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Evening star., 1940-12-21
Christian Science

''Is the Universe. Including Man,
Evolved by Atomic Force?" is the
subject Of the lesson-sermon in all
the Churches Of Christ, Scientist
tomorrow ut II am. and 8 pm.
Sunday school is at II am. All are
invited to attend the church services
including the Wednesday meetings
at 8 pm.
The golden text is from Isaiah,
xlv1s, Thus saith the Lord that
created the heavens; God himself
that formei the earth and made
it; I ar1 the Lord, and there IL
none else" Among the citations
which comprise the lesson-sermon
is the following from the Bible: ::
And God saw everything that He
had made, and, behold. it was very
good" Genesis, i31, to first period)
The lesson-sermon also includes
the following passage from the
Christian Science textbook, "Sci-
ence and Health With Key to the
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy:
The Scriptures declare all that
He made to be good, like Himself
good in principle and in idea.
Therefore the spiritual universe Is
good and reflects God as He il" T"
page 286D
Evening star., 1940-12-21
Special Candle Service
At Calvary Wednesday

Special Christmas services will be
held at both the morning and eve
ming services at Calvary Methodist
Church tomorrow. At II am. DR..
Orris Gravenor Robinson will preach
on when the Angels Had Gone"
There will be Christmas anthems
and carols. At pm special Christ
mas music. The public is invited.
The Young Peoples League meets
at Z pm.
There will be no midweek devo-
tional services on Thursday for the
next two weeks. They will be re-.
sumed January ..
There will be an early Christmas
morning candlehght service at $50
O'Clock Wednesday. DR.. Robinson
will conduct this service, which is
provided so that Christmas Day may
be begun with worship in the church
and continued in the homes during
the day by the burning of candle
to commemorate the birthday Of the
Christ,
Evening star., 1940-12-21
YuIe Services Listed
At Waugh Methodist

Special Christmas services will be
held at Waugh Methodist Church
tomorrow. At II am. the sermon
subject is "The Light That Shines
In the Darkness" The Junior and
senior choirs will sing.
At 8 pm a Christmas musical
program will be rendered by the
choirs. j. M. Tyler, Harpist Of the
Marine Band, will play selections.
At $50 am. and the annual White
Gift service will be held, with a
Christmas program presented by
scholars of the church school,. Gifts
will be presented for Christmas bas-
kets for the poor. The Intermediate
and Senior Leagues will have their
Christmas services at 6:45 pm.
On December 26 at 7:30 pm. the
Christmas message will be given In
song and story and colored slides
will be used showing the Christmas
scenes from Biblical paintings. The
Rev. Clarkson r. Banes is the pastor.
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Special Rites Planned
Al Epworth Methodist

Christmas services in Epworth
Methodist Church will begin with
the ii o'clock sermon by DR.. Clifton
X. Ray, who will preach on The
Angelic Song" At 7:45 pm. the
service will be one of music, with
a candlelight musical service in
which the three choirs will take
part. During the morning service
DR.. Ray will administer the rite
Of baptism of infants, and will re-
ceive new members.
Special Christmas services and
programs have been arranged in the
Sunday school tomorrow morning.
The Minot Bible Class will have
charge of the exercises of the adult
department at $50 am. Special
services have been arranged for the
Wesley Fellowship and for the young
peoples department at pm. Spe-
cial emphasis is being made to make
the annual Christmas offering to
the Home for Aged at Gaithersburg
Md, both in gifts of cash and food
stuffs and linens.
DR.. Ray will conduct an early
morning candlelight communion
service at $50 Christmas morning.
Members of the young peoples de-
partment will also meet at the
church at 4 am. that morning to
begin a neighborhood carol service,
returning to the church for the
communion service. Members of the
various organizations are. active in
filling bags for children Of the poor,
to be distributed by the Central
Union Mission.
The midweek meeting will be
omitted Thursday evening.
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Dr.. Ball 10 Conclude
Sermons on Christmas

