Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1938 — Page 11

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Carols to Hail Nativity; |

Candles to Be Symbols; Bishop Hughes to Preach

Christmas Songs of All

Nations to Be : Sung at

Tabernacle Church: Children to Have Part In Many Programs Over City.

By EMMA RIVERS MILNER and midnight services stressing the.

Vespers, early evening programs

symbolism of Jesus as the light of

the Holy Communion will bring Christmas Eve to a close in Indianapolis]:

churches.

There will be a vested choir processional with each member bearing a |

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lighted candle at the traditional midnight service in the Bethany Luth-

eran Church, tonight at 11 p. md Lighted candles also will be placed In the windows, on the altar and ee. : The Lutheran liturgical service will be conciucted by the Rev. J. S. Albert, pastor, in the Gethsemane Church at 11 o'clock tonight. "O Little Town of Bethlehem’ will be played as & duet by Mrs. William Hammond, organist and Miss Marilyn Vogel, pianist. . “The Service of the Candles” with the entire congregation participating will be a feature of the program beginning at 11 o'clock tonight in the Broadway Evangelical Church. Junior and senior choirs will sing carols antiphonally at the St. John’s Evangelical Church candlelight serv- _ ice tonight at 11 o'clock. First Presbyterian Church choirs and their friends ill meet at the church this evening and go about the city singing Christmas carols. Moravian, Tyrolean, Russian, Austrian, Mexican, Italian, Dutch, French, Swiss and other hymns will be sung at the “Christmas Carols of All Nations Service” in the Taber_nacle Presbyterian Church at 11:30 o’clock tonight. “Christmas Ideals in a World Amuck” has been chosen by Dr. Sidney Blegir Harry as his sermon subject for the traditional service in the Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church tonight at 11 o'clock. The story of the Nativity will be told in successive musical selections. The First United Lutheran Chureh will hold a midnight service tonight beginning at 11 when the pastor, the Rev. Arthur L. Mahr, will preach on “The Shepherds, the Child and the Wise Men.”

Christmas anthems will be sung by the chorus choir, directed by Clarence H. Carson, organist, at the 11 o'clock service tonight in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. «Christ the Light of the World” will be the sermon subject for the candle-lighting service conducted by the Rev. A. V. Hess in the Mars Hill Lutheran Church at 11 tonight.

St. Mark's to Use Festival Liturgy

The Christmas festival liturgy, a special sermon by Dr. R. H. Benting, pastor, and carol singing by the choir are features of the St. Mark's Lutheran Church Christmas Eve service beginning at 11 o'clock tonight. ? The story of Christmas will be “told” by the organ while the anditoriun is in darkness at the Broadway Methodist Church candlelight service beginning at 11 o'clock tonight. A chorus from the Broadway Wecrkers’ Class, Mrs. Carl Moore, soloist, and the combined choirs will sing. : , The Unity Truth Center will hold a candlelight service at 11 o’clock tonight. The “Children’s Festival Service” will be held at the Advent Episcopal Church this afternoon at 4 o'clock when the vested children's choir will sing. The Christmas Eve midnight service will begin at 11:15 tonight and include Christmas carols and organ selections. There will be a candlelight carol service at Christ Episcopal Church at 5 o'clock this afternoon and the choral midnight Eucharist begining at 11:30 o'clock tonight. The Rev. E. Ainger Powell, rector, ill deliver the sermon tonigh} and Frederick E. Weber will play “Christmas Chimes.” “paradise Lost and. Paradise Regained” is to be the theme for the Christmas Eve service for children in the Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church at 7:30 o’clock this evening. Edwin L. Kirchofi, organist, and P. G. lilbert, choir director, will present a program of music for children and adults in the Trinity ‘Lutheran Church at 7:30 this eve-

ning. " The combined choirs of the Centenary Christian Church will be directed in special Christmas music by William F. Moon at 10 this evening, ; : » ‘Zion Evangelical Plans Sunrise Service

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enth Presbyterian Church tomorrow |: at 10:35 a. m. under the direction |:

of Raymond Forbes.

