Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, December 26, 1904, Image 8
TTTE OMAITA DAILY ItEE: MONDAY. DECEMBER 2fi. 1004. ALL PRAISE UIR1S1 CHILD OmabaDharchti D.Tontlj Observe Coning of Redeemer of the World. CHRISTMAS, IN ALL HOUSES OF WORSHIP Catholic, mn Protestants Hold Spe " rial frrrlrn sad Large torf. - aratloas Mlnale Their II o . . mail to Jhe lrd. ," T'nto ua a Child la given; To ua a Son Is bcrn. That greatest of all festivals In the realm of time, and that flay of all days to the follower of the Christ Chrlstmns and the Sabbath. falling on the same day, served to Intensify the Interest and deepen the solemnity of worship yesterday In the churches of Omaha, where, from pulpit and choir, arose praises Hnd hallelujahs to the Babe of Bethlehem, and was breathed In every prayer and sermon and song that beautiful sentiment on the advent of the Redeemer of the world, "Peace on earth; rood will toward men." , 'The day In Its physical manifestations wa not the Ideal hlKh day of Christianity. There was no bright, crisp winter sun and no mow to sparkle In Its rays and to crunch under the feet of the city reindeer. But for all that, generally speaking, the churches were flllexi to capacity by the dutiful and .the pious, who felt It meet and proper they should give this time awny from the Christmas trinkets or the prepa ration of the Christmas turkey to add their little to the service of rejoicing. Among; the Catholics. Among the Catholic churches. St. John's probably was the most elaborately decked with green and bright flower. Number ing many of the wealthier church people In Ha parish. It had more to draw from than some of the others. St. Fhllomena's cathedral was crowded. A multitude of waxen lights shimmered on the altars and above .all a blazing star of gas flames. Scarlet flowers glowed against the altar hangings. At the mldmornlng high mass Rev. i. W. Stenson waa celebrant, with "Vary Rev. A. M. Colanerl. V. O., as dea con And Bev. P. A. McGovern of the cathe dral as subdeacon. The latter preached the sermort) In the Church of St. Mary Mag dalen the subaltars were covered with White lilies and pink roses, and at the left waa arranged a atone fireplace decked with trinkets. In St.- Cecilia's, Georgia's second mass In F was used and Father Dobaon preached- The Christmas decorations were not quite as elaborate as usual. In the First Metho dist Episcopal green wreaths and sprigs of asparagus were strewn over a white back ground with a base of potted green. In the First Congregational ropes of ever green were carried around the church and over the pulpit, at the base of which was massed palms and ferns. In Trinity cathe dral a great white star was hung and red flowers used on the altar, while green waa banked at the sides. Other churches Were similarly decked. IERMOJI BY FATHER BUAf KMORE Eloqfceat Discourse at St. John's on Dabs of Bethlehem. "Christmas service at St. John's church Was of unusual order. The church was crowded af 6 a. m., when Rev. M. P Dow ling celebrated solemn high muss. The dl flce was again filled at the last service at 10; JO. The decorations and music were squally elaborate, an unusual feature be ing the chanting of the students surpllced choir in th chancel. Rev. S. A. Black ttore, - 8, J., of Crelghton university, preached the sermon, the entire text of which follows: - In gaging back through th vlata of time, do we not see a 'character unique ana sublime, within whose radiance all mortal grandeur dwindles and all human glory, fades? Do we not hear re-echoing through th ages, a name synonlmous with good ness and replete with a power which glori fies all sorrow and purities all happiness? The Babe of Bethlehem is the grand cen tral character In our drama of humanity. Around Him are grouped the destinies of nations and of Individuals. His cradle was th term of the old world and the be ginning of the new. His star of Bethle hem, by dispelling the darkness of pagan ism and bringing us the light of a higher and nobler civilization, has made clear to men the meaning of His existence .and of all human events. Though In the angel's words: "This day Is born to us a Savior." yet we see this new-born child old as the agts, with His Infant brow enveloped with the halo of a glorious past. For us the sun In the heavens illumines not only the space he has traversed, but also the regions he is yt to visit, so Christ, the sun of the moral world. Illumined the human race In an cient as well as In modern times, before His birth, all generations looked forward to Htm, and after His birth all genera tions look back to Him. And what Is human birth? Man born Into life Is rocked in a cradle between a nothingness pust and a future uncertainty. But not to with this new-born Babe. He alone of all mor tals, before His birth, lived In the world In the minds of men, and so perpetuated Himself In the Uvea and hopes ot a fam ily and of a nation and of the whole human race, that generation succeeded to generation and age followed age, only to think of Him, to speak of H'im and to de air Him. At first indistinct