The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-12-26

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voiced BY the queen that her childs
life IL saved.
Tho Christmas Tree.
Scene three shows the tree, decorated
in tho castle Of tho king and queen,
the attendants. and the entrance Of the
abbeHs in search Of her lost nephew.
Joy illumes her face when she sees the
lost nephew.
All reunited and happy, request
lBonifaee 60 read the sacred story Of
the birth Of Christ. In rapt attention
not only that company but the audi.
lence listen as though for the first time
to Luke ii, to 90.
The beautiful story follows by the
nuns.
And Boniface's benediction, From
this day forth let be called the Day
of Christ and this the Christmas tree.
Ian unite in singing. Harkl the Herald
ANGELS Sing, passing off the stage. Aad
1.-THE Christmas spirit IN all its beauty
and simplicity is upon the people as
they depart.
Cast Of Characters.
Miss Dillingham's play WAS arranged
in this way, with the following cast:
]. Scene in convent, visited by the
missionary Bishop Boniface.
IL. Scene in German forest, where
the son of the King and Queen is
about to be sacrificed to Thor. Boni'
face comes and tells about the Christ.
III. Scene in the Kings castle. On
the occasion of the first Christmas
= Tree.
lRonifaea Robert MIX i'm
+, IAbbess ......... Edith Rosslyn Collais
= Druid Priest ...,.,......C. II. Meyer
King ............ Stanley Livingston
: Queen ............. Agnes Alexander
Nephew of Abbess. ................
-.............H Harold Leon Ebersole
= Prince .......... Herman Alexander
: Nuns. 80. Mrs. j. p. Erdman, Marga
, ret Peterson, Margaret Waterhouse
, ,Choir Boys. ...... Ronald Higgins
: Everett Brown, Ernest Peterson
, ~. j. A. Hill, Geo. A. McEldowney
Midnight Mass, q
At the Catholic churches, cathedral
and suburban, midnight mass-alwayi
beautiful and solemn-ushered in the
sacred festivals; and from the midnight
J, hour almost until the midnight hour Of
last night there were services Of one
!. kind or another.
At the First Methodist Church, Rev
:, Taylor, chaplain of the feet delivered
= a foreible discourse in the evening t
a large congregation. A quartet Of
ministers, as Rev. Robert Elmer
8 Smith called it, was present, They
= were: Rev. (Captain) Taylor, chaplain
}, lof the u. S. s. South Dakota, and mem
/ her of the New York East conference
;, Rev, Rudolph Zurehocher, a teacher O.
8 1.-THE Mills school and a member of tn
!. southern California conference; ,Rey
7. John w. Wadpan, superintendent o
:, the Methodist Episcopal missions o
Hawaii and of the California confer
ence, and the Rev. Doctor Smith, pas
5, tor of the church and member OF. tn
Is Illinois conference. sh,.r
!, The services as held during the do,
q were; L. *. 5l
4 Central Union--11 am.
! First Methodist--11 am. *
Christian Church-10 am. 49,,
v Today,s Services,
n Catholic-St. Augustine, midnight,
It am; Sacred Heart, midnight, am.
(. st. John the Baptist, midnight, S:3
a, am; st. Joseph, am; Sacred Heart
r. Convent, 7 am, 1890 am, 4 pm.
n Oahu Prison, am; Cathedral, 40
II am. to am, 1880 am, 3 pm! 7
q Episcopal--St. Andrews, 6, 7, Q an
!. IL am; st. Clements, IL am; 81
: Elizabeth Is, 1890 am.
- German Iutheran--11 am.
u Special Christmas services were hel
yesterday morning in the First Method
" ist Church, at the corner of Victori
y and Beretania streets, 1t being the frs
A. Christmas observed in the handsom
y new structure
"a Special music was furnished by tn
y choir, the pastor Rev. r. E. Smitl
a. choosing as the subject of his Christina
s. sermon, the "Christmas Star" and hi
" text from Matthew, 2;1O.
The church was beautifully decorate
X with ferns and poincettia, grouped i
s. abundance about the altar for tn
morning service and afterwards Sigh
u ly rearranged to permit the special e.
is' eFcises of the evening. AT the ever
ing services the congregation was az
dressed by Rev. l.. v. Taylor, chaplai
ln, of the Pacific fleet, now in port.
a. There win be no services today.
A. Special Christmas exercises win
sr- held this evening by the Sunday scho
ii. classes of the Methodist Japanel
rs, churches on South King and Riv,
L, streets, each in their respeeti'
churches The Rev. G. Motokawa an
g. Nakamura, the pastors have bee
working hard to make the exercis
= unique in the history of their churche
At the Christian Church.
IN Rev. David Carey Peters, pastor
4 the Christian Church also selected }
- Christmas texts from Matthew, Cal
the Shepherds Returned Rejoicing,
dwelling on FThe Inner Spirit
ny Christmas in an impressive sermon.
'S The altar was covered with greene
IS while the ehaneel was aanked on DO
In side with great groups of poincett
A and ferns. Wreaths, streams of laul
ar and masses Of greenery at the rear
he. the chancel Completed the effect.
viii The Sunday school Of the church "
Iew hold. its annual Christmas exeTeil
next Thursday evening at the ehur