The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26
GOOD WILL FOR Alb
CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE MILL CITY
ONE OF PEACE AND
PLENTY.
GENEROSITY FOR THE POOR.
BOUNTIFUL DINNERS PROVIDED BY
THE VOLUNTEERS AND SAL
VATIONISTS.
GENEROSITY FOR THE POOR.
AT THE CHURCHES
Impressive and Solemn, and Dec
OratiOns Most EIab-
crate.

Christmas day in Minneapolis was a
merry one for everybody from the rich
est to the poorest, no one needing to go
/ without a Christmas dinner when at
SO many places bountiful repasts were
prepared for the deserving poor. Near
ly 1000 were given good Christmas din
| ners by the American Volunteers at
their hail. 218 Nicollet avenue Dinner
! was served from II o'clock until 4
| o'clock in the afternoon, when the i'm
mense quantity Of food which had been
donated by friends was exhausted. A
large number of baskets were also dis
tribLted to those, who, by reason Of
illness or other cause, were unable to
attend the dinner. Thirty young
women, being five each from the young
! peoples societies of six Of the big
churches, assisted the Volunteers in
waiting upon the tables. The Volun-
teers' battalion band, from Wisconsin,
was present and rendered music during
the feast. The band will have charge
of the services to be held today.
There was food for anybody at the
Salvation Army barracks in the old
Theater Comique All the friendless
|
| invited to take their Christmas dinner
here as the guests of the army. Lieut.
! Col. Evans, who had charge Of the ar
rangements, was surprised at the turn
Quit was not nearly as large as ex-
pected. You don't seem to have many
poor in your city," said the colonel,
land 1 am glad of it." 1t was sight
for lifetime, however, to see about
three hundred men, women and chill
dren taking issues with the bountiful
supply of food. The manner in which
the good things vanished was source
Of joy. For each person there was a
liberal bill Of fare. consisting Of roast
beef and turkey or chicken, pork and
beans, coffee and bread and butter.
While dinner was in progress, Mr.. Ell
lis, the blind evangelist and his daugh-
ter aided by a corps of Volunteers,
sang the most stirring Salvation songs
Staff Captain Mrs. Galley, who min
gled with the crowd incognito, con-
tributed much to make the dinner a
pleasant affair."
Christmas day was observed at st.
Barnabas' hospital, and for the children
tree was provided. A number of
handsome cards and other tokens were
provided for the little ones, while the
friends of the adults did not fail to re-
member them. The children had an es-
pecially joyous time, which they will
not soon forget. Many of the little
ones followed the ancient custom of
hanging up their stockings for Santa
Claus to fill.
St. Marks Episcopal church was
comfortably filled for the Christmas
service and holy communion. The
church was tastefully and prettily
decorated with green's and palms. The !
sermon, an eloquent discourse upon
"Christ's Coming to the Twentieth Gen.
tury," was preached by the rector of
the church, Rev. H. P. Nichols.
The Church of the Immaculate Con-
ception was probably the scene of the
most elaborate of all the morning serv-
ices. Archbishop Ireland was expected
to officiate at pontificaI high mass and
extraordinary preparations had been
made to make it exceedingly impress
sive. He was unable to appear and the
Rev. Joseph LIE Garder took his place
as celebrant. He was assisted by the
Rev. John Meis, deacon, and the Rev.
John Ryan, subdeacon.
All of the Swedish Lutheran churches
in the city, likewise many of the others
of different denominations, were ablaze
with light at 4 o'clock a. m. A half
hour later the churches were filed and
at 8 o'clock when the services were to
begin there was not a vacant foot in
most of them. In a measure the early
service on Christmas morning, "julot-
ia" as it is called is the most import
ant one in the Swedish Lutheran cal
endar, at least it is the best attended.
In some of the Norwegian churches,
especially those affiliated with the Mol
wegian synod, the congregations gath
cred for worship at o'clock a. m. All
of them conducted the customary
Christmas day exercises at II 80. Rev.
H. j. Wick OBLIGATED at the Norwegian
Danish Baptist church, Rev. M. Falk
Gjertsen at the Trinity church. Rev.
o. P. Vangsness at Our Savior's, and
Rev. G. Rasmussen at Bethlehem's
Beautiful and impressive services
were held at Holy Trinity church,
Fourth avenue and Fourth street
southeast. Communion was held at
Z o'clock and a musical service at 10.
accompanied by the observance of the
communion The full vested choir, I'M
der the direction Of George P. s. Col
Inns, choirmaster rendered the musical
programme.
Three services were held at st.
Charles Catholic church, high mass at
and 1890 a. M, and low mass at 8
o'clock. The latest service included a
special musical programme conducted
by Mons. Baker. It opened with
Marcos "Messe Solenelle" with accom-
| paniments by Miss Susie Hubbard on
the organ and Mrs. w. A. Chowen on
the piano.
Among the other churches In which
special ser fices were held were Notre
| Dame de Lourdes where William NJ
S. Browns mass in B fiat was given
by a full choir: ST. Paul's Episcopal
| church, programme which will be re-
peated this morning; All Saints Epis-
copal church, where the sermon was
preached by the rector, A. Alexander;
ST. Johns English Lutheran church
| and st. Andrews Episcopal church.