Union Church celebrated Christmas with a heartiness and eff veness which must have helped to fix the greatness of the event it commemorates on the minds of both old and young. The Church had been beautifully and tastefully decorated by Mra, Edward Wheen. Over the great arch above the pulpit a text appoured in white letters on a red ground. The effect was very striking. Similar texts followed the curves of tie smaller arches at each side of the pulpit while another ran the length of the gallery. The windows and pillars were festooned with ropes of evergreen., and on the capitals of the pillars the red berries of the sacred bamboo gave the touch of Christmas colour supplied at home by the holly. Around the pulpit were groups of poinsettias, producing a very pleasing effect.
tinas hymns were sung at the ces, the old indispensable favourites, d_the Rev. ©. E. Darwent preached Christmas sermons from the texts, I am the root and offspring of David and the bright, the morning star and "Mary kept all these sayings pondering them in lier heart." At the close of the evening service the choir gave very beautifully: " O thou that tellest " (Handel), " Like silver lamps" (J, Barnaby):
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