The Detroit times., 1910-12-26
OF
XMAS CONTINUES
Business Generally Suspended and
Turkey Dinners All the Order of
the Day in Many Homes.


Christina nor yet TO give Christ.
mas presents, II there is anyone you
have overlooked. for, although ,.e
calendar indicates that IL is Dec 26,
il is still Christmas day officially
speaking. Practically all business ls
suspended except the publication OF
newspapers and the running Of. trains
and street cars, and, OF course, tine
theaters and other amusement places
are doing business at Tie same old
stand. In many homes the eating or
the Christmas turkey was deferred
until today.
Sunday was an ideal Christmas day
The temperature was just right, and
the new-fallen snow covered the earth
like blanket OF gllstening ~nite
down. And in nearly every home. ex-
cept those rendered desoiate by death
or dire distress, the magic worus.
Merry Christmas" rang out as tous-
eled heads tumbled on OF bed. and
their owners scampered off TO the
mantel place TO see what Santa had
brought during the night
In the churches generally, specia.
Christmas services were held, In some
instances both morning and evening.
Many of the edifices were beautifully
decorated with holly and other sea.
sonable greenery. The music was OF
high order. special programs hav-
ing been arranged b. most OF the
choirs.
One of the most notable incidents
in this festival of music was the rem
dition Of j. II. Maunder's cantata,
Bethlehem" in the First Congrega-
tional church, Sunday evening. by a
chorus of % voices, for the first time
in Detroit. The manner in which it
was rendered, elected the warmest
praise. The score was interpreted by
a stringed orchestra composed OF
Brueckner, violin; Hugo Kalsow VI
ola Luegi Motto, cello, and Adam
Miller, double bass. The principals
were the members Of the regular
church choir, who are: Miss Edith
DeMuth. soprano: Mrs. Estelle Neu-
hoff, contrato: Fred l.. Fraser, tenor,
and William F. Bartels, basso. j.
Truman Wolcott was at the organ.
The Rev. Lee S. McCollester, Of the
Church OF Our Father, in his Christ
mas sermon, Sunday morning, said;
The real message of Christmas is
that God is revealed through and in
the human. Man has always believed
In mind back of all manifestations
and age by age the most OF men for
knowledge of God has brought high
er ideal of God and of it's revelations
of God to man. The contribution of
Christianity was that the eternal Is
revealed through the human. BY
knowing man we know God.
"A further message of Christmas is
that God Is revealed through every
human. Every man is Word of God
made flesh. Every man is a potential
Christ. The real song is not OF the
humans proclaiming that one Christ is
born. but OF all time that every child
is a son of God. born 10 help the rest
bring in peace and good will. The
part Of all men is not 10 worship
Christ born long ago, but TO grow in
grace and live purely until there shall
be peace on earth and good will among
men
The Rev. j. Percival Huget. in the
First CONGREGATIONAL took for the text
of his Christmas sermon, And OF HIS
Kingdom There Shall BE No End de-
claring that of all tests, the test OF
time is the surest and most severe.
The sure searchings OF the years. he
said. would reveal all that is false and
mean and all that is true and exalted.
He continued:
His kingdom is established in the
hearts of men 1t spreads, visibly, be-
10
world 1t confronts every nation Of the
earth It is expressed in the deep
love and conservation OF men; in their
hopes and heroisms; in all high ideals,
endeavors and sacrifices. It is repeat
ed in the ideals OF the Spirit, in all no
table purposes of peace. or social JUS
tice and of brotherhood
The Rev F. ID. Leete, pastor OF the
Central NJ. f. church, preached on
"Christs First Coming" He said in
part:
Il would have you regard the
cradle of Bethlehem not as
the beginning, but as the completion
and ultimate triumph OF a process OF
divine incarnation. God has manifest
ed Himself impersonally in the laws
and forces Of the material universe;
He had breathed forth His spirit per
sonaly in the creation Of man: He
personifed Himself ideally in the com
Ing Of the God man. to be vitally re-
lated 70 His fellowbeings as di-
vine human Leader and Redeemer.
The Rev T. Walker Malcolm. in 81.
Andrews Presbyterian church refer
red in beautiful language 10 the birth
o. the Christ-chid His text was,
Whose Shall Receive One Such Little
One in My Name Receiveth Ne He
said
That was a great hour in the his
tory of our world when a mother rec
ognized in the soft baby hand that
touched her breast the touch of God.
This is the inspiration of tho artist
and the poet I'm their efforts TO repro
iluce the Christ. They do not 20 back
to the place where Christ was born
in search Of some picture of His face,
some stray note OF the angel song.
Men felt the touch Of His presence
and from this the artist pours all the
wealth Of his soul into the face upon