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Ingram Memorial Congregational Calls Pastor Rev. Frederick Bishop To Take Up Residence Here on January 1 The Rev. Frederick J. Bishop of East Longmeadow, Mass., has ac cepted the unanimous call to the pastorate of Ingram Memorial Con gregational Church issued on recom mendation of the Pastoral Supply Committee, Herbert M. Frazier, Chairman. The Rev. Mr. Bishop was born In Ventnor, England, and started to preach at the age of 15. When 20 years of age he came to Chi cago and entered the tea and coffee business. He became actively en gaged in Christian service and en tered Y. M. C. A. work and became secretary of that organization. Dur ing the World War he acted as re ligious education director at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. After the war he entered the min istry, taking his college and sem inary work at Union Theological College and Chicago Seminary. He was ordained in 1922 and served pas torates in Algonquin and Sycamore, 111., from 1922 to 1924. In the lat ter year and 1925 he traveled abroad, and in the fall of H)25 and spring of 1926 served as guest preacher at Finsbury Congregational Church In London. In 1926 he was called to the Ply mouth Congregational Church in St. Paul, Minn., and in 1930 to the Irving Park Immanuel Church in Chicago. The First Congregational Church of East Longmeadow. Mass., called him in 1936. He was one of the first to organize confirmation classes in the Congregational denomination in the East, making confirmation a requisite for church membership in the Congregational fellowship. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop will take up their residence here on Jan uary 1. At 11 a.m. tomorrow the speaker will be Page McK. Etchison, re iigious director of the Y. M. C. A. At 7 p.m. the church school will present a pageant, "The Coming of Christ." Christmas Baptism At Petworth Methodist At 11 a.m. in Petworth Methodist Church, Dr. Steelman will preach on the Christmas theme “Jesus. Re jected and Acclaimed.” Children will be baptized. The senior choir will sing. There will be no evening service. Groups will gather at the church at 7 p.m. to go carolling to the homes of sick and shut-in folk. A Christmas morning Sunrise service will be held at 6:30 a.m. Trumpeters, Murrell Lank. Robert Hurley and Earl Webb will play carols on the church portico. The service will include Christmas music. The Mission Study Class of the W. F. M. S. will meet at the home of Mrs. Frank J. Berchtold. 4608 Eighth street N.W., at 1 p.m. Wednesday. At 2 p.m. Wednesday, the nursery, beginner's and primary departments will hold their Christmas parties. The juniors will hold their party at 7:30 Wednesday and the inter mediates at 8 o'clock. The young people's Christmas party will be Thursday evening. Dr. McCartney's Subjects Announced “But We Have Hope” is the ser mon topic of the Rev. Dr. Albert 4. McCartney, minister of Cove tant-First Presbyterian Church, to morrow at 11 a.m. At the Christmas •ve service at 11 p.m. he will speak bn "Let Us Now Go Even Unto Rethlehem and See.” Communion •rill be observed. There will be spe cial music. The Christmas Day service is tmder the auspices of the Washing ton Federation of Churches. The Rev. Dr. Oscar F. Blackwelder, min ister of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, will deliver the ser mon. A prayer service will be held Thursday, preceded by an organ recital by Theodore Schaefer, organ ist. Rev. James H. Miers Announces Sermons The subject of the sermon by the Rev. James H. Miers, minister of Fourth Presbyterian Church, at 11 B.m. will be “The Heart of the Christmas Message.” At the eve ning service, Dr. Miers will give a meditation on “The Holy Voices," a study of the records of events surrounding the birth of the Savior. At both the morning and evening services will be special music. On Christmas Day there will be special service, broadcast over WOL, “Thoughts of the First Christmas.” Dr. Miers will be assisted by the choir. On Thursday evening the service will be led by Dr. Miers, with music by the junior choir. 'Christian Christmas' Is Dr. Marshall's Topic “The Christian Chistmas” will be the tohic of the sermon to be de livered bv the Rev. Dr. Peter Mar shall, minister of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, on Sunday at 11 a.m. There will be special Christmas music by the choir. At 5 p.m. a candlelight carol serv ice will be held. There will be choral and instrumental music. A brass quintet will play from the church tower at the close of the service. Lewis Memorial Methodist At 11 a.m. tomorrow the Rev. John A. Trader will preach on “The Glory of God.” All three choirs will assist in the service. The rite of baptism will be administered and a class will be received into the fellowship of the church. In the Christmas program of the Senior Christian Endeavor at 7 p.m. a playlet will be given entitled “No Room in the Inn.” There will be no 8 p.m. service, but the annual Christ mas Eve candlelight service will be held at 11. It will be a service of carols and lights and the music will be furnished by the young girls’ and senior choirs. The min ister’s