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THE TOP EH A DAILY STATU' J OH S IT A L. SUNDAY HORNING.
In the - Relteious World
tr
What the. Church Folks Are Thinking
About and Doing. Religious News
From Everywhere.
SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON AND
The Heart of Christmas.
The International Sunday School Lesson
for Todav is: -'The Character of Mos-gtah.-
Isaiah 3:1-17. The tiolden Text
is: "Thou Shalt fall His Name Jesus,
for He Shall Save His Peopl.- l'roiu
Their Sins." Matthew 1:21.
By William T. Elite.
""hat with the hannv bus-
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'tle and planning: and work
ing and shopping wmcn
Christmas brings, there is
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real danger that the deep
est significance of the day
may
be
overlooked. Supernciauy
Christmas is the season of evergreens,
of gaily decked trees, of Santa Claus.
of feasting and of the giving and re
ceiving of presents. But if that is all
that it is. it is not enough.
The heart of Christmas the mean
ing that vitalizes all the ooservances
and perpetuates the festival through
out the centuries is a rude manger
In an oriental khan, wherein lay the
Babe, who was the son of Mary and
fcon of God. In its very nai.e, and
in its very character, Christmas is the
birthday anniversary of the Christ
Child. They miss the message of this
gladdest day of the year who have not
eves to discern in it the cooing, help
less, beautiful Babe, who in His com
plete humanness warms our hearts,
and who in His divinity sets our spir
its to soaring.
A Far-Foreseen Hope.
The Christmas that we know, and
the better Christmas that is still be
fore us, was the far-foreseen hope of
the oppressed Jews. The cry "Ho
long. O Lord!" that is today upon the
lips of the Jews of Russia, is no new
utterance for that race. Through the
dark days of fear and oppression, when
Assvria personified the terror with
which Russia is now synonymous, they
looked forward to the coming of a
Messiah. Our present Christmas was
then in the future to them.
Dim though the vision was. as fore
told bv Isaiah in the present passage
and bv other prophets, it put a heart
of hope into the people. There is sav
ing and sustaining power in a great
hope. No journey is too hard if the
goal at the end be great enough. A
worthy object of life, and a sufficient,
ground for endurance, were imparted
bv the expectation of a Coming One.
who should break the Assyrian yoke,
even as the yoke of the Midianites had
been broken by Gideon.
As on the hottest August days, the
East wind oftentimes comes sweeping
through the city of Boston, driving
away depression and discomfort and
bringing the refreshing ocean ozone
to weary workers, so the mighty upper
currents of the Messianic hope surged
through the life of the Jews, reviving
their languishing spirits and remind
ing them of the pure air that they ye
would breathe. No nation or individ
ual is in extremis so long as it has a.
great hope to cherish.
A Light in a Dark Time.
These present days lend new signifi
cance to the character of the Messiah
as a light. He was so pictured to the
people that walked in darkness; he is
bo being realized at this Christmastide.
A. D. 1905. Today, in a peculiar de
gree and manner, religion is standing
for light. Truth and justice, hand
maidens of the Messiah, are increasing
their sway by the entrance of light
into the dark places of the worlds of
insurance, finance, railroads, politics,
eociety. We have come upon a day ot
revelations; and in consequence enter
tain a new respect for the saving pow
er of sunlight. "Turn on the light!" is
the slogan of al! reform. The day of
government by whispering is passing.
Hidden things must be made manifest.
Even the Blums are being banished
by the simple procedure of installing
electric lights in alleys and courts.
The principle is a deep one. running
down to the very nature of God. "Ir.
Him was light." "I am the light of
the world." As the foregleams of the
Coming One brightened Judah's deep
darkness, so in a larger measure the
advent of Jesus is illuminating the
dark places of the earth. Even the
"dark continent" is becoming light be
cause His presence and His gospel
have been carried to its remotest re
cesses by His representatives. Slowly
almost imperceptibly at times. but
nevertheless steadily, the spirit of
Jesus is increasingly brightening the.
world.
