OF the Sab
bath School will give its annual cantata.
Monday or Tuesday night of next week
the boys brigade, girls department and
several classes will have a jolly time in
the armory of the Governors Guard,
which has oeen kindly rendered for the
occasion.
Ihe Fayetteville Street Baptist church
will treat its pupils to one of the hap
piest Christmas entertainments they
have ever known. John Pullen will be
there and that means that every child
will get a present. 1t is such men as
John Pullen that keep Santa Claus on
e.>rth and make it worth while to live
at all. Year after year he takes a
tlristmas tree into homes that never be-
fore knew the meaning of this great an
nual Christian festival.
Inc First Baptist and the Central
Methodist Sunday Schools, will have a
glorious time celebrating the holidays,
and the many suburban and mission cha
pels will have beautiful trees filled with
presents.
A committee to receive contributions
for the poor will be in the Sunday School
room of the First Baptist church this
afternoon from one to five O'clock. The
donations kindly sent will be distributed
Friday.
The Christmas tree at the Good Shep-
herd Sunday Schools exercises is al-
ways beautiful, and this year will equal
any previous years.
The children of the First Presbyte-
rian church have decided, by their own
choice, that the most appropriate time
for their celebration of Christ's
coming into the world will be
when they enter their new Sab
bath School rooms. Their hopes
are all in this one object, and some of
the little ones have said they intend to
lay aside the amount of present and
give it towards the building fund. 1t
Is good idea, and the scholars at that
school should be complimented upon
their wise choice.
1t Is pretty sight-these church fee-
rivals and Christmas trees for the child
rem. Without them there could be no
real Christmas. The happiest faces to
be seen on the streets or in the stores
are those of the children who have been
putting aside their pennies for weeks.
1t is their day, their season-this celebra-
ton of nativity of the Christ child.
Help them to enjoy 1t all you can.
WAREHOUSE TAKE CHRISTMAS.
The Raleigh tobacco warehouses will
be closed for the holidays after today's
sales. There will be no more sales un-
til Tuesday, January 4th, at either Of