In the minds of men. th Savior wo sketched In dark outlines by th earlier prophets, and others rising century after century tilled In the dark outlines, and by Inspired, artistic touches brought out in bold relief Hla form and characteristics. His dual nature and cir cumstances of life, His minslon and stu pendous powers. His humiliations, tri umphs and establishment of a kingdom universal and eternal, until after four thou sand years men read his biography com- ?lete and beheld Him existing In concrete orm long before being formed In the womb cf th virgin. This long delay of the Baylor's advent was required In prepara tion for the stupendous mystery of the In carnation. The delay was due to the honor and glory of God, as well as to the needs of man. If, in the first place, a mystery pro found and Incomprehensible was to lie Im posed upon the human mind, and if this mystery of the Incarnation was to be made mors Incomiu-ehenaible still by the humili ations and death of the Suvlor was not a long delay required which would allow time for God to prepare satisfactory proofs, in presence of which our minds convinced would bow down In adoration before an In fant God? Secondly, man hud sinned by pride, and, his pride still unbroken, might lead him not only to err concerning the iMtUir and need of redemption, but even to. disdain It, If too promptly offered. For human nature, yet In the fullness of youth ful vigor, wo Ignorant of the depths of Its fall, und therefore could not foresee the errors, and vices of which it was cupa VI; and hence man must be convinced that alone ho could not accomplish his own regeneration. But what means mote effica cious far this than experience? Experi ence by .showing man his helplessness gave th He to his Imaginary excellence founded on pride; experience by revealing man's intellectual feebleness made him perceive th need of a guide from above; experi ence by exposing the moral corruption of air fallen nature forced man to implore the aid ot a divine phyaiclau. When at last satan had conquered the detent of man, and In fictitious d ltles had substi tuted himself for God; when amid moral degradation men worshiped divinities whose character and history defied all that was vilest and exalted to the altar of popular religion vices the foulest; when even In th great centers of civilisation, where human genius had triumphed In the science of government and literature and art still unequalled, then iniquity was bred from Iniquity, and after un experience of forty centuries of human life It was acknowl edged that man unaided was helplessly oaiU, hopelessly lost and was perishing In ' moral depravity. In vain had been found email laws and codes of morality; In vain had been every reliance on multiplied sys-. ten of human phlloeophy; In vain had mortals looked unto mortals for the needed nlversal moral regeneration Then while th dens darkness of paganism waa still rowing denser man had learned to the tail bis own mUtery and feebleness, and aanld th triumph of evil were heard -the vaice of the great leaders of human thought; In a I'Ulo and 8-rates prodalm . ist to all that it waa necessary fur s m on to come from heaven to teach man tils duty and save tU human race from a 1 ' . universal moral depravity. Man led astray from God by setan had at lat been taught bv his own long, sad experience to- turn again to God and seek deliverance from moral evil. H'-nce. In the words of St. Paul, had come God's fullness of time, for this universal craving for good and dellvsrsnce from evil was everywhere turning men's minds heav enward. Then It was that the star long prophesied shone forth In the orient and prix-lalmrd their new-born king to the gen tile nations. And He comes this day, born In Bethlehem, His Infant brow adorned with the aureola of 'a pre-exlstence of forty centuries. Heaven's portals, closed for ages, now opened wide,, myriads of angels descend to earth to rejoice with men and chant In glad rhapsody, "Ulorra In pi crisis iJeo, et In erra. pax homlnlbus bonne voluntatis." Glory to Ood In the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will. To men of good will, and therefore not to Herod and his myrmidons of Jeru salem. Judea. long a conquered province of Rome, had been perverted by the spirit of earth, and heathendom had Its altars and Idnls honored within her holy city. For the last 4"0 years no prophet of God had arisen In Israel to guide the nation's coun cils, and religious dissensions arose, and under the Influence of pagan, customs and laws and power heresy had so multiplied and destroyed the purity of the true re llftlnn that Israel's own teachers became infected. To strengthen th nation's yearn ing for freedom and national life, they had corrupted the teaching of th prophets con cerning the person and mission of the Mes siah. The Savior came In poverty, they expected Him in fabulous wealth; the Sav ior came In humility, they expected Him In a majesty and pomp more resplendent than Solomon's; the Savior came In weak ness, they expected Him with a power mightier than Caesar's or