The Christmas star shines more
brilliantly than it did a year ago; the
world is more in the mood to keep
the infant King's birthday anniversary
than it ever has been in the past. The
widest observers, the clearest thinkers,
the sanest prophets, have but one voice
in declaring that the world is getting
better year by year. The Sun of Right
eousness is arising, with healing in his
beams. Despite the dire news from the
realms of the Czar, despite Turkey's
bloody sway, despite ominous rumors
from China, the paraphernalia of war
is, to a greater degree every year, be
coming, as Isaiah prophesied, material
for a huge bonfire. The recently re
tired prime minister of Great Britain
declared at the banquet to the lord
mayor of London. A centurv ago, Pitt
standing where I now stand, prophe
sied war. Today I prophesy peace.
As a Little Child.
The Child typifies futurity. He is
The ever fresh mystery. To him al!
things are possible. Parents, families
fven kingdoms, center all their hope
upon a child. A few short months
ago the desire of all Russia was con
centrated upon a male heir to the
throne of the Czar. That expectation
was trifling as compared with the deep
longtng hope of the Jews, whose hearts
were fixed upon the prophet's words,
not to be fulfilled until the first Christ
mas Day, seven hundred years later.
"For unto us a child is born, unto us a
"on is given, and the government shall
be upon his shoulders."
Thus it comes to pass that any study
of the character of the Messiah brings
fare to face with the place of the
child in lif. This is his day, and
Christmas is his festival. How bare
would Christmas be without the little
children: Of all persons to be pitied
at this season, their lot is worst who
must keep holiday without the accom
paniment of children's laughter.
It is through every babe that we un
derstand Christ, and through Christ
that we understand the babe. Each
Is sanctified by the other.
Linked with this Old Testament pro
phecy of the Babe to come is the New
Testament word of the Master him
self, "Kxcept ye turn, and become as
little children, ye shall in no wise en
ter into the kingdom of heaven." The
Christmas season should find the whol
world on the common level of child
likeness; for only then can we rightb'
understand the day. and the Child who
la its cause and center.
The Ilea ped-t"p Names.
Newspapers use superlatives so of
ta that they lose their force; not so
VOING PEOPLES TOPIC.
Scripture. When it heaps up language
in seeming extravagance there is added
meaning and power. Behold the cum
ulative power of this description of the
Messiah: "His name shall be called
Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."
The tremendous force of these ap
pellations is not realized until each is
broken up into its full individua1
meaning, us there is not space to do
here. "Wonderful" has He not been
the amazement of twenty centuries,
the one colossal world Figure, the mar
vel of the. wise and the great, calling
forth countless encomiums, such as
"The character of Jesus forbids his
possible classification with men."
"Counsellor" the race has been at
His feet, in response to His invitation,
"Come unto me . . . and learn of
me." The best books, the finest deeds
the noblest lives, have had as their in
spiration and power the life of Him
wnose advent makes Christmas.
"Mighty God," "Everlasting Father"
staggering though the truth be, the
nnsuan world halls Mary s Son as
the image of the invisible God, the
express image of his person, the re
revealer and ernbodier of the God
head, even as he claimed, "The Father
and I are one." "All power is given
unto Me." "He that hath seen me, hath
seen the Father."
"Prince of Peace" not without
reason was a statue of Jesus erected
on the border line between Chile and
the Argentine Republic, as a perpetual
memorial of peace. He has been the
world's Pacificator. His birth was an
nounced with hymns of peace: and His
spirit is ushering in the inevitable day
of universal peace among the nations.
An Increasing Reijrn.
Christmas suggests conquest. The
simple fact of the world's wide ob
servance of this day stimulates
thought. It means that the whole
earth is one in paying tribute to the
long-prophesied child of the manger,
concerning whom Isaiah wrote, "Of
the increase of his government and of
peace there shall be no end."
How- multiform and multitudinous
are the agencies at work to fulfill that
prophecy! Here it is little children
with their Christmas carols; here a
resolute spirit toiling amid the great
city's tenements; here a mother min
istering by word and example to young
characters which accept her life as
gospel; here it is the business men of
a great city banded together for the
promotion of righteousness; here it is
thirty noble spirits leaping forward Uj
take the place of the latest missionar
ies to earn a martyr's crown; here it
is a consecrated preacher, here a hum
ble saint simply living the love he
bears to his Lord who, save heaven's
host, can record the vast company of
great and small who are steadily push
ing outward the frontiers of the king
dom of the Christmas King?