At the Metropolitan Baptist
Church tomorrow morning DR.. John
Compton Ball will conclude his SER
mons on Christmas Foregleams. 4"
His special topic is His Birth" At
the evening service the assistant
pastor, the Rev. John NJ Ballbach.
will speak on Behold Your King!"
This will include special Christmas
story to be read at the close of the
message.
A tree over 20 feet high will occupy
the center of the pulpit platform.
Carols will be sung by the choir and
congregation by the light Of the tree.
Three special anthems will be sung
by the choir at each service.
Young couples have arranged for
their wedding ceremony to be per-
formed by DR.. Ball in the church
with the lighted tree as the matri-
monial decorations.
On Thursday, pm. deacon's
meeting; 7:45 pm, meeting will be
in charge of the Women's Missionary
Society. This will be the regular
Lottie Moon day Of prayer program.
$40 pm, Personal Workers Band,
conducted by the Rev. Mr.. Ballbach.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
Shepherds and Sages'
Topic Of Dr.. Frank Stee|man

"Shepherds and Sages" will be DR..
Frank Steelman's sermon topic at II
IN, at Petworth Methodist Church.
The traditional Christmas order Of
worship will be followed. There will
be Christmas music. At 8 pm. the
senior choir will render a cantata.
On Christmas eve Petworth
Methodists will be hosts to the COM
munity carol service at o'clock on
Grant circle. AfterWard the young
people will carol for shut-ins.
Christmas dawn, at $50. trumpet
ers on the church portico will call
the congregation to the worship OF
the newborn King Virginia Perrin
will offer the prayer of alteration
and J. D. White will read the Christ
mas story from the Scripture, Miss
Newman will give the Christmas
meditation.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
Birthday Of Christ
Will Be Marked al
Sixth Presbyterian
SpeeioI Programs to Be
Presented by All
Departments

The birthday Of Christ will be
commemorated tomorrow in every
service Of the Sixth Presbyterian
Church.
The children Of the nursery, be-
ginners. primary and junior depart
ments will present a special Christ
mas program at 9:45 am.
The morning worship will be pre-
ceded by community chime pre-
lude Of Christmas carols. beginning
at 10:30 am. The subject OF the
sermon will be How Far to Bethle-
hem?" The children's and adult
choirs will sing.
The annual white gift service
commences at 5 pm. and will also
be preceded by chime and organ pre-
ludes. All are invited to present
gifts, wrapped in white, for the needy
of Washington and vicinity.
Following this service the Chris
tian Endeavor Forum will hold a
tea. The Senior Hi Young People
will have a box luncheon. Later
these two societies and a number of
their friends will conduct a Christ
mas program for the children in one
OF Washington's underprivileged
areas.
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Bishop Freeman to ToIk
At Ascension Church

At the Church Of the Ascension
the series Of Advent Sunday eve
nings will end tomorrow evening.
The special preacher will be Bishop
James E. Freeman. The subject will
be Awaiting the King"
Other services will be holy COM
munion at 8 am. sermon by Canon
Raymond L. Wolven at II m. and
the Young Peoples Fellowship at
7 pm.
Christmas Eve there viii be q half
hour Of Christmas carols, beginning
at 1880 pm, followed by the mid
night celebration of the holy COM
munion. Christmas morning ut II
there will be holy communion and
sermon.
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Atonement Lutheran

The Rev. Howard Snyder will
preach at II am. on Manifest in
the Flesh"
The children of the kindergarten
and primary departments Of the
Sunday school will present their
annual Christmas program at 2:30
pm. A program has been pre-
pared by the main department Of
the Sunday school and will include
a Christmas pageant to be given
by the young people. This service
will begin at pm.
A musical program will be pre-
sented Christmas Eve from HIS to
l1:45. Following this midnight
church service will be conducted.
and will include sermon by the
pastor.
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All Souls Unitarian
10 oPresent Pageant
On HoIidayFetes
The Christmas Secret
Topic Of Dr.. Pierce
At Morning Service

