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Show MILITARY MASS AT SEA. Most Impressive of all Shipboard Ceremonials, lly long odds tho moat imprcsstvo of tho ceremonies thnt occur on shipboard ship-board Is tho military mass on Sunday Nothing less than n full cathedral service ser-vice for Catholics, yet tho attendance 1? of nil sorts, sailors, olllcers nnd casuals. Tho nfterhatch on tho gun deck Is clenred and an altar erected thero with various of tho lltmcnta pertaining to tho service. A largo. American Hag partitions oft tho spacu behind It nnd nlso conceals tho band thnt Is tho organ In this function, accompanying tho priest In tho Into nations and playing during tho offertory. offer-tory. Tho priest Is In full canonicals, nnd Is n wonderful spot of color as ho kneels under tho opening whora tho light falls. Ucfore tho hatch, forming three sides of a Btiuaro, are tho marines, standing silently, Uku trees bending together in tho wind, They nro In full uniform with fixed bnyonets and aro at attention, A sailor In white is altar boy, and tho choir, on the front seats In tho audience, consists In this Instance of nowBpaper men. the least tcrrlblo In a collection of voices thnt would not bo accepted by Mr. Grnu. At tho elevation of tho host tho drums give h ruWIo and tho marines present arms, tho ling ndvnnced, while all In front bow. And at tho end, nfter a short and practical sermon by tho chaplain, tho band plays "America" nnd all Join In tho singing of It, snys Urooklyn Kngle. It is to bo noted that In this service tho hymns nro not thoso of tho Roman church, but nre such things ns "Abldo With Me," "Hock of Ages," "Nearer, My God, to Thee," nnd "Coronntlon," Blnco. these -nro better known to tho major. Ity who sing them than aro tho mnssc3. |