The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-23
CHRIS TMAs SUNDAY
CELEBRATIONS TODAY.
CHURCHES ARE BEAUTIFULLY
DECORATED SPECIAL MUSIC.
A Busy Christmas Week Planned by
Augustana Lutheran Church, with
Separate Programs in Both Swedish
and Stylish Gatherings
Arranged for Children.

special music, and edifces will be deco
rated with flowers and greens. Both
morning and evening services will be
4 of special interest, and will no doubt
draw the large congregations they de-
serve.
Christmas week will be an unusually
busy one in the Augustana Lutheran
L church Christmas day early morning
service (Julotta) will be held at 5
o 'clock. The church, according to an
old Swedish custom, will be beautifully
decorated with many candles and ever
green's. The organist and the choir have
dering several Christmas anthems and
] these, together with the congregational
singing of the old Lutheran chorals,
makes this service very impressive.
I Christmas day the regular morning
service will be held at 1880. In the
/ evening at 1880 the Sunday school in
/ the chapel in Southeast Minneapolis,
on Essex street, will hold its Christmas
! morning service will be held at 1890.
( At pm. the Swedish Sunday school
of the church will hold it's Christmas
Festival. An interesting program will be
! rendered to the children of the Sunday
/ school. Each of the 700 members of
The Sunday school will be remembered
Il WIFI d VdludDle SllG from Eno CQuTCQ.
The English Sunday school, numbering
300 members, will give its Christmas
entertainment Sunday evening, Dec. 80,
ct 1870. Friday evening, Dec. 20, the
Young Peoples society will give it's
annual Christmas and New Years fes-
! tiyal. In the Deaconess home, the mis-
sion cottage, an appropriate "home
Festival is arranged for Christmas eve,
next Monday night The two regular
1oa m oscoe cf tho oh1rob Io,,t b,,cx,
I In receiving and distributing aid and
christmas cheer among the poor, needy
/ and suffering, and together with the
many active women of the church,
much is quietly accomplished.
Christmas celebration at the Fowler
Methodist church, Franklin and Dupont
thing this year. The church is to be
decorated and every care taken to
make the day happy one. The quartet
choir this morning will be enlarged to
a double quartet and will render "And
There Were Shepherds" by Williams,
and the offertory solo will be sung
by MI; Grady. 1.-THE Birthday of
erT Win BY gve eel spesa G e5r Monsgem
mon on 1.-THE Story Of the Christi
! In the evening at 7:45 the choir will
{ be assisted by a large chorus under
the direction of Professor Alfred Wiley
in the rendition of G. Whiting Coombs'
famous cantata, "The First Christ
mas - In the evening DR.. Montgom-
At Park Avenue Congregational
church this morning the sermon and
music will be appropriate for Christ
mas. The pastor, DR.. G.. S. Rollins, will
preach on Groom for Christ" In the
evening the service will be entirely
musical. The solo parts will be taken
by local artists.
d unique Christmas service will be held
for the church and Sunday school,
Stereopticon views will be shown of
the Christmas pictures and these will
be illuminated with music by the choir,
songs by, the Sunday school and scrip
tare readings: The "giying party for
plymouth Sunday sfh 3.ao will H. be be
ception room when the children will
bring their gifts for Pillsbury house
and Drummond Hall missions.
Services of a special nature appro-
pirate to the Christmas season will be
held in Calvary Baptist church this
morning and evening. The choir, con-
SlSUluS VI uOuU1C puoAUCO) WILL 1SA
der special music, assisted by Miss
Grace Golden, violinist. In the morn
ing DR.. Fowler will preach on "The
Coming of God' and at the evening
service on "What Ancient Men Did,
and What Modern: Wise Men Will
Do.'' ez -..- -g -.. ~
The Christmas entertainment, under
The auspices of the Sunday school,
will be, held on Wednesday evening,
Dec. 26, at 8 pm. A program of un-
usual interest has been prepared this
year, the whole membership Of the
school taking part in it's rendition. =
Friday evening Dr.. Fowler will give
The eighth lecture-study in the chapel
of Calvary church on From Malachi E,
period beginning with the closing of
1 The Old Testament and the beginning
of the New. ~ X
L 1tThe Babe in the Manger',' will be
Or. Crandall's topic at Trinity Baptist
+ church this morning: The evening
Subject will b be M Room nd for The SoE
mas music at both services. !.
The services at the First M. E
church, Ninth avenue and Fifth street
Sc, will be in recognition of Christ
mas, both morning and evening. In the
morning DR.. w. H. Jordan will preach
on uThe Beauty Of the Virgin Mary,
There will be several Christmas anthems
and solos by the choir. There will alst
be a reception of members. In the even
ing DR.. Jordan s subject will be "What
Does Christmas Mean9O The choir viii
have special anthems also in the even
ing.
The morning service at Immanue
Baptist church today will be devoted
to the children. The pastor will preach
{, ::Who Fills Santa Claus Stock
ings9" This sermon is for children
who still have faith in the old sain
and for grown-ups who ought to have
Superintendent c.. NJ Stocking of tn,
Union City mission will have charge o:
the singing. The evening service vii
be entirely musical in character. 4
special chorus will assist the regula
quartet in rendering numbers appro
pirate to the Christmas feeling.
At the morning service in Westmin
ster church today a choice musical pro
gram Of Christmas anthems will be rem
dered In the evening will be rendere,
the famous Christmas cantata entitle,
stThe Holy Child, = by the admire,
eastern composer, Horatio w. Parker
This cantata requires twenty-five min
utes in its rendition and is full of pas
cages of exquisite delicacy and iubilan
strains of praise That the real func
zion of music is spiritual will be attest
sd by the sympathetic rendition Of thi