The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-26
GERMAN CHURCHES
HAVE GLORIOUS
CHRISTMAS FETE
Teutonic Residents of Newark
Celebrate Day in Especially
Thorough Style.
LOADED TREES AND
GOODS FOR chill DREN
Social Gatherings and Club Dim
ners in Every Part of the
City.

Christmas services at which the spirit
music marked the celebration in the
German churches. Many of the old
customs brought from tho Fatherland
were faithfully observed, added inter
est and aroused memories deer to the
worshipers.
As in the Lutheran churches the day
Is strictly observed, being one of the
three highest festivals of the calendar.
the attendance there was most marked,
In st. Johns, in Halsey street. the
church of the same name in Court
street, and Grace Church in Mercer
street. sweet Christmas carols were
joyously suns and the stately old
chorals of Martin Luther rang out and
struck strongly sympathetic chords in
the hearts of thousands.
As there is a greater sentiment among
the Germans generally for Christmas
around, the attendance at all their
churches was such that they were.
crowded to the doors. Among other
evangelical churches, besides the Luth-
cram. whose congregations and their
friends Joined in the worship OF the
"Christkindlein,' or 1.-THE dear little
Christ child as He is tenderly known
to the sons and daughters of the
Fatherland.
In st. Stephens Church. at Ferry
street and Halsey place, of which the
Rev. Edward Fuhrmann is the pastor,
the services began as early as 6 o'clock
in the morning, when the choir raised
its voice on high under the guidance
of Miss Alma Friedrich. This was
followed by the rendition of a series
of festival programs at intervals pretty
well into the night.
1k0 Kids Made Happy.
The church of the same denomina-
ton in Mulberry street, of which the
Rev. William L. Siebert is the pastor,
also welcomed the day, and $50 little
ones were made happy with gifts.
There was a like joyous GROVE of
youngsters In the Rev. Oscar E..
Braun's First German Lutheran Church
in Halsey street at night.
The institutions where the Germans
are in control were, of course, literally
provided for. and old and sick hearts
were made young again by the touch
Of the sweet hand that felt that it was
more blessed to give than to receive.
At the German Hospital yesterday
those patients whose condition per-
United partook of a. feast, while the
children of st. Peters Orphan Asylum
welcomed Santa Claus o N Christmas
eve.
Many Social Events.
The strictly social events were too
many to enumerate in detail. The So
cieties that celebrated in their hand
son1ely decorated halls were the Hes
sischer Saengerbund, the S~chwaebischea
Saengerbund, the Phoenix Singing So
ciety. the Orpheus Liederkranz and the
Beethoven Maennerchor, while other
smaller organizations greeted the kind
ly old gentleman with joy enough to
run we'll into 1909.
Among the German societies that
will celebrate Christmas tonight are
the Newark turn Verein, in its head
quarters in upper William street, and
the West Newark Kindergarten. in the
Colosseum, Springfield avenue. while
the Twelfth Ward German-English
School will celebrate Monday night, in
Harburger's Hall, Hamburg place, and
the Harmonic in the Colosseum. The
Arlonites' date Is next Tuesday, and
the Liberty Singing Society's Wednes-
day.