Christmas: Festival Of Human
ity," pageant depicting the win
ter solstice celebrations and the
Jewish Festival of Lights as we'll
as the familiar Nativity story. will
be presented at All Souls Unitarian
Church tomorrow at 9:45 am. by
the Pierce Hall Players and groups
from the King-Smith Studios. The
service preceding the pageant will
be conducted by Hugh Keeley, Jean
Stewart and William Bell.
In the Current Problems Glass
at 10 am. James l.. Fieser of the
American Red Cross and DR.. Karel
Cervenka of Czecho- -Slovakian re-
lief will speak on The Christmas
Spirit in Relief Work"
DR.. Ulysses G. B. Pierce will
preach at IL a m. on The Christ
mas Secret" The junior choir and
Elsa Raner, violinist, and John Al
den Finckel, cellist, will supplement
the regular music.
At pm. the quartet will pre-
sent a program of Christmas music
by Bach. The Christmas Festival
of Humanity will be repeated at
$50. The fellowship tea from 6
to Z o'clock will be under the di-
rectlon of Mrs. Alfred Montzka and
Mrs. Charles E. Wright, assisted by
members of the Junior Alliance.
The Fireside Circle meeting for
young people is at $50. Its a Date"
is the feature of the motion picture
hour at 7;30. The L'Allegro Club
will hold its annual Christmas dance
on Friday evening. Other Christ
mas parties are scheduled for De-
cen1ber % and 30.
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incarnation Lutheran

The Rev. DR.. NJ Edwin Thomas
of the Board Of Foreign Missions,
Baltimore, at II am. will present a
Christmas sermon. At 4 pm. the
Bible school and auxiliary societies
will offer their white gifts for To-
cal and Lutheran charities. There
will be no meetings of the Luther
Leagues.
The Christmas midnight service
on Tuesday at II pm. will be in
charge of the Rev. DR.. Robert L.
Lang, superintendent of the Ma
tional Lutheran Home for the Aged.
Holy communion on January S at
ii am. will be in charge of Chap
lain Fred C. Frommhagen of the
United States Army. The annual
congregational business meeting is
on January 13 at 8 pm.
Evening star., 1940-12-21

when we knew the little fella was
coming, there was a strike. We
lived on what we had and worked
when could, but you know how
things are. Easier to spend money
than make 1t. When the. time got
close me and Mary decided we'd
better get back to Chicago to her
people. I hate charity, but it's bet
ter than starving. Mary thinks so,
anyway"
Ma bit her lip.
80 we started out in our car. 1t
was good car-once. 1t broke down
outside that last village"
Mountain Creek!"
I'VE oughtVe have gone back then,
I guess, but we thought we saw a
light and we kept on. After a while,
Mary couldn't make it and I left
her in the stable and started for
help. I saw your candles. My
mother was Irish. We always had
lights in our windows on Christmas
Evening star., 1940-12-21
The EnIoreinq Gift
Is Dr.. MichueI's Topic

DR.. Walter NJ Michael. pastor of
Eldbrooke Methodist Church, will
preach at II m. on The Enlargilg
Gift A musical vesper service will
be held at 4 pm. The music will
be furnished by the Junior and
senior choirs and Mrs. Rebecca
Harry Parker will give a Christmas
story.
The classes meet at $50 am.
when Edwin A. Swingle, Mems Com
munity Bible Glass teacher. will
speak on The Light of the World
q Christmas Lesson"
The Junior Youth Fellowship
Group will meet at 7 pm. to 90
caroling through the community
The Senior Youth Fellowship will
meet at 7 pm. Members are asked
to bring fruit to be taken to their
alley service on Monday at pm
This group will go caroling at 10
pm. Tuesday. There will be no
O'Clock evening service.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
st. Matthews Lutheran