NEWS AND NOTES.
A party of International Sunday
school workers is to make a tour of
the West Indies early in 1906, in the
interest of Sunday-school work.
The Northern and Southern Presby
terian churches are uniting to establish
a theological school in Nanking.
China, for the training of native Chin
ese ministers.
Baptists are considering- the project
of establishing a. summer resort and
assembly, similar to that which the
Methodists have at Ocean Grove, on
the Jersey coast, at a point south of
the latter report.
Twelve sen i hern cities were visited
during November and December by
William N. Hartshorn, president, and
Marion Lawrance, general secretary,
of the International Sunday-school As
sociation. They held conventions and
institutes.
The founder of the modern temper
ance crusade, "Mother Thompson," as
the White Ribboners call her, is dead
in her ninetieth year. She and an
other woman held a prayer-meeting on
the sidewalk, in front of a saloon, in
the town of Hillsboro, Ohio, in 1873,
and the example was widely imitated,
a wonderful revival of temperance
sentiment being created. The practical
outcome was the formation of the.
World's Woman's Christian Temper
ance union.
A remarkable story of Japanese
adaptability comes from Port Arthur,
where the Japanese army turned the
Russian Cathedral over to the Young
Men's Christian Association, since there
were no Russians left to use it. Fur
thermore, Japanese took the furniture
out of houses lately occupied by Rus
sian officials and put it into the church,
thus equipping the Y. M. C. A. for its
work among the soldiers. The secre
tary of the association is a Japanese
Baptist.
Norway has figured prominently in
the newspapers recently because of its;
change of government and election of
a king. But according to reliable ad
vices, the deepest present interest in
Norway is in a revival, now- under way.
rivaling that of Wales. The beginning
of this movement, which is sweeping
the entire country, is traced back to
Chicago, where in 1896 a young Nor
wegian sailor was so moved by the in
terest of one of the workers in his
spiritual welfare that he became a
Christian. Four years ago he returned
to his own country, and to his own
home town, to do evangelistic work.
In Christiania he has had as many as
five thousand hearers at once. The
most splendid of the state churches
have been opened to his meetings. This
young sailor, Lunde. is said to resem
ble, in many respects, Evan Roberts,
the leader of the Welsh revival.
The Y. M. C' A. is to break into the
Arctic Circle upon the opening of navi
gation in the spring. An army secre
tary is to be sent up the Yukon in a
launch to visit the six posts. He wil'
supply soldiers with reading matte
and stationery, ' give entertainments
with talking- machines, lectures with
the stereopticon, conduct religious ser
vices and organize army associations.
This will relieve the monotonous rou
tine of life in these isolated posts and
counteract the "disease" of nostalgia,
as army surgeons recognize it, which
is only a new name for the old-fashioned
homesickness. The man who
with his wife is going to face the hard
ships of this new service in the Arctic
Circle is William A. Reid, who was for
two years an army secretary in Alaska,
where he did a similar service travel
ing on dog-sledges, on snow-shoes, and
by canoes from post to post. He will
extend his services to the Canadian
mounted police.
Following the Interchurch Federa
tion conference in New York there
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comes the news of an unique federa
tion conference in Peking, China, when
representatives of the various missions
gathered to consider the possibility of
securing a common hymn book and of
adopting uniform terms for certain im
portant religious words, as well as to
consider methods of further federation.
Considerable difficulty arises in mis
sion work because of the various dia
lects in use throughout the provinces.
The conference fixed on "Li-pai T'ang"
to be used for church buildings which
are employed only for worship; upon
another word, "Fu-yin T'ang" for
preaching halls, and one word "Shang
ti" for God and "Shen-hing" for Holv
Spirit. The subject of forming an or
ganic federation was deferred until th
meeting of the General Conference of
All Missions in Shanghai in 1907.
TIIE WORLD'S GREAT GOAL-.
Terse Comments Vpon the Uniform
Prayer-Meeting Topic.
One of the familiar legends concern
ing the Apostle John, who penned the
words that are the basis of this les
son, has to do with his extreme age.
He had become too feeble to walk, but
every Isold's Day he was carried into
the congregation at Ephesus and lifted
up that he might address the brethren.