meditation will be “Wisdom’s Way.” CJjrigtmas; jHusiic 3n tfje Cfjurdjesi Httitrh ®rrtl|rfn MEMORIAL UNITED BRETH REN CHURCH—Rev. Simpson B. Daugherty, minister; Horatio Rench, director of music; James B. Smiley, organist. At the morning and eve ning services tomorrow the Christ mas musical program will include the following: 11 AM. Organ prelude. "Christmas Pipes of County Claire" Gaul Anthem. "There Were Shepherds" -Vincent Soloist, Mrs. S. B. Daugherty, and the Vested Choir. Organ offertory, "Noel Brabancon," Guilmant Quartet. "Lo. How a Rose" Praetorius Mrs Harbnugh. Mrs. Howard, Mr. Rench and Mr. Clark. Organ postlude. "Grand Chorus” Dubois 11 PM. Organ prelude. "Christmas Pastorale." Corelli Anthem. "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks" Rogers Soloists. Mrs. Daugherty. Mr 8mith, and the Vested Choir. Duet, "The Virgin by the Manger.” .. _ , Cesar Franck Mrs Daugherty and Mrs. Howard. Quartet, "A Joyous Christmas Song." „ _ , Geveart Mrs. Daugherty. Mrs. Howard. Mr Rench and Mr. Clark. Anthem, "When the Sun Had Sunk to _ Rest" Knisht Organ postlude. "Halleluiah Chorus.” Handel Soloists: Mrs. S. B. Daugherty, so prano: Mrs. Robert Harbaugli, so prano; Alex Hill, tenor; Horatio Rench, tenor; Regina Howard, con tralto: Grace Lovell, contralto; Na than Clark, baritone, and Thomp son Smith, baritone. ftniuwsaltet UNIVERSALIST NATIONAL MEMORIAL CHURCH—At the two services tomorrow special musical programs will be given as follows by the National Capital Choir: 11 AM. Chorale prelude. “In Dulci Jublio” Bach Processional. “O Come All Ye Faithful.” . , Reading Anthem “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” „ Crawford Hymn. “Joy to the World” Mason Chorale. “Break Forth, O Beauteous Light” Bach Anthem, "Wake Ye Shepherds” Moravian carol Recessional. “Angels From the Realms of Glory” Smart Postlude. “Good News From Heaven the Angels Bring” Pachelbel 1 l p.M.—CANDLELIGHT SERVICE. Prelude. Christmas carols from “Lorraine.’’ D'Aquin “The Plains of Bethlehem” _ Hawley Irene Koehl. Soprano. Processional. “O Little Town of Bethle hem” Redner Hymn, "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear.” Willis Hymn. “O Come All Ye Faithful” Reading Anthems. “Shepherds Shake Off Your Sleep” Besancon carol “O Nightingale Awake.” 17th century Swiss carol “O Holy Night’’ Adams Howard Ludwig. Tenor. “Good Christian Men Rejoice.” Traditional “Holy Night” Hawley “Away in a Manger” Lutheran hymn “The First Noel” Traditional Hymn. “Silent Night, Holy Night” Gruber Recessional. ’Hark, the Herald Angels Sing” Mendelssohn Postlude, “Adeste Fidelis”_ Whiting ICattrr Dag faints THE WASHINGTON CHAPEL choir will offer two motets on Christ mas Eve: Christiansen’s ‘'Hosanna" and Dickinson’s "The Shepherds’ Story" and a cappella arrangements of the following carols: “A Joyous Christmas Song” Gevaert ' Lo. How a Rose E'er Blooming.” Praetorius "Hark Now, O Shepherds” (Bohemian). arranged by Luvaas “The Three Kings.” arranged by Kurt Schindler “Far. Far Away on Judea's Plains” (from an early “Mormon” pioneer carol). The public is invited to attend all events without charge, and with no collections taken. Httilg Christmas music program at UNITY ASSEMBLY. New Colonial Hotel, Fifteenth at M street N.W., will be as follows: Prelude, “Jesus. Joy of Man’s Desiring.” Bach Congregational hymn 137, “Joy to the World.” Congregational hymn 144. “O Come All Ye Faithful.” Congregational hymn 139. “Silent Night.” Offertory. “ Als Jesus Christus in der Nacht Das Neugeborne Kindelein” Bach Congregational hymn 140. “Hark the Her ald Angels Sing." Postlude. ”Ein Feste Bure 1st Unser Gott.” Bach Willa Semple at the piano. 3fmtaal?m CHURCH OF THE HOLY CITY— At the morning service at 11 to morrow, last Sunday in Advent, the anthem, "O Thou That Tellest” ! ("Messiah”), will be sung by Mrs. John P. Halsted and choir. At 5 o’clock Christmas Eve Festival, with Sunday school processional and re cessional. Gospel recitation, pageant, carols. Christmas tree and gifts. Christmas morning at 11—Christ mas celebration, with holy com munion. Festival responses. Psalms and hymns. "He Shall Feed His Flock” and “Come Unto Me,” from “The Messiah.” sung by Mrs. J. P. Halsted and Bertha Smith. Organ prelude, overture to “Messiah”; postlude, “Gelobet seist Du Jesu Christ,” J. S. Bach. Sopranos, Bertha Smith, Mary Joyce, Gladys Harlow, Carolyn Hol loway, Mary Alice Swanton; altos, Mrs. John P. Halsted, Bessie L. Smith: tenors, R. B. Wooden. Wil | liam T. Hoeck; basses, F. W. Swan ton, John C. Stevens. Organist and director, Maud G. Sewall. The Christmas program of music at THE CHURCH OF TWO WORLDS tomorrow evening at the Hotel Continental will be as follows: “Ave Maria" Schubert Freda Dorothy Egbert, piano. “The Birthday of a King" Neidlinger “Cantique de Noel” (with violin obbligato), Franklin Dressel. tenor. “Cantique de Noel ’ (with violin obbligato). Adams Elizabeth Schwingle, soprano. Draper Sutcliffe, violin. “Ave Maria” Bach-Gounod Draper Sutcliffe, violin. Accompanists, Miss Egbert and Mrs. H. H. McKee. UJifismirt £>gtuj& £utlj?ratt CHRIST CHURCH, Sixteenth and Gallatin streets N.W. The Christ mas service will be held at 11:30 