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12 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1895—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES, BOY AND MAN How Early Environment Affects Success in Life, CHILDHOOD OF OUR GREAT MEN An Interesting Address Last Night bv Dr. Hamlin BEFORE YOUNG CHRISTIANS —_>— For the first time’in local history there was last night held in Foundry M. 5. Church a joint meeting of four large organizations of young people conrected with the Protest- ant Church—the societies of Christian En- deavor, the Epworth Leagues, the chapters of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, and of the Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip. Rev. Dr. Elliott, rector of the Church of the Ascension, representing the Brother- hood of St. Andrew, presided over the meet- ing. Rev. Dr. Brown, pastor of Foundry Chureh and an Epworth Leaguer, welcomed the four organizations, urging them to de- nominational Icyalty and interdenomina- tional fellowship. “Let us build up our own walls,” he said, “but at the same time help In the work around the whole world; let us not neglect, In waving our own ban- ners, to exalt the banner of Christ.” The Scripture lesson was read by Rev. Mr. Ennis of the Western Presbyterian Church, an active worker in the Brother- Pood of Andrew and Philip, who also led in prayer. Mr. Cohen acted as organist and Perey Foster as precentor. Dr. Hamlin’s Address. Rev. Dr. Hamlin of the Church of the Covenant, one of the trustees of the Society of Christian Endeavor, delivered the ad- dress of the evening on the subject, “Early Environment as Affecting Success in Life.” Dr. Hamlin said in part: Our American theory is that the best environment of childhood is the humble, simple life of the working people. This means neither sordid poverty nor luxurious wealth. The former is thought to be para- lyzing; the latter, enervating. One is sup- posed to crush out ambition at its birth or to prevent that wide outlook which is essen- tial to even conceiving, not to say exe: ing, great desigrs. The other is supp. to smother ambition under ease and s indulgence and sloth; or even to forestall ft altogetaer in the absence of any press- ing need of exertion. o we have come to expect that our great men will arise from the ranks of common life. We believe more in the efficacy of pure, true, honest, duty-loving surround- ings in early years than in all the splendid edvantages of education, travel and cul- ture that wealth can give. We believe also in the force of compelling circumstances. Human nature is indolent, and needs the whip and spur. These come from straitened conditions. Plain living, even to the ex- tent of deprivations and hardships, goes far to prepare for future achievement. Of the twenty-three men that have held the office of President of the United States one, John Quincy Adams, was “born to. the purph and enjoyed every advantage of high station, travel, education and asso- ciation with the greatest men of his time both in this country and in Europe, Six others, Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, William Henry Ha were sons of wealthy parents, chiefly plant- ers, and reared in the midst of abundance. But in not one case out of the sever was there anything approaching enervating lux- ury or inviting to indolence. The home life was pure and ecnnobling, and both its pre- cept and its practice stimulated worthy am- bition. On the other hand, three of our Presidents were born toextreme poverty, Lincoin, Johnson and Garfield. Turning now from such extremes and exceptions under them, we will siance at some of*the men that have risen to eminence from the ranks of the plain people; the sim- , humble, industrious, patriotic, God-fear- households that are the strength and America. adage that ministers’ sons turn Most ple, glory of ‘The ol out badly has long ago been disproved. of the ministers whose sons have famous were country or village pastor very small salaries, and who educ: children at the cost of sternest fal, and even so could have succeeded cnly by the children’s hearty co-operation, Qi. Cleveland's Boyhood. At the head of the list, of course, stands President Cleveland. His father was the Rev. Richard F, Cleveland, graduated at Yale in 1824, and whose ministry was spent in village parishes in the states of New York and New Jersey. He was scttled at er, was born, on the is8th of March, Four years later he removed to Fay- ettevilie, N. ¥., near Syracuse. The fam- ily were living at Holland Patent, N. ¥., when, in 1855, at eighteen years ot age, this son, who had had only a ¢ommon school education, left ome to seek his fortune. His remarkable career ts fa- miliar to the American public. At his first inauguration, in 1885, he took the oata of office on the Bible toat mother gave him on leaving home thirty years before. At the Centennial Presvyterian Assembiv at Phil- adelphia in ISSS he spoke in terms befuing one whose father and brother were imin- isters and whose sister a foreign missionary of that great church. Ex-Vice President Lev: ons Morton, Pow governor of New York, is a son of the Rev. Daniel O. Morton and of a daughier of the Rev. Justyn Parsons, one of the first American missionaries t) the Holy Land, and who died at Alexandria, Egypt, in 1824. He was born at Shoreham, Vermont, in_ the fame year in which his maternal grandfath- er died. He had few early advan education, and began his ca @ country store. Now Mr. one of the most bri as well as safe business men of this country, and has made an immense fortune honest way. The Supreme Court. Turning to the Supreme Court of the Unit- ed States, we find at present three sons of clergymen. And they are from two fami- les that Illustrate In a remariable degree the best qualities of New [England rural clerical life. Mr. Justice William Strong was the oldest of eleven children of the Rev. William L. Strong, whose entire ministerial life was spent in country or village churches on a salary averaging some #0 a year, hough he was a man of great talent and wide learning. All his children have been nota- bly successful in life. William was born at Somers, Conn., on the sth day of