Appreciated Shanghai, Dee. 25, Church services were well attend d. Special midnight. services and masses on Christmas eve were held in almost all of the Christian ehurches, throughout the ity, Special services also were held on Christmas morning. In tHe religious obser:
For more years. than the present writer Is able to number, it has been fan established custom of Holy Trinity Cathedral to hold an annual Carol Service In connection with the fes-rival of Christmas. Until compara~ tively recently the service took place several days before Christmas itself and was repeated on the evening of the Sunday following: two or three years ago, however, feeling mani ested itself that it would be more suitable that both renderings be iven prior to Christmas Day. and Arrangements were made according ly. The change has been found ad-Vintageous in. all respects Looking back on the two services held on Sunday and Monday evening, one's footings are that the most unsUinted praise is due all those who took the Yeading share of the render Ings, and that both of these renderings' undoubledly ranked among the very best of those given in recent yents, Undoubtedly the individual members of the large congregations who participated must-have been imbued with the feeling that, despite the deeply troubled situation with which the world is now contending, and the vicissitudes of the struggle with the powers of darkness, nothing evuld have deen more uplifting and encouraging than to unite whole heartedly at this time of year in the worship of the Holy, Child, both in song and prayer, The hearty conuvegational singing testified In itself {fo this being the ease, while the organist and choir Ted the praise inva manner which hax scktom ever been excelled in the Cathedral for elsewhere Ju Shanghai.
Christmas" was expressed andi the ards were sung with the usual ex-
Gaiety reigned at the amusement places. "Many of the quests lingered intil the early hours of the morning.
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