Alexander's; the Savior came to establish a spiritual king dom, thev expected Him to form for them a ms ferial universal empire whose power would stand unrivaled and whose glory would outshine all grandeur within the mcmorv of man. But the wavs of Oofl are not the ways of men. If the Savior came In the ways of man. In the ways of a world estranged from God; If He came tainted by the spirit of earth and enthralled by human passions; If He came In the pride of life 11 mid the vain pomps of earth; If He came In th deification of self, to make this present life our all and earth our heaven, how could come the Savior of a fallen race, to bring us an antidote to the noxious poisons of sin. to offer us Infallible wea pons against the snares of satan. and re store us to our lost Inheritance in the glorious Immortality of the sonshlp of God? But He comes this day to all who sit In darkness and In the shadow of death, sit In darkness and In the shadow of death, to all of good will In our sin ful world, and If ours be this good will. If ours be this spirit of Christ, we loo on this festal day shall kneel In homage with lowly shepherds to adore the new born Babe enthroned In a lowly manger. If His spirit be ours, we too shall see with the shepherds the God of Incomprehensible majesty teaching us humility; the God of all riches proclaim ing the spirit of poverty, and th God of infinite bliss promulgating the law of self mortification. If His spirit be ours again today shall resound for us In very truth that glad angelic strain, "Gloria In excelsls Deo et in terra pax homlnlbus bona volun tatis." Glory to God In the highest and on earth peace to men of good will. Peace to all hating Iniquity and loving Justice; peace to all shunning the fatal clouds of error and seeking God's sunshine of truth; peace to all conquering every debasing passion of earth and seeking the higher life; peace to all turning from the hope less gloom of paganism to welcome the new born Light who comes to Illumine and to Christianize the fallen race of an irre ligious world. As the Suvlor was repugnant to the carnal Jews of old, ' so Is He today dis tasteful to the many steeped In the spirit of the world, to unbelievers and to the Irreligious of our times. Some In depravity of mind and heart strive today, as men have striven for nineteen centuries past, to fashion for themselves a new God. In some abstract Idea, or In nature, or In some unreal notion of humanity. Others striving to resurrect dead religious Isms of by-gons ages seek: to disguise them In modem forms; others wishing to turn back the hands of the world's timepiece In the cycle of ages labor to Inaugurate anew the easy and pleasant' morality -of a de funct paganism. They are welcome to their choice: but against the onward march of Chrlstlnnlty feeble Is man's effort: today he Is nnd tomorrow borne down t( oblivion, n bubble on the rapid flowing river of time, faint Is his dlscordnnt voice, scarce heard In that mlahty peon of universal faith chanted by the Christian nations on this glorious morn. In the glad refrain of nngel choirs- "Gloria In excelsls Deo et In terra pax homlnlbus honae voluntatis." jO, Christ, all conotierlngf'iToday we bow before Thee. In Thv Infinite form. We adore Thy mtghtv power. ' We love Thee with a!) our hearts, our God. our Brother horn 'this day In our human form. May Thy star of Bethlehem shin on forever more, to Illumine our path, to eulde our everv step, and lead trs on to Thee, who art the-true Light and Life of the world. DAY WHEN WB FEEL SAME JOY Her. Georae A. Beecher Dtscoarses on Angelic Mesage. Even the brilliantly lighted tapers upon the altar of Trinity cathedral could not lift entirely the shadows which lurked yes terday morning, grand, solemn and Im presslv among the arches overhead. The floral effects were beautiful. A star of white Immortelles hung over the chancel rallv In a straight line back of It was the altar croes, which stood out In chaste and conspicuous contrast to a facade of crim son flowers. At one side of the church was an oil painting- of the Christ-child; on the other was a picture of the Judgment. A solid mass of green reached from the altar to these paintings.' The lecturn and the chancel rails were wound with green, while festoons of holly hung from a com mon center In the arching ceiling. It was all eleoquently and sublimely suggestive of the tragedy which began at Bethlehem and had Its culmination upon the summit of Calvary. Th eluborate music added to the effectiveness of the services. Rev. George A. Beecher took for his theme the angelio message of Joy and glad tidings to the shepherds. He said In sub stance: "Christmas Is distinctively a Christian festivity. There is to the day a spirit of joyruinewa Everyone is thinking of some one elese; of some way to make the day brighter. We give to others with no thought of getting something In return. It Is a day of giving, but It also Is a happy and Joyful day because It Is the day on which Jesus was born. Even rough and unsympathetic men who ar Indifferent to the Chrlstlun significance of