Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-19
HUNDRED VOICES
EXPECT TO TAKE
PART IN CHORUS
CHRISTMAS EVENT SCHEDULED TO
BE HELD At FORT BROWN FOR
GENERAL PUBLIC
FINAL REHEARSAL THURSDAY NIGHT
At BAPTIST CHURCH-GLEE
CLUB MAY PARTICIPATE

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ticipate in the community Christmas choir
at Fort Brown next Sunday night in the
opinion Of those who attended the rehear-
sal at the Baptist church last night. The
attendance at the practice meeting was
abou sixty-five, the largest number Yet
to attend any of the rehearsals. ii Is be-
lieved that at least thirty-five or forty
more singers will be present Thursday
night al the final rehearsal. All singers
are invited to participate.
Last night the entire list of Christmas
carols, all old familiar songs to simple and
easily sung airs, were sung in the order
that they will be presented Sunday night.
Band Leader James Prewett, Fourth In
fantry United States band, was present
and led the choir. Miss Anita kowalski,
who is assisting Mrs. W. A. Ross in the
work of organizing and drilling the choir,
brought a number of high school students
TO the rehearsal last night. They com
prise some of the best singers among the
boys and girls of the junior and senior
grades. A number of United States army
and national guard men are members.
Efforts are being made to enlist for
next Sunday night the members of the
Pan Hellenic association Glee Club com
mittee under Colonel Dawson of the
Fourth Infantry. This committee will
furnish the principal features of the char
ity entertainment at the Dittmann theatre
tomorrow night and rchearsals for that nj
fair nave made it impractical for them
To give any time thus far TO the choir.
They will be invited to be present at the
Thursday night rehearsal.
The dcsiresto make the community choir
and municipal Christmas tree a success
of the first order is an ardent one among
ties promoters.
The origin and nature of the community
Christmas tree, described in the Decem-
her, 1914. number of the Delineator, offer
clements that are inspiring to those who
have the present one in hand.
The following clipped from the Delin-
Gator, is from the scrapbook of one of the
members of the community choir commit
tee:
They are wonderful things, these COM
munity Christmas trees, not for their
beauty alone, but for the spirit they arouse
in the towns where they are found. They
are the village center for Christmas JOY.
Christmas services, without sectarian bar
riers, are held about them Christmas
carols are sung Mt their bases. None so
poor or.so worldworn or so hurried but
he must share in this Universal Tree.
Standing in the market place he must see,
must thrill with friend and stranger alike
To this Tree for All the World. Ii brings
the community.
Most of the great religions Of the world
were born Of some solitary spirit who
sought the lonely sand wastes and there
wrought out that which made the desert
| Of his soul 'blossom like the rose" He
who gave III the Great Faith went again
and again out into the burning yellow
b~arrcns, where the tender. broodIng violet
| sky awaited Him; where all the desert
| world. 80 fearful in its unadornment, -
| overwhelming in its solitude, found focus
I'd in Him all it, pulsing radiance, a.
| though in Him were ccniered the heart
beat Of the universe. In the verdureleSS
sand driven, star-hung desert the Babe
| with His listening ear heard. with His
dreaming eyes saw with His throbbing
heart felt. the faith that turned mem
faces forever from he clod to the Gross.
The Tree Is the symbol of green forest
beauty. Of the druid'~ wild faith: of the
Teuion's ~largess: and always Of giving
giving. Not strange that forever In our
minds it should be inseparable from the
birthday of Him who gave supremely. Not
strange. but utterly soul-~atisfying that