May, 180s, and was graduated from Yale Col at twenty years of age. His entire course of four years cost $80. He studied law, com- bining this work with teaching, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Read- n the most thoroughly ing, Pa. This was largely n scttle- ment, and one of the fir: the young lawyer was to master th larguage, of which he knew nothing. This done, he goon built up, by hard work, scrupulous honesty and incessant stuly of the law, a+ lucrative practice. He served two terms in Congress, declining re-e on. He was ap- pointed to the supreme h of the gtate, and served with great « oa, finally re- signing to resume practice at Philadelphia. But he was not allowed to remain in private Uife, President Grant nominating him to the Supreme bench of the United States, ustice Stephen J. Field is one sc of the Rev. David Duiley Pieli, eaanate of Yale College, a very strong man in every way, yet always a village pastor, at Hadam, Stockbridge and Higganum, Mass. One of ths daughters married the Rev. Josiah Brewer, a graduate of Yale in the glass of 1821; a misstonary of the American board at Smyrna, and who tntroduced Schools and the printing press into that land. His son, David Josiah, was born there on the 2th of June, 1837. He came to this gountry for his education, and was sradun ated at Yale College. He Settled in Kansas. pullt up @ good practice, filled many state offices with great credit, and was promoted reneene A from the circuit ft ip to e jupremy nC) tea Shae, ipreme bench of the jo American better dererves to be cal @ public man than the late Goons Bae croft. He lived to so great an age—nineiy hig last years were passed so quietly: he as known to the present generation so xclusively as a }iterary man that his pub- 6 services are generally overlooked. Had he been only an historian, however, he would have rendered an almost unequaled public service to his country. At the head of the army has been until a few weeks ago Gen. John M. Schofield, one of the brilliant captains of the civil war; intrusted by the government with various important missions abroad; successor of Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War; son of a rural pastor in Chautauqua coun- ty, N. Y. His eminent services were recog- nized by the last Congress in recreating for him the office of lieutenant general, pre- y.ously held by only the three greatest mili- tary geniuses of our day and land—Grant, Sherman and Sheridan. Senator Hawley, one of the most useful and influential men in the upper house of Congress; Gen. Joseph C. Breckinridge, in- spector general of the army; Dr. Geo. N. Sternberg, the present surgeon general of the army; Gen. Henry V. Boynton, the brilliant journalist; Wm. E. Curtis, who organized the bureau of South American republ: indeed, a host of the ablest men in public iife are sons of ministers. Other Presidents. Of the eleven Presidents not yet men- tioned, five—John Adams, Van Buren. Fill- more, Pierce and Benjamin Harrison—were sons of farmers simply, unconditioned by other pursuits or occupations. The remaining six Presidents—Jackson, Polk, Taylor, Buchanan, Grant and Hayes— were children of the frontier, born in log cabins or most primitive houses, and sur- rounded with the trials and hardships of pioneer life. Jackson's father died a few days before hi3 birth, and his mother was reduced to want. For te1 years she lived with a brother-in-law named Crawford, and paid her own and her chiidren’s way by cooking, washing and mending. The little schooling that Andrew had was in a log hut; he learned to read well and to write fairly; spelling was an art that he never mastered. Polk was put into a country store as a clerk, but was ambitious to study and got a good education. This Taylor never did; he was for a while at a common school, but early entered the army and had the training of a soldier. Buchanan spent his first elght years in a pioneer’s log cab- 4n. Hayes’ father died before his birth, and the boy’s early education came from his mother and from a country school teacher who believed :argely in the rod. Jesse Grant, father of the President, was a farmer, and by trade a tanner. The son worked on the farm, attending a village school in the winter. After his graduation from West Point, his services in the Mexi- can war and his marriage, he was unable to support himself on a farm near St. Louis, and his brother gave him a chance at a leather store in Galera, saying, how- ever, that he must live on $800 a year. Grant’s straltened circumstances, there- fore, did not cease with his boyhood or young manhood, but continued unusually late in life. Yet he became the greatest general of the greatest war of history, and his name ts honored and ioved by the Amer- iean people next to those of Washington and Lincoln. ace will not permit any general survey of statemanship, beyond what has already been said. We must not fail, how- ever, to notice our five greatest Secretaries of ths Treasury. Hamilton was born in the West Indies, his father being a merchant. John Sherman's father died when he was r3 old, leaving eleven children and very little property. His brother, William Tecumseh Sherman, second only to Grant in the civil war, had, of course, the same early environment. The chief naval hero of that war, Admiral Farragut, himself records that his ‘“‘boy- hood lacked none of the dangers and hard- ships ef frontier life.” When he was eight years old, his father took him across Lake Pontchartrain In a small boat during a gale, saying: “Now is the time to conquer his fears." He had almost no schooling, and s practically educated on shipboard; yet he mastered his profession as few others, with the best advantages, have ever done. Great Journalists. If we turn to other occupations, we will find our American theory equally con- firmed. The three greatest journalists that this country has produced were Horace Greeley, Henry J. Raymond and Thurlow Weed, all farmers’ sons. Zaccheus Grecley was a very small farmer at Amherst, N. H.; always poor; when Horace was’ ten years old, a fugitive from the state to escape imprisonment for debt. He became a day laborer, and succeeded many years after in getting a