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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-14

George Daiand. curate-organist, and
B. n. G. Williams. deacon.
/ Kingdom of Glory.
Regular services will again be held
! at lions Evangelical Lutheran church
next Sunday morning at 1920 and
Sunday evening at 7:50 o'clock The
subject for the morning service will
/ be: The Coming OF Christ with His
/ Kingdom Of Glory" Rev J. H c.
Sleek viii show that this Is not a
/ kingdom Of glory here on earth. but
viii be after the dav Of Judgment.
Sunday school children that wish to
partake in the Christmas exercises
must be present Sunday morning, OF
I they cannot be accepted, it is an
nounced. The young people will all
meet after church on Sunday evening.
FOrerunner of Christ.
The sermon subject Sunday morn
ing. St Paurs Lutheran church. viii
be on John the Baptist. The Forerun-
ner Of Christ. who came to prepare
the people for the reception of Christ
and the Christian dispensation,
preaching repentance and bantism.
His baptism was not Christian bapt-
ism but preparatory to Christian hap
tism. Paul baptized Johns disciples
Use Collection for Christmas.
At the East FL Paso Baptist church
Sunday morning the collection viii be
dedicated to the Christmas entertain
1 ! I
a m. on the subject: rs It Not High
TimeT' At $50 p m his theme will
be- How The Victory Was Won"
VIII Preach on Thought Discipline.
The Sunday school Of the Highland
Park Baptist church will meet at 9:s5
a. m for the opening worship, with
Supt. N. I. Griffith in charge. I'm
mediately following the school ses-
sion, Rev. /. q. Vermillion will preach
on the subject. The Discipline and
Power Of Thought" The unions meet
at $50 D. m. and preaching by the
pastor viii follow at 1850 p. m. Spec
ial music has been arranged for both
the Il o'clock and evening services
New Pastor TO Preach.
Rev. Geo W Mccall, the new pas
tor OF Central Baptist church. will
preach his first sermon Sunday morn
ing al Il o'clock. The music for the
morning service will be as follows
Anthem, Let the Heavens be glad
CWilsonl. Choir.
Solo. Light" (Ambrose). Mrs. c. c.
Ballard.
In the evening the music will be:
Anthem. Every day his love grows
dearer" FLorenz). Choir.
Solo, Selected. Mrs. Ballard.
VIII Speak on Convention.
Echoes from the Convention" viii
be the morning sermon topic OF Rev.
J. F. Williams at the First Christian
church Sunday. II will relate to the
Texas Baptist general convention at
Dallas from which Rev. Williams has
just returned At Fl. Worth he at
tended several meetings OF Billy Sun
day and viii speak in the evening on
The Sunday Revival In Fl Worth"
The aid and missionary society, which
is carrying on Red Cross work viii
have an all day meeting Tuesday at
the church to sew for the soldiers
The congregation viii meet for pray
er Wednesday evening at 7:s0.
Series of Christmas Sermons.
At II a. m at the First Congrega-
tional church. Rev. D J. Bradley will
preach the first Of three sermons ap-
propriate TO the Christmas season.
The series is entitled-"The Spiritual
Significance Of Christmas" The first
sermon IL called-'The Deeper Mean
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-14
NEW PASTOR OF CHRISTIAN
CHURCH is in The CITY

Rev. George W. Mccall. the new
pastor OF Central Baptist church. ar
rived here. with his family Friday
afternoon from Texarkana. and will
be temporarily the guests OF Mr.. and
Mrs. \ S. Howard, 1922 Montana
street.
Rev. Mccall will preach his first
sermon Sunday morning at Il o'clock
sunny Crest SanatOrIum. For tuber-
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Gun repairing OR specially. Allen
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-14
200 Ministers AND LAYMEN To
MAKE JOURNEY To NEAR EAST
While Not Political Pilgrimage, the United States and
Great Britain Have Assured the Safety Of the Party
Which Goes TIC Study Religious Conditions In the
Regions South of the Black and Caspian Seas.

able to keep their doors open Roman
Catholics are throughout the Holy
Land. and within the last few years
have made rapid progress In western
Anatolia. with headquarters IN a
Franciscan college at Smyrna
Il is understood that all OF these
bodies. Protestants, Roman Catholics
and Eastern Orthodox. possess suf-
ficient unity TO cooperate in the new
after-war plans, at least to the extent
Of retaining from open antagonism.
Between Protestants and Eastern
Orthodox there is some measure OF CO.
operation.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-14
PURPOSE SENDING SQUADS To
FRANCE TO RECRUIT PASTOR.