the day do not lot It pass without a general recogni tion of Its customs. The spirit of good will stirs the hearts of men. Measure nf Joy are flashed from continent to conti nent and carried from home to homa The message of good tidings was a mPa. sage to all peoples. The little group at the manger, where th Child was born waa poor, very poor. A short distance away was the palace of Herod, the monarch, yet he heard not the tidings. The message was not to the great alone. . He came nnt as an enemy to the rich, but as a rHna to the poor. He came to reunite the hearts or men, to teach them to love one another. m cam in a spirit of forgiveness and It Is this spirit we shoujd emulate. If our conscience Is disturbed today by th Ill will we bear others let us thrust the feel Ing from us and forgive others as God has forgiven ua" PKAYERS ITTEBKD FOR TUB PRESS Dr. Bard Irk, Before Rloqaeat Ssvaaoa, Prays for Newapayerdom. Special music was sung and a pretty decorative effect in evergreens and white worked out at th Second Presbyterian church for Christmas, the pastor. Rev. Newman Hall Bui dick, D. D., preaching a sermon appropriate to the festival. In his prayer Dr. Burdlck asked divine blessing and aid for "ths molders of public opinion, thoa connected with th press, whos In fluence Is so great." "With the birth of Jesus, th Bab ef Bethlehem, began a new order of things In th. world.'! said Dr., Burdlck. "A new course set In that has mora profoundly af fected the world than any'other In Its his tory. It has become all that w ar, all that we bav and all "that w look for ward to. "Th fact of the Incarnation of Ood that God waa mads man la the underlying prin ciple f th Christian religion. It la al luded to or almost every page of the writ ten word of Ood. Reject It and you must reject the word of Ood altogether, for this one fact Is Interwoven snd Involved with all the rest. W are compelled to accept the Incarnation as the truth because th Blbl Is full of It. "The Incarnation vitalizes our faith and raises It from a mere system of ethical philosophy a philosophy that has been nearly equaled by the mind of man. But adding the divinity and authority ot Christ and w have a system of faith to which the soul may cling and which never under any test has broken down. The Incarna tion is th basis for belief In Immortality." TEACHER COME FROM GOD IS HE Them of Rev. Rohert Yost, Preaehlag of the Christ. "A Teacher Come from Ood"' waa the theme of the sermon by Rev. Robert Yost at St. Mary's Avenue Congregational church yesterday morning. "Man Is the feeblst branch of the universe and may be crushed by any or many of them, yet reason has exalted manhood to royalty," he said. "By his reason he Is able to forecast the course of the tempest and the way of the stars; he beckons to the lightning and the thunderbolt becomes his cherubima We wonder If there shall ever be found a limit to the kingdom of the mind. Yet there Is a sphere beyond the limit of brain power; It Is that thing that we know the least about, that death that takes us away. What Is that link thnt hinds us to the hereafter Is the question that has been asked ceaselessly for ages. Man shall walk In gloom until some hand shall bring him out Into the undying light. It Is He for whom the ages hath waited long. Every drop of wisdom that has trickled down from the limits of time has come from the fountalnhead of Ood. Never man spoke like this man. No man has said 'Jesus Christ wns one of my pupils.' No earthly philosophy ever breathed Its phil osophy Into his ears. When he stepped from that Galllleam home It was to as tonish the world. Hla school was the work shop. Hla mother stood In His presence like a babe. In His wisdom. He went down and kissed away the dirt and made It the diadem of manhood; When He came super stition vanished. He was at right angles with previous formalism. Who of the world's history can be placed on the plat form beside Him? He did not argue; He did not plend. He announced and pro claimed. When the heart Is sick with sin It Is the gentle Sympathy of Christ that heals. He Is the one great gift of God, to whom this blessed day Is consecrated. The great teacher, the comforter." In the afternoon a special Christmas musical service, "Emmanuel," was par ticipated In by the large choir and a num ber of leading local vocalists, under the direction of Mr. Thomas J. Kelly, with Miss Maude Mueller as organist. Follow ing the musical program Dr. Yost delivered a discourse with .'"The Oolden Rule" as his theme. The services were largely at tended. DISTIXCTLY DAY FOR MEMORIAL Sabbath and Christmas I'nlted In One Worship. The morning services at the First Pres byterian church were prefixed by the usually large Christmas contribution and then the ordinance of Infant baptism was administered with unusual solemnity. The text ay the pastor, Rev. Dr. Edwin Hart Jenks, was taken from John xll, IB: "Fear not, daughter of Zion, for behold, thy King cometh." "What should we do this day but talk of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world? It Is seldom we have Christmas