pan. tomorrow. The usual liturgy will be sung and the following musical program has been arranged by John B. Wilson, B. A., A. A. G. O., organ ist and choirmaster: Prelude ' Pastoral Symphony” ("The Messiah”) _ Handel Professional hymn. "Come Hither Ye Faith ful” (with descant on verses :) and 4 by Rutland Boughton) Traditional Christmas carol "What Child Is This?” Stainer The choir. Anthem. “Softly the Stars Were Shining." • Torovsky The junior choir. Offertory, chorale prelude, “Es ist ein' Rose" Brahms Anthem, “There Were Shepherd” .Vincent The choir. Postlude. variations on “Joy to the World." Wilson The junior choir is under the di rection of Mrs. E. W. Kryz, with E. Fisher at the organ. Augualatta THE AUGUSTANA LUTHERAN CHURCH will hold two Christmas services in their sanctuary on V street, just off Sixteenth street, a Christmas Eve adoration service at 11 pm. tomorrow and a traditional Swedish “Julotta” (the one Swedish service of the year) at 6 a.m. on Christmas morning. The adoration service music: Christmas carols at 1(1:45 p.m. Harp prelude. "Largo'’ Handel-Salzedo Virginia Lemmich. harpist: Marlon Lem mlch. accompanist. * Quartet. "There's a Song In the Air.” _ Speaks Revella R. Larson. Lila Knudsen. Karl Benson and Jordan Bentley. Choir anthem. "Let Carols Ring." Arranged by Black Baritone solo, "The Birthday of a King.’’ Neldlingler Jordan Bentley. Quartet. "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" _ 8peaks-Deis Ham offertory. "Silent Night." Gruber-Kohlman Choir anthem, "There Were Shepherds." Vincent Organ Dostlude. "Light of the World. We Hail Thee " Gray Richard Wallace. The “Julotta” service music: Christmas carols at 5:45 a.m. Harp prelude, "Largo" Handel-Salzedo Miss L-mmich. Choir anthem O Helga Natt" Adam Harp offertory. “Stilla Natt." . Gruber-Kohlmann Choir antnem "Hosianna David's Son " Norrbom Organ Dostlude. "Lift Ud Your Heads." from "Messiah" _ Handel Dr. Arthur O. Hjelm is the pastor of the church, Lila Knudsen the director of music and Richard Wal lace the organist. (Congregational FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH—Christmas music will be sung by the A Cappella Choir, Ruby Smith Stahl, director; Paul De Long Gable, organist; Dorothy Wilson Halbach, contralto; Dale Hamilton, bass, tomorrow. The following pro gram will be presented: 11 A.M. SERVICE. “A Carpenter Is Born”_Edmundson "Noel Bressan”_Darcieux “N-tel” - Buck "March of the Magi Kings”_Dubois Scherzo on “In Dulci Jubilo" Candlyn Organ. “Glory to God In the Highest”..Pergolesi “How Far Is It to Bethlehem”_Shaw “Welcome Yule” _Parry “Lullaby” (obbligato. Marjorie Brett) _ Christiansen Bring a Torch” _ Traditional Hallelujah Chorus” Handel 5 P.M. SERVICE. Organ— “Christmas in Sicily” (bagpipes) _ .Yon “The Shepherd's Pipes and the Star.” , . , Stcherbatcheff Chimes: “Holy Night. Silent Night." . , Gruber “Christmas Meditation” _Faulkes Choir— “Christmas in the Wood”_Daniels “Cantate Domini” _Schutz INGRAM MEMORIAL CONGRE GATIONAL CHURCH—At tomor row's service the special music will include the duet, "Gesu Bambino,” Yon, sung by Carolyn Ames, so prano. and Howard Newson. bari tone, and the solo. "O Holy Night,” Adam, by Connie Krueger, contral to The anthems will oe Tours' "Sing, O Heavens” and Call’s "O Little Town of Bethlehem.” There will be a Christmas pag eant at the church In the eve ning beginning at 7 o’clock. MOUNT PLEASANT CONGRE GATIONAL CHURCH — Christmas musical programs will be given at both services tomorrow as follows: it AM. Organ prelude ' Rhapsodie on Christmas Themes'' _Gigout Tenor solo. "O Come to My Heart. Lord Jesus’’ -Ambrose _ Mr. Pigott Choruses. "And the Glory of the Lord'' ( •The Messiah ") Handel ,.ShT, Shepherd's StorJ '-Dickinson i Hallelujah Chorus" ("The Messiah") _Handel -Organ postlude. March of the Magi Kings"-Dubois Vesper service. 4:45 p.m.—From 4:45 until 5:15 the Mount Pleasant Chorus and the junior choir will sing carols. The service proper be gins at 5:15 o'clock. CAROLS BY THE CHORUS "The Christ Child" (American I_Hadley In a Manger" (Russian) _ . Ippolitof-Ivanof Hark. What Mean Those Holy oices?" (Russian i Bortnianskl Gloria in Excelsis Deo" (American) Lester Christmas Bells" (American!_Osgood L<>. How a Rose E'er Blooming" (Early Italian'_Praetorius Jesus Gently Rest" (American' Van Dyck CAROLS BY THE JUNIOR CHOIR Bring a Torch Jeannette, Isabel" (Old French' “When the Winter Sun Had Set" (Old Frefich( "The Coventry Carol” (Old English) CHORUSES "Lord's Prayer" _ _ Shenard •■Thr<-ToiVereicSh<‘p!lerds" -—"—---Vincent The Three Kings _Romeu .’.rior7 t0J5°,d in the Highest”_Pergolesi Adeste Fideles ’ _Novello Bass solo. “Jesu. Bambino”.~ Yon _ , J Mr. Robb Organ postlude. ‘ Christmas March’*.Merkel Fred Sherman Buschmeyer, min ister; Norton M. Little, chorister; Richard L. Tuve, director of the junior choir; Claude Robinson, organist. Solo quartet—Prudence Jackson, soprano; Selma Last, conralto; Ray mond T. Pigott, tenor; Carroll E. Robb, bass. The Mount Pleasant Chorus (50 voices). Euattgfltral and Sffnrmph GRACE REFORMED CHURCH, Rev. Calvin H. Wingert, pastor; Charles E. Gauss, A. A. G. O., or ganist and choir director. At the Christmas service to be held tomor row at 11 a m. the following musical program will be offered; Organ prelude, 'Pastorale" Franck ' S55th?