St. John’s Lutheran Church will|

hold a children’s candlelight service at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow when

the children’s Chorus will present:

the “Christmas Cantata.” Van Dyke Christmas Story to Be Told Music will predominate in the

services of the Central Christian|

Church services tomorrow with Fred Jefry directing and Mrs. Virginia Jefry will play “The Hallelujah Chorus” on the organ. “The Son of the Highest,” a cantata, will be given by the choir of the Westminster Presbyterian Church at 8 p. m. tomorrow and at a T p. m. candlelight service the Rev. H. T. Graham will read Dr. Henry Van Dyke’s story, “The Lost Word.” The Sutherland Presbyterian Church will have a Christmas program of carols and anthems at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow. In the First Baptist Church at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow the string ensemble and chorus choir will give a program of Christmas music.

Danish, Rumanian Rites to Be Held

A Danish Christmas service will be held in the Trinity (Danish) Evangelical Lutheran Church #omorrow at 11 a. m. and a Danish

Christmas party at the parsonage on Wednesday. The Rumanian Baptist Church congregation will hold their worship service at Mars Hill, tomorrow morning at 10:30, and present the play, “Holy Night,” in the American Settlement Chapel tomorrow at 6:30

p- m. Miss Ruth. Graham, guest ‘organist, will play at the 4 p. m. vespers in the Irvington Presbyterian Church tomorrow. Bishop Hughes will make the Christmas address in the Central Avenue © Methodist Church tomorrow morning at 10:30. Dr. W. C. Hartinger, Indianapolis district superintendent, will read the Scriptures and Dr. Orien W. Fifer, Christian Advocate, editor, will offer the pastoral prayer. Christmas "anthems and carols will be sung by three choirs in the St. Paul Methodist Church tomorrow at 9:20 a. m. Tithes and gifts will be dedicated. A Young People’s Choir and the Quartet will combine to sing “Cantique de Noel” and “Birthday of a King” at the First Congregational Church tomorrow at 11 a. m. “Jesus, the Son of Man” will be the Rev. E. Burdette Backus’ sermon subject in the All Souls Unitarian Church tomorrow at 11 a. m. Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” will be read by the Rev. Guy Lowry as a part of the evening Christmas service of the Brightwood Methodist Church at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow. There will be a cantata presented by the Edgewood M. E. Church tomorrow evening. The pupils of the Emmaus Lutheran School will present the greater part of the vesper candlelight service at 4 p. m. tomorrow in the Emmaus Lutheran Church. The Rev. John Ray Clark, pastor, and Trula Sims Hoppe, chorister, will be ‘in charge of the Christmas program in the Broad Ripple Christian Church at 10:30 a. m. tomorTOW. “Bethlehem as I Saw It” will be described by the Rev. George S. Henninger in the Fifty-first Street Methodist Church in the service beginning at 10 3. m. tomorrow,

Lynhurst Choir To Sing Cantata

The entire front of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church has been trans-

.Christmas Day will be filled with worship from early candlelight in the mcrning through the evening. Special music, sermons including one by Methodist Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of Washington, pageants and cantatas have been planned. .

“A Christmas Dawn Service” will begin at 6 a. m. tomorrow in the Grace [Evangelical Lutheran Church. There will be the liturgical service and a talk on “The Angel's Christmas Sermon” by the Rev. Harry H. Behning, pastor.

