The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-12-23
LOCAL CHURCHES
WILL CELEBRATE
PROGRAMS WILL BE GIVEN AT
DIFFERENT PLACES FOR
NEXT THREE EVENINGS
Baptist Church to Have Christmas
Tree and Program This Evening
others on Sunday and Monday

Beginning tonight there will be
Christmas trees and exercises every
night at one or another of the local
churches for the next three evenings
Elaborate programs are being prepared
by busy committees, and preparations
are being made for one of the most
cheerful Christmas celebrations Mos
COW has ever had. All of the churches
extend cordial invitations to the public
to attend the services.
The Baptist church will have a
Christmas program this evening at
1880; the Methodist and Presbyterian
churches tomorrow evening; the Nor
wegian Lutheran Monday morning at
II, and the Swedish Lutheran Monday
morning beginning at 5 a. M; the
Christian church Sunday evening; and
the Episcopal both Sunday morning
and Christmas day at 10 O'Clock.
The regular announcements follow:
Baptist Church
A short, good-cheer Christmas
program will be given at the church
with Christmas tree this evening at
1880 sharp, music beginning at z.
Everyone welcome and we shall be
glad to see you there. The usual
Sunday services will be held. At the
morning service the pastor will
preach on the subject, THE Shepherds
Watch" and in the evening, mo Room
in the Inn." You are cordially invited
to all of these services. To our
friends and to the stranger within
our gates, we wish the happiest
Christmas yet Very sincerely,
NJ. H. YAGER, Pastor.
Presbyterian Church
In common with other Evangelical
churches the Presbyterians have al
ways been faithful in the celebration
of the outstanding events in the Life
of Christ the Savior. In line with
this principle the preparations for
celebrating the birth of Christ III the
Christmas exercises are being care
fully planned. At the services on
Sunday morning the Bible school at
9:45 will take up the Christmas story
in study and in song. At IL O'CLOCK
the sermon will be appropriate to the
occasion, as will also the special
music by the choir under direction OF
Miss Flavie Barney
The height of interest centers in
The special program by the BLDG
school, which will be given Sunday
evening beginning promptly at q
o'clock. consisting of special Christ
mas songs and declamatlons by
pupils of the Junior and Primary de-
partments, the crowning thought OF
all the numbers being that the "Son OF
Man came not to be minlsterd unto,
hut to minister and to give his life
a ransom for many" Following out
this idea there are to be no presents
or gifts for the members OF the |
local school, but the Giving Christmas
will be observed by making gifts to
various objects and causes. One class /
for a number of years has sent |
money for a scholarship in a mission |
school in the Philippines; one class
supplies a scholarship in a school in
China; some local benevolences are
carried on by other classes, and a
liberal Offering by the school and
is sent annually to the
Board of Foreign Missions to help
carry the Christmas message to chill
dren who have no Christmas. Such
an offering is specially needed this
year because of needed missionary
work in the war zones.
Christian Church
The Christmas services at the
Christian church are going to be. one
If interest to both old and young.
Because it is a giving Christmas, the
services are called the White Christ
mas. Some of the gifts are to be
yiven to the Old Peoples Home at
Walla Walla, some to the Orphans
Home at Lewiston, while some are to
70 given to the needy in our own city. q
The gifts will however, not be j
marked for the people who are to re- t
Give them directly, but will be given i
o the King, the Lord Jesus, and will t
e used for His own, for He has said, !.
Inasmnch as you have done 1t unto Q
he least Of these my brethren, you
ave done it unto Me-" All the gifts b
7iu be laid at the foot Of the cross, e
,i,ieA will be lighted with electricity ]
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