The aged friend of Jesus, stretching
forth the white and trembling hand
that had often rested upon the shoul
der of the Master, would say, in a
voice so weak that only the intense
stillness permitted it to be heard, "Lit
tle children, love one another." Week
after week he repeated the same fa
miliar exhortation, until some rather
wearied of it. At length, one of the
elders mildly remonstrated with the
patriarch, saying, "Yes, father; but
have you no other message for us?"
A new fire kindled in the eye that had
looked upon the features of the Sav
iour and pierced the veil of eternity,
and John made answer, "There is no
other message. Little children, love
one another." The first and last word
of the Christian vocabulary is love. The
whole duty of man, as expounded by
the Master, is simply to love love God
and love his fellowmen. When love
reigns, then the day of the universal
brotherhood of man, which had its
dawning at Bethlehem, will be fully
here.
Christmas is God's definition of love
for man.
' The ancient hope and dream of the
noblest spirits pictures a state where
man would be brother to man, in a
pure democracy of loving spirits. Jesus
came to realize that dream. The an
gel song heralded a reign of peace
among men of good will. A new spirit
stole into the world that still Decem
ber night. It was embodied in the
babe born so lowly that the least of
mankind could claim him kin; and yet
born amid such heavenly heralding
and wonders that the greatest of
earth's royalty must acclaim him king.
To bring "king and peasant, rich and
poor, feeble and powerful, into one
close family of affectionate fraternity,
with God as its head, was the mission
of Mary's Son who was also the Son of
the Most High.
The Bible assumes some wonderful
premises. Here it says that what ails
the man who hates is that he is in
darkness. If he had more light he
would love instead of hating. But be
cause he dwells In soul-night, he al
lows this base passion to have domin
ion over him. The simple fact that
we entertain a sentiment of hatred to
ward anybody, is, according to this best
authority, proof sufficient that we are
still dwelling in darkness.
If
all.
men knew all, they would love
No one can truly say, "Our Father."
who is not willing aiso to say, "My
brother."
"This multitude, which knoweth not
the law, is accursed," said that ancient
body of aristocrats, the Sanhedrin.
That was spoken like the Sanhedrin.
Nothing better can be expected of a
man or a body of men which despises
the plain people than that they will
crucify the saviours of their time.
Such an attitude of mind is utterly
alien to the spirit of Jesus. He made
himself true brother to the lowliest.
Never once did he despise man; the
persons who received most of his con
tempt were these very Pharisees who
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The only sound foundation for the
brotherhood of man is the fatherhood
of God. The best brothers of men are
they who humbly acknowledge them
selves children of the Father who is in
heaven. i
Somehow, thoughts of Christmas en- j
large the borders of one's neighbor-;
hood. It is not easy to be narrow or :
provincial on Christmas Day. That i
world-transforming Event, in old Ju- I
dea's little hill town of Bethlehem.
was too big tor any province or eoun
try or planet to claim.
Even the stars
in their courses felt it: and the silent
heavens broke their immemorial still
ness to jubilate over it. We recall that
it was because "God so loved the
world" not merely Palestine, or the
chosen people, or that particular cen
tury, that he gave to all mankind its
first Christmas Gift a babe who
should for all time and in all realms
personify man's brotherhood and God's
love.
It is easy to mouth pious platitudes
about brotherhood. Every demagogue
does it. Rut the searching test of
brotherhood is that it gives. Christ
mas love is shown by Christmas giv
ing. No man can love his brother and
not share with him whatever he may
possess that his brother needs. The
best evidence of devotion to the cause
of world-wide brotherhood is a Jif
given to its promotion and pnetioe;
and that will include the lesser gifts
of pelf and possessions.
All who walk in the light of the
Christmas star, live in the spirit of the
Christmas Child.
For mankind are one in spirit, and an
instinct bears along.
Round the earth's electric circle, tha
swift flash of right or wrong:
Whether conscious or unconscious, yet
Humanity's vast frame
Through its ocean-sundered fibres feels
the gush of joy or shame;
In the gain or loss of one race all the
rest have equal claim.
James Russell Lowell.
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.