small farm in the then new country near Erle, Pa. After he was six years old Horace went to school only in winters, and during the summers did farm work. At eleven he tried to be ap- Frenticed to a printer in a neighboring vil- lage, but was rejected on account of his youth. Three years later he succeeded, getting $40 a year, with board and lodging. He spent alm nothing. He wore no coat in summer, and no overcoat in winter. Nearly every penny of his wages he sent to his father. At the end of some five years his employer failed, and for over tour years he was either a “tramp printer,” or worked on his father’s little frontier farm. Then he set out on foot for New York, and on the 10th of August, 1831, en- tered that city with his bundle and stick ever his shoulder and $10 in his pocket, to become easily the feremost journalist cf his age. If we lock at the greatest American ora- tors we will find two very notable excep- tions to our rule. Charles Sumner and Wendell Phillips were sons of very emi- nent families of Boston and enjoyed in youth all that wealth and the highest so- cial standing could confer. It fs the more to their credit that both espoused the cause of the slave, and expended all the powers of their noble eloquence in behalf of eman- cipation. Patrick Henry was born on a farm and educated for some years at a small school near by. From fifteen to twenty-three he was either clerk in or part owner of country stores, in none of which he could make a ving. He then turned his attention to the law, and soon became one of the greatest advocates, orators and statesm of our revolutionary period. Henry Clay was the son of a Baptist minister, who died when he was four years cld, leaving no property. Henry attended a log school house, doing farm work and house work meanwhile, until he was four- teen, when he became a clerk in a small retail store. Daniel Webster’s father was a farmer at Franklin, N. H. The son was thought too frail for hard work, and was allowed to play and run at large in the woods. When he developed a fondness for study his father, by the hardest work an] the strictest economy, managed to put him through Dartmouth College. He then taught, both to get his own legal educa- tion and to help educate his brothers. From such struggles he issued pre-em:nent as orator, constitutionaPlawyer and states- man. ‘The American pulpit has had no orator comparable to Henry Ward Beecher, son of a clergyman and grandson of a black- smith, ¥ se narrow financial means only quickened those best New England quali- ties of industry, courage, patriotism and faith that marked each generation of this family. Probably no greater triumphs of human speech have ever been won than by Mr. Beecher in England during the civil war, when he faced howling mobs un- daunted and turned the policy of that great empire toward amicable relations with the north. Frederick Douglass. There is one man that must not fail of mention, unique in every way, whom it Is difficult to classify, Frederick Douglass, orator, editor, statesman; as ex-Senator Evarts has said, “one of the great Ameri- cans of this century.” Porn in slavery, sleeping on the ground under barns and stables, eating raw corf, learning his letters from the carpenter’s marks on planks in a saltimore shipyard, escaping to Massachu- setts, living in a celar in New Bedford, mastering the English language in the in- terests of grinding toil as few men have ever mastered it in universities, becoming the acknowledged peer on the platform of Everett, Phillips, Sumner and Beecher; the honored friend of Presidents, Senators, clergymen and men of lette: ‘epresenting in a sister republic the government that had once held him in bondage, and soliciting from President Harrison employment for the daughter of the man whose lash had sent the blood flowing down His back. Fred- erick Douglass is the consummate flower of lowly birth, compelling circumstances, honest toll, lofty ambition and faith in God. Only limits of space forbid the indefinite extension of this survey. Exceptions will no doubt occur to every reader, and ex- amples that he will consider more striking than any herein adduced. But these seem to demonstrate that the youthful environ- ment most favorable to success in American life is rural birth, rearing in quiet, simple, duty-loving, God-fearing homes, with neither sordid poverty nor enervating wealth, but with enough of self-denial to quicken ambition for a wider scope, to foster industry and economy, to practically teach the value of money and time, to early and deeply inculcate the principles of a high morality, and to combine unilinching self- reliance with humble trust in the overruling providence of God. _— Rehearsal .of Prof. nelolli's Mzuss. There will be a public rehearsal of Prof. Fanciulli's grand mass, Solennelle, in D at St. Aloysius Church tomorrow at 4 o'clock, when the full choir and orchestra will render the music in ts entirety, exact- ly as it will be given on Christmas day at the 11 o’clock mass. CHRISTMAS MUSIC Joyous Strains Will Be Heard To- morrow in Many Churches. CHOIRS AUGMENTED FOR THE OCCASION Programs Arranged for the Sig- nificant Celebrations. WHERE THEY WILL OCCUR wie the great religious festival of Christmas is generally. observed by all Christian denominations with joyous and significant pomp and ceremony, it has. be- come the custom in many of the churches other than those of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal persuasions to hold the services peculiar to the celebration of the anniver- sary of the natal day of the Savior upon the Sunday preceding the week day upon whica the festival will fall. This custom will be followed in many of the Washington churches, and below will ye found a descrip- tion of Christmas services that will be held tomorrow: Presbyterian, First Presbyterian Church, 4% street be- tween C street and Indiana avenue, Rev. B. Sunderland, D.D., Rev. Adolos_Allen, Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., pastors.