The cello will be played by Mrs. Frederick Dunmeyer at the Lutheran Church. of Our Redeemer candlelight service tomorrow at 6 a. nm. the trumpet by William Heiderriech, and the organ by Mrs. Dorothy Fowler. “Glory to God in the Highest” will be the Rev. W. H. ~ Eifert’s sermon subject. At '! a. m. tomorrow, the Rev. Frederick R. Daries' will conduct a “Christmas Sunrise Service” in the Zion Evangelical Church. “Sing O Heavens,” a soprano solo will be sung by Mrs. V. R. Teter and Christmas numbers played by Kurt Mahrdt, violinist, and Otto Mahrdt, flutist, accompanied by Dale W. Young, organist, and choir master. ~~ * The St. Maithow Lutheran Church will hold a sunrise ‘service at 7 a. m. tomorrow. There will be a solo by Raygene Reinler, Christmas hymns, and an address on “The Father's Loving Christmas Gift.” “The combined East Park Method-

formed into a panoramic view of Bethlehem for the pageant, “Bethlehem,” the church’s one service for the day, to be presented in the church tomorrow at 4 p. m. “The Carpenter of Nazareth,” a cantata in three parts, will be presented in the Lynhurst Baptist Church tomorrow at 7:30 p. m. The quartet will sing. “The Glorified City” will be sung by Mrs. Grant Martin at the Garfield Park Baptist Church Christmas service tomorrow evening. Other soloists are Warren Bruner and Harold Edwards. There will be a duet by Mrs. Juanita Storey and Sydney Williams, music director; numbers by the choir and the quartet, Frank Brizendine, Mr. Edwards and Mesdames Reed Owens and Sadie Nicholson. »

tist Church music minister, arranged the pageant, “Christ at Bethlehem,” to be presented by the music department tomorrow evening at 7:30. Victoria Montani, harpist; Miss Adams, . Elizabeth Smith and Leora Crumrine, violinists, and Mabel Pruitt Duncan, organist, will play.

'LIGHT' IS GOLDEN TEXT

The Golden Text for all Christian Science Churches tomorrow is “The people that walked in dark-

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that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.”—Israel 9:2. The subject of the lesson is to. be

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Out of that ancient period of Flemish art about which far too little was written. came this picture without title by an artist who now is

Only his work is known, and that may be seen in the John Herron Virgin is seated on a grass-covered walk holding the Christ child close\to"her. Two angels hold a crown over the Virgin's

head. : It is not irigongruous that the artist painted the background, apparently, from native scenes rather than scenes near Bethlehem, because the Virgin, the Christ child, and the theme are universal. They

The picture was given the Museum by Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge.

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By WILLIAM E. GILROY, D. D. 3 Editor of Advance HIS Christmas lesson is rightly named “God’s Great Love.” When Paul said, “Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift,” he was referring to all that he had received through Christ Jesus; and here we have the story of the coming into the world of this babe through whom millions have been blessed. As we journey in thought to Bethlehem and lay our token of tribute at the birthstall in the manger, let us not forget God’s great love. Christmas will not have its real meaning for us unless that love encompasses our hearts. It is sad to think that in the very homeland of Jesus men are today in enmity and strife with one another, and to realize that during this last year many lives have been destroyed in the conflict between Jew and Arab in the very birthplace of Jesus and in the Holy City. It is discouraging to think of this in a world of the 20th Century, so long after the coming of Jesus; but as we go back through history to contemplate the world into which Jesus came, there may perhaps arise in our hearts some real ground of hope, for it was out of adverse times that Jesus of Nazareth came, and through peril and in spite of the forces of violence and hate that He came to manhood. We have seen how through history the babe of Nazareth triumphed over the Herods that opposed Him. May we have faith to believe that the Christ will still triumph over the anti-Christs of this modern world!

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E celebrate Christmas today in a world where hate is abroad, where people of the same race as Jesus, and with the same religious heritage, are being harried and persecuted. We are in a world) where the beautiful example and teachings of this Jesus are bging set at naught, and hymns of violence and hate are endeavoring to supplant the songs of angels. Where do we stand in the m dst of these things that are dividing men and women just as Jesus divided them long ago? Are we on the side of gentleness and love and right and truth, or even with our Christian profession, is there narrowness and prejudice and bigotry in our souls? Christmas is a time when, as we contemplate God's great love, we should have our own hearts filled with that love. The world needs today godly men, men who will view one another with that love and sympathy of the God who is the Father of all and of whose great family each of us is but a part. : It is sad to think of the lands today in which Christmas has no meaning, or in which certain dictators and leaders are seeking to destroy the realities and vestiges of Christmas. We think of Russia, where in spite of the effort of men to promote human welfare, they have sought to destroy faith in Jesus. We think of Germany, from which some of our most beautiful Christmas hymns and customs have come. We think of other lands

