Evening star., 1915-12-18

The musical numb numbers rs ' Will Il include
"oh: Little Town of Bethlehem" by
Neidlinger. and Behold l Bring You
Good Tidings." by Adam Geibel. Miss
King" by, Neidlinger. The evening
service will include solos and duets by
Miss Crennan and Mr.. Braithawaite.
A. special pre-Christmas service will
be held tomorrow morning at II o'clock
The Sunday school will join with the
church in this service. The pastor.
Rev: Alfred E. Barrows. will use as his
subject. Gifts for the King" This
GIFTS Christmas, a unique Christmas
celebration in which the whole church
is to join with the Sunday school the
evening of December 26, at o'clock.
Special preparatory Christmas serv-
ices are to be held in the Douglas
Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church.
| At II am. Rev. DR.. c. c. Mclean will
discourse on THE Promised Messiah"
1880 pm. Nine. Mountford. native of
Jerusalem, delivers an address on 1.-THE
Nativity"
Christmas morning at 1880 o'clock
special service will be held. with ad-.
dress by the pastor.
| Sunday was a red letter day In the
history of the First Baptist Church.
18th and O streets It was the "get-in-
touch" Sunday, during the afternoon
Of which it was planned that every
| member Of the church and congregation
should receive a visit from one OF
! more members of the advisory commit
| tee. The plans. which had been care
fully made, were successfully carried
out with the most gratifying results.
| doing much. it is said. to promote the
spirit of good will and fellowship
throughout the entire congregation. 1t
is not definitely known as yet what
financial gains will result from the
visitation, but judging from the hearty
reception everywhere accorded the sew
eral visiting committees, and the great
interest and genuine enthusiasm cre-
ated, there is every reason to believe.
suit alike to every department of
church activity. One especially pleas
ing feature. which made success possi-
BILE. was the generous way in which the
their automobiles for the use Of the
visiting committees. 1t is expected
that full reports of the afternoons
work will be made in the near future.
Tomorrow will be the regular com
munion day for the Sodality OF the
Children OF Mary of St. Patrick's
Church. The members will attend the
s o'clock mass and occupy the pews OF
the main aisle. At pm. they will re-
ton of their office. which will be fol-
lowed by short sermon by Rev.
James A. Smyth. director OF the So
ciety. and benediction of the blessed
sacrament.
Mgr Russell will onciate at the ex-
ercises at 1880 pm. in honor of the
Good Shepherd and preach a special
sermon. which will be preceded by an
swering the questions that have been
placed in the question box" during
the past month. The sanctuary choir.
directed by r. Mills Silby, will render
the hymns during this service, and
during the benediction Of the blessed
Of the Good Shepherd will assist in
rendering the "Tantum Ergo"
Tomorrow evening at 7:45 o'clock in
the Fifth Baptist Church, 6h and e
streets southwest, there will be an
elaborate and unique Christmas serv-
ice. William J. Palmer. the choir di-
rector, has arranged series Of choral
numbers to be sung by chorus of
more than forty voices, the service
being in the nature of Christmas
oratorio, which will be augmented by
herald sldnsa angels s the shepherds. the wise I
men, the angelic host, the armament,
the star in the east and large paint
ing Of the Nativity, made especially
for the occasion.
The pastor, Rev. DR.. John e. Briggs.
will read the scriptural and other In
terlineations between the choral num-
bers. The sittings are free.
At the morning service the subject
Day" and the choir will sing appro-
pirate festival music Baptism will be
administered at the beginning Of the
evening service.
A daybreak service will be held on
Christmas morning.
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Rev. S. Townsend Weaver Of Wash
ingtop and Nine. Mountford Of Jeru-
salem will speak Of the Christmas fes-
tival. at the Woodward &. Lothrop
anditorium Friday afternoon. at 3
pastor of the Grace Church. and will
speak to Sunday school teachers and
scholars of the lessons that are to come
before the Sunday school during the
coming year. setting forth the thirteen
Caesars of the New Testament period,
from Augustus to Trajan.
Nine. Mountford will speak of THE
Nativity"
At the Fourth Presbyterian Church
the evening service will be conducted
by wellington B. Johnson. MI John
son will speak upon the subject, God,
Man and the Earthworm." !,
The Young Peoples Society Of Chris
tian Endeavor Of the Fourth Church
will be addressed by H. F. Worley.
chairman of the citizenship committee
of the District Christian Endeavor
Union. on the subject, Booze on the
Run" The meeting begins at Z o'clock.
Gymnasium classes in the Fourth
Presbyterian gym: will be suspended
during the holidays, to be resumed i'm
mediately after New Year.
The Keller Memorial Lutheran Sun
day school will celebrate it's Christmas
anniversary tomorrow evening At l;45
o'clock. In addition to the program by
the primary and junior departments.
consisting Of recitations, exercises and
songs, the adult department Will have
the following special instrumental
numbers: Horn Quartet r,.; ca! Image MAJ & or
of the Lord" Kreutzer. by Messrs. A.
Sefdier, T. Hess. W. Eichner and G.
ONeill, and a flute solo. Bird of the
Forest" by Robert Seel, accompanied
by Horn Quartet. A Christmas service
OF song will be rendered by the entire
school.
In accordance with a custom estab-
lished nearly fifty years ago, a Christ
mas morning service will be held next
vernon Place Methodist Church. the
ma stor. DR.. Hardin, delivering a short
annropriate talk At the meeting Of
the Mems Club of Mount Vernon Place
Church tuesday evening an interesting
discussion Of the power of the Dis
trict Commissioners to prevent the en-
gaging in work on Sunday was had.
W. w. MILAN leading the round table
talks. A motion was adopted designed
to inaugurate action on the part of
the club looking to a concerted effort
10 have tht Sabbath more appropriately