The series of Advent sermons
which have been presented during
December in preparation for Christ
mas will be concluded tomorrow
morning with the Rev. Theodore P.
Fricke preaching on The Full Flow
of the Christmastide." The senior
and junior choirs will sing. A
group of new members will be re-
ceived
The children's Christmas service
will be celebrated at 7 pm. with
the Sunday school presenting a
program of song, recitation and
pageantry.
A Christmas service will be held
at II o'clock Christmas Eve. At
this candlelight service the Rev.
Mr.. Fricke will preach on 1.-The
Babe in the Manger" and special
music will be offered by the Or
ganist, the junior and senior choirs
and the women's chorus.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
Westminster Memorial
Presbyterian

The observance of the Christmas
program of the church will begin
with the presentation of "Tableau
of the Christmas Story" in the
church school at 10 am. by the
younger children. At the Christmas
Sunday morning service the pastor
will conduct the young peoples
chorus. The intermediate choir will
also sing. The topic of the pastor
will be "Watchful Shepherds" At 5
pm. a special candlelight serv-
ice will be held, presented by
the adult choir. At pm. the young
people will hear a Christmas story
told by q member of the Story Tell
ing League, and conclude the day
with q youth communion service
conducted by the pastor.
On Tuesday evening the young
people of the community will sing
Christmas carols on Seventh street
on the church steps and then go
caroling through the city.
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Dr.. Snyder's S Sermon
Tomorrow 10 Close
Advent Series
The Challenging Christ
Will Be Subject at
st. PouI's Lutheran

"Ths Challenging Christ" will b
the theme tomorrow morning Of DR..
Henry w. Snyder, pastor Of st.
Paul's Lutheran Church. This viii
close the advent series on "The
Fourfold Christ" Special music by
the choir will feature the service.
In the afternoon DR.. Snyder will
give a Christmas talk at the Flo
renee Crittenton Home. At 7 o'clock
the Sunday school will have their
annual white gift service. present.
ing tableau pageant entitled 1.-TWO
Thousand Years Ago" Among those
taking part will be Marlyn Pence,
Nadyne johnson, Newell johnson.
Charles Clark, Martin Wiegand, Cor
inne Smid. Richard Barr, Harvey
Hickman and David Haupt. Betty
Clarkson and Miss Lovena Campbell
will sing solos. New members will
be received into the church.
On Christmas eve praise serv-
ice will be held. The pastor will
speak on I'VE Have Seen His Star"
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Christ Lutheran

The last Advent Sunday will be
observed tomorrow The Rev. j.
Frederic Wenchel will speak on the
prophecies concerning Christ-were
they a shrewd guess or divine rev.
elation? At 5:45 pm. the Sunday
school will give its Christmas pro-
gram. The Walther League at 7:30
pm. will give Christmas play.
On Christmas eve at 11:30 O'Clock
a service will be held. Both the
iunior and senior choirs will sing.
The pastor will speak on The Light
Still Shines in Bethlehem" Pre-
vious to the service the Senior and
Junior Walther Leagues will sing
the old Christmas carols for the
shut-ins. On Friday the WaltfRr
League will hold its Christmas party,
to which all the young people of the
church are invited.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
St. Agnes Will Have
Two Christmas Masses

Christmas services at St. Agnes
Episcopal Church will include two
solemn high masses. There will be
a midnight mass. preceded by q
carol service on Tuesday. The carol
prelude will begin at 1880 pm. and
the solemn mass at 11:45.
Admission to the church on Christ
mass Eve is by ticket only until
l1:15 pm. On Christmas Day there
will be a low mass at 7:30 am.
and second solemn high mass at
$50 am.
The Rev. A. J. Dubois will preach
the last Of q series Of Advent ser
mons at the II am. mass tomorrow
with the subject: Hiding From
God" The litany Is sung preced-
ing the service. There will be a low
mass at 7:30 am. and a sung mass
at $50 am. Solemn evensong and
benediction of the blessed sacra-
ment at 7:30 pm.
The annual Christmas party for
the Sunday School and the pre-
sentation of the Christmas pageant
will be December n at 7::30 pm.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
Georqetown Lutheran