Representatives OF the General War
Time Commission Of the Churches ana
Of the National War Work Council OF
the Christian association have ap-
pealed to pastors to assist commission
and council laying before enlisted men
the call to the Christian ministry and
to service in foreign mission fields
They tell the ministers at home that
Populations are to be sent to Europe.
there TO lay the call before the boys in
advance of their return to America
Indications are that almost every en-
listed man viii have the calls laid be-
fore him.
Literature Is being prepared. signed
BY united churches and the determiu-
alton Is announced to press men for
decisions Figures are shown setting
forth lack OF men, and the Opportuui-
ties that are claimed TO be not IN
like those Of war in point Of service
to democracy and the world The
siEuers OF the ministers at home are
Frank W PadelfOrd and George
Irving.
Representatives Of home mission IN
terests, especial among the Presby-
terians. and OF applied Christianity,
have risen 10 ask, through periodicals,
why the call just issued is limited %
the ministry and the foreign missi IN
field They ask why home fields are
not mentioned. and why a call to lay
men to put better business methods
into the work Of churches is not
made.
They announce that they will also
prepare literature. and II possible
send representatives 10 Europe, there
TO lay before the khaki the call to
service by business and professional
men, outside Of working time, and in
such spheres OF activity as they find
themselves
In their call the applied Christianity
people say. in the interest OF missions
at home, thas unless things are done
in America, and done we'll bOlshe-
vikism viii appear here as it has done
IN Russia II is claimed By those
returning from France that there Is a
distinct turning OF many men TO rel
igious things, as was the case follow
ing the Civil war
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-14

OF our highest ideals. We were in
danger Of becoming gross and ma
terialistfc This has saved us from
the pit into which many another na-
ton has fallen.
Hope for Those In Tears.
Our anthems Of praise have been
tempered by many funeral dlrge'
and a multitude of hearts are sorrow
full But while many OF US look out
uron the world Of peace through tear
dimmed eyes. yet we have learned that
even through the lens OF tears we can
see the radiant bow OF hope The sac
rffice has not been in vain The aW-
full price we have paid for our tri-
umph only serves to make US realize
hcyv. great and how sacred is our vic
War always takes a terrible toll.
But il war must be. what nobler cause
could engage US than that through
which we have just passed; what
worthier altar could have received our
sacrificed
Faith for Future Days.
Holding our high ideals. we engaged
IN the conflict with a firm talJh ina.
God would prosper the cause OF right
and Justice and freedom Our faith mas
been justified. The word OF God mas
been fulfilled. Wiikedness shall not
triumph forever Commit thy ways
INTO he FORD and he shall
make their righteousness 90 forth as
Blessing" CGeiveI). Mrs. ". D. Howe
and Mrs Moore.
Solo. The Earth IS the LORDS
Crank Lyue). Frank Cheek
SDecial for the evening hour:
Anthem. "W elcome. sweet Grace
Macy, and a Gospel Solo ~ c c
Ballard.
Church in Reconstruction.
Rev. Henry VanValkenburgh, pas
tor. will speak at the First Methodist
Episcopal Church At 1915 a. n. and
7:30 p m His morning subject VIII
be. I Am Debtor MS nlsnt suoJecl
Will be the first OF two sermons on,
The Christian Church As a Factor
in World Reconstruction" The first
one viii be on, The Christian Church
As a Factor IN America. What and
How2'' The choir viii give its usual
special music and under the reorEan-
izing leadership Of Prof Gulickson.
plans an extensive program for the
coming months
breaches On Religious Instinct.
At the regular 400 a m service
Sunday at the Orchard Park Aietho-
dist Episcopal church. the pastor, Rev
Rufus c. Baker. viii preach. His
sermon subject VIII be: The Relig-
ious Instinct in Man"
MaEons to Attend Church
On Sunday morning the members
OF the FL Paso lodge. A. F. & A n.
will attend the morning service at
Il o'clock at Highland Park Metho-
dist church. The theme Of the preach
er VIII be What is man without God ."
The theme OF the evening service at
$3.50 viii be "A Popular Story" The
Rev. ". s Huggett viii be the
preacher both morning and night
Speaks on Complete Wan.
a Complete Man" viii be the
theme OF the sermon by the Rev. c.
H. AIitcheimore, at the Altura Pres
hyterian church Sunday morning at
1915 o'clock. IN the evening at 700
o'clock, the subject viii be. Putting
Back a Mans Ear, after Il had been
cut off," The Prayer Meeting viii
be held at the home OF the minister,
1909 Kings Highway. Wednesday ev-
ening at 1880: subject, Joseph Cares
for His Kindred"
DR.. Landrith to Preach.
At the First Presbyterian church.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-14
ASK WHAT IS To BE DONE
WITH GOT-TEKTRG OF HTG