The mere lapse of years is not life;
knowledge, truth, love, beauty, good
ness, faith, alone can give vitality to
the mechanism of existence. Marcus
Aurelius.
God hath ordained that work alone
brings peace. Hiilis.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain.
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson.
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True goodness is like the glow-worm
in this, that it, shines most when no
eyes except those of heaven are upon
it. Hare.
The men who stand straightest in
the presence of sin bow lowest in the
presence of God. F. B. Meyer.
Learn that to love is the one way tc
know.
Or God or Man; it is not love received
That maketh man to know the inner
life
Of them that love him; his own love
bestowed
Shall do it. Jean Ingelow.
Empty hours, empty hands, empty
companions, empty words, empty
hearts draw m evil spirits, as a vacuum
draws in air. Wiiliam Arnot.
God and the Sky.
God, who is in us and about us, can
not be found by any process of reason.
No one by reason can find out God, but
he is manifest by his own luminous
presence, a presence that is spiritually
discerned. One may try to build a
flight of stairs to enable him -to touch
the sky, but the attempt is fruitless
and unnecessary fruitless because as
fast as he rises the sky recedes; un
necessary because the sky is with him
now. The sky is all about us. over us
It is a condition of physical life. With
out it we could not live. It enters our
lungs and blood, feeds the muscles and
nourishes the brain. We need not
mount upward to find it. We need but
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walk abroad in the pure air of the open
heavens, breathe its breath, and it will
manifest itself in the wonders of re
newed bodily life. Rev. J. C Horning,
Reformed, St. Louis.
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
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1 of All Denominations.
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Better have a wire fence at the d?-R
of a precipice than a magnificent hos
pital at tne Dottom of it. Rev. J. D
Adams, Reformed, Brooklyn.
A Great Possession.
He who possesses Christ may dart
to rejoice always and sing songs of
hope and victory in the darkest, night.
Rev. Dr. W. J. Williamson, Baptist
St. Louis.
Sources of Happiness.
The real sources of happiness are in
ourselves, not in our possessions; in
our imagination, not in the novel; in
our appreciation of beauty, not in the
picture; in our musical culture, not in
the piano. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott
Congregationalist, Brooklyn.
Folly of Selfishness.
The man who goes about his duties
in business or elsewhere prompted by
selfish inclinations to achievement
comforting himself all the while with
the thought that he is no way trans
gressing the main teachings of his re
ligion, is allowing the moon of his
faith to obscure the sun of love and
life. Rev. J. W. Stockesee, Jr., Swe
denborgian, Chicago.
Christ's Law of LOTe.
Christ's law of love and the Justice
that springs from it is the only thing
that will correct the strife and disor
ders in the business world and stop
dishonesty and graft. The law of love
is the only thing that will settle the
difference between capital and labor
and it is likewise the only hone of
peace between nations. Rev. J.
Roach Straton, Baptist, Chicago.
Thoughts on Education.
Our thoughts on education will be
colored by what we think of the child.
If you see in the child a human being
of priceless value, having an immortal
soul, having in him wondrous possibili
ties and his destiny the highest known
to angel or to man, you will safeguard
the child's character, his moral and
intellectual life and his soul. Rev. P.
W. Tallon, Roman Catholic, St. Louis.
A A'iew of Divorce.
Until the church can transform ex
isting social conditions marriages will
be dissolved whether the state and
church recognize or refuse to recognize
their dissolution. We feel so strongly
that divorce is not the cause, but the
inevitable result of a grievous disorder
of society, that we cannot join with
other churches, with whose motives
we heartily sympathize, in its condem
nation. Rev. Dr. William M. Brun
dage, Unitarian, Brooklyn.
Christian Education.
The perpetuity and safety of the
nation depends upon Christian educa
tion. The hope of the nation lies in
men who are not only strong minded
and well trained, but are also dominat
ed by a principle of Christian integ
rity and unpurchasable manhood
Build your men on Bible principles.
and t:.cy will shun the perils of the
demagogue. They will be true to our
national principles and traditions. They
will be brave enough to apply moral
principles in politics and moral stand
ards in their judgments on political
parties. And when chosen to make and
execute laws they will be true to their
oath of office and the sacred trust re
posed in them. Rev. Milton B. Will
iams, Methodist, Chicago.
