The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-24
Nearly All the Churches to
Have Special Exercises.
REMEMBER THE POOR.
PrOvident Association Will Be
Well Taken Care Of.
Distribution of Christmas Bas-
kets on Tomorrow Morning.
What Will Be Going on at
Many of the Churches.


day schools of the city are planning
special services or entertainments fol
this evening or Christmas day, anC
many of these entertainments and spec
iaI observances will be of an unusually
elaborate character.
. The Topeka Provident association
which will be the center of distribu-
tions of gifts for the poor of Topeka
is a busy place today. The officers OF
the association estimate that there are
about 100 families that will need some
help tomorrow to spend a merry Christ
mas. To these families baskets of food
clothing and Christmas gifts for chill
dren will be sent on Christmas day
Contributions of this kind in order to
be distributed tomorrow, should be ta-
ken to the Provident association build
ing at Fourth and Jackson streets by
10 o'clock Christmas morning.
Nearly all of the church and Sunday
school entertainments and celebrations
this evening are held for the double
purpose of providing good time for
the children and an opportunity to
bring in gifts for the poor, and many
of these gifts will be turned over to-
morrow morning to the Provident as
ISOLATION for distribution.
On Friday evening the Provident as
the children of the association. There
will at the same time be programme
given mainly by the children them
selves. This entertainment will begin
at O'Clock and there will be gifts for
all the poor children who come.
At the Church of the Assumption,
of which Father Hayden is the priest,
the church has been elaborately deco
rated, and will be brilliantly illuminat-
ed wit electric lights I a
Christmas day there will be a solemn
high mass, of which Father Hayden
will be the celebrant, assisted by a
Jesuit father and by Father McEntire
of this city. An appointed mass will
be held at a. m. and high mass at
1890 a. m. This will be followed by
a benediction and the blessed sacra-
ment. At each of these masses, a
short sermon. appropriate to the oc-
casion will be preached.
In the church has been arranged a
crib. representing the cradle of the
Saviour, surrounded by rare imported
statuary. The affairs will be illumi-
mated with electric lights. and one
large center piece with the inscription
"Gloria in excelsis Deo' has been con-
structed. About $50 electric globes
are used in the decorations. Special
music is being arranged by Mrs. Jo-
seph Griley. In the new chapel of the
sisters there will be three special
masses for the sisters only.
The entertainment at the First
Presbyterian church takes place this
evening at 1880. A special cantata has
been arranged by Miss Villa Rodgers
and Mrs. Geo. H. Whitcomb, based on
Mother Goose tales Miss Mary Walk
er will take the part of Mother Goose,
and Miss Clara Fleishman that of the
Old Woman in the Shoe. There are
about fifty children in the cast. DON
aid Dick, of Chicago. will play a violin
solo.
At the First Methodist church. the
Sunday school has charge of the en-
tertainment which will begin at 1880.
The Methodists are not content with
one Christmas tree; they will have
half q dozen, and they will also have
a Santa Claus. The principal feature
of the programme will be cantata
entitled Santa Claus and His Help
ers." Each of the children in the
Sunday school will get a box of candy,
and each member of the school is ex-
pected to bring some article for the
PrOvident association to use in the
Christmas ceibration Of that organ
ization.
Westminster Presbyterian church
will hold its exercises at s o'clock this
evening. The programme will be
given by the younger children of the
Sunday school. and there will be a
tree and a Santa Claus. with Christ
minister church people will also bring
gifts for the poor of the city, to be
distributed through the Provident as
sociation.
At the First Congregational church,
Miss Nina Gillett and Miss Berenice
Fuller are in charge of a cantata to
be given at o'clock this evening. The
name of the cantata is THE Christmas
Fairies Crown Kris Kringle." The
have the biggest
tree in town for their Christmas cele-
bration. 1t reaches from the floor to
the roof. and was cut by d. H. Forbes
on his place west of town. The tree
will be Illuminated with electric lights,
and will be decorated with gifts
brought by the Sunday school children
for Bethel mission at Kansas City. In
the cantata there are about rs chill
dren, none over g years OF age.
The Christmas services at Grace
cathedral will be a midnight festival
tonight with full choral service and
of the holy communion.
The Rt Rev. F. R. Millspaugh. bishop
Of Kansas, will be the celebrant. On
morning at o'clock there
Will be a celebration of the holy COM
munion and at IL o'clock there will
be the festival services with Dean
Kaye in charge.
The Christmas services tomorrow
morning at the Church of the Good |
Shepherd will be a full choral cele- !
bration of the holy eucharist at half |
past 10 O'Clock. with Canon Talbot as |
celebrant. |