Secretaries Of Baptist, Catholic,
Congregational, Lutheron and Pres
byterian missionaries societies. and
Christian leaders whose names are
known 10 the public. including the
Rev. Dr. s Parkes Cadman. the Rev.
John Timothy Stone. Bishop Gailor OF
CONTINUED on page 10. column II
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-14

WE give thanks day for victory
w and for promised peace. All
hearts are profoundly thankful that
guns have ceased TO roar and that
even now men are on their happy pill
grimage TO the peace conference. With
all that has been said in recent days
we still feel that the full measure
OF our gratitude has not yet been ade-
quately expressed. In our efforts to
voice our gratitude. while We may be
compelled by poverty of speech 10 use
words we have often used before. yet
those words will have IN them far
richer meaning than they have ever
had.
Holding High Ideals
War is always degrading. Its his
tory is ever the record Of degradation
and destruction OF many Of the richest
and finest things Of life. But IL is 8
matter for genuine thanksgiving that
we have been able. through all the
smoke and confusion of war, to keep
our ideals so high. In deed the ex-
perience has given US occasion to
clarity and crystalize those ideals in
4 far finer way than We had ever done
even in the times Of peace. Not the
come to US IN this splendid stressing
ing Of the Virgin Birth" 1t 10 a m.
Sunday school meets The pastor 5
Bible class is continuing a study O.
the book Of job.
To Speak on "Step Ahead
The morning sermon subject at
Austin Park Christian church viii be
The Step Ahead" and the evening
sermon subject The Worlds Master
piece"
Speaks On Religious Arithmetic.
At the First Christian church. OF
which Rev. Milo Atkinson is pastor.
communion service and sermon Will
he held at 11:45 a. m. Young peoples
m, the topic being The Power Of
the Cross in the Philippines" Miss
Mildred Dow viii be leader Relig-
ious Arithmetic" is the subject OF the
pastors evening sermon at $50 2. m.
Evangelist To Preach.
Elder T. B. Larlmore. a widely
known evangelist OF Nashville, Tenn.
viii preach at the Church Of Christ
sunday at 10 g. m. and 7:30 p. n.
Bible study will be held at 10 a. N.
Preaches on BabylOn's Fall.
At Asbury Methodist Episcopal
Church, South Rev. H NJ Smith, the
pastor, will preach Sunday morning
At the evening hour he will represent
the Downfall of Kaiserism as the last
episode in the fall In the morning
J. Landrum Graham. Y. ". c. A.
general secretary. VIII sing. and in
the evening Miss Vivian Brown will
render a violin solo. accompanied on
the plano by Miss Ruth Brown.
Service For Kiwnnis Club
At Trinity Methodist Church. South,
at 1915 o'clock Rev. p. r Knfck er-
booker viii preach on "a Study in the
Life Of Jesus" and at 7:SO D m. Mr.
knickerbocker will preach the annual
sermon TO the KiWanis club. The
subject will be THE Everyday man"
The Trinity quartet will sing. Ki-
wants members and their families
will meet in the basement OF the
church at us and march in a body
to the auditorium where seats will
be reserved for them.
Special music for the morning serv-
ice follows
Duet. Saviour. Source Of Every
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-14
DR.. LANDRITH. FORMER CANDIDATE
FOR VICE PRESIDENCY, To PREACH

VIII Occupy First Presbyterian Pulpit Sunday; XII
wants Club To Attend Evening Services At Trinity
Methodist; Communion At St. Clements; Dr.
Williams Returns After Hearing Billy Sunday.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-14

the light and their judgment as the
shall be cut off" We went into the
war with such a faith. The results
are unmistakeable.
EvEs still Are n Menace.
So likewise the tasks that remain
may be undertaken with fuller con-
fidence and firmer faith than ever
that trust in Him shall not be IN vain.
We may not expect 10 return suddenly
10 the soft habits OF ease loving days
before the war. Mighty tasks remain.
that we may make secure the things
we have attained. Let US not think
that when the kaiser abdicated- vault
ing ambition was slain; that when the
Hun surrendered. greed was annihi-
lated; that when the despoilers OF
virtue and the murderers OF innocents
cried "kamerao," lust was crucified
and murder slain
II shaH BE Well
The kaiser still awaits the call OF
4 devoted people TO return TO his place
OF power" and greed, lust and muir
derous anarchy forever crouch at the
door OF civilization, only awaiting an
unCuarded moment in which to return
20 despoil all that IS fair in life But
since we have the word Of God made
even more sure by these recent ex-
periences, we can 90 forward TO any
exacting demands the future may hold
with them that fear God.
the Sunday school is planning to give
a Christmas program on the Sunday
before Christmas DR.. Ira W Land
rith, OF Chicago, Illinois, former can
didate for vice president on the Pro-
hibition ticket viii have charge OF
the II o'clock service Sunday The
evening services. in charge OF the
Christian Endeavor. will be led by
the missionary committee Of the So
ciety, the subject for discussion being
The Power OF the Cross in the Phil
ippines." The usual social hour viii
follow.
PnstOr 10 Prench-
At the Westminster Presbyterian
church. the pastor will preach at the
morning and evening services. Mrs
J. W. Christie viii have charge OF the
music.
Arithmetic OF Creation
Associate Bible students will meet
in the county court room Sunday at
ESQ D n Subject OF the sermon VIII
be: Arithmetic OF New Creation"
This service will be followed by Be
rean Bible study.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-12-14