The Growing Christian.
Woe to the Christian who finds noth
ing to regret in his life after his con
version. He may have been converted
but the good work begun in him has
come to a standstill, as transplanted
trees will, in a prolonged drought com
pletely stop all growth. The great
apostle freely confesses in the miast of
his blessed career, Iot that I am al
ready made perfect." But that very
recognition leaas him to press on to
ward the goal," to "stretch forward to
the things which are before.' The
growing Christian, while he is cheerful
hopeful, assured of a. successful out-
come, is always cognizant of the fail
ings and shortcomings and limitations.
While he is grateful for what he ic
and has been permitted to accomplish,
he sees plainly what he is not and
what he has failed to do.
"More love to Thee, O Christ:
More love to Thee."
are the breathings of his heart. And
that very longing in many forms keeps
mm in touch with the source of lire,
makes him the humble, careful, pray
erful, growing Christian that he is.
Rev. Paul A. Menzel, Lutheran. Wash
ington. Scolding Bad as Swearing.
For you to scold is as bad as for
some men to swear, 'mere are men
who can hardly express affection,
much less disapproval, without using
profane words. For them to utter an
oath in a moment of passion may be
distinctly less sinful than' for you to
leave a barb in the soul of another
man through your sarcasm or to do
violence to the feelings of another
through well-bred vituperation. Rev.
William E. Barton, Congregationalism
Oak Park, 111. '
CHURCH NOTES.
ThA Sunday Christmas programme at
the First Congregational church will be
as follower
Lee Forbes, organist.
Mrs. John Keinhans, soprano.
Miss Bess Elder alto.
Mr. H. L. Shirer, tenor.
Mr. Elmer Fox, bass.
MORNING SERVICE.
Organ Voluntary Batiste
Invocation to worship.
Praise God from Whom All Blessings
Flow."
Invocation.
Come All Ye Faithful
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Responsive reading No. 12,
Christians Awake
Mr. Fox.
Scripture, Luke 21-20.
Prayef.
This Day is Born a Saviour Stewart
Mrs. Kleinhans.
Offertory, On This Night Schnecker
Sermon.
The People That Walked in Dark
ness Rogers
Hymn No. 157.
Postlude.
EVENING SERVICE.
The Sunday Evening club will render
the following programme in addition to
the Sunday school exercises:
Sing O Heavens Simper
Awake, Put on Thy Strength Buck
The Virgin's Lullaby Buck
Miss Bess Elder.
The Heavens Resound Beethoven
Across the Desert Buck
Trio for men's voices.
Adeste Fideles Reading
Arranged by Dudley Buck.
Hark, What Means Those Holy
Voices Barrett
On Sunday evening the Quinton
Heights church members will attend
the First Baptist church, where some
of the church workers are to be bap
tized. Dr. W. C. Evans, pastor of the First
Methodist church will preach at the
Asbury Methodist church Sunday after
noon. Mrs. H. Slaughter will sing one
of her best selections.
The subject of the morning sermon
at the North Topeka Christian church
by the pastor, the Rev. F. H. Eentley,
will be "The Teaching of the Gospel by
Luke. In the evening the topic win be,
What the Disciples Believe and Teach
Concerning the Christian Life."
At the First Presbyterian church
there will be special selections of
music by the quartette and a special
Christmas sermon by the pastor, the
Rev. S. S. Estey Sunday morning.
Special Christmas exercises by the
Sabbath school will be the Sunday
evening feature.
The Rev. Edwin Locke will preach
and hold communion service at High
land Park school house at 4 o'clock p.
m. In the evening the Rev. Clyde H.
Hale will preside.
The morning subject at the Low-
man Hill chapel oy tne tev. -. u.
Holcomb will be. "Serenity." In the
evening, "The First Christmas Gift."
At the North Topeka Baptist church
the topic of the Sunday morning ser
mon by the pastor, tne Rev. vv.
Tanner, will be, "The Christian Spirit.