on Sunday. This day Is a day set apart as a memorial day, and now that It falls, on the Sabbath we utilize it In speaking of the Influence the Christ has upon the destinies of the people of the earth. We speak of Him as the Savior of the world, and yet the world will not be saved; It cannot be, for salva tion Is of a personal nature. We speak of the glorious character of Jesus Christ, of the perfection of His life, of the high moral precepts He taught, the noble utterances and the loft attributes of His nature, th warnings He gave, that He alone could give. We And high moral Influences at work abroad In the earth, among them many redeeming qualities of life and whereby are higher educating forces; but they are but a part of the saving forces, so grandly at work for our betterment, our reflecting. We must not overlook them, but they are not salvation. The byway Is not the highway. The emotions may be aroused, but the heart must be touched; It must be opened to receive Christ within It to the filling of Its Innermost recesses. So there Is a redemption of the soul through Jesus, who must be accepted as all In all, and whose Influence henceforth makes not only for the earthly happiness of the pos sesser of this joy, but extends a glorious Influence out Into the world,, and so God's will Is wrought In our persons, our bodies, our spirits brought Into subservience and so the great redemption this day signifies as having been brought within our reach la a glorious heritage, made ready for all who accept Jesus In their hearts. Who Is able to give light and peace and pardon through faith In Hla name, the thrice blessed Redeemer of the world." SAME CRY ALL OVER THE WORLD Give It the Gospel of Oar Lord, Jeans Christ. In the First Christian church Rev. 8. D. Dutcher spoke on "The Coming One." He preceded his address by a few remarks on the business situation and work for the new year, and committees were named to carry on the church work. "I draw my sermon today," said the min ister, "from the opening verses of the sec ond chapter of Matthew, which deal with the preaching and teaching of John the Baptist. He had been very successful great multitudes had heard him and gladly been obedient to the wcrd of Ood. Then came a time when things were not so prom ising and John was thrown In prison. Then he sent a messenger to Christ, saying: 'Art thou He who should come, or shall we look for another?' "They had all been looking for some body who was to come at that time. I think this Is how Ood has led mankind on, keep ing all looking for something to come. We Met. men who are not looking forward, and wa see they do not amount to anything. Ju- de'n was all expectant and waiting; th wis men from the Qentiles cam expecting one; over all waa the green-eyed Herod, th most cruel . monarch, and he was most anxiously waiting. All th universe was waiting when Christ was born In Bethle hem. "This was true, for shortly after th fall f man a promise was given that 'One shall come.' The prophets through ages reiterated It. Oh, my friends, are we ex pecting on to com now? What is It that Is keeping the church alive today? You may say It is On who has already come. We are looking out of this world today and see into the universe of God's mercy. We still ask, 'Art Thou He who should come? And from every aide comes the answer from China, 'Yes'; from darkest Africa they stretch out their bands and rry. 'Send us the gospel.' India beg for more of Christ. The poor, th same for It was first the Christ who bent down to them. And while nations ar crouching Ilk flerc dogs ready to spring 00 ach other we hear on every sld th movement for arbitration war Is too eru.l. Yea, In deed, art Thou lis who should com, or do w ask for On who shall bring ua a bel ter neaaeger UNFORTUNATES' CI1R1STMAS Qai.t but Happj Taj GiTea to the 111 aid Erriig. NONE OVERLOOKED AT FESTAL BOARDS Charitable Homes. Hospitals and Prisons GIt Cheer and Cesslor to Those Who Art at Bach Places. Christmas was a quiet but pleasant holi day with the old people's and the chil dren's homes. Jails and the hospitals. For one reason or another those persons who reside in these Institutions ar not In a position to enter quite as heartily Into the celebration of Christmas as are their more fortunate fellow citizens on the out side. A man with his character or his appendix under Investigation Is not able to throw his very soul into the glad and Innocent diversion of Christmas time. He Is more or less hampered by the watchful and solicitous care of the Investigators. A too free and thorough entrance Into the spirit of the day may fill his system with septic matter or his pockets with extra neous substances of considerable value to other persons. The county Jail was the seen of a square meal and cranberry sauce between 2 and S o'clock. Jailor Roach had to exercise some care In feeding his guests, because If the whole 137 there should eat all they wanted at the same moment and swell up In (the manner which a good meal makes a man do, the very small . snd -crowded county Jail would be apt to burst like a