By Rev Milo Atkinson, First Christian Church
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Calendar for the Week

suND-Aeoian Hail. recital Carnegie
Hail. recital opera
House, $3.50 D. m
for the Society the m
recital by Antonette
dancing by Michio and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Opera House. Italian
OPERA Aida; Italian Gle
Theatre special matinee
opera Romeo Juiete" French Sauot";
nege HAIL. $3.50
Aeolan Hail. M panofortc Wykof D. m
concert OF chamber music by the Berkshire
2:3o D. No. Woloncelo recital by Pauo Grippe
Observation-Disclosures Hail, m,
OF chicaso Aeoian Hall, recital by May
Kebecca Clarke, vioa Metropolitan
opera "Rgoeto" Lexington Theatre
torrance in New York of Mascagn's "Sabeau."
lhoSoDAf'-Carng Hail. Sis
ochesta; Aeoan Hall, p.
herbert "ltherspoon; Metropolitan
"ihals'; Lexington Theatre p.
violin recital by Mayo Wad opera
phetc; Brooklyn Opera House. concert of the Boston
Orchestra ~ ~
SATuRDAY-Carnegc Hail. Boston Orchestral
0'io p m concert OF the Russian
m concert for children by Symphony Society," s:15 m violin
'ccla by eascha JacobinoH Metropolitan n French
opera narouf; Italian popular prices Manon
Acscaut Lexington Theatre D. r
by inc Chicago Brooklyn the
we" YORK Symphony Society,"
Sers' concert by tho New York Chamber Society
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

OF our readers can recall one of them
Yet we, even we, heard Nine. Bishop
and cbatted with her about the author
Of the words which Sir Henry, her
erstwhile husband, immortalized by his
music. (The occasion, we believe, was
the bringing back to his native land
of the body Of John Howard Payne.)
And though we never heard Nine
Bertucca sing, we have often heard
her harp solo in the first act Of lucia
when, as Nine. Maretzik, she sat in
the orchestra Of the old Academy of
Music.
1t is one Of the anomalies in the his
tory Of "Lc Prophetic" that not to the
Italian or French performances but to
the German the opera owes the greatest
part of its life on the stage of the
Metropolitan Opera House The opera
was given nine tipRes in the first Ger
man season and the majority OF the
performances heard in New York were
in tho German language. When DR..
Leopold Damrosch produced it it RI
vailed the Wagnerian operas Of his
list in popularity. Since Mr.. Abbey
brought it forward in the season Of
1S83'84, when the theatre was new. we
have heard three representatives of the
titular character in Italian (Stag-
no, Tamagno and Jean de Reszke) five
in German (Schott, Sylvia, Niemann.
Perotti and Gudehus) and two in
French (Alvarez and Caruso). That the
opera has never been popular in the
sense that Puccini's operas are popu-
lar is no doubt due to the great diff
Guilty Of finding adequate representa-
tives of its two principal characters
and the depressing effect of the sing
ing of those three black crows, the
Anabaptist mssioncrs, unless the parts
are carried by vocal artists of the first
rank; the only. instance Of which THAI.
we can recall was in the performances
under Mr.. Grau. when men like Edouard
de Rcszke and Plapcon were called into
service.
The principal part in the opera. from
dramatic point of view, is that Of
F1des, a mczzosoprano role which
calls for combination of gifts rarely
found in a single artist We have
heard excellent singers in the part,
but Nine. Viardot Garcia is the only
singer who stands in the lists As meet
ing the ideal in all respects After her
retirement Nine. Tietjens achieved
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
A ReuiuaL of
Meyerbeer's Operas
Backward Suing of the Operatic Pendu-
lum-V Various Portrayals of John of
Leyden - Italian, German and French
Prophets at the Metropolitan Dramatic
Absurdities .Swedish Matches in the
Sixteenth Century
By H. E. Krchbiel