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The five Christmas songs of Luke’s Gospel are to climax a service planned by Miss Evelyn Little and the Roberts Park Young People’s League for the church congregation at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow. . This is said to be the first such use the scriptural carols. . The Bach-Gounod “Ave Maria” will be sung by Mrs. W. H. Day. A quartet of Misses Alice Earl and Beulah Bailey, the Rev. E. E. Aldrich and Wray Stickford will sing a

German and’ French carol arrangements of the “Gloria in excelsis” and a Barnby “Nunc dimittis.” A Gounod arrangement of the “Bene-

Smart setting of the “Magnificat,”

Weekly Sunday School Lesson,

GOD'S GREAT LOVE

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where Christmas is known only to the few, but in some of these lands His name is precious, for prophetic souls have discerned the meaning of His life and teaching. May we who are the children of privilege, who live in a land where there is religious liberty and where the open Bible with its story of Jesus is a treasure within the reach of all, realize the glory of our privilege, and in our Christmas merriment may there be the deeper note of love and consecration that we may give our lives to this Christ and give to the world, in His name and through His power, our own gift of love.

Faith Held World Need

Events Concern Church, Dr. Milner Says.

“If man loses his faith in God, we shall find ourselves caught like rats in a trap in a universe that is meaningless,” Dr. Jean S. Milner said this morning in the biweekly Church Federation broadcast, “As Religion Sees the News,” over WIRE. : Replying to a question dh his conception of God, the Second Presbyterian Church pastor spoke of the difficulty of answering but replied: “I find my highest conception of God in the greatest personality I know, the Jesus of history, whom I and all other Christians of every shade of opinion are convinced the character of God is like.” .“Have the forces of organized religion always been as deeply interested in current world events as they are today?” the announcer asked Dr. Milner.

Conscience Is Stirred “I would say the church today has had her conscience deeply stirred,” Dr. Milner answered, “ .. . is more concerned over the redemption of man in the present world than . . . for many generations.” He spoke of the church of yesterday that laid stress on getting man ready for the bliss of the heaven rather than fitting him to meet his present situation but voiced the warning: “One must guard against so cheapening religious faith that its thoughts and ideals will have their roots only in this world.” Concerning the meaning of life and the solution of all problems, Dr. Milner said: “In the character of Christ we find the supreme revelation of what the character of God is like and the character of like. . . . Of all the light shed upon the mystery of our existence through the lives of noble men, one life stands out supreme.” :

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African Methodist Pastor on Radio

The Rev. Roscoe E. Henderson, pastor of the Bethel A. M. E. Church, is to have charge of the morning devotional broadcasts over Station WIRE next week, it was announced today.

His daily topics are to be: Mon-|

day, “The Song .of the Angels”; Tuesday, “The Kingdom of Christ”; ‘Wednesday, “Meditation”; Thursday, “Prayer”; Friday, “Looking Backward,” and Saturday, “Looking Forward.” ! Music for the Sunday afternoon vesper services over Station WIBC at 3:30 p. m. is to be furnished by the Girls Quartet from the Friedens Evangelical and Reformed Church.

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Cribs in Catholic Church ‘Feature Festivities For Christ-Child.