bottle that hnd got Itself full of Ice. But this did not happen, perhaps because the stall fed charges of the county, may have spoiled their appetites, to some extent by eating candy Just before dinner. Mrs. Dhlnbrook of the Woman's Chris tian Temperance union, with several as sistants, held services In the prison from 1 to 2 o'clock, and after the close of the religious houn presented each man, as the authorized agent of Mr. S. Claus, with a box of bonbons. At the city Jail the oc cupants entered Into the spirit of the day and about two pounds of holiday food each. Kind friends and personal admirers sent flowers and there was also a little church service. Hospitals and Homes. Beds of pain and suffering are not the best places In the world from which to enjoy the gifts of Christmas. The PreBby terlun Introduced a very novel feature at least the patients enjoyed it very much by discharging as convalescents nearly all the afflicted. In Clarkson there was a nice Christmas dinner, consisting of seven courses of ttirkey gruel, or something, harmless of that sort. The Trinity Junior auxiliary was responsible for the tree and Deacon Beecher of the Cathedral and some members of the choir were present and the boys' sang on each floor and the dean made a Christmas address. 8t. Jo seph's and the . Methodist and Emanuel hospitals observed the day In like man ner. , Among the children's homes, the Child Saving Institute had a plasant celebra tion. Friends of the Institution had been moro generous than usual and the tree, which was lighted at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon for the little children, was well hung with presents. Miss Chambers . and her little class . from Trinity Methodist Episcopal church furnished an Informal program and there was some songs and prayers. In th evening the children went to the exercises . at . Knox Presbyterian church. 16 :.e .( The Creche dlJ not fall behind. Far from It. The Creche children affirm their own special Santa. Claus was the genuine, all-wool-and-whlpken . affair. The tree was lighted 1. early .Saturday and was sure enough Joy foe. the. thirty members of the home, parents-were present to enjoy th antics of th Jlttle ones. There was - a fine, dinner at, noon Christmas. The St. James orphanage has - a large family to feed and the Job of carving for the bunch is something fierce. A tough Joint will throw out the whole schedule. But the mother church was equal to the occasion and provided a gaudy tree Christ mas eve and. a ,nutrlcl:us and enjoyable repast for Sunday noon. The Good Shep herd was the scene of another celebration. Among the Old Folks. The Old Folks'-home was largely under obligations to the women of Westminster Presbyterian church for a good old time. Saturday at 1:30 o'clock a turkey and cran berry sauce dinner was begun. The old people ate the turkey until after 3 o'clock. Then they had' a big Christmas tree with presents and candles and' other Joys of the times. For the dinner baked turkey was used and thirty-six covers were laid. The Salvation army is not a cook, but It Is a general family store at Christmas time. Saturday the local forces were busy In dealing out baskets for the penniless who could borrow a stove for themselves or know someone who owned one and someone who could operate It. Statistics had been prepared for the number of mouths in each family and over SO0 baskets packed with an average of five dinners were given out. It was busy 'business while It lasted and happy faces and tired backs were the re sult as small children bore away In loaded baskets to where mother waited with a sizzling stove. Christmas) In the big transient hotels did not amount to much beyond a fine dinner and a few lonely, boys who had grown tired of being told not to beat their drums so loud, but the family hotels and , large boarding houses were the scenes of many homelike Christmas celebrations. At the Madison a considerable number of promis ing Juveniles were greatly entertained by a soaring tree, prepared by Mrs. Axtell, on whlth a half ton of hotel presents were hung. The Omaha Hungarian society, had a Jolly meeting . Christmas - afternoon at Twenty-fifth avenue and Cuming street, with a large part of the. seventy-five mem bers present. The officers for the year 1906 were elected and are as follows: Pres ident, A. Brown; vice president, A. Bchlank; treasurer, Jacob Rosenblum; financial sec retary, Charles Singer. Messrs. Brown snd Singer have served the society as officers now for eight, years. N NEWSBOYS ARE NOT FORGOTTEN Army of Little Merchants Eat Bl Christmas Dinner. "How much yer made, Shanty?" "Let's see. Fifty, sixty, a dollar and Aye cents." "I'm goln' to chew. Com on. Let's dous de polpera till we get some of dat eatln'." "I'll go you one. Blonde, If I lose." "It's a cinch yer can't lose." And they wnt down to th newsboys' headquarters In th basement of 14K Far nam street and at until their little gar ments became taut. The annual newsboys' Christmas dinner given yesterday afternoon through the courtesy of Mr. E. A. Plxon of the Orchard dt Wllhelm