"Christus Natus Est" will be the
subject Sunday at II a m. in George
town Lutheran Church by Rev.
Harold E. Beatty. The combined
choirs will sing. Wallace Malcolm
will lead the young peoples meet
ing of the Luther League at 7 pm.
A Christmas Eve service on Tues
day at II PM. The Sunday school
will render a Christmas program
Christmas Day at I pm. A feature
will be pageant, Star Shine"
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Union Methodist

At II am. tomorrow DR.. John r.
Edwards will deliver a Christmas
sermon, The House of David" The
choir will sing. In the evening
will be a candlelight carol service
directed by the minister with sew
eral young people assisting The
Epworth League will meet at $50
pm.
Members and friends will con-
duct a half hour service at 8 pm.
at the Community Christmas tree,
Pennsylvania avenue between Twen-
tieth and Twenty-firs streets NV.
on Christmas Eve. Following the
program they will carol to shut-in
folk.
The church school program will
be presented Thursday at 7:30 pm.
A dramatic service, THE Coming OF
the Christ Child" viii be given.
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old wicker wash basket swathed In
worn blankets. turned down the light
and led the way to the big docs old
study.
Across a heartening cup of tea.
Ma demanded. THAT story you were
telling me down in the stable. We've
got time for it now"
Its an old story" he admitted.
Nothing new about 1t. Me and
Mary-my wife-we always wanted
a farm of our own. A little place.
not too big. where you could wake
up and see something green in the
morning. Me and Mary both were
city kids-Chicago-but my dad was
a farm boy and he talked about the
land a lot Me and Mary were never
satisfied in Chicago. Then her
grandmother died. Left us little
money. Not much. but a little. And
she said to me, Joe, let's get away
from the city. Let's go some place
where there's trees She hated the
city"
Forced to Sell Out.
Ma nodded in understanding.
Who could know better than she
how a heart can wither and die in
the dark gray walls of city?
I'VE bought q farm through a
friend of Mary's dad" The man
went on. Maybe we were stung. 1t
was In California, and we took it
sight unseen. We had hard luck
It rained when 1t shouldn't, and
some Of our crop was beaten down.
Then 1t didn't rain when it
should've, and . lot OF our stuff
burned up"
mo water on your land?"
Had been. But some big shot
on the other side of the hill tied
it up in court. Smoked us out.
Wanted our little hunk of land to
add to his. We were little people
and he wasn't. We didn't have
money to fight him. and when he
damned up the headwaters of our
creek we were though"
Ma growled sympathetically.
1--WE finally had to sell for almost
nothing Me and Mary went to
Seattle and I got job there. Just
Evening star., 1940-12-21
To Depict Christmas Story

A service Of living pictures depict
ing the Christmas story, from the
vision of Zacharias in the temple to
the arrival of the Three Wise Men
at the Manger, will be presented
tomorrow night under the direction
of the Rev. Meade Bolton MacBryde
and John Dulin in the parish hall
of Grace Episcopal Church, Ninth
and D streets S.W. An invisible
choir will sing.
The cast will include Betty Dulin,
Nancy Craig, Ray McCardle. Frank
Reed. Richard Smith, Paul Dean,
Maury Norfeet, Roger Johnston.
Jack Brooches and James Rinehart.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
RooseveIts Are Invited
To Union YuIe Service

President Roosevelt and members
of his family are expected to attend
special Christmas service at the
First Congregational Church at II
O'Clock Christmas morning Bishop
Adna w. Leonard of the Methodist
church will preach the sermon
The service is being arranged by
the Washington Federation of
Churches and will be participated
in by the various churches of the
federation.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
Church of Brethren
Services Announced

At the Washington City Church
of the Brethren tomorrow at II am.
DR.. Warren D. Bowman will speak
on "The Messiah of Love in a World
of Hate" The senior and junior
choirs will sing.
At 7 pm. the B. Y P D. will give
a words and music" program, per-
tanning to Christmas music and
poems. This will be followed at 8
pm. by candlelight Christmas
service by the senior choir.
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Trinity Episcopal

