The San Francisco call., 1909-12-26
CHOIRS WILL SING
CHRISTMAS HYMNS
Sunday Worship in Oakland
Churches to Be Marked by
Elaborate Services

OAKLAND, Dec. 25.-Churches o1
Oakland will give elaborate musica
services sunday in observance oi
Christmas. Sermons viii be preached
upon the many phases of the nativity
At the First Congregational church
the choir viii repeat some of the
Christmas music OF last Sunday. Al
the morning service several of the
great choruses from The Messiah
will be sung.
Mrs. Grace Davis Northrup will sins
Adams "Cantique de Noel In the
evening several selections from las
Sunday mornings music will be rem
dered. Rev Charles r. Brown. the
pastor. will commence q series OF
morning sermons on The Life OF
Christ" as outlined by the fourth
gospel
In the evening service at the First
Methodist church the choir, under the
direction of J. NJ Robinson, win rem
der The Nativity" a special Christ
mas orstorso. Rev. George W. White
the pastor, Will speak on The Christ
mas Conference and Its Far Reaching
Results" bearing upon a celebration Of
the one hundred and twenty-iifth an
niversary Of the organization of the
Methodist Episcopal church of the
United States at Baltimore, Nd, Christ
mas day, 1884.
BUCK MEMORIAL SERVICE
Sunday morning Rev. Frank Lincoln
Goodspeed. D. D. Ph. D. the pastor
the First Presbyterian church. The
choir will sing the following numbers
from HsndeTs Messiah:
Recitstive Comfort Se Ny People; aria
ltenori. Ever Valley shall Be E1sltea
fconfrslto). Behold. a Virgin Shall Conceive
aria and chorus (contraltol, 20 Thou That Teilest
Darkness shall Cover the Earth sria (bsss).
The People That Walked In Darkness chorus.
For Unto Us Child Is Born; recitatiye $50
prsno). And Suddenly There Was With the
Angel; chorus, GLORY TO Cod: aria sopranol
..Halleluiah Chorus; organ numbers: ''Andante
IN c. (Schubert): Christmas March" (Verdi)
The evening service will also be mu-
steal and will take the form of a me-
mortal service TO Dudley Buck The
following works of Dudley Buck Will
be rendered:
Chorus. Arise. Shine. for Thy Light Is
Come: ccntrelto and bsrytOne duet. The Lord
ls Ny Light; chorus. 20 Thou That Tellest
Good Tidings''; soprano solo, MY Redeemer and
chorus, Sing Alleluis Forth; contralto solo,
The Virgins Dallsby"; chorus, Gloria in Ex.
6WsgBer, 9sMiIitary March Cschubertl.
A vested choir of children viii sing
carols at the morning service at the
First Baptist church. In the evening
Rev. Homer J. Vosburgh, the pastor,
will give an illustrated lecture on
The World at the Dawn Of 1910.7 One
hundred colored views viii be used
and the discourse will be a carefully
prepared summary of the achievements
and status OF civilization, especially in
oriental, African and South American
countries.
Jesus. the Religion of Love-" will be
the subject of Rev. William Day ST.
monds' sermon Sunday morning at the
First Unitarian church. At the morn
ing service a special program of music
will be rendered. including the number,
"Hallowed Night" by Louis V. Saar:
q Christmas rhapsody, to be sung for
the first time on this coast. The chorus
viii be sung by Mrs. B. T. Smith, Miss
Muriel Barnes. Miss Peterson, Miss
Bullard. Miss Genevieve Owen, Miss
Jane Whine, Miss Dunham, Miss Gladys
Barnett. Miss Margaret Taylor, Mrs.
Ruth Mcdonald and Mrs. ]. A. Cruzan.
WILL SING ORIGINAL CANTATA
At the Church of the Advent, East
Oakland, Twelfth avenue and East Six
teenth street. Sunday evening, Decem-
ber 2e, viii be rendered Dies Nativi-
tstis," a Christmas cantata, by the
vested choir of 80 voices.
Alfred Chaplin Bayley, the organist
and choir master, is the composer. The
words are selected from the scriptures
and are wholly churchly. All who
have heard the cantata speak highly
of it Chaplin Bayley is one Of the
youngest organists about the bay and
his talent as a composer Of church mu-
sic Is assured A number Of his works
a already have been produced and pub
liShed. The following are the soloists-
Soprano. Miss A Rsun; alto. Miss Hazel Gen.
Kenneth Keefer: ladies' qusrtet-SoprsnOs. Miss
Rsun- Miss Kirner; altos, Miss Davis and Miss
Gentry
Miss Alice Davies, violinist. viii play
the prelude chant. Sans Paroles
(Tschaikowsky). and offertory. ITO a
accompaniment: organ postlude, Halle
jah Chorus" (HandeD.
Dudley Bucks cantats, THE Coming
Of the King" viii be sung Sunday even
ing at the First Christian church, un-
der the direction OF J. A Augustus.
The Christmas day music will be re-
peated at St Mary's church at Sunday
morning mass at 10 o'clock.
Special. music will be sung Sunday
morning at ST. Johns Episcopal church.
Rev. Edgar F. Gee rector. At II
o'clock there viii be a solemn high
celebration Of the holy eucharist, at
which music, composed by Vincent DE
Axr5laga- ohoirmaster and parish or
ganist, Will be rendered
Special music will be sung at Fruit
vale Christian church. Twenty-fourth
church and the Methodist church South.