company,, and under the direc tion of Mogy Bernstein, dean of the news ies, was a great success In every way. Miss Roberta matron of th newsboys' home, was assisted at' the tables by Mesdames M. E. Lynch, Alfred Fuller and W. J. Broutch. Nearly K0 of the street merchants were given a gastronomic treat which they relished In a manner that would have caused a dyspeptic, nillllonlar to have nvld th UlUe fallow their happy ex istence. AS soCn ss one table was through snother platoon of candidates with Tapers under their arms would file down stairs In the best of order and stand at attention while Mogy assigned the places. After giving three cheers and a tiger for those who were giving the dinner the crowd would be seated and look wistfully at the side table laden with chicken, pie. cake, candy, nuts, oranges, coffee, cranberry sauce and other things for the Inner man. The dinner was served from 12 until 2 p. m. "Bay, that pie was bully," said Raymond Kline, the one-armed boy, who sat at the third table. Wlsht I had another piece." "AM Mogy," said Butts, who sat next to Kiln. Kline asked Mogy and was given another segment of pie. "Oee, I'm glad I didn't stay down on that old chicken ranch at Havelock." re marked Kline after he had disposed of the last section of pie. Even Jack, the newsboys' dog, attended the dinner and seemed to appreciate the occasion with true canine Instinct. About the time the fourth table was being served he went over to a corner, curled up, laid down and took no further cognizance of the dinner. So far as Mogy could determine from his poster only one boy foiled to attend the function. Hla name Is Willie Grapheiser, 10 years of age, and lives on South Thir teenth street. He Just came out of the hospital, where he had an attack of ap pendicitis and Is now convalescing. He was remembered by a number of his fel low workers, who sent an assortment of good things to his home. PATIENTS GO HOME FOR PRESENT All bat Nine Leave the Presbyterian Hospital. Figuratively speaking, the words of the Great Physician, "Take up thy bed and walk," were applied to the patients of Presbyterian hospital as a Christmas gift and by evening all but nine patients had gono to their homes. If not entirely well, at least able to mingle their Joys of tho Yuletlde festival with those of the home folks. Not for many months has the hos pital been so nearly vacated. Major D. II. Wheeler was one of those who returned to his home Christmas day. He had been In the hospital for a period of thirteen weeks. His trouble was a broken hip bone. At his advanced age, of course, complete recovery Is despaired of, but he Is able to walk with the aid of crutches. Mrs. Brad D. Slaughter, wife of the pay master of the Department of th Missouri, was another of the patients to leave yes terday. Mrs. Slaughter had been at the hospital for some weeks. LITTLE WORK TODAY IN OMAHA General Suspension ef Public and Private Business. Very little business will be done In Omaha today. Christmas being Sunday It was generally agreed by the various commer cial Interests to close for Monday, so as to give their employes a chance for some thing more than a special church service. The Jobbing houses all will be closed for the entire day as they will lose nothing by It the first of this week. The manu facturers generally will follow this course. The commission, houses will close for' a part of the day, but because of the perish able character of their goods will have to work for a few hours. The retailing estab lishments will be closed for the greater part.' The Boston store and Hayden Bros, among the big houses and some of the smaller dealers will remain open. DR. HELLING JN OLD PULPIT Former Pastor of. the First Baptist , . ; Church Visits , There . Sunday. A pleasing feature of the mprnlng ser vices yesterday at th First Baptist church was a brief address by Rev. Dr. Helling, formerly pastot of the old First Baptist church of Omaha. Dr. Helling's talk came at-the end of the service, after the pastor, Rev. J. W. Conley, had delivered his ser mon. The former pastor, venerable but vigor ous, spoke feelingly of the Joy It gave him again to look Into the faces of many of his old congregation. He rejoiced ex ceedingly, he said, in the evidence of the prosperity and progress of the church he beheld on all sides, and recalled with pleasure the days of his ministry In Omaha. Dr. Helling, who Is now pastor of the First Baptist church In Buffalo, N. Y., was the recipient of warm greetings from the congregation at the close of the ser vices.. , , In hla sermon, a comprehensive review of the Christmas season, Its meaning und Its traditions, Dr. Conley emphasized the thought that the highest sounding and most satisfying note of the Christmas time Is the note of Joy. "Sadness of spirit is out of touch alto gether with the day; songs of praise are Its attending and proper manifestation," he said. "Pessimists as to the promise and the realization of the natal day of the Son of Ood may go through the singing, but the singing will not go through the heart that has not a warm and