While it is still dark Christmas morning the Choristers will begin singing carols in SS. Peter and Poul Cathedral. A solemn high mass will follow at 5 o'clock; a low mass at 7:30, and a pontifical high mass at 11. : The 5 a. m. mass will be broadcast over WIBC. Fifteen minutes of carol singing by the girls’ choir, directed by Sister Genevieve Cecile, and the Choristers will precede the 7:30 low mass. -

The Most Rev. Joseph E. Ritter, bishop of the diocese of Indianapolis, will celebate the pontifica. high mass at 11 a. m. with the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Raymond R. Noll as assistant priest and the Very Rev. Henry Dugan and the Rev. Fr. Bernard Sheridan, as deacons of honor. Deacons of the mass will include the Rev. Fr. Henry Hermann and the Rev. Fr. Richard Langen; masters of ceremonies, the Rev. Frs. George i James Hickey, and Charles OSS.

The Choristers will sing carols again for 15 minutes before the 11 o'clock mass. Music to Be Repeated

The musical program for both high masses included “Silent Night” sung -by the Sehola Cantorum, an organ processional a chanted “Proper of the Mass” and a “Missa Solennis” by Yon arranged for a three-part male chorus and a choir of sopranos in unison. It will be sung by the Schola Cantorum and the Choristers, accompanied by Helen Shepherd at the organ. The traditional “Adeste Fidelis” and an organ recessional will close the program, : The Christmas Crib before the Blessed Virgin altar in the cathedral will remain for public view for several weeks. The crib was built by noted Tyrolean wood carvers according to the specifications of the Most Rev. Joseph Chartrand, Bishop Ritter’s predecessor.

The kneeling wise men and the eager shepherds grouped with their sheep about the Holy Family depict the Nativity. On one side of the foreground there are resplendent camels and an elephant and on the other a shepherd feeds his sheep. Various carved figures including a bagpipe player, pages, shepherd dogs and a mountain goat fill in the scene. Over all, an angel stands guard, lightly poised on the stable roof. - The stable is tucked away in the side of a hill which rises gradually fo merge almost imperceptibly with a vast oil painting of the town of Bethlehem in the background.

Violinists to Play

Miss Rosalind Ruhl will play the violin af the 5 a. m. mass in the Assumption Church and a violin quartet of Dickey Folger, John Fogarty, Rosemary McPherson and Rita Cleary will play at the 8 o'clock mass. High mass will be celebrated at 10 a. m. The Boys’ Choir will sing at the 7:30 a. m. high mass in the Holy Angels Church. Other masses are at 6 a. m. and 8 o'clock. Christmas carols will be sung by children at the 5:30 a. m. mass ‘in the Holy Rosary Church. Mass also will be celebrated at 7:30, 9:30 and 12:10. A processional of first communicants will be a feature of the 8 a. m. high mass in the Holy Trinity Church. Other masses will be at 5 a. m. (high mass), 6 a. m., and 10 a.m. (high) when Dorothy Schmitz, flutist and the choir directed by Robert P. Hartman and accompanied by Susanne Schmitz will be heard. : Vested boy choristers will sing before the Crib at the 5 a. m. solemn high mass in the Church of the Holy Cross. The Crib is said to be an outstanding one, comprised: of about 35 carved figures, imported from Austria by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William F. Keefe, pastor. There are to be masses also at 6, 7:30 and 9 o'clock, a high mass at 10:30 and devotions in honor of the Nativity at 5 p. m. ‘ Various Choirs to Sing

There is a Crib also in the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. Hilard Francis will direct and. Margaret Egan, organist will accompany the men’s, boys’ and mixed choirs at the 5 a. m. solemn high mass. Other masses to be celebrated are 6 and 7:30 o'clock and a high ‘ass at 10:30 a. m. The first mass in Sacred Heart Church’ will begin at 4:40 a. m, when the Boys’ Choir, a capella, and the mixed choir will sing. Other masses will follow at 7:30 a. m. (solemn high), 7:30 (low), 9:15 (children’s mass) and 10:30 (sol-

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emn high): There is a Crib at Sacred Heart and the program of music to be presented is one of the most elaborate of the day. At the St. Ann Church, Mrs. George Bloor will play the violin and the Women’s Choir, accompanied by Caroline Foltz Britton, will sing at the 5 a. m. high mass. Other masses to follow are the 7 and 8 a. m. (high mass). :

