The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-12-14

Soon gave me TO know had nothing to dread.
He spoke rot a word. but went straight to his work
And hIled al the stockngs; then turned with jerA
And laying his finger aside Of his nose.
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh, TO his team gave whistle
And away they All few like the down Of a thistle;
But heard him exelaim he drove out Of sight
''HGpry Christmas to an and to all a goodnight
A Vision in This Poem.
And 1t Is this poem which has lived on
with which his name is most inextricably
connected. which was, after all. a tangi.
BILE expression Of the best he had to give
the world 1t is not scholars and stu.
cents and professors and compilers who
lest love his memory, but hosts Of little
children, and all people who have caught
giimpses of the wondrous Plan of Civ.
ing.
Clement c. Moore was born July 10
1779, in New York. He was the son OF
Bishop Benjamin, Moore, the second
Protestant Episcopal bishop of the do
cese of New York and the third president
of Columbia College Qs01-1s1D.
Clement Moore graduated from Colum.
bia in 1873; studied for the ministry, but
was not ordained. and in 1921 became pro-
fessor of Biblical learning in the Genera
Theological Seminary, New York. He
became u founder of this seminary by
giving land. which is now Chelses
Square. for the seminary's use. He was
regular contributor to periodical liter.
AZURE
Twas the Night Before Christmas"
was written in 1872.
Clement Moore has been buried in Trim.
ity Cemetery only since November %
1889, his body being removed on that day
from st. Luke's. where he was buried al
the time of his death in 1853. This change
was caused by Trinity Parish taking
over st. Luke's. Upon his death the sem
mary faculty passed the following reso-
luton:
1--WE recognize in him one whom God
has blessed with selected gifts; warm
hearted in friendship, genial in society,
kindly. and considerable to all; possessed
of fine literary tastes, poetic instincts and
expressiveness, and of cheerful humor
withal; at the same time well accom-
plished in severer studies and resolute
for more laborIous undertakings. as his
learned works in Hebrew grammar and
photography distinctly testify
Children Do Homage.
And now he is coming into his own
children in New York are doing homage
to him fttingly and beautifully. They are
decorating his grave on the morning of
each Christmas Day, they are singing
Christmas carols for him, and, most
lasting tribute OF ALL they are dedicating
a children's window to his memory In the
newest church of the city. The Rev. DR..
Milo H. Gates. of the Chapel of the
Intercession, started the custom. The
grave of Clement Moore is in Trinity
Cemetery, in which the new Chapel
of the Intercession is being built,
and it is the children of this Sunday
school who go to the grave on Christmas
mornings, and are making possible the
children's window, which will be in st.
Mary's Chapel on the south side OF the
church. The custom is three years old
with the coming Christmas.
when l was a youngster," says DR..
Gates, in speaking of the origin OF the
custom he has begun, Il used to speak
pieces Especially proficient was I in
dashing of The Night Before Christmas.
I was always fond OF it, and wondered
about the man who wrote 1t. When ]
first came here to the Chapel Of the In
tercession I was wandering about the