“‘ hymn' "° Com*:"A11 y? Choir. 'Glory to God in the Highest." Hymn. "Joy to the World" PHande! Offertory anthem. "Like Silver Lamps." Cantata "The Star of Bethlehem" Harker Recessional hymn. "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing _ —Mendelssohn Organ postlude. “Carillon de West minster" Vierne Soloists—Soprano, Pauleen Miller; tenor, Norman A. Stant. baritone. Frank Wright At the children’s service at 4:30 Mr. Gauss will use the following organ numbers: “Pastoral Sym phony,” Mandel; “Old Dutch Lul laby,” Dickinson; “March of the Magi Kings,” Du Bois. CHURCH OF OUR REDEEMER, Rev. Daniel E. Wiseman, pastor; Alfred Derricotte, organist; Har rison Wright, choir master. Tomor row evening at 8 o’clock the fol lowing program of music will be given; Organ prelude. "Kammenoi Ostrow." Rubenstein Alfred D. Derricotte. Carol. "Away in a Manger" Luther Processional. "O Come All Ye Faithful.” "Threefold Alleluia" _ Rittenhouse Carol. Silent Night” Gruber Carol. "In a Manger He Is Lying" .Polish Master William Tompkins. Carol. "One Fair Morn” Bizet Carol, "We Three Kings” __ Hopkins Harrison M Wright. Malcolm L. Wiseman, Edward E. Marshall and choir. Piano solo. "Song of the Shrine" Deft Almira E. Perry. Anthem. "How Bcautilul Upon the Moun „ tain' Miles Vocal solo. "Adore and Be Still” Gounod Gloria E Tompkins. Mandolin solo, "Reveri°” Fauconier Mrs. A K Davidge. Hymn, "O Come, O Come. Emanuel.” Ancient plain song Violin solo. “Intermezzo Pizzicatto." Op. 30, No. 2 __ Gautier Edward E. Marshall. Carol. "O Little Town of Bethle hem” — — __ Redner Nunc Dimittls. Recessional. "Hark! the Herald Angels. Sing” Mendelssohn Organ postlude. selected. Alfred D. Derrfoogt*. Panel and Canopy To Be Dedicated at St. Stephen Gift Presented by Miss Clements to Honor . Memory of Sister At the 11 o’clock service tomorrow a panel and canopy at the lectern of the Church of St, Stephen and the Incarnation will be dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Mary Clem ents Smith, a communicant of the parish for many years. The memo rial, a gift of her sister, Miss Cora T. Clements, will be unveiled by Miss Dorothy Worth Buckingham, a godchild of Mrs. Smith. This canopy at the lectern is of like de sign with one at the pulpit which was dedicated last Palm Sunday. The Christmas season will be ob served at St. Stephen and the In carnation by festival Eucharists at 11:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve and at 10:30 a.m. on Christmas Day. Holy Communion also will be cele brated at 8 a.m. on Christmas Day. The choir of men and boys will sing at the Christmas Eve service and the church school choir of girls at the 10:30 a.m. service on Christmas Day. On Wednesday at 8 p.m. there will be a carol candle-light service with both choirs present. The Sunday school party for the children will be held on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Snyder lo Conclude Advent Sermon Series The Rev. Dr. Henry W. Snyder will conclude his advent series of sermons at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church tomorrow morning when he will preach on “What Mv Church Teaches About the Saviour.” The evening service will begin at 10:40 p.m. The program will open with the vocal rendition of carols. Dr. Snyder's address will deal with “Midnight and Dawn.” There will be no other service on Christmas day. The Young Peoples Club will hold a Christmas party in Schafer Hall Thursday evening. Dr. and Mrs. Snyder will be at home to their friends on New Year Day, 3 to 5, and 8 to 10 p.m. at the parsonage. Holy communion will be celebrated January 5 and 7. At the white gift service last Sun day the following were received into church membership: Mrs. Louise Booze. Mr. and Mrs. LeRov Benson. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil A. Johnson, | Frank E. Koch and Harry T. Morris. Services at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Listed At Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church tomorrow at 11 a.m. the Rev. J. Hillman Hollister will preach on "It Makes Him Live.” The five young people's societies, with Capt. Emory Ireland and Mr. H. E. Wornom, director of religious education, as leaders, and the young people of Mount Moriah Baptist Church with their pastor. Dr. Ran dolph, will conduct a Christmas Eve carol service in Dickson Court at 5:30 pm. The service will consist of carols, a prayer by Mr. Wornom, an address by Dr. Randolph and dis tribution of gifts by Santa Claus and his helpers. At 7:30 p.m. the Collegians and older Young People's Society will go caroling in Chevy Chase and col | tect funds for hospital work. 1 On Christmas Day at 5:30 a m. j the young people will join in the j Christmas breakfast and service at ; the Federation of Churches Build ing and go from there to sing carols in Garfield Hospital. The annual Christmas dance of the young people's societies will be held in the church assembly hall Thursday from 9 to 12 o'clock. The Semi-Circle will have a Christmas party in the assembly room Friday evening. 