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    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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Sn1 nnOIT
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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
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$15 and $18 Hand-Tailored Over
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Long or medium length, with or without
belt. In fancy brown or gray mixtures,
oxford gray ur.d plain colors every gar
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of the season at 112.00 und
BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTH
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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
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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
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