The Christmas candleight carol
service will be held tomorrow at
8 pm. The Rev. Reno S. Harp, jr.,
will preach at II am. on The
Realism of Christ" The early service
of the holy communion is at am.
In the afternoon the Senior Fellow
ship will take Christmas to the
alley Rock Court.
The children will have their carol
service on Christmas Eve at 4
o'clock. The festival service begins
at II pm. On Christmas Day
there will be a service of the holy
communion at 10 am.
Evening star., 1940-12-21

Eve, too, In case-ln case people
had no place to go"
A Merry Christmas.
Ma smiled MY husband-that's
his picture over there-he used to
say. Ma sends out engraved invi-
tations to every tramp In the
country on Christmas Eve But I
noticed he was always ready to give
them old clothes and a dollar now
and then, even when he couldn't
spare the dollar. He was" Mas
voice was reverent-"a wonderful
man and the finest doctor in the
world"
She went on definitely, IT have
four children. My oldest BOYS a
big-shot doctor In Chicago" the
slang rolled from her lips expertly.
He's good doctor. I guess. but not
like his father Kit was a doctor
because he couldn't help 1t. because
he loved it more than anything else
in the world People have to do
what they want in the world-like
you living on a farm-or they're
not happy, not Bit
The strangers face was sober. IT
know Something inside you just
won't let you have any peace"
my Oldest daughters nurse and
companion. That's what she wanted
to be. And my youngest sons a
writer, for the same reason, sup
pose Ny daughter. Sally" Mas
voice softened, shes 50 pretty
there's no place In the world for her
but Hollywood.
She stopped suddenly, noting the
strangers tired face and dark-ringed
eyes. his politely stifled yawn.
Its late" she mourned, and I
sit here babbling You sleep down
here on the couch. and if she wakes,
call me- I don't think she will.
Good night" she said gently, "and
Merry Christmas"
NO" he said, stubbornly. "it's
thanks-and Merry Christmas!"
"All Christmases are merry If
they're not lonely" Ma yawned.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
Augustono Lutheran
IuIe Services Announced

At the service in the Augustana
Lutheran Church at II am. tomor-
row holy communion will be cele-
brated. DR.. A. o. Helm will deliver
the preparatory sermon and the
choir will sing.
The Christmas program of the
Sunday school will be held at 4
pm. The children will sing Rays
From the Star of Bethlehem" !"
white gifts" will be brought for
distribution by the Lutheran Inner
Mission Society.
Two services will be held early
Christmas morning, the traditional
"Julotta service" at $50 and an
alteration service at 7 O'Clock dawn
At the alteration service the Christ
mas message will be presented in
music and song.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
AIdersqute Methodist

The Church School and choir
will render programs at both the
morning and evening services. At
IL am. a Christmas play. White
Gifts for the Little King" will be
given by the junior department.
At 8 pm. The Little Christmas
Shepherd" a Christmas play, will
be given by the intermediate de-
partment. A program has been
arranged for the choir. There will
be a choir candlelight professional
The special Christmas offering will
be for the Home for the Aged at
Gaithersburg, Md.
Evening star., 1940-12-21
Francis Asbury YuIe
Events Announced

DR.. Robin Gould, pastor of Fran
els Asbury Methodist Church, will
preach at II m. on Love Alive" 3"
At 8 pm. he will present Christ
mas reading, Mr. Bingle," by George
Barr McCutcheon The choir will
offer special Christmas music at
both services.
At pm. the young adults will
meet at the church to go caroling
until pm. From 4 to 6 pm. the
children's division will hold a
Christmas tea for the parents and
children of that division
Tuesday from 7 to 9 pm. will be
a silent celebration of the Lord S
supper.
From 10 am, to pm. Friday the
women will sew for the Red Gross.