We have gnfcances the repertorics
presented season after houses. Scarcely
which might have been them thirty years
remained lasting influence The
by the METROPOLITAN Opera
House but practically that accomplished
popular operas Wagner which
noveesThc Ring of the Nbeung, Christian
large element of the audience
ena attitude toward the lyric drama than had prevailed therto but
they did the worship which
history the invention the form
held Avary god oa appeared in
his hapey tights curly hair picturesque
accepted the plaudts of the multitude gratefully albeit with
the consciously
and Brandt enthusiastically by
ion as anv NINA onna Rut bonoh it. nav not % If n+ IN tho
evolution operas
which listening to-day Metropolitan
largely those to which the listened generation ago. OF the
seasonm the fall of 1883 the of 1884 In Mr. Abey list
Trovaore"
"Rigoleto
m Barbiere siviga which At the Academy
Music time public "I'Elr
dAore and Ada which conspicuous the list at the
Metropolitan
making
vastly uabaoo about than made by the
wonder The throur
familiar with the art the audiences
to-day One swallow has made at the Lexington Theatre but
then the public being RECALLED by singers of the highest
the operas listening
nothing of sca at the Metropolitan Opera House and Patti and
the Academy Music and for Carso the people those
days decidedly Canpani
and Rav But enough of hat not going to decant the
Prophete the Metropolitan In its italian guise
produced by Mr. Abbey in the first
Mr. till
familiar twcetod
the present brought
Mapon the Academy of Music with Minnie Hauk and
after the German the
Mr. Abbey incorporated it in his scheme
gave Diable' with TurschMad Nine Val
Mr. productions of Lies Huguenots with Sem
brcf N Mante the brothers de Re and Maure Those were
Jean Edouar de Rcke and
simultaneously before the
The bunc entered bagnor and remarked to Nine
bit thrilling to look at three such splendid
the time "lndeed it is, and they
would but udy replied the
andardbarer of German
aggregation and perhaps thinking little
resrctfuly O days of Albert Ncnann
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10
Meyerbecr's Opera in
the Early Days

Moycrbccr's prophet" has been
known to New York almost as long as
it has been in existence. 1t was per-
formed for the first time in this city
(and also in this country in 1853.
The manager who introduced it as a
novelty was Max Marctzik, who
served for a time as musical director
for Mr.. Edward Fry (brother of Mr..
w. II. Fry, who was The Tribune's
musical critic for considerable time,
as we'll as composer OF English
pperas) at the Astor Place Opera
House. In nothing did Mr.. Marctzk' s
energy as an opera director appear
more plainly than in the promptness
with which the then latest Of Meyer
beers creations was given to the New
York public. lie Prophetic" was only
four years old at the time, its first
performance having taken place in
Paris on April 16. 1S19. But it was in
period when despite tho most varied
vicissitudes Italian opera was being
cultivated with zeal scarcely com
prehensiblc now. Then the art form.
scarcely moro an exotic than it is now,
shifted its home every few months,
now housed at the fashionable new
opera house in Astor Place, anon at
Niblo's Garden and next at Castle Gar
den. The last place was frequently
the scene of summer seasons, and
there was actually so much Italian
opera sung in the city that it is al
most strange that all theatrical enter
tainmcnts in the vernacular did not
come to be looked upon as vulgar.
Jenny Lind was singing operate airs
at Castle Garden; Nine. Anna Bishon
twho had run away from the composer
Of "Homc, Sweet Home with Bochsa.
+ harpist), with a voice and execution
that kept her high in popular ostima-
ton in spite of the Juror caused by
The Swedish Nightingale, was warbling
operate airs at Tripler Hall, and
among the multitude Of singers in the
rival opera companies that were striv-
ing to get the public's money we're
Signorc Truhi, Amalia Patti. Stcf-
.none, Bosc, Tedesco, Borghese, Pa
rodi and Bertucca and the Signori
Benedict, Corsi, Morini. Lorini. Fort,
Salvi, Lcttini and Badiali. Whittier
has their fame departed? How many
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-02-10

turtles before the opera was compose d
or the safety match invented Mr..
Alvarez, it may be added, poured out
ringing high tones copiously and en-
phaszed them with 2 heavy foot, but
his tonal sophistications were too nu-
mcrous for enjoyment, or even com
tort. There were no performances Of
lie Prophetic" at the Metropolitan in
the next two seasons, and five with
Schumann-llcnk and Alvarez). in 1909
i9o3-the last year of Mr.. Grau's re
slmc. Then came Mr.. Conried; the
rest, till last Thursday, was silence.