Children Form Choir

A choir of 50 children will sing at the 9 a. m. children’s mass in the St. Anthony Church. The men’s choir will be accompanied by Helen O'Gara, organist, at the 10:30 high mass. : . There will be an organ recital at the 4:45 a. m. mass at St. Bridget's Church and the children’s choir will sing at the 8 a. m. mass. The St. Catherine’s choir of boys and men will be directed and accompanied by, Louis R. Swain, organist, at the 5 a. m. solemn high mass. A high mass will follow at 10:30 a. m. when the music for the early mass will be repeated. The Rev. Fr. Charles Schoettelkotte will direct and Frances Rosner, organist, will accompany the choir at high masses at 5 and 10 a. m. in the St. Christopher Church. Mass also will be celebrated at 8:30 a. m. A large mixed choir, directed by James Sweeney and accompanied by Miss Jean Cullom, organist, will sing and Miss Florence Fuss will play the violin in the St. Frances De Sales Church at the 5 a. m. high mass. Schoolboys to Sing

A boys’ choir from the church school will sing at the solemn high mass in St.-Joan of Arc Church. at 6 a.m. and the girls’ choir at the gS a. m. mass. At the 9 a. m. mass, the women’s choir will sing; at 10 a. m.- a girls’ choir, and at the 11 a. m. high mass the men’s choir. A crib is part of the Christmas decoration at St. Joan's.

The Rev. Fr. Clement Bosler, pastor, will direct the music for solemn high masses in the St. John Church at 7:30 and 11 a, m. ‘The Ladies’ Hymn Choir will sing at the 9 a.m. low mass. Music for the 10:30 a. m, high mass in the St. Joseph Church will be directed by Jean Montgomery. There will be masses also at 6 and 8 a. m. A choir of men’s and women’s voices directed by Miss Helen L. Colbert, organist, will sing at the solemn high mass at 5 a. m. in the St. Patrick Church.

"Vespers Scheduled Vespers with benediction will be held in the St. Mary Church at 3 p. m. The program for the 5 a. m. high mass includes “Prayer at the Crib” by the Rev. Fr. John H. Scheefers; the 8 a. m. mass, Christmas hymns, and at the 10:30 o’clock high mass a repetition of the 5 a. m. program. A chorus of 400 children will sing Christmas hymns at the 8 a. m. mass in‘the St. Philip Neri Church. There will be a solemn high mass at 5 a. m. and other masses at 9,

10 and 11 a. m, -A solemn high mass will be cele-

‘brated at 5 a. m. in the Church of

the Little Flower and others at 7:30, 9 and 10:30 o’clock. A boys’ choir and an adult mixed choir will be directed by William Earl Keen, organist, in a program of Christmas music at the 5 a. m. mass in the St. Rita Church tomorrow. There is to be a high mass at the st. Roch Church at 7:30 a. m. preceded by a 15-minute period of singing by the boys’ choir. There are to be masses also at 5:30 and

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‘I'mirteen of the 15 children of ‘the Rev. Andy Devine took part last night in the Christmgs play of the Gospel Holiness Church. Back row: Harry, Mary, Mrs. Laura Myers, Mrs. Eva Webb, Mrs, Marjorie McCoy, Roy. Center: Hazel, Fay, Albert,

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Christmas Day in a manger.

The pioneer woman sat in her rocker and gazed with still-bright eyes on the twinkling lights and shiny baubles of her great-great-grandchildren’s Christmas tree. “My parents had sought shelter

