Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 20, 1911, Page 4

PAGE FOUR. ,oncoaoooauaunnug :’ CHURCH CALENDAR. : Toooooooooooooooo, o Presbytorian Church. HIMES PANG Rev. W. J' “aalmers, pastor, Sunday ool 9:45 a. m. : Morp’ .~ sermon 11:00 a m, ey N2 7N TLLUSTRATIONS BY MAYO BUNKER> 7 (7adD) Y. P S. C. E. meets at 6 p. m. Prayermecting, Wednesday, 7:30. Christian Church. Geo. . Weimer, Pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Communion 10:45 a, m. Preaching, 11:00 a. m. Y. P. S. C. E. co-operates with other socicties at Cumberland Pres- ayterian church. Evening sermon, 7:30 a. m. W PN HERE was once, in 8 < g faraway country, & =J Re=)] wonderful church. It &€ Pweagy stood on a high hill & in the midst of a ) great city; and every Nl Sunday, as well as on y sacred days like Christmas, thousands of people climbed the FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Corner Florida avenue and Bay St. The Rev. William Dudley Nowlin, D. D., pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. 1. C. Stevens, superintendent. Preaching Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:15 p. m. Weekly prayermeeting Wednesday evening at 7:30. Weman's Missionary and Aid So- ciety .\l‘muluv_\- 3:30 p. m,‘ et o HILte e Bras e arehwaTeE Iroks Baptist Young People’s Meeting ing like lines of ants all meving at 6:15 p. m. in the same direction. gular hly business meeting At one corner of the church was a HeKlise SRy great gray tower, with ivy growing first Wednesday at 7:30.1". n over it as far up as one could East Lakeland Mission. see, | say as far as one could Sunday school at 3 p. m. I, A, soe, because the tower was Sinanintende rayer- | Quite great enough to fit the Milton, supc rintengont, L great church, and it rose so far meeting Thursday at 7 p. m. into the sky that it was only in PR vlory falr weather that any one 3 ; claimed to be able to see the top. Episcopal Church. Now all the people knew that at the Rev. J. i1, Weddell, rector. top of the tower was a chime of Christ- uy excepting only the| mas bells. They had hung there ever third Sunday of cach month, since the church had been bulit, and Vg Sunduy school every Sunday at 101 ol o iotan had cast them and arranged them in thelr place; others sald a m, it was because of the great height, which reached up where the air was clear- Service if:t0 a,m, est and purest; however that might be, no one who had ever heard the chimes Eveaing Prayer 5:00 p. m. denied that they were the sweetest in the world. Some deacribed them as e singing through the trees. .1, Y. Church, South. But the fact was that no one had heard them for years and years. They i were Christmas chimes, you see, and were not meant to be played by men or W er, Pastor, s chool 9:45 a. m on common days. It was the custom on Christmas Eve for all the people to LR LU i bl ol deiod bring to the church thetr offerings to the Christchild; and when the greatest heorivd sormon 11:00 a, m. and best offering was lald on the altar, there used to come sounding through ! ' ©y League 6:00 poom. the music of the cholr the Christmas chimes far up in the tower. But for Evenix sopvice, 7:00 p. m. many long years they had never been heard. It was eaid that people had Pravermcoting. Wednssday 8100 been growing loss careful of their gifts for the Christ-child, and that no offer- rayermecting sdd J ing was brought, great enough to deserve the music of the chimes. p. m. Every Christmas Eve the rich people still crowded to the altar, each one trying to bring some better gift than any other, without giving anything that he wanted for himself, and the church was crowded with those who thought that perhaps the wonderful bells might be heard again. But although the service was splendid, and the offerings. plenty, only the roar of the wind Sunday school 10:00 a. m. could be heard, far up In the stone tower. Preaching service 11:00 a. m., and Now, a number of miles from the city, in a little country village, where 7:00 m., sccond and fourth Sun- nothing could be eeen of the great church but glimpses of the tower when (00 p. m, the weather was fine, llved a boy named Pedro, and his little brother, They days. knew very little about the Christmas chimes, but they had heard of the :el:k_'a in tl:& ;’hurch onhChr:’stm‘l:s Eve, and had a secret plan, which they : ad often over when by themselves, to go to h Catholic Church, bration. 