Evening journal., 1910-12-27
CHRISTMAS JOY
FOR ENTIRE CITY
Birth Of Christ in Manger
ReCOunted as Story
Never Old
CHILDREN MAKE MERRY
AT HOME CELEBRATIONS

Christmas Day was celebrated in
the churches with services that will
be long remembered. The age old
story of the birth of the Christ-child
in the manger at Bethlehem and the
message given by the angels to the
shepherd. GLORY to God in the high
est and on earth peace and good will
toward men, was told in anthem and
sermon wherever a congregation
gathered
From dawn until near midnight on
Sunday the services continued, bring
ing together men and women of all
classes and conditions to voice their
praise of the lowly-born babe who was
to be King of Kings.
The Christmas music was undoubt-
edly the feature of the services, and
the choirs, quartets, double quartets
and choruses, after long weeks OF
patient rehearsals, rendered programs
of surprising merit. Some of the
services were so pre-eminently super
fior, from musical standpoint, that
music lovers travelled miles across the
city to enjoy them. The choirmasters
and organists achieved notable
triumph.
The compositions of many of the
worlds masters of music contributed
to the joyousness of the festival, in
cluding among others, those OF
Mendelssohn Mozart, Handel, GounOd,
/ Guilmant, Massenet. and, in lesser de-
gree. Maunder, Schuecker, Stainer and
/ Dudley Buck.
/ All of the churches donned Christ
mas decorations. The chancels were
/ hung with evergreens, laurel and
holly, and many were provided with
elaborate electrical displays. In num-
erous Sunday schools Christmas trees,
laden with toys and candy. gave an
additional holiday atmosphere to the
/ children's exercises.
Many of the Sunday schools will
hold their Christmas entertainments
this week
Home Celebrations.
In the homes, Old Kris charged
down with a host of toys which had
their own message TO those who are
in search of these things. The old
fellow becomes modern every year,
keeping up with the trend of inven-
ton. Surely he brought some toys
that his grandfather never dreamed
of. Thanks to the reindeer and the
kindly old visitor, the tots had their
morning And the benedicts had
theirs; and the unattached had theirs,
of a pattern more or less.
All, or nearly all, dined on turkey.
II was said and written, some day
back. that turkey was high. But that
was a mere material item, which had
not much effect, apparently, upon con-
vGntional Christmas dinners any more
than the reputed higher price OF
Christmas trees. Arguments anert
forest conservation affected not
in the least the number Of ever
green's that everywhere waited. their
odors throughout the composite house
hold.
Best of all, the poor Jared we'll,
bountifully. Whatever of private
giving went 80 swell the joy of the
day, the vast impersonal public did
its part noblv. The little orphans
in the asylums had their trees and
their greetings and their gifts, along
with tho children of the rich; the
inmates ct the hospitals had their
woes tided over th day. too, and not
a prison, or institution OF confinement
or charitable organization that did
not spread literally a feast for its
charges.
There were those who worked;
trainmen and street car conductors
but there were those who said it was
good even to be a street car con-
ductor on day like Christmas.