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PSF: Subject File: Roosevelt, Franklin D. : Christmas, 1941
Box 178.
finatilne
The
National Christmas Service
WASHINGTON, D.C.
under auspices of
The Washington Federation of Churches
The Foundry Nativity Window
Thanks Be To God Who In Our Great Trial
Giveth Us The Churches. - Abraham Lincoln.
Foundry Methodist Church
CHRISTMAS DAY, 1941
hurished. Churchell
The Order of Worship
ELEVEN O'CLOCK - CHRISTMAS MORNING
Presiding-REV. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS, D.D.
Minister of Foundry Church and Chairman of the Federation Committee on Public Meetings.
Organ Prelube-"Christmas"
Dethier
Processional Dymn to the World"
Isaac Watts
(Congregation standing at the third stanza)
Joy to the world! the Lord is come:
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Let earth receive her King:
Nor thorns infest the ground;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
He comes to make His blessings flow
And heaven and nature sing.
Far as the curse is found.
Joy to the world the Saviour reigns:
He rules the world with truth and grace,
Let men their songs employ;
And makes the nations prove
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains,
The glories of His righteousness,
Repeat the sounding joy.
And wonders of His love.
The Call to Worship
The Minister: Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all the people.
For there is born to you a Saviour, which is Christ our Lord.
The People: Glory to God in the highest,
On earth peace, good will toward men.
The Minister: Let us with wise men, lowly shepherds, and all the heavenly host, worship the Holy
Babe.
The People: o come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.
The Minister: o come, let us worship and bow down.
The People: Let us worship Christ, the New Born King.
(Here let the people be seated.)
The Christmas Litany with Choral Response- (Congregation seated and bowed)
The Minister: 0 God, Thou art our salvation, we will trust and not be afraid. Thou art our strength
and song.
The People: Therefore with joy shall we draw water out the wells of salvation.
The Minister: We thank Thee for the birth of Jesus, that Thy spirit was upon Him, that He was
anointed to preach good tidings to the poor, to proclaim release to the captive, the
recovering of the sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.
The People: May the kingdoms of this world become the Kingdom of His Redeeming Love.
The Minister: o God, enable us, as we worship Thee, to kindle with the joy of simple shepherds
long ago, at the thought of all that came to the world in the birth of the child Jesus.
The People: Cast out our sin and enter in; be born in us today.
The Minister: Help us, o God, in the light of the shining star to realize the wastes and desolations
of the world, to feel the weight of the world's sorrow and need, to be made aware
of the power of evil, to see what spiritual loss is caused by man's hatred and sins.
The People: Help us with the spirit of Jesus to build the old wastes and to raise up the
former generations.
The Minister: In a world that has become a neighborhood, where we must make it a brotherhood or
perish, join us to that saving minority that across the boundaries of prejudice, intol-
erance and hatred, extends the dominion of understanding and good will.
The People: Grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies may
serve Thee without fear.
The Minister: Over the face of the ancient earth, weary and torn with strife, the passing generations
have come and are gone, and have not seen the triumph of good will among men:
yet we give thanks for the unceasing renewal of life born to new hopes and strong
to achieve new victories of good.
The People: For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall
be upon His shoulder.
The Minister: In the light of the shining star that gives happiness to little children and radiance to all,
help us to renew our zeal for that good time when none shall be far off or for-
gotten, but shall live within the circle of the blessed life.
The People: May the Dayspring from on High visit us, to give light to them that sit in
darkness, to guide our feet in the way of peace. Amen.
The Choral Invocation-"Softly the Stars Were Shining"
Adolph Torovsky
Softly the stars were shining,
Shining with golden ray,
Shepherds drew near to see Him,
Over the Baby Jesus
Low in His manger bed;
Cradled upon the hay.
Glory and wondrous brightness
Gathered about His head.
Chorus:
Dear little Baby Jesus,
Soltly the Babe was sleeping,
Come to our hearts we pray;
Angels their watch were keeping:
May we be pure and loving,
Calm and secure, tender and pure,
Make us like Thee to-day,
Jesus, the Holy Child.
The Anthem-"O Holy Night"
Adolphe Adam
The Reading of the Thely Scripture-The Nativity Lesson.
The Pastoral Praper- (Congregation seated and bowed)
Choral Response-"O Hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea."
The Christmas Salutation
The Reverend Oscar F. Blackwelder, D.D.,
President, Washington Federation of Churches
The Offertory Anthem-"Glory to God In the Highest"
Pergolesi
The Presentation of Offerings
Congregation will rise to sing the Doxology and will remain standing for the hymn following.
Dymn 100-"O Little Town of Bethlehem"
Phillips Brooks
0 little town of Bethlehem,
How silently, how silently
How still we see thee lie !
The wondrous Gift is given!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
So God imparts to human hearts
The silent stars go by:
The blessings of His heaven.
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
No car may hear His coming,
The everlasting Light;
But in this world of sin,
The hopes and fears of all the years
Where meek souls will receive Him still,
Are met in thee tonight.
The dear Christ enters in.
For Christ is born of Mary,
0 holy Child of Bethlehem!
And gathered all above,
Descend to us, we pray;
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Cast out our sin, and enter in,
Their watch of wondering love.
Be born in us today!
o morning stars, together
We hear the Christmas angels
Proclaim the holy birth,
The great glad tidings tell;
And praises sing to God the King,
0 come to us, abide with us,
And peace to men on earth!
Our Lord Immanuel
The Sermon
The Reverend ZeBarney Phillips, D.D., I.L.D.,
Chaplain of the United States Senate and Dean of the Washington Cathedral
Recessional Dymn 506--"De Country of Our Love and Prayer"
Whittier
(Tune-St. Catherine)
Our thought of thee is glad with hope.
Great, without seeking to be great
Dear country of our love and prayer;
By fraud or conquest; rich in gold,
Thy way is down no fatal slope,
But richer in the large estate
But up to freer sun and air,
Of virtue which thy children hold.
Refrain:
With peace that comes of purity,
And strength to simple justice due,
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
So runs our loyal dream of thee,
Lest we forget, lest we forget!
God of our fathers! make it true,
Tried as by furnace fires, and yet
0 land of lands! to thee we give
By God's grace only stronger made;
Our love, our trust, our service free;
In future tasks before thee set
For thee thy sons shall nobly live,
Thou shalt not lack the old-time aid.
And at thy need shall die for thee.
Benebiction and Choral Amen
Drgan Postlude-"Toccata"
Widor
The congregation is requested to remain standing after the final Amen by the choir, until
the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of England and distinguished guests have
withdrawn from the sanctuary.
The altar flowers are presented by
THE WASHINGTON FEDERATION OF CHURCHES
in memory of that elect lady,
Sara Delano Ronsevelt
the queenly mother of our President,
on this the first Christmas "away" from her loved ones.
They speak, too, of our glad remembrance that year after year she graced the
Federation service with her presence and reverently shared with us the worship of
Christmas morning.
THE MINISTRY OF MUSIC
CHOIR OF THE FOUNDRY CHURCH
JUSTIN LAWRIE
Choirmaster
WILLIAM O. TUFTS
Organist
The Washington Federation of Churches is the agency through which 165 Protestant churches
in the national Capital and its suburbs cooperate in many forms of practical Christian activity
More than a score of different denominations are thus linked and leagued-doing together what
none could do alone.
The Federation is housed in its own building at 1749-51 N Street N. W., which you are
cordially invited to visit.