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Newspaper

The Daily Mail

Location

Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America

Date

Dec 24, 1938

Page

3

Christmas Pageants Planned by City Churches

City and county churches announce Christmas observances with pageants carols and special music. St Pauls M E and St Pauls A B present multiple sections of music and a Nativity pageant, while St Johns Lutheran Zion Reform Trinity Lutheran and Emmanuel U B churches offer candlelight services and festive programs led by choirs and soloists.

Christian Endeavor Society of the Point Salem Gospel Mission

Midnight Christmas Service at St Pauls United Brethren Church

A special midnight service will start at 11 tonight and run past midnight featuring choir anthems readings and a pastor meditation. A candle lighting ceremony symbolizes the light of Christ and ends with a candlelight recessional and carols outside. Sunday School is at 10 Christmas morning and a children’s pageant Where Ever the Star Shines is at 7 in the Ss chapel under Miss Blanche C Lengle.

ST. Paul's M. E St. Paul's Methodist Church McLain Roy French Martin Frances Cottrill Handel Jesus R. B. Huyett Chicago St. Paul's St. Paul's United Brethren Church Locust and Franklin Streets Shepherds, Wise Men Zion Reformed Zion Reformed Church Scott R. Wagner Junior Music Club Octavia Miller Victor Wills Doris Weagley Roderick Shepherds Foster Dimittis Nevin Eva Shulenberger Charles Howard Roderick Emmanuel United Brethren Church Martha R. Holdcraft Neidlinger Ira W. Pike Clayton, Davis Leslie Kelier Goldie Blickenstaff Martha Holdcraft Christian Commission the & Ss Blanche C. Lengle Boonsboro Charge E. L. Stine Boonsboro

Candle Service Planned Tonight at First Christian Church

The First Christian Church hosts a midnight candlelight Christmas service starting Saturday 11:30 PM with adult and junior choirs and communion. Soloists include George W Updegraff. organist Asher S Hdelman performs seasonal pieces. pastor Rev William M Norment delivers a message on The Christ Child. A second service is at 10:00 AM Sunday with Bible school events at 10:30 and a pageant Simeon’s Desire Fulfilled at 7:30 PM with detailed casting and special effects.

First Christian Church Mueller Dagnes Christiansen Marie Elisabette Dickinson Goldsworthy George W. Updegraff Lehmann Asher S. Hdelman Rebling Malling William M. Norment Beatrice Phillips Elizabeth Adams Margaret Newcomer George W. Undegraft Kenneth L. Adams National Benevolent Association of the Christian Church America Simeon Mary Elise Shue Joseph Harry S. Snavely Harry Snavely, Jr First Christian South

Christmas Eve Holy Eucharist at St John’s Episcopal Church

The 1 o'clock organ and violin numbers start the festal season at St John’s Episcopal Church. At 11:30 the forty voice choir processes with torch bearers and the Adeste Fidelis ends, then the Holy Eucharist. The Rev Walter Byron Stehl and Rev Thurlow M Null assist. Roy Alexander MacMichael plays and Paul Hogan violin.

St. John’s Episcopal Church Walter Byron Stehl Thurlow M. Null Taneytown Roy Alexander MacMichael Paul Hogan Bach Loret Jesu Bambino Yon Mauro Cottone Adam Schivhert St. John's Episcopal S. Prospect Antietam D. Dy

Christmas church notices clutter local schedules

A long page lists numerous churches across Potomac Street and surrounding avenues with pastors, Sunday School times, morning and evening services, midweek meetings, and special Christmas programs. Several parishes include Christmas Eve services, pageants, choir performances, and readings, with schedules overlapping throughout the town.

Sunday church notices in Maryland county and suburbs

The listing covers many churches in Clear Spring, Sharpsburg, Boonsboro, Funkstown and surrounding areas. It includes St. Pauls Lutheran, Christ Evangelical and Reform, Church of God locations, Trinity Lutheran, St. Johns Reformed, Zion Lutheran, Boonsboro Methodist, Salem and Mount Tabor Lutheran churches with Sunday School times Morning Services and Christmas programs. The note ends referencing Vickers Ltd as a steel firm origin.

Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church Bakersville Harry M. Young Ellock Morne MT. Tabor Lutheran Church Fairview Clearspring Luther L. Hare Trinity Reformed Church Boonsboro Addison Groff Leitersburg Lutheran I. D Curist Evangelical and Reformed Church Cavetown Edward T Peter’s Lutheran Church MT. Vernon Reformed Keedysville Addison H. Groff

Choir Concert Program Fragments Include Mozart and Gounod

Readable portions list selections for a concert with Offertory Anthem Sing O Heavens Sanctus Benedictus and Agnus Dei by various composers plus Gloria in Excelsis by Mozart. The text suggests a mixed program likely from a church or concert setting. The exact performers and dates are not given in the fragments.

Reverend Jeltz to Present Christmas Sermons in Hagerstown

Rev Dr Nathaniel H Jeltz a Philadelphia evangelist will stay in Hagerstown over Christmas. He will preach at Ebenezer A M E Church on Christmas morning titled Twice Born Men and at night The Fagle Stirring Up Her Nest before leaving for Baltimore Monday to begin another campaign.

Nathaniel H. Jeltz Philadelphia Hagerstown A. L. Criglar Ebenezer A. M. E Jeltz Ebenezer Church Baltimore

St Pauls Church organ installed at Western Pike church

The St Pauls Lutheran and Reformed Church near Clearspring completes an organ project with a new Moller pipe organ and chancel. An organ chamber was built by W H Miller of Williamsport, and the organ will be ready for Christmas services.

Moller St. Paul's Lutheran and Reformed Church Clearspring W. H. Miller Williamsport

Renovated church auditorium ready for Christmas services

The Reformed congregation plans Christmas services in the renovated auditorium with a 10:30 worship and 7:30 Sunday School Christmas program by St. Paul’s Union. Dedication runs February 14 to 19 with announcements to follow.

Maller Organ Co Walter Myers Allen Schnebly Keifer Seibert Martin Frisky Spickler Angie Marotte Raymond Mhollinger St. Paul's Union Sunday School Inlace Wade Huffman Cather Rare

Roosevelt to Broadcast Christmas Greetings From White House

President Roosevelt will deliver his Christmas broadcast to the nation from Lafayette Square between 3 and 3 50 p m EST today. The national community Christmas tree will be lit as part of the ceremony.

Washington Roosevelt Lafayette Square

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