living appre ciation of the Redeemer's bounty." He dwelt on the exaltation of childhood embodied In the Christian celebration of Christmas, and pointed out that as the coming of . the Babe of Bethlehem meant a new dawn for mankind, so 'the coming of a babe In many a home has meant a new life and a quickened fellowship with God. Every tendency of the season Is away from the fast-growing spirit of ma terialism and toward that uplifting al truism which forgets mere self In the pleasurable planning for others. "Loving and giving brings rejoicing and broadens life with a sweetness that par takes of the divine; the giving to the needy and destitute brings Joy and happi ness in double measure; It is the lighting of the morning star of hope again In dark ened lives and the cause of soul growth and Christian ambition In the giver." A solo most effectively rendered by Mr. O. W. Manchester, a number by the quar tet and some very fine organ selections were the features of the musical pro gram. Stonecypher prints, 13UT Howard. Tel. 1310. Yale Glee club at Boyd's, December 28. 18-K. Wedding Rings. Edholm, Jeweler. DIED. FEILER- William, aged years. I saenttai and 10 days, December 23, lis. Funeral Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the family residence, 2727 Cuming street. Interment In Pleasant Hill ceme tery. Friends Invited. SINFUL NEGLECT How la It possible for a sana man with rood teeth to destroy them through careless neglect I SOZODONT Is positively ben, flclal. It has made the toothbrush habit 4 real pleasure. SOZODONT TOpTII POWDER the natural complement of SOZODONT Liquid, Is a beautiful polisher, absolutely Ire from frit and acid. Ar you uslnf ll You oufht to be. I POP-MS 1 LIQUID, POWDEK. PASTS, Most Compter Stock of Men's & Boys. Clothing 1 in (he Wtst. HISYDBE THE RELIABLE STORE. Pre-lnventor) Copyright l 904 by Hart Schaflner 5t Mi"T YOUTHS' IONO OVERCOATS-well and stylishly made, cut In good. QS serviceable fabrics great values at $5.00 and ; HAYDEN BROS. WANTED' A in every iowi to sell our new Saturday Bee. It contains 18 pages of special magazine features, including 10 colored pages with BUSTER BROWN COMICS, altogether 34 pages, and is a big seller everywhere on Saturday afternoon, when the farmers are in town. , We will send any boy the first 10 COPIES FREE. A few weeks ago we sent Bemle McCafferty, O'Neill, Neb., ten free copies, and he Is now selling 35 copies every Saturday afternoon, from which he gets 70 cents profit. You can do as well If you try. For Full Particulars Write to The Omaha Bee, Omaha. Nebraska. Save $20 on your trip to California You can save almost twenty dnlhirs on tho trip to Callfornlu by going "tourist." The scats In tba Tourist Slooplng Car ar uphoJHteitnl In rattan ln Rteiicl of ilush, but you gee us much aud have ail the) pssentlal comforts. Our illustrated folder "Across the Continent la a Tourlwt .Sleeper" contains a complete map de scribes the cars, cost, varied routes, etc., and tella why the Hock Inland runs more tourist cars to Cali fornia than any other Hue. Let us send you the folder end help you plan th ' trip. GRAND DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE, with new 80-foot Acetylene Oas llghted Pullman Chair Cars (seats free) on night trains and tulluian high-back seat Coaches on day trains, between Kansas City an St. Joseph. Mo ; Hiawatha. Seneca, Marysvllla, Kan., Fslrbury. Fairfield, Hastings arid Grand Island, N.b. Connections made at Kansas City for all points East. South and West. At Grand Island direct connections are made with L'nloa Paelflo fast trains for California and the Pacific Northwest, Sn1 nnOIT . iVIi HUOl I . Host tompleH Stock ot Men's OBors Clothing la ht rVesf. Clothing Sale J 15 and $18 Hand-Tailored Suits at $10.00 and $i 2.50 The elegant qhallty, the stylish IndlvM. uallty of our band-tailored suits, ar well known throughout the west, and these suits offered Saturday at llD.OO and $12.50, ' are fully up to the standard of excellence. Made of strictly all wool fabrics. In th very latest slyks and colors, they offer you the greatest opportunity of the sea son for economical clothes buying I1S.0O and Jisnn v nines Cffl flfl at lll'.ft) nnd IU.tlVI $15 and $18 Hand-Tailored Over coats at $10 and $12.50 Long or medium length, with or without belt. In fancy brown or gray mixtures, oxford gray ur.d plain colors every gar ment hand-tailored throughout by skilled, vorkmen, with splendid linings and trim lings the ov.-rcoat bargain fiFi flfl of the season at 112.00 und BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTH ING AT HALF. BOYS' RKKFKRS Just ths thing for skating, coasting and general outdoor wear high storm collars, f fits ages 6 to 16 years at , BOYS' KNEK TANTS SUITS In doubl breasted style, ages 8 to 16 f QQ years at IVO BOYS' LONG OVERCOATS. In ages to 14 years, In neat oxford gray, ' QC all wool materials at t.?J 11.00 BOYS' KNEE PANTS special at 50c BOYS' LONG PANTS SUITS-extra spe cial values, Saturday, 1 gj. at IS.OO and O.OU BOY F. P. RUTHERFORD, D. P. 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