'The Spirit of Christmas' Is Dr. Gould's Theme The pastor of Francis Asburv Methodist Church, Dr. Robin Gould, will speak tomorrow at 11 am. on "The Spirit of Christmas” and at 8 p.m. he will give the Christmas reading. "The Other Wise Man,” by Henry Van Dyke. Tire choir will render special Christmas music. At 6:45 p.m. the young people's Christmas service will be led by Miss Virginia Lenderman. The Wesley Fellowship group will not hold its regular meeting, but will meet at 5:30 to go caroling to the homes of shut-ins. They will return at 8 p.m. On Thursday at 8 p.m. Dr. Gould will continue the study of "The Acts of the Apostles.” Pageant of Christmas' Is Pastor's Theme At the Chevy Chase Baptist Church, the Rev. Edward O. Clark will speak on “The Pageant of Christmas” at 11 a.m. A Christmas musicale will be rendered in the eve ning by the vested chorus choir. A brief Christmas message will be given by the pastor. An early Christmas morning serv ice will be held Monday at 7:30 a.m. A Christmas party for the Sunday school will be held Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. A party for the beginners’ and primary departments will be held Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m., and a party for Cub Scouts at 7:30 p.m. “My New Year Wish” is the topic of the pastor Thursday evening at 8 P.m. The Board of Deacons will meet at 9 D.m. The Boy Scout Troop 54 banquet will be held Friday at 6:30 pm. 15th Street Christian Plans Yule Services At the Fifteenth Street Christian Church Christmas will be celebrated at all services. At 11 am. sermon by Rev. Leslie L. Bowers on “Born a King.” Special music by the combined choirs. At 5 and 8 p.m. presentations of the Christmas pageant, “The New Born King,” will be given, directed by Mrs. Harold Snyder. Those taking leading roles are Mrs. Lois Jarvis, Duane Gill, Louis Robey. George Melchior, Warren Crump, Frank Cooke, Charles Carter, Robert Mor ris, Robert Rudy, Edwin Hill, little Miss Betty Newel and Master Gene Hansbrough. Samuel Goodson, or ganist and choir director, has charge of the music. A Lesson for the Week Babyness of Christmas Babe Is Wonder of Nativity By WILLIAM T. ELLIS. The American mother who has Just received into her arms her new born babe knows more about the nativity than the person who has studied all the great Madonnas of Europe’s art galleries, churches and palaces. There was no nimbus about the head of manger Babe. The large, lusty child, swathed in light as in a garment, whom the masters loved to paint as dominating the manger scene, while Mary sat looking pen sively and adoringly on, is far differ- <■ ent from the tiny, helpless infant which parents today know—so small, so feeble of cry, so heedless of all the world. Yet Mary’s Son was as the sons of all other mothers. Only a prospective mother in like case can understand the anxiety of Mary as, on the back of a humble donkey, which, because of the con ditions, Joseph did not dare urge to speed, she looked with straining eyes toward the little village of flat roofed houses on the hillside to which the inexorable Roman census decree had summoned the family in this critical hour. The five miles that lay between Jerusalem and Bethlehem seemed the longest. The reverent Galileans had probably passed by the Holy City without tarrying, so insistent was the need for their reaching the town of their forefathers on that December after noon. Joseph, with all of a man’s real ized helplessness at such an hour, could only stride at the head of the donkey, keeping the beast to the smoothest road Q n H e K n r t walking pace. Ever and anon he would turn to his young wife, she of the drawn face and tender eyes, now full of wonder and foreboding, and inquire as to her comfort. The N a z a reth car penter is a mag nificent back ground w» me - Nativity scene. w- T- Em,• Being only a workingman, in a time when the artisan had to stand aside for even the common Roman soldier, Joseph found himself at a sore disadvantage when the town was reached. The habit of subordi nation was ingrained in his nature. He was used to giving way before grandees of all grades. That was, and still is, the way of the Orient. So, when Joseph and Mary found the homes of their distant kinsfolk crowded—and we may be sure that there was many a compassionate womanly word of sympathy spoken for the young Nazareth girl in her sore plight—they were easily re ; buffed from the khan, or inn. Every room had long since been taken by persons who had a right to consid eration. Had Joseph been a somebody, in stead of a common carpenter, he wouid have been accorded room, even though a sojourner of lesser | estate be turned out. On Christmas Day, some years ago. I was in Sev rek. midway between the Mediter ranean and the Tigris, and my mili tary escort had borne ahead of me, i to the local governor, a letter from the Sublime Porte. Therefore, the ; governor insisted that the best quar j ters the town possessed were for ! me; and he would have turned out the occupants of the finest room in the new khan, if I had allowed it. Joseph and Mary bore no official : letters; they were only common people; so with few words, they were ; informed that there was no room I for them in