Brief. “The musical programme will be appropriate.”

“At 10:00 A. M., the children connected [to] the parish and Sunday schools sang an excellent selection of Christmas carols… [At the 11:30am service the] anthem,’ I bring you good tidings,’ was well rendered.”

“…At 10:30 there was a children’s service, when the following Christmas carols were sung by the children of the church and Sunday-school: [lists carols]…The regular choir furnished the music, eld by J. H. Cornell, the organist. The anthem sung was: ‘I Bring You Good Tidings.’”

“…At 10:30 the children of the schools sung [sic] the Christmas carols, and at 11 o’clock the regular morning service commenced. The children’s service was one of peculiar interest. At 10:30 A. M., precisely, to the number of over 200…marched in procession up the centre [sic] aisle, singing the processional ‘Litany of the Holy Childhood’… A number of Christmas carols were then sung by the children.  The youthful singers were accompanied on the small chancel organ, but so joyously did their fresh, clear voices ring out in praise of the Babe of Bethlehem, that the notes of the instrument were completely drowned… At 11 o’clock the principal service commenced… The processional, ‘Shout the Glad Tidings,’ was sung by the choir and congregation. The music was of the character peculiar to this church, and which contrasts so favorably with many of the worthless modern compositions adopted in some of the fashionable churches. The Te Deum, Nicene Creed, Kyrie, and Gloria in Excelsis were sung from the festival service in E, composed for the congregation of St. Paul’s by the organist, Mr. J. H. Cornell, and in use for the last five years. The anthem sung was the composition of Sir John Goss, of St. Paul’s Cathredal [sic], London, ‘Behold I Bring You Good Tidings,’ which was admirably rendered…” No further mention of music.