—In ad- dition to usual hymns for choir and congre- gation on the Sunday before Christmas, the choir will render the following anthems at morning and evening services: Break Forth Into Joy, Dr. Chas, Vincent; There Were Shepherds, Sydenham; Wise Mea From the East, Dr. Chas. Vincent. The choir is com- posed of Gabriel F. Johnston, baritone and director; Mrs. W. L. Wilson, soprano; Miss Emma brock, contralto; H. O. Simons, ten- or, and Frank E. Ward, organist. Feck Memorial Church, 28th and M streets northwest, Rev.C.Alvin Smith, pastor.—The special Christmas services will be augment: ed by extra Christmas music. The boys cholr consists of Ross Beach, Harry Kauf- man, Wm. Mutchier, Otto Heitmueller, Geo. Schaffer, Jos. Gross, Edw. Klock, ‘Fred. Meyers and Clinton Scott, with Mr. A. Bren. ton Barringer as conductor. The music to be rendered will be as follows: 1. A proces- sional hymn, Herald Angels, Mendelssohn, by choir. 2. Anthem, Hark, Through the Solemn Night, Harris, choir. 3. Christmas carol, Glory to God in the Highest, Baehus, choir. 4. Baritone solo, Night of Nights, Mr. A. B. Barringer. 5. Soprago solo, Jerusalem, Mrs. Florence L. Bar- ringer. 6. Recessional hymn, by choir. and Maryland avenue northeast, Rev. Thomas Chalmers Easton, pastor—11 a.m., music as follows: Hail to the Happy,the Glorious Morn, by M. A. Melvil; Te Deum (festival), by Dudley Buc! Hark, What Mean Thcse Holy Voices? J. Weigand; O Come, All Ye Faithful, by L. Novello; Miss Nicholson, soprano solo, The Birthday of a King, by W. H. Neidlinger; Mr. Mellis, tenor solo, Fear Ye Not, O Israel, by Dud- ley Buck; Dr. Barnes, bass solo, Nazareth, by Gounod. Choir: Sopranos, Misses. Nich: olson, Hutton and Mote and Mrs. Carson; altos, Misses McCabe, Miller, Hopkins and Lendeur; tenors, Messrs. Mellis, Shedd and merman; bassos, Messrs. Cole, Hop- kins and Barnes. Organist, Mrs. J. L. Shedd; assistant organist, Miss, Inez Smith. Western Presbyterian Church, H street above 19th, Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis, pastor—II_ a.m., voluntary, Offertory, D minor, Batiste; anthem, Joy to the World, Palmer; doxology; invocation and saluta- n; Old Testament lesson; anthem, with soprano and bass solos, Christians, Awake, Warren, Miss Harkness and Mr. Sutton; children’s sermonette, God's Christmas hymn; New Testament lesson; prayer; offertory, soprano solo, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night, Marzo, Mi nnie S. Harkness; sermon, The Tri- umph of the Ages; solo, duet and chorus, The Prince of Peace, Clare; prayer; benedictio: postlud Triumphal reh, Buck, 7 p.m., voluntary, Andante, Quartet in F, Haydn; anthem, Sing, O Heavens, Tours; dexology; Invocation; Apostles’ Creed; Gloria; Scripture lesson; b: tone solo, The Birth of a King, Neidlinger; the pastor; prayer; offertory, nthem, Calm on the Listening Ear of Night, Holfen; sermon, The Advent of the Messiah, illustrated by stereopticon repro- ductions of mastef paintings; solo and chorus, See Amid the Winter’s Snow, Wand;* prayer; benediction; postlude, Alle gro and Presto (Fifth Organ Concerto), Handel. Chorister, Mr. Robert G. Sutton; organist, Mr. Harry G. Kimball. Methodist Episcopal. Hamline Church, corner 9th and P streets northwest, Rev. E. 8S. Todd, pastor.—Serv- ice, 11 a.m. Prelude, Offertory in G, Wely, organist, Prof. Otis D. Swett; Magnificat, Stearns, soloists, Misses Ida O'Neal, Emma’ Williams and Mr. J. Walter Humphrey; hymn 192; Jubilate Deo, E flat, Corbin; hymn 186; offertory, Spring Song, Mendelssohn, Prof. Swett; offertory, bass solo, Fear Not Ye, O Israel, Dudley Buck, Mr. J. Walter Humphrey; hymn 183, Gloria; postlude, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, J. 8. Bach. Service, 7:30 p.m.: Prelude, Sketch in B flat, Crossley, Prof. Swett; Christmas Anthem, Shelley, soloists, Ladies’ Quartet, Misses M. Julia Turner, Daisy O'Neal, Emma Will- iams and Anna B. Bush; hymn 194; quartet, O Lamb of God, Stil Keep Me, Schnecker, Misses Turner and Wiiliams, Messrs. Rose and Humphrey; hymn 190; offertory, Offer- tory in D Hat, Bruce, Prof. Swett; offertory, soprano solo, Miss Ida O'Neal, A Dream of Bethlehem, Rodney; violin ,obligato, Mr. Brooke Amiss; hymn 187, Gloria; Postludium in D, Gustav Merkel, sopranos, Misses M. Julia Turner, Ida O'Neal, Daisy O'Neal, Lavra H. Dolan, Grace Muirhead and Mazie Reinohl, Mesdames M. A. Wertz, Made Shea, and Benjamin Durfee; altos, Misses Emma Williams, Bertha Grossart, Neilie Hawke, Flora Bell, Jacyntha Judson, Ann B, Bush, Mamie Clear and Emily H. Rose; tenors, Messrs. E. J. Febrey, Ed. Playter, Phillip Gottwals and Paul F. Grove; bassos, Messrs. J. Walter Humphrey, Harnest KR. Humphrey, Dr. George B. Corey, Reymond Moulton, F. L. Harries, WMlliam Alburger, Wimer Reinohl, R. B. Saunders and Hai Bushby. Prof. J. Arthur Rose, director. Metropolitan Memorial Church, corner 413 and C streets northwest, Rev. Hugh John- ston, pustor.—Morning: Organ, Nazareth, Gounod-Westbrook; anthem’, Let Us Now Go Even Unto Bethlehem, Hatton; There Were Shepherds, Buck; Cantique de Noel, Adam-Buck; organ, Grand Chorus, Bubois. : Organ, Larghetta from Concerto in D, Mozart, anthems, From the Eastern Skies, Schnecker; Sing, O Heavens, Tours; Silent Night, Hallowed Night, Becker; organ, postlude from Noel, Saint-Saens. Mrs. W. S. Gibson, soprano; Miss Mattie Gray, alto; Mr. A. J. Marsh, tenor; Mr. Warren W Rich, bass and leader, and Mr. Wilbur F. Foundry Church, corner 14th and G streets northwest, Rev. Oliver A. Brown, pastor.— Organ voluntary, Gloria Patria. n No. 183. Pray Morning lesson. While Shepherds Watch Their F} Marzo, Mr. Emory Wilson. Offertory 188. Sermon by pastor, Rev. Oliver A. Brown. Solo, Night of Night (Van de Water), Miss Grace Altschu. Hymn No. Doxology and benediction. Organ post- . Mr. Frank A. Wilson, precentor; Mr. William K. Cohen, organist, and Mr. George H. Chandlee, cornetist. Grace Church, corner 9th and S streets rorthwest, Rev. Watson Case, pastor.