the inn. To understand the Christmas ; story at all, one must get some • proper conception of that inn. We in America think of inns in terms of city hotels, and of stables as sepa rate buildings. Neither type applied to Bethlehem. There the inn. or khan, was a series of rooms about a i courtyard, with only one common ! entrance to all. Built on a hillside i it followed the usual custom of dig i ging into the limestone for the inner I rooms of one side, which were thus really caves.' inese innermost apartments, or caves, were used for the horses and donkeys. The sheep, which Christ mas art loves to depict, were not there, nor yet were the cows or camels. The sheep were out on the hillsides; the noisy, bad-mannered camels rested in the courtyard, with their loads beside them. But the riding animals were led through one of the living apartments, back to the stables, where, commonly, the drivers and horsemen shared their quarters. On the cold December nights—for however pleasant the day. the winter nights are cold in Syria—the warmth of the horses made this apartment far from un desirable. The hardship of lodging with the animals in the inn has been exag gerated. The plain people of the East have always lived close to their dumb animals. Life is simple with them; and while Joseph probably owned no animals, he had doubtless often slept side by side with the pa tient donkey or the faithful horse. Therefore he hailed it as a privilege to be coveted when, denied lodging in one of the guest rooms of the khan, he won. by the universal spirit of comradeship among the working people, the privilege of sharing the cave stable of the animals and their servants. None too soon was this haven se cured. For quickly the word passed around, hushing the rude speech of the stable, that this fair young wife of the silent man from Nazareth had come to her hour. We, who look back upon that scene from the standpoint of modern obstetrical science, and from the lavish prepa rations which love and luxury make for the expected advent of a babe, can with difficulty grasp the utter primitiveness and simplicity of that greatest birth. No trained nurse was there, and no doctor. Of anti septic dressings there were none. The elaborate multiplicity of little garments for the expected stranger were lacking. A swaddling cloth, ready by Mary's forethought, was all the layette this baby knew. For th# mother, in her suffering, a bed of straw was made ready in a corner, beside a rock-hewn manger. Joseph's cloak, or camel's hair abeyah, was her only covering. We may be sure that some woman, per haps the innkeeper's wife, answered the appeal of Mary’s need, an ap peal which has never been made in vain to woman heart. Tradition is silent as to this nameless friend of mother Mary. She should be the patron saint of all that long line of friendly neighbor women who had no other claim upon them than the deep bond of a common mother hood. At this Christmas we have a thought for that first earthly friend of the Bethlehem Babe. tyhen the first faint cry of the new-born infant rose above the munching and rustling of the weary beasts, the horsemen, off at their side of the room, exchanged simple greetings of relief that the girl’s ordeal was over; and then to Joseph they gave the Orient's congratu lations that the Baby was a son. To them the event meant nothing out of the ordinary. Babies had often before been born in stables, and like this one. laid in the convenient manger as a first cradle. The present Child was just such a frail, soft infant as is every day being born all over the world. Hu manity is never more alike than ; when in the cradle. Then the races .all have the same pink color. The delicate baby hands, scarcely larger : than a man's thumb, with finger nails so curiously finished and long; the wrinkled forehead, as if too early concerned with this world's cares; the dainty ears, so small, as artfully curved, so lovely, that the mind searches nature in vain for an adequate simile—all these with the Christ Child, were like every other babe that has made the time of its xiigxii, iu auinc inoiner. As today, the mother saw more j beauty in her child than had ever graced infant before. Who can plumb the depths of the thoughts of this maiden mother, with her knowledge of all the wonders that had prepared the way of her Son? Nor were those wonders at an end. Out on the neighboring hillside, | huddling around a little fire with i their cloaks drawn over their heads and close around their bodies, a little group of shepherds stolidly endured the cold, with that capacity for standing hardship which is the mark of the manhood of the out of-door workman everywhere. They kept watch over their flocks, i against marauding man and beast. Half numb with the cold, half unconscious with sleepiness, thev | could scarcely credit the light of the celestial glorv which burst upon j them, or the sound of the heavenly host that greeted them with the first Christmas music. The people of the inn thought the Birth com monplace: Heaven knew its signi ficance, and burst its immemorial silence. The skies could not con tain the jov of Heaven over earth's greatest event. Thus the shepherds