The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-26

Christmas services:
Professional Hymn 51-"Hark! the Her
Anthem sil S H Shall Reign Mends simpeP
Kyrie IN C Tiff
Gtorla IN = ll1n
Credo in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS #. Tiff
Hymn 56-"Christians Awake" -. Wainwright
Address by the rector.
Anthem-"Thus speaketh the Lord OF 80
Doxoiogy-"oid Hundred. - -. .,---'e-
Sursum Corda in c Observation-Disclosures. Iliff
Sanctus in c Observation-Disclosures. Tiff
Agnes Del in c Observation-Disclosures. Tiff
Gloria in Excelsis in ..................F Iliff
Nunc Dimittis 1O2 in E fiat ......... Gregorian
Recessional Hymn 60-'Angels From the
Realm of Glory" ....... ............. Smart
Ven. T. H. M Villiers Appelby, arch
deacon of Minneapolis, delivered the
sermon, takink his text from Luke ill.,,
10, II, IS and IA. He said in part:
The great and glorious news of the angel
and the exquisitely beautiful and inspiring
song Of the heavenly hosts was first an
nounced and sung upon the plains OF Bethle-
hem to the lonely shepherds on Christmas
morning nearly 1.sCO years ago. The same
story is repeated and the same song sung
year after year, and is handed down from
generation to generation, transmitted from
continent to continent, and from island to
hallowed day the good news thrills In num-
berless hearts in every land. The whole earth
is fast hearing the glad tidings OF the birth
of the Savior. The Christian traveller who
finds himself On this day OF days in the midst
of idolatry in heather lands recalls with joy
that it is Christmas day; he pictures himself
at the home OF his childhood a fathers. a
mothers mo love. the happy family gathering
you and many of them the gathering in the
house of God to offer their tributes of praise
and thanksgiving to the newborn Savior, and
to kneel together at Hi altar and partake
and make their own the reality Of their union
with Him, and to commemorate His marvel
Gus love In coming and taking upon Him our
nature in order to sanctify and save us.
Whatever else the Christian may forget
which pertains to his faith, he cannot the
day on which to him was born Savior. 1t
is connected in his mind with too many de-
hghtful and tender associations. From his
very infancy this great event has been i'm
printed upon his heart by gentle words, by
picture, by carols and by Inspiring services
and anthems of the holy church. / am sure
l wish you all a happy and merry Christmas
IN the hottest and highest sense of the salu-
tation. for we are all one household and the
household of faith. May Christmas day be
rich to you and may the voice of joy and
gladness be in all your homes for His dear
Sons sake, who was on this day born for
US in our nature, that we might become
partakers Of that divine nature. Our dear
Lords birthday 1900 years ago, how obscure,
day, remember, is one of love, of glory and
OF peace. On that day of days, that one day
In the Christian year, the blessed influence OF
the mother church who always kept the feast
of the nativity before the eyes of the peo-
pie. All who profess and call themselves
Christians whatsoever differences of creed
they may have, rejoice and all are willing TO
accept as true the good news declared by the
angel, Behold, | bring you good tidings of
glad joy" The incarnation, means the veil
ing of the Deity in human flesh, the joining
together in one person of Jesus the Divine
and human nature never more to be divided,
and therefore the songs of the angels in
heaven always bring glad joy on this Christ
mas day. This wonderful being this God
man, this Savior, is Christ the Lord, be-
longs to an mankind. He is the great gift of
God to the whole human family. Unto us
mankind. a Child is born, unto us Son is
given" so that there is not individual of
the race of Adam who has ever lived or shall
live who may not say with perfect truth,
the Savior, Christ the Lord was born lived
and died for me. Every prophecy every type,
every prediction was fulfilled in Him, and in
no other before since, and angels, archan-
gels and the Holy Father in Heaven testify
to His divinity
Jesus, whose nativity we celebrate on this
Christmas day, was the first pure babe born
into this world. When Adam came forth
from the hand of the Creator he was perfectly
pure, holy, harmless and undefiled. But he
was created a full-grown man, and. more
over, he was the head and root of all man
kind. The whole human race existed in
Adam; the responsibility of the whole human
race rested upon him. When ne fell by dis
obedience all fell with him, and the cpnse-
quences were that death physical and posi-
tive must pass upon all because of the physi-
cal deterioration of our bodies. as well as
death spiritual and eternal. AS by man came
death both physical and spiritual, SO by man
must come the resurrection. AS by man mis-
guided In his judgment led astray by his
affections, disobedient to the will of his God
al hv
perfect obedience to the law which he had
Violated, and bearing the penalty Of its vio-
latlon, must come mans recovery and re-
union with God But observe when we saw
that all must come by man, we do not mean
by any individual man Of the sons of Adam.
that Christ was merely the best and hottest
OF men apart from His divinity as the Uni
tarians assert. We never read In sacred
Scriptures that Christ was only a man.
Wherever His human nature is alluded to it
is spoken OF as the Man or the Son of Man
as If the title belonged to Him, as In truth 1t
does, by eminence and a sense in which it
belongs to no other. The simple truth is that
the Son of God, the second person in the
mysterious Trinity, one equal with the Faith
er, who was in the beginning before all things
with God. and yet this very God took upon
Him, or unto Him. the human nature and
was therefore made man, but He did not for
one moment lay aside His divine personality,
for had He chose this He would have ceased
to have been God, but He was God even as
He lay on Christmas day in the manager of
Bethlehem. He is, therefore, the new head
of our nature and race and was born to be
unto Him that they might have life
Our new birth in the Holy Baptism is by
the Holy Spirit. and nothing less than our
Savior coming to dwell in each of u.s. He
took upon Himself cur humanity when He
humbled Himself to be born of the pure Vir-
gin Mary. He also communicates to all who
come in faith and penitence to the holy
eucharist, that the supernatural grace Him
self, that divine food which Is needed for
the maintenance of your union with Him
and for building up and perfecting us In His
divine image and likeness. Thus 1t Is by
faith bringing US to the divinely appointed
means Of grace that God Is born in US. while
by repeated acts Of faith On our part He con-
tinues to dwell in us and we in Him. Draw
near Him at all times in that holy feast, and
you shall receive health, strength and re-
freshment for your never dying souls, and
the seeds of eternal life shall be impaired to
your body, so it will be raised in the resur-
rection to eternal life, and even now as we
stand fer few minutes by the manger of
Bethlehem behold the divine infant Just like
any other child to oil human appearance. He
has yelled His glorious God-head for our poor
humanity, yet in that child is the wisest
teacher the world has ever seen, its Bene-
factor, Creator, Redeemer, King of Kings and
Lord Of Lords. These little bands shall one
day touch the loathscme leper, and he shall
be Immediately cleansed, healed; the blind
shall see. and His feet shall walk on troubled
waters and they will be calm. His voice, then
so IeeOle, snail cOnHlaHu IHe mighty WlnuS
and the roaring waves. and they shall obey
Him. He shall summon the very dead to life,
and His voice at last shall be the sound
of many waters, and on His head shall be
placed many crowns, as King or Kings and
Lord of Lords.
Remember Christ's poor. His hospitals, HIS
institutions, and those who have borne the
burden in the heat Of the day, the aged and
infirm clergy of this diocese, who in their
day have borne themselves nobly In His
cause in the battle against sin, the world
the flesh and the devil.
Finally let US, my dear brethren join the
heavenly choir, and with angels and arch
angels, and with all the company Of heaven,
laud and magnify Jesus glorious name, ever
more praising and saying. Holy, Holy, Holy.
Lord God OF Hosts-Heaven and earth are full