The evening subject, "No Room in the
Inn." The music will be special, ren-
FOR ALL SORTS
The active and athletic small girl will welcome a coat that has the
fashionable feature of a cape to comm end it. Not that the little lady pays
over much attention to fashion as such; but in the cold days of winter the
cape will prove more than acceptable a s a protection against the cold, while
the fact that it may be thrown back over the shoulders when in the pleasing
excitement of play is but an additional fact in its favor. The garment of the
picture is in a bright and cheery shade of red. with black soutache braiding
on collar and cape and cuff. The coat itself follows the full sacque shape,
the fitting adjusted by means of widel y gored underarm seams and broad
shoulder seams. The fronts are doub le-breasted, and the cape is applied
with snap fasteners beneath a Napole on coliar that well protects the littla
throat. The sleeve is a plain coat mod el. finished with a braided cuff.
dered by the choir undr the direction
of Prof. W. M. VanNess. A novel Mon-.
day Christmas entertainment will ba
held.
Services Sunday morning at tha
Kansas Avenue, North Topeka, M. E.
church will be conducted by the Rev.
Edwin Locke, followed by the holy
communion. A sacred musical con
cert will be given in the evening.
Dr. W. E. Evans will preach on
"The Larger Meaning of Christmas"
at the First M. E. church Sunday
morning. In the evening there will ba
a snecial service. "Lite of
Christ
in
Picture and Song"
illustrated
by
stereopticon views.
Sunday morning at the' services at
the Central Congregational ctiuren
offerings will be - brought for the
county house ana ror Jietnei mission
in Kansas Citv, Kan. The endeavor
society wil! hold a Christian mission
ary meeting at 6:30 iouowea oy a uum.
on the subject by the pastor.
The Sunday morning subject of the
pastor, the Rev. Thomas S. Young, at
the First Baptist church will be,
"Crowded Out." In the evening the
topic will be, "A Christian Made to
Order." Baptism at th opening of
the evening service.
A special Christmas service will be
held at the Young Women's Christian
Association rooms Sunday afternoon at
4:15. Mrs. M. F. McKirahan will speak
on "Living in His Service." Special
music.
The Rev. Mr. Madden will have for
his subject Sabbath morning. "The
World's Preparation for the Greatest
Christmas Gift." In the evening he will
speak on "The Wonderful Christ." Each
service will be a Christmas service. You
are cordially invited to the Potwin
church.
First United Presbyterian church,
corner Eighth and Topeka avenue. Rev.
J. A. Renwick, pastor. Preaching 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m., by the pastor. Sab
bath school 10 a. m.: Christian En
deavor 6:30 p. m. Sabbath school en
tertainment and Christmas tree Mon
day evening.
At the First United Presbyterian
church the Christmas tree exercises and
Sabbath school entertainment will ba
held Monday evening.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, cor
ner Huntoon and Polk streets. Services
at 11 a. m., subject, "God." Children's
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Wednesday
evening meeting at 8 o'clock.
Christmas tree exercises at the First
Christian church will be held Monday
evening.
On Sunday at 3:30 p. m. Mr. Andrew
Baird, state secretary of Kansas Young
Men's Christian associations, will speak
at the Railroad Y. M. C. A. meeting
and Mr. J. T. Shaw of the Santa Fa
freight depot will sing solos. Every man
is invited'to attend this special Christ
mas service.
At the First Lutheran church, the
morning topic of the pastor, the Rev.
H. A. Ott, will be "The Persistence of
Jesus," a Christmas sermon. Special
music. In the evening at 7:30 the
Sunday school will render a Christmas
service, "At Christmas Morn," after
which the school's Christmas treat
will be distributed. On Monday even
ing and on Wednesday evening the
school will render a pretty spectacu
lar cantata. "A Christmas in Japan,"
fiftv participants, all in Japanese cos
tume, consisting of solos, duets,
choruses, marches, drills, etc., with a
genuine Japanese Santa Claus thrown
in. .,
Christmas services at Grace cathedral
beginning at midnight Christmas eve,
Christmas morning at 7:33 and 10:30.
Bishop, Rt. .Rev. Frank Millspaugh, D.
D., Dean, Very Rev. J. P. de B. Kayes.
Bishop Millspaugh will officiate at St.
Simon's church Christmas eve, the 24th,
at 4:30 p. m. and Christmas day at 7:30
a. n).
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crying baby) Dear Tne! I don't know
what to do with this child!
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the window for you, madam. New York
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