were sent hastening to the village with the greatest news mankind has ever heard, their flocks for gotten in this marvelous happening. When they arrived at the khan with their incredible story, they found only the drowsy beasts, their attendants now asleep, and Mary and the Babe, with Joseph standing guard. Probably the helpful neigh bor had returned to her own family. The Child the shepherds saw was only such a wee morsel of humanity as they had welcomed into theb own homes. Even despite their an gelic commission, they had hardly the insight to perceive in this Babe the Savior-King proclaimed by the heavenly host. The three Persian philosophers—but they were to come later, by weeks or months, after Mother and Child had been made welcome in a Bethlehem home, as the gospel clearly shows—might see the kingliness of the Infant; but the shepherds could only wonder First Baptist Choirs i To Sing Carols Antiphonal carols sung by the lunior, intermediate and senior 1 :hoirs will feature the special Christ- . mas service at the First Baptist Church tomorrow at 11 a.m. Dr. I Edward Hughes Pruden will take as the subject of his Christmas sermon ‘Our Lord Emmanuel.” Instead of the regular evening service, there will be a vesper carol service at 5 p.m. There will be a Swedish service at 3:30 p.m. and prayer service on Thursday at 8 p.m. Spirit of Christmas To Pervade Foundry Services Tomorrow Nativity Window, Showing Christ Child, Attracts Attention The service at 11 o’clock tomorrow in Foundry Methodist Church will be permeated with the spirit of “ 'Tis the Day Before Christmas.” Dr. Frederick Brown Harris will have for his subject at 11 am. "The Rosary of Christmas Eve." “The Hymn of the Nativity,” written by the pastor, will be sung during the service. Special music. The Nativity window of Foundry attracts great attention at Christ mastide year by year because of a cluster of lights on the outside il luminating the face of the Christ child. The service at 7:30 p.m. will be in the form of a series of pageants ' presenting the prophecy of Jesus’ birth, the nativity, the procession | of shepherds, the visit of Bethle- | hem's children to the Christ child, the Wise Men bringing gifts, the nations’ procession and the candle- j light processional of the church ! school. These scenes will be iriter spersed with Christmas music and carols. The Forge will have a fellowship tea at 5:30, followed by a Christmas devotional service, and the Hi League meets in the Letts Building at 6 pm. Centra! Presbyterian Services Announced At Central Presbyterian Church tomorrow morning Dr. James H. Taylor will preach a Christmas ser mon on “The Unspeakable Gift of God.” The chorus will sing. At the evening service there will be a Christmas cantata by the chorus. The members constitute the choir at the Wesley M. E. Church. The Christmas giving service in the Sunday school has resulted in sending eight boxes to the mountain schools in North Carolina and Vir ginia, to orphans' homes and to the Central Union Mission. In addition to clothing, toys, gloves, books, candy, etc., over $750 was contributed for the children in these various missions and orphans’ homes. and adore, and then go forth to spread their tale. Art and theology have conspired to rob the world of the reality of this Christmas Child. Men accentu ate His difference from others: God stresses His likeness to all mankind. Theologians talk about the divinity of Jesus. God bent all His power to exalting the humanity of Jesus. If Christmas means anything at all. it means the perfect human embodi ment of the Deity. Whatever shuts the Infant in the manger off from mankind is apart from the purpose of the incarnation. The marvel and meaning of this i day of days—this day. which with its message is subduing the whole world to a new sense of the divinity and brotherliness of man—is that highest Heaven has given of its best to lowest earth: God has made His home with man; the love of the Father has been embodied in the person of the Son. who came to earth, born in fellowship with the humblest, to exalt all our living; to glorify the cradle, to magnify moth erhood. to stand with the toiler; to teach men mercy to the brute crea tion: to break the old barriers which set men over men and men against men, and to bring to pass a king dom whose supreme law is love and peace. (Copyright. 103P. by William T. Ellis.) The Sunday school lesson for December 24 is “The Child and the Kingdom ’—Matthew i.18-25, xviii.1-14, xix.13-15. lewly-Ordained tator to Administer :irst Communion Rev. Wood to Officiate At St. Paul's Church Tomorrow Morning The Rev. C. W. Wood, who wa* jrdained last Thursday In Phila lelphia, will administer his first :ommunion service tomorrow at 8:30 i.m. at St. Paul’s Church, Rock Creek Parish. At 9:30 a.m. the children will lave their service in the church in the form of a Christmas and nanger service. The Rev. Mr. Wood will speak on the Christmas lesson. At 11 am., sermon by the rector. Dr. F. J. Bohanan. The Young People's Fellowship will go Christmas caroling Sunday Evening to the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital and later to shut-ins. On Christmas Day there