—Di- rector, Prof. W. J. Stephens; organist, Miss Virginia. Emory. Choir: Sopranos,’ Mrs. Frank Simpson, Miss Edith Gibson, Miss Mat V. Isel; altos, Mrs. W. J. Stephens, Miss Eva Terry, Miss Hattie Loveless; tenors, Mr. W. J. Stephens, Mr. Frank Simpson, Mr. ‘Thomas G. Young; bassos, Mr. H. G. Isel, Mr. George S. Gibson and Mr. P. C. Dilts. Morning, organ prelude, Beethoven; Miss Emory, organist; anthem, Come Unto Me, Smart, choir; anthem, Let Us Go Even Unto Bethlehem, Baringer, choir. Evening, an- them, Bow Down Thine Ear, Fischer, choir: chorus, Prince of Glory, Goss, choir. Wesley Chapel, corner 5th and F streets hwest, Rev. Chas. W. Baldwin, pastor— Sermon at 1] a.m. by Rev. A. H. Ames and at 7:30 p.m. by the pastor. Morning pro- gram: Organ voluntary; hymn; grand chorus, Joy _to the World, arranged from Handel, by H. R. Palmer; organ offertory solo, Ave Maria, Millard, by Miss W: thorpe; hymn; organ postlude. Evening ram: Organ voluntary; hymn; anthem, to God, arranged from Slicher; fertory; solo, OQ Holy Night,Adolphe , by Miss Schultz; hymn; organ post- The choir composed as_ follow: Leader and organist, Mrs. L. Y. Ellis; so- pranos, Mrs. T. P. Woodward and Misses Schultz, Westhorpe, Fitzhugh, Greene, Platt and Pryan; altos, Mrs. Falconer and Misses A lnde, Woodward; bassos, Messrs. Rodrick, Ellis, Fowler and Schultz. Union Church, 20th street near Pennsyl- vania avenue’ northwest, Rev. Alex. Bie- laski, pastor—9:30 a.m., Sunday schoo! a.m. and 7:30 p.m., preaching by pastor. The following will be rendered by the choir: Morning, Hai What Mean Those Holy Voices? Verdi; Nazareth, Gounod; night, ‘Behold, I Bring You Good Tidings, Goss. The choir consists of Mr. Frank Calhoun, leader; soprani, Misses Ross, Grace Co- baugh, Ida Pruitt, Mazie Roach, Dora White and M. I. Meany; alti, Misses E. B. Hodge, Lillien, Dyer, Elsie Roach and Mrs. Ladson; tenorj, Dr. C. J. Ladson, Mr. Jesse Crawford and Jas. G. Warren; bassi, Messrs. Geo, Hill, Harry Crofut, John T. Meany and E. Sinclair. ;, ; Waugh M. —. Church, corner 3d and A streets northeast, Rev. E. Olin Eldridge, pastor—Morning, Hark, What Mean Those Holy Voices? G. §. Elliott; solo, duet and chorus; solo, by Miss Eldridge; duet, by Misses Dana and Eldridge; The Birthday of a King, Neidlinger; solo, by Miss Gertrude Dana; chorus, A Merry Christmas; Hart- sough; night, solo and chorus, O Holy Night! Adam; soloist, Miss Eldridge. Preaching by the pastor in the morning; subject, Greatest of Anniversaries; text: St. Luke, 1, 68 verse, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for He hath visited and redeemed His people. Douglas Memorial Church, corner of 11th and H streets northeast, Rev. J. E. Walsh, pastor—At the morning service the choir will sing, Sing, O Heavens! by W. C. Wil Nams; Festival Te Deum, by Dudley Buc! soloist, Miss Ella Lawrenson; in the even- ing, Glory to God in the Highest, by E. O. Excell; Christians, Awake! Salute the Morn, by Schnecker; soloist, Miss Emma Houchen. The choir consists of: Soprani, Miss Ella Lawrenson, Miss Mable Wheat, Miss Amy May, Mrs. E. Harper; alti, Miss Emma Houchen, Miss Annie Branson, Mrs. Dr. Leech, Mrs. Dr. Burton; tenorl, Mr Houchen, Mr. Will Houchen, Mr. W. Har- vey; bassl, Messrs. Will Warren, Joe Carr and Ralph Bowen; organist, Miss Laura Chappell; director, Wilson Harvey. McKendree Church, Massachusetts ave- nue near 9th street northwest, Rev. L. T. Widermun, D. D., pastor—Morning service by the recently organized choir, accom- panied by organ and orchestra. Organ prelude, Alla Marcia, N. Von Wilson, Miss Annie F. Dashiell; (a) Hallelujah! For Unto Us a Child is Born, B flat major, H. P. Danks, arranged for choir, with duet for tenors and bassos; (b) Gloria Patri, A major, Reinck, sung with organ and’ or- chestra accompaniment; Sing, O Heaven and Be Joyful, O Earth, A major, Berthold Tours. Part first (allegro ma non troppo), Sing, O Heavens, and Be Joyful, O Earth. Part second (a) andante, For Unto Us Is Born This Day; (b) animato, Hosanna to the Son of David; soprano solo and obliga- to, Blessed is He That Cometh in the Name of the Lord. Part third, (a) To God on High be Glory; (b) O Come All Ye Faithful, Joyful and Triumphant; (Adeste Fideles sung in unison). Offertory, soprano solo, Christmas, Harry Rowe Shelley, Mi Elizabeth Wahley; Violin obligato, Mr. Wm. H. Scholz. Glory to God in the Highest, D major, S. E. Cooke—Part first, choir in unison, chorus for male voice: part second, tenor solo, The People That Walk in Darkness; part third, Break Forth Unto Joy, to be sung by ‘entire choir. Postlude, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, from Mo- zart’s twelfth mass, rendered by organ and orchestra. The following ladjes and gen- tlemen will render the above musi pranos—Miss Elizabeth Wahley, Mr: tha Mackenzie. Altos—Miss Emily Sc rer, Miss Katie Bowbeer, Mrs. C. B. Keene. } Tenors—Chas, Haydn Chase,. J. Davis, Diller ‘F. Groff. Bassos—Walter Potbury, James H. Dobbertin, J. W. K. Young. Organist, Miss Annie F. Dashiell; director of music, Prof. Chas, Haydn Chase. Thé orchestra will be composed of the following gentlemen: First violins, Alden, A. Becker, Chas. Holer, Bert Reick- minn, Wm, H. Scholz, Henry Krous; sec- ond violins, E.' David, John P. Challice, Arthur Nyman, 'W.M. Horten, Henry Ke cornets, Chas. 3. Shreve, jr., C. E. Reed: flutes, Lotris Fahenstock, Roy Marea1 clarinet, Fritz Kummell; Freneh horn, Dr. J. D. Eggleston; trombone, Elbert A. John- son. Harry Baptist. E Street;Baptist Church, E street near 6th northwest, Rev. J. J. Muir, pastor— Chorus, There’ Were Shepherds, Dudley Buck; Gleria Patri, Lloyd; offertory solo, sung by Mrs, Carrie V. Kidwell Stewart; Night of Nights; Atwater; chorus, It 1s the Blessed Christmas Morn, Bartlett. Even- ing service—Chetus, Star-of Bethlehem, Wiegand; offertory, solo and quartet, Hark, Hark, With Harps of Gold, Hanscom us, Your Voices Raise Y i personnel of the choir is as follows tet, Mrs. Carrie V. Kidwell Stewart, so- prano; Miss L. E. Elliott, contralto; Dr. 4 J. Brown, tenor; Mr. T. R. Riley, ba Chorus, the Misses Margaret E, Pentland, Mattie V. Wade, Mrs. A. V. Holmes and rs. Charles Heitinger, soprani; Misses Alice Fletcher, Florence V. Ellis, Maud Tallmadge, Mrs. Nathan Smith and Mrs. Clara West Evans, contraiti; Dr. B. F. Odell and Mr. Fred 'H. Balcom, tenors; Mr. E. A. Muir, bass; organist, Mrs. Grace Du- four Brown. The services at All Souls’ Unitarian Church tomorrow will embrace the follow- ing music: Sing, O Heavens, Tours; Calm on the Listenirg,” Marston; Ncel, Gounod. P.M. —It Came, Shelley; Hail the King, Bartlett; Praise Ye the Father, Gcunod. The