friendly owner.” gentle hands under a crisp, white apron. “Iike the Bethlehem innkeeper, the cabin’s owner suggested that they spend the night in his barn. It was only a log stable, but my parents were glad to find shelter from a blizzard. They had been traveling for a long time in their covered wagon toward Huntington County. Ind, where my father owned 2 farm, and were tired. Like the Christ child, the wilderness baby uttered her first quavering cries early Christmas morning. Her cradle was a hay-filled manger. “For three days my mother, father and 2-year-old sister and I stayed in the little stable. Then, when the weather had cleared, we went on to our new home,” Mrs. Peterman said. “Mother said it was bitterly cold on that journey. Many times s8t night they were taken in by settlers along the way, but nearly as many times they were forced to sleep in the covered wagon. “She said that the day before Christmas, 1845, was bleak and snowy and when they saw a light in a clearing they were overjoyed. At last, they thought, here is somewhere to spend the night. Mother especially was weary.and depressed by the seemingly endless trip.” She said she believed that Mary and Joseph—the night the star shone in the East—could not have been more disheartened than: were her parents as the callous settler denied them lodging in his cabin. “My parents lived originally in Fairfield County, Ohio, but my father was anxious to see what the West was like and bought a farm— sight unseen—in Indiana,” she said. She added that he paid only $1 an acre for it. “He was so eager to see his farm that despite the cold and snow’ he ‘loaded mother and my sister, Harriet—along with all of their household goods—into a covered wagon and started out. : “They thought they'd be settled on their farm when I came along.” Mrs. Peterman got up. “I have to put on my best dress, now,” she said, “because all my children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren will be here pretty

soon. : “I guess they're more excited because it’s Christmas Eve than because”’it’s my birthday.”

BEATRIX GETS TREE

SOESTDIJK, Netherlands, Dec. 24 (U. P.)—Princess Beatrix, second heir to the throne, had her fst

Christmas tree, glittering with candles and tinsel, in the drawing room

Alberta, Anna Mae. Catherine, Lavonnie, Clifford, Mrs. Nellie Devine. The Rec. Mr. Devine was ordained 14 months ago and founded the Gospel Holiness Church at 1003 Harrison St. last October. men

Her parents had faced the same parents of Christ in faraway, long-ago Bethlehem.

in a wilderness cabin,” she said,} “but were turned away by its un-| She folded her!

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Manger Birth

FINDLAY, O., Dec. 24 (U. P.)--Mrs. Mary Peterman prepared to celebrate her 93d birthday today by telling the story of her birth.on

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King, Queen Trade Gifts

Royal Family Celebrates Yule At Sandringham.

SANDRINGHAM, England, Dec. 24 (U. P.).—Beside a 20-foot Christ mas tree, adorned with hundreds of colored lights, King George and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret passed out Christmas boxes in the Sandringham House ballroom today to aged tenants of the royal estate. In addition, each tenant got & ton of coal, a joint of meat, a hamper of fruit and cookies. "That ceremony over, all members of the royal family, observing a tradition= ally old-fashioned Christmas, are ranged gifts to each other on horseshoe tables about the tree. The tables were marked off in sections, each section labeled with the name of the recipient, such as “The King,” “The Queen,” etc. : The only absentees this-year were the Duke of Windsor and the Princess Royal, her husband, Lord Harewood, and their sons, Viscount George Lascelles, 15, and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, 14. The Hare woods ‘are spending Christmas at Harewood House, near Leeds, ac=

cording to their custom. At the King's party were: Queen Elizabeth, the | two Princesses, Queen Mother Mary, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the e

"and Duchess of Kent, and their two

children, Princess Edward, III, and Princess Alexandra, who will be a years old Christmhas Day. The Kents Jeave for Australia next September where the Duke becomes Goyernors General, and they expected it to be their last Christmas home for: seve eral years. | he The Princesses helped decorate the house with paper-chains, holly and mistletoe. Tonight they hang their stockings over the fireplace. After, breakfast tomorrow, the Royal family will walk across the small golf course to church. Dinner will be at 1:15 p. m., and will in=clude turkey and stuffing but no cranberry sauce. iv The pudding swimming in lighted brandy sauce and decked with a sprig of holly, will be borne ‘> the table by a white-capped chef, hoki=ing it high on a giant platter, and preceded by a piper whose skirling music will drown out all convercia= tion. After dinner, the family will gather around an open fireplace, near the tree, for the distribution of presents. i

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