will be holy communion at 7:30 and at 10 am. The music at 10 am. on Christmas Day will be the same as at Christmas Eve, 11:45 p.m. On Tuesday night there will be a meet ing of the vestry at the rectory. On Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. will be the Christmas entertainment of the church school. Invocation by the Rev. Mr. Wood and welcome by the rector. There will be special music by the junior choir, recita tion, Charlotte Farmer; duet, Ro land S. Brown and Alvin E Milton; reading by Mrs. Grace Williams, vocal selection. Miss Elaine Henry; young people’s choir, with violin accompanist, Miss Lois Rankin; song, primary; distribution of gifts by Santa Claus. The feast of lights will be com memorated on the evening of January 7. Metropolitan Baptist To Have Yule Tree At the Metropolitan Baptist Church a large Christmas tree. 30 feet high, containing over 500 lights, will be used for the Christmas deco ration. At the morning service Dr. J. C. Ball will preach on “Why Jesus Was Bom." In the evening the assistant pastor, the Rev. Rob ert C. Savage, will speak on "What God Thinks of Christmas.” There will be special Christmas music. The Training Union meets at 6:30 pm. The junior group will be led by Mrs. De Witt Thorne. The junior-high group, with Mrs. Savage leading, will present a Christmas sketch. “Such as We Have.” The Intermediate Union will be directed by Miss Gertrude Smith. The Senior Union will be led by Alwin Wood. The adult group will have for the program subject “Christ mas—a Mockery or a Prophecy,” Mrs. Mabel Stanley leading. On Thursday at 9:30 am. will be the morning prayer, with Miss Maude Saunders leading. At 7:45 p.m. the prayer service will be led by Dr. Ball. White Gift Service In Rhode Island Church At Rhode Island Avenue Meth odist Church. Dr. Edgar A. Sexsmith will deliver his Christmas sermon tomorrow morning. The choir will sing. The service will be preceded by a special white gift service by the church school at 9:30. At the'eve ning service the choir will present a cantata. A special Christmas service will be held at 6 o'clock Christmas morning, including an address by the minister, the baptismal service and the lecep tion of members. French Services The Christmas service of the local French congregation will be held to morrow at 4:30 p.m. at St. Johns Episcopal Church, instead of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church. A musical program'of old French noels and other special numbers will be given, and the Rev. Andre Poulain will bring a brief Christmas message on "Un Sauveur Vous Est Ne.” (Eatljfllir (Eatljolir &t. iBomintr’a (Ehurrty Sixth fir E Streets S.W. Solemn High Midnight Mata, Procession, Carols, 11:30 P.M. Other Masses 5:30, 6:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00/11 :30, 12:10 All Low Masses Christmas Services FRANCISCAN MONASTERY 14th & Quincy Sts. N.E. Christmas Eve 10:45 P.M.—Solemn Christmas Matins. ‘Midnight—Solemn High Mass for our Benefactors; Holy Communion. Christmas Day 6, 7, 8 & 9 A.M.—Low Masses. Benediction following the 9 o'clock Mass. New Year's Day 6, 7, 8 A.M.—Low Masses. 9 A.M.—Solemn High Mass and Benediction. Sunday After Epiphany, January 7 6 A.M.—Low Mass. 9 A.M.—Solemn High Mass. 3:30 P.M.—Solemn Benediction; Epiphany Proces sion to the Grotto of Bethlehem. The Brookland con will run from the Monastery until 3 o’clock Christmas morning. No admittion ticket! are ittued or required. \ ‘Note: The Midnight Mass will be broodcost over Station WMAL, Washington. _(Eongrrgatuntal T# Anthems wt (a) "How For Is It to Bethlehem?" li Shaw (b) "Welcome Yule"-.Parry Jft lo) "Lullaby" — —Christiansen B/ Obligato by Marjorie Brett, lb) "Bring a Torch".. Traditional £# 111 "Glory to God in the Highest," Pergolesi "Hallelujah Chorus"_Handel (Cmtgrrgatimtal ~ MOUNT PLEASANT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 1410 Columbia Road Fred Shermon Buschmeyer, Minister 11:00 A M “PATERNOSTER SHEEN” I FIRST CONGREGATIONAL® ^ lOtH & G StS N W Howard Stone Anderson U 11,TT* Walter G. Borchers, Jr. & 11:00 A.M. U Jg Christmas Worship, Sermon and Music #x ^ Howard Stone Anderson Preaching on « "The Angels' Two-Fold Announcement" ft jjj ^irs^ Church has always been justly famed for its distinguished music. *1 Tomorrow we present the A Cappella Choir. Ruby Smith Stahl, di- T£ T4 ^ctor' of Town Hall, Chautauqua and radio fame. Paul DeLong OT •flj Gable is organist. A? Organ Numbers ^ Prelude "A Carpenter Is Born," Edmundson W "Noel Bresson"-Darcieux "Noel".Buck W Offertory "Morch of the Magi Kings," JM Dubois A* Postlude F| Scherzo on "In Dulci Jubilo," fX* Condlyn 12 « 5:00 P.M. g T* A Christmas Play (Modern) in One Act Mrs. Howard Stone Anderson, Director, Presents ft "Mimi Lights the Candle" (Edith Isham Coulter) If J} CAST ft 51 Mrs. Randall, a copoble person _ Gail Whiton Gable T)| "Granny," Mrs. Randall's mother_Mrs. Adeline McNally ML « «»• «»«*>»'• .- K5 it A# Mimi, Mrs. Randall's niece -Lois Ann Conklin m3 |rf Jenny McBride, a pal of Mimi's_Sylvia Duerksen 51 Tim McBride, Jenny's brother_Harry Hughes lj| Laura, Mimi's mother_Mrs. Elisabeth Blanchard fi Land Christmas Music by the A Cappella Choir of 60 m!