choir consists of Mrs. H. ‘Clay Browning, so- prano; Mrs. James F. Oyster, alto; F. Knoop, tenor; J. Henry Kaiser, bass and director, Dr. Geo. Walter, organist. Calvary Baptist—Prelude, Sonata in F minor (first movement), Mendelssohn; or- ganist, Mr. B. Frank Gebest. Gloria, Bar- nett; Christmas anthem, Glory to God in the Highest, Veazie, choir. Offertory, solo, The Birth of Christ, Campbe!l, Tipton, Mrs. Tem C. Noyes. Postlude, Toccata and Fugue, Buxtehude, Mr. Gebest. Evening—Praeludium, Berthold Tours, Mr. Gebest. Anthem, Rejoice in the Lord, J. Baptiste Calkin. Offertory, solo, The Birthday of the King, Neidlinger, Mrs. Tom C. Noyes. Postlude, Rinck. IN THE CHURCHES Holy Name Commandery of the Knights of St. John, connected with the parish of that name, elected officers last week for the ensuing year as follows: Spiritual director, Rev. Father T. J. Kervick; president, Fran S. Merkling; ‘St vice president, George leen; second vice president, John J. Curran; recording and corresponding secretary, T. Bevans; financial secreiary, E. A. Fleishel; treasurer, Dr. E. J. Collins; and board of trustees, J. T. Doyle, B. J. Loveless, L. F. McGee, W. A. Lusby and Thaddeus Baden. There are in addition military officers, the commander being P. H. Gallagher. Recently St. Paul's Methodist Church at Dupont Circle was organized as an inde- pendent Church, separate from Metropolitan Church, the parent stem. It now has a membership of between sixty and seventy, a Sunday school of about one hundred, and an Epworth League of thirty-five. A regu- lar quarterly board has been constituted, consisting of trustees, stewards, class lead- ers, Sunday school superintendent and lp- worth Leagte president. Until the comin conference m the spring, or until a pastor is selected, the: present pastoral relations will continue—Rev. Dr. Hugh Johnston as pastor and Rev. J. H. McCarthy as ass nt. an\sconsion*Chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew: has elected officers as follows: Director, R. D. Moran; vice director, S. W. B. Pegues; secretary, George W. Lee, Jr. treasurer, Daniet Sigourney, and delegate Rolla P, Cyrrie and R. D. Moran. Rev. Dr.{L. T. Widerman, D. D., pastor of McKendree M E. Church, has been ser- iously ill ie two weeks at his home on Massachusetts @venue, but is now, it is thought, on the Foad to recovery. The Chris Endeavor Society of the First Bits fos iu Church has eiected offi- low! cers as f President, Frederick A. Fenning; vite president, Miss Florence Mu lican; recorfing secretary, Allen M. Bun corresponding sécretary, Miss Irene Tem ple Bailey, and treasurer, Miss Ella Luckett. The executive committee of the Brother- hood of St. Andrew, local council, has ar- ranged a program of bi-monthly mass meet- ings for the coming year as follows: Janu- ary, at St. Stephen’s Church, Mt. Pleasant; March, St. Paul's Church, Washington Ci cle; May, Christ Church, Georgetown; July, | Emanucl, Anacostia; September, Gra Church, ‘Southwest Washington, and No- vember, Christ Church, East Washington. At the next metiing of the organization, to take place in a few weeks, the topic for di cussion will be: “Shall the Brotherhood, ‘Through Its Local Council, Inaugurate First—Public Services, and ‘Second—Open Reading Rooms‘or Establish a Brotherhood House?" There will be no regular speakers, and tho who t@ke part in the discussion are to be limited to five-minute speech on each of the topics. The first of the year the Brotherhood will issue its first directory, which will contain a roll of all the membe: ‘belonging to the order in this city and ad- Serre wy a ~ ses , sSondenteesortondonsoeseeseogonteeseesosgendonseesees ots nue. SEUEESe orsergessees % sent % Sotetetien sf Academy, French. Accidents ang Emergencion Agricultural Statistics. Alaska, Statistics of. Altitude, Greatest in Each State. Ambassadors of the U. S. American Cup, Record of. American Indians. Anniversaries of Important Events. Antidotes for Poisons. Appropriations by Congress. Areas of Countries. Army and Nai Astronomical Phenomena. Atlantic Steamship Lines. : Attorneys General, Australian Ballot. Sorcenseiseesors So Soe eeseateesec seed So eet % Executi Banks. Bar Association: Base Ball Records. Battles of the Civil War. Bible Statistics. Bicycle Records, Billiard Records. Bishops of Relij Boat Races. Bridges, Largert in the World. British Government. British Customs Tariff. Building and Loan Associations, teeseetecgecgeeg ietent oo set Fede Denominations. we Sot Cabinet Officers. Calendar. Chinese Empire. Christianity, Statistics of. ‘Churches and Sunday Schools. Cities, Population and Statistics, Civil Service Procedure, Rules. Coins, Value of Foreign. CORMMMAR MMM MMOLE LEELA MK MALES : THE EVENING STARS | : Colleges, Statistics of. Commerce, Foreign, Domestie, Congress, Members of. Gonsus General and Consuls, Cycles of Time. District Government. Earth, Interesting Facts Abowt, Eclipses for 1895 and 1896. Baster Sundays, Educational Statistics, Ele ‘tion Returns, Electoral Vote. Epochs and Eras, » Department. Expenditures o1 the Government. Exports and Imports. Farm Mortgages. Fastest Atlantic Steamships, Federal Courts. Go Federation of Labor. Fire Insurance Statistics. French Republic. Germany, Government of. Governors of States. Grand Army of the Republic. Great Britain; Her Dependenctes, Historical Socleties, Homes for Soldiers. Interest Laws and Tables, Interior Department. Internal Revenue. Interstate Commer:e. Iron and Steel, Production of, Judiciary. Labor Statistics. Languages. Legal Holidays. Memorable Dates. Mexico, Republic of. Military Academy. Monetary Statistics. Nations of the World. Naturalization Laws, ‘avy Department. zrg Population. Newspaper Statistics, -rnment. Official Directory. Parks of Washington. Pauperism and Crime. Pension Department. Places of Interest. Population Tables. Capitals of Principal Countries, Horse R. cing. Postal Information. Catholic Hierarchy. —— Post Office Department. Caveats and Trademarks. Immigrhtica. Public Debt of the U. 3. Pugilistic Records. Racing Records. - 95e a Cop To be had at The Star Office or sent by mail upon EVENING STAR | NEWSPAPER COMPANY. Latitude and Longitude Tables. Life Insurance Statistics. Mails, Domestic and Foreigm Manufactures, Statistics of, Marrlage and Divorcetkaws, Minerals, Production of. Mortality in the United States, Patent Office Procedure, Popular Vote for President, Qualifications for Voting. Ratiroads, Statistics of. Almanac : AND HAND-BOOK FOR 1896 Is Now Ready! - Larger and more complete than ever before. 