New-York tribune., 1918-12-24
Churches to Sound
Festive Spirit i'm
Christmas Music
Patriotic Selections Will Be
Added to Many Pro-
grammes as Return of
Peace Is Celebrate d

hcturn once more OIL peace on caTlH
and good will to men" will be celc-
brated in New York churches this
Christmas by music much more clab-
crate than any this city has heard
since the war clouds overshadowed the
world.
This being victory Christmas, pa
triotic songs will be mingled with
Christmas music in many of the
churches Tomorrow Many of the
churches will hold Christmas Eve cclc-
brations tonight Midnight masses be-
ginning at 12 o'clock to night will usher
in Christmas Day in numerous Catholic
churches again this year, the Right
Rev Monsgnor Joseph +. Mooney hav-
ing sanctioned the midnight masses,
following the precedent established in
1916 by the late Cardinal Farley.
This afternoon there will be pro-
cessional around the manger in the
old Trinity Church, and from the steps
of the Church Of the Heavenly Rest,
at Fifth Avenue, near Fortyfifth
Street, choir boys will sing Christmas
carols. One thousand children of the
Chapel of the Intercession will make
pilgrimage this evening to the grave
of Clement C. Moore, author of -" Twas
the Night Before Christmas" who
sleeps in Trinity Cemetery, at Broad
way and 153d Street. The children
will sing carols and place a wreath
upon his grave. They will visit the
resting place of son of Charles Dick
ems also.
Midnight Mass at St. Patrick's
There will be no tickets of admission
to the midnight mass at st. Patrick's
Cathedral tonight. All corners will be
admitted until the cathedral is filled.
Other Christmas masses will be cele-
brated tomorrow morning at 6, 7, s, 8
and II o'clock, the last to be sung by
Bishop Patrick j. Hayes. Christmas
vespers are st a o'clock.
new mass composed by Pietro A.
Yon will be sung this midnight at the
Church of st. Francis Xavier. A dou
BILE male quartet will sing high mass
at II o'clock and vespers at p m.
Singing by Marie Glover Miller will be
a feature accompanying the midnight
mass at the Church Of Notre Dame.
The midnight mass at the Church, ,4of
Our Lady of Lourdes Will begin with
a professional, "Holy Night"
Christmas services in Lutheran
churches will begin at O'Clock Christ
mas morning. At St. Matthew's Church
the Rev. DR.. A. Wismar will preach
OF hot
ming at 6 o'clock the Rev. Dr. William
f. Schoenfed will hold Christmas SER
vices virtually throughout the morn
ing at Emmanuel Church.
The Woodlawn Heights Methodist
Episcopal Church will hold Christmas
services at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing
The Rev. Dr. Robert Watson will
conduct services in the Second Presby-
terian Church at IL o'clock Christmas
morning.
DIR. Manning at Old Trinity
The Rev. Dr. William T. Manning
will preach at festival service in the
old Trinity Church, Protestant Episco-
pal, at II o'clock Christmas morning.
In old st. Pauls Chapel at 6 o'clock
Christmas morning there will be
service for. those who attend the Bow
An augmented choir will sing Christ
mas songs at a mass this midnight at
st. Paul's Episcopal Church, in Brook
lyn. Bishop Greer will preach the
Christmas sermon at the Cathedral of
st. John the Divine at II o'clock to-
morrow. A midnight communion will
begin the Christmas Eve services at
the Church of the Beloved Disciple
Bishop Charles S. Burch will be in the
pl1lpit at the Christmas nOrnjnr ser-
vices in the Church of the Heavenly
Rest.
The Rev. DR.. Malcolm James Mac
Leod will conduct morning and eve
ming Christmas services at the Col
legiate Church of st. Nicholas (Re-
formedD. The Marble Collegiate
Church celebration will be Christmas
morning.
Five choruscs from Handel's "Mes-
siah" will be sung Christmas morning
at the Middle Dutch Church..