4 Riebabadd o o Rev. A, B, Fox, Pastor. “Nobody can guess, Little Brother,” Pedro would say, “all the fine things Services are held on second and| there are to see and hear; and I have even heard it said that the Christ-child fourth Sundays at 9:00 a. m. sometimes comes down to bless the service. What if we could see Him?” n The day before Christmas was bitterly cold, with a few lonely snowflakes flying In the air, and a hard white crust on the ground. Sure enough, Pedro and Little Brother were able to slip quietly away early in the afternoon; and although the walking was hard in the frosty air, before nightfall they had trudged so far, hand in band, that they saw the lights of the big city just ahead of them. Indeed, they were about to enter one of the great gates in the wall that surrounded it, when they saw something dark on the snow near their path, and stopped to look at it. It was a poor woman, who had fallen Just outside the city, too sick and tired to get in where she might have found shelter. The soft snow made of a drift a sort of pillow for her, and she would soon be so sound asleep, io the wintry air, that no one could ever waken her again. All this Pedro saw in a moment, and he knelt down beside her and tried to rouse her, even tugging at her arm a little, as though he would have tried to carry her away. He turned her face toward him, so that he could rub some snow on fit, and when he had looked at her silently a moment he stood up and sald: “It's no uee, Little Brother. You will have to go on alone.” “Alone? cried Little Brother. “And you not see the Christmas festival?” “No,” sald Pedro, and he could not keep back a bit of a choking sound in his throat. “See this poor woman. Her face looks like the Madonna in the chapel window, and she will freeze to death if nobody cares for her. Every one has gone to church now, but when you come back you can bring some one to help her. 1 will rub her to keep her from freezing, and perhaps get her to eat the bun that is left In my pocket.” “But T cannot bear to leave you, and go oR alone,” said Little Brother. | “Both of us need not miss the service” gaid Pedro, “and it had better be I than you; and oh! 1t you get a chance, Little Brother, to slip up to the altar without getting ~ ny one's way, take this little piece of si of mine, and lay it down for my offering, waen no one is looking. Do not forget where you have left me, and forgive me for not going with you.” In this way he hurried Little Brother off N to the city, and winked hard to keep back the tears, as he heard the crunching foot- steps sounding farther and farther away in Lutheran Church, Rev. I, J. Mathias, Pastor. Cumberland Presbyterian. Without pastor. Sunday school at the regular hour Y. P. S. C. 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THB EVBNING TELBGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., DECEMBER 20, 1911 | kets of gold so heavy that they could scarcely carry them down s, were the most beautiful bells in the world, Some thought it was because a | sounding llke angels far up in the sky; others, as sounding like strange winds At the close of the service came the procession with the offerings to be | 1] 1 : the aftar. Rich men and great men marched proudly up to lay lt.l:gl: ngtm to the Christchild. Some brought wonderful jewels, some it A great writer brought his book, and last of all walked the king of the co | hoping with all the rest to win for himself the chime of the Christ | There went a great murmur through the church, as the people saw take from his head the royal crown, all set with precious stones, and lay it gleaming on the altar, as his offering to the holy Child. “Surely,” every one sald, “we shall hear_'me bells now, for nothing like this has ever happened before. But still only the cold wind was heard in the tower, and the people shook their heads; and some of them said, as they had before, that they never really belfeved the story of the | chimes, and doubted if they ever rang at all. | The procession was over, and the cholr began the closing | hymn. Suddenly the organist stopped playing as fhough he bad been shot, and every one looked at the old minister, who was standing by the altar, holding up his aand for silence, Not a sound could be heard from anyone in the church, but as the people strained their ears to listen, there came softly, but distinctly, swinging through the air, the sound of the chimes in the tower. So far away, and yet so clear the music scemed—s0 much sweeter were the notes than anything that had been heard before, rising and falling away up there In the sky, that the people in the church eat for a moment as still as thrneh something held each of them by the shoulders. 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