416 pages of solidly printed national and local statistics, records and other general information, and treats fully of the relationship of the District of Columbia and the National Government, the duties of the Dis- trict Commissioners, the District’s sources of reve= Information and statistics regarding its financial, commercial, charitable and religious in- stitutions, points of interest, &c. A [line of Useful Information. A Partial List of Contents. Rainfall and Temperature. Religious Statistics. Revolutionary War. R , Longest in the World Rowing Events. Rulers of the Chief Nationa, Running Records. Salvation Army. Savings Banks. Scientific Associations. Single Tax Statement. Societies, Secret and Frateraal. Solar System, Elements of. Sporting Events. State and Territorial Statistics, Statutes of Limitation. Storm and Cautionary Signals, State Department. Tariffs, History of. ‘Trade of the District. Treasury Department. Torf Records United States Senate. Universities and Colleges, Vice Presidents. Vital Statistics. Walking Records. War Department. Washington, History of. Weather Bureau. Weights and Measures. Whist and Duplicate Whist. World's Pairs, Yachting Bvents. Yale and Harvard Boat Racing. Young Men's Christian Association. fe) receipt of price joining counties, the chapter and general ees and informe prcearalne, the sorkings of the Brotherhood. Wane Tested Choir League, composed of members of the vested choirs of the local Episcopal churches, to the number of about two hundred and fifty, are now rehearsing weekly the “Hymn of Prais with the in- tention of rendering it in two or three weeks at Epiphany Church. ‘The soloists are Mrs. Kitty Thompson Berry, soprano, ana W. D. MacFarland, tenor, The con- ductor is Mr. D. B. McLeod, organist and choirmaster of St. Paul's Church. St. John’s Chapter, Georgetown, of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew started Monday evening a men's club. An entire house has been rented on High street, and in this there are reading rooms, a smoking room, and a room set apart for games and kin- dred amusements. Members of the Broth- erhood teke turns different evenings in looking after the house, and from the brief experiment of last spring it is expected that this winter’s work will be quite a suc- tt Vernon M. E. Church held its fourth quarterly conference of the congregation last Sunday, and a number of matters of were transacted, including some ing to the improvements that have and ng made to the edifice. At the morn- ing service Rev. Rumsey Smithson, the pr. siding elder for this district of the M. E. Church South, delivered the quarterly ser- mor William M, Newell, sr, has been chosen superintendent of tne Sunday school of the First Presbyterian Chureh, vice Wil- E Jardine, resigned. Mam Jraunis 8. Hamlin recently talked on misstonary work to the Sabbath School Mis- Sionary Society, and on work relating more particularly to the city. 3 Patresident Iagby and the other members of the committee in charge of the matter have prepared a prov sional program for the part the juniors are to take in the coming convention of the Christian Endeavor Union. as follows: Hymn, Psaim recited by juniors hymn, address of welcome delivered by a junior; hymn, chorus by the choir; recita- tion; hymn, “Americ: flag salute by a class composed entirely of girls; address by the Rev. Peter Ainslie, pastor of the Calu- met Street Church of ‘the Disciples, Balti- more: consecration service, ending with the benediction. ° ‘A series of interesting meetings was con- cluded last Friday evening at the Ecking- ton Presbyterian Church. Among those who delivered sermons and conducted the services were Revs. George O. Little on Monday evening, Adolos Allen on Tuesday evening, W. C. Alexander on Wednesday evening, E. D. Bailey on Thursday evening, and J. Russell Verbrycke on Friday even- ing. The attendance of the Sunday school has more than doubled since the building was formally opened. Tuesday evening the Endeavor Society of the Ninth Street Christian Church gave a largely attended social, under the supervis- ion of the social committee. The number of those present showed that the present building is entirely inadequate to the recds of the congregation, and the subject of a new building was informally discussed. A proposition has been lately made that the present building be enlarged. If a new struc- ture is erected, it 1s probable that it will contain room for a gymnasium and several other new features. ° St. Peter's Commandery of St. Peter's parish, Capitol Hill, has elected officers as follows for the year: Spiritual director, Rev. Father Sullivan; presitent, Jos. T. Jenning first vice president, John’ F. Bates; vice president, Albert J. Ronspi and financial secretary, Daniel Sulliv treasurer, John E. Tayior; trustees, J. J. Dolan, Wm. E. Jones, Frank J. Nolte, John F. Darnall and George W. Montgomery. Sunday evening week was the sixth anni- versary of the Christian Endeavor Society of the Calvary Baptist Church. It was cele- brated with music and a service. Mrs, Hudson Taylor, daughter in-law of Bishop Taylor, delivered an address before the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of Metropolitan Church on the theme of fcreign missions. Calvary Church ts making preparations for the biggest Sunday school Christmas ertertainment in the history of the church. It is to be on two evenings, Friday and Saturday, and no charge is to be made for the children. Each evening ts to be alike, and distribution of candy will, of course, form cne of the features. The pro- gram proper will be divided into three parts, the first consisting of fancy drills,participat- ed in by a class of one hundred young ladies and children, the second of a Mother Goose wedding, with all the characters of that famous story in costume, winding up with a grand finale of a Santa Claus city, in which electricity is to play an important part, and the figures all to be moving. Calvary now has a Sunday school closely approximating two thousand scholars. On New Year day there is to be a recep- tion to the congregation of Calvary Baptist Church from 3 to 5, a lunch from Sto 7:30, in order that those present need not go home, und then during the rest of the evening there is to be a prepared program, in which there is to be a talk by the pastor, Rev. Dr. 8. H. Greene, on the work accomplished by the church during the past year and on the outlook for the coming year. Four new schools have recently been ad- mitted into membership with the Sunday School Union. The union has also formed a press committee. A series of illustrated services, with special music, is being held on Sunday evenings at the Western Presbyterian Church. Rey. Hugh Johnston, D. D., pastor of Metropolitan M. E, Church, last evening delivered the last of an admirable course of lectures on England, Scotland and Ireland. The doctor spent his summer vacation In these countries, and the lectures have been the result of his own personal observations. They were beautifully illustrated with choice bits of scenery and views of his- torical and special interest. They were de- livered in behalf of the Ladies’ Association of the church, and were well attended and very much enjoyed. Representative Elijah A. Morse of Mas- sachusetts {s to deliver an address tomor- row evening at the Eastern Presbyterian Church on “A Business Man’s View of the Gospel.” Rev. Dr. T. C. Easton, pastor of the church, is confined to the house by sickness. ——— Enthusiastic Over Parker and Carson The Howard Republican Club of the sec- cna district held a large and enthusiastic meeting last uight in the Lutheran Church on 8th street. There were over 200 mem- bers present, and nearly all the candidates who want to go to St. Louis as delegates to the national republican convention were there, either In person or by proxy. Speeches were made by Dr. Purvis, L. C. Bafley, J. H. Harrison, J. C. Wright, F. D. Lee and Milton M. Holland. Mr. Lee's specch last night, in which he warmly sup- ported the candidacy of ex-District Com- missioner Parker and Col. Perry Carson, was greeted by such enthusiastic approval that the indications are that this district will also fall in line for the ticket, which seems to be gaining in strength every day. The seventh district republicans also met yesterday and organized by the election of A. F. Boston, president; A. W. Smith, vice president, and P. Burwell, secretary. Other officers to be elected at a meeting to be held next week. WAR JOURNALISM. Troubles That the Southern Papers Experienced in 1864, From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Of all the reminiscent echoes from the ccnfederacy, there are few in the journal- istic Ine. Once in a while somebody runs across a Vicksburg newspaper printed on wallpaper diring the siege, a Memphis Avalanche or a Richmond Whig; but joure nalism in the south during the civil war was of minor importance. Pressmen, edi- ters and reporters were needed “at the front,” and a courier could bring the news of battle sooner than a crippled printin office could set the type to tell the direfi news. There were newspapers, of cow with their lists of killed, wounded an missing, and their more or less authentif accounts of victories and skirmishes; but these that could be depended upon for news were scarce, and literally publications had but few days and were full of sorrows, Of these latter, which cked out a pre- carious existence and struggled through three or four volumes, was the Southern Il- lustrated News, an eight-page publication, fovr columns to the page, published in Richmond by Messrs. Ayres & Wade, wh were at once editors and proprietors, an probably, if the truth were known, com- pcsitors and pressmen, reporters and gen- eral “hustlers.” Two copies of this weekly, yellow with age and poor ink, have drifted into the writer’s possession; they are value able souvenirs now of the “late unpleage artness,” but in a very few years they will be more valuable curios of a period thi has quite passed into history. The editor pege of one bears the date, April 23, and is followed by an announcement “terms” that, in the days of penny pape: rather takes away one’s breath. It reads: “Subscription, $20 per annum; $10 for six months (no subscription taken for a less time). The trade supplied at $25 per 100. No county or individual money taken.” It is unnecessary to say that the South- ern Illustrated News in 1864 paid no dive dends perceptible to the outer senses. The! iz only one “ad.” to be discovered in t! entire edition of April 23, and five in the succeeding issue. There is no reason to suppose that “ads.” were any more plenti- ful during the rest of the year than in these two copies, as the clouds gathered more thickly with the opening of the sum- ™mer months, and business became more paralyzed as Johnston’s weaker force skill- fully retreated before Sherman’s masterly movements; as Hood made his fatal mis- take, and Sherman marched victoriously to the sea, with Atlanta in ashes behind him. See The Central Union Mission. A grand rally of mission workers and con- verts will occur at the main hall tonight to extend grectings fo the friends who have been absent from the city, and who have re- turned for the holiday vacation. Among the number who will receive a warm wele come are Miss May Carrigan, who ts study- ing with Dr. Simpson at his Bible Training School in New York city; M Fanny Pratt and Mr. John McMichael, who are attend- ing Mr. Moody’s schools in Massachusetts, the former at Northfield and the latter at Mt. "Hermon, and Mr. James M. Little, whd has been studying at Mr. Moody's training school in Chicago. Brief addresses will be made by each of these persons, and also by Mr. Coney, the converted actor, who is prov- ing a drawing card wherever he gocs. Ap- propriate Christmas gifts will be distributed to all who attend and will accept. A num- ber of prominent mission singers are also expected to be present. Everybody is ine vited, and an occasion of exceptional in- terest anticipated.