The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-03-28
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Something amusing may be expeoted in
Carolins Hall. to-morrc evening. s st.
Maur. the magician will give an insight
into wonder world. 4 y = y
RENDER Unto CESAR, Eirc.-Tn our notice
OF the Crescent oil and lamps, for sale by
Messrs. j. & T. r. Agnew, we neglected to
say that the burning material is non- n-explo-
slVe; the lamps require no shades; further
more, there is a hand burner, or night
lamp--the flame of which can be reduced
to mere spark, and increased in an instant.
Ihe price Of the fluid is but seventy cents
gallon. We have given these lamps fair
trial, and pronounce them excellent.
lot OF cards and bill head paper has
just been received at the Phenic Office
something new and pretty Also lot of
''auction cards" (which will be printed at
extraordinarily low prices.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES THIS DAY.-Trinity
Church-Rev. P. J. Shand, Rector, 1Ol6
A. NJ. and AZ P. M
st. Peters Chnrch-Rev. J. j. O'Connell,
Pastor, 10 A. M. and P. NJ
Washington Street Chapel-Rev. VIM.
Martin, 1011s A. NJ; Rev. -Sidi Browne, Ak
P. NJ
Marion Street Church-Rev. Sidi IT.
Browne, 1019 A. NJ; Church Meeting 31s
p. Nj.
Lutheran Lecture Room-Rev. A. r.
Rude 1O1a Il. NJ
Prasbvtprion Cbprcb po,- w L De-
10lG A. NJ and TX p M.
Baptist Church-Rev. J. L. Reynolds,
10M A. M.
Robert B. Elliott was appointed, yester-
day, Assistant Adjutant- General, under the
Act for the organization of the militia of
this State
EASTER SUNDAY.-To-day closes the Lent
en- Season, and will be commemorated in
the Catholic and Episcopal Churches as the
anniversary festival of our Lords resurrec-
ton. The feast of Easter is the regulator
OF all the other great movable festivals of
the year, and has always been celebrated in
the Catholic Church with the greatest So
lemnity, as the first among the five princi-
Jewish Passover, called by them PascAa
was kept by the Jewish people in memory of
their miraculous deliverance from the bond
age OF Egypt, by the slaughter of all the
first-born of the Egyptians. The name is
derived from the Hebrew verb. Pasach
which signifies to pass, or leap over, because
the destroying angel, who slew the first
born of the Egyptians, passed over the
houses of the Hebrews, their doors being
marked with the blood of the Pascal Lamb,
which was type of Christ's great sacrifice
on Calvary The Jews kept this great feast
on the 14th day of the first month of the
ecclesiastical or sacred Lunar year, called
by Moses, Abb, but by Esdras and the later
Jews, Nisan, corresponding to the greatest
part OF our March and portion of April.
This was the seventh month of the civil
year of the Jews, which they followed in
all computations in secular affairs, and
which they began from the month T1sri or
the autumnal equinox. This great festival,
the true Christian Pasach, is called in the
English-Saxon language, Easter Day. and is
commemorated on the Sunday after the 18th
of the moon of March, which, this year.
was on the 18th instant. In the beginning
OF the Church, the Jewish converts, in some
places, kept this solemnity on the 14th day
itself, the day on which the Jews celebrated
their Passover. The Apostles allowed them
this liberty, to show that the Gospel of
Christ did not condemn the Mosaic law,
which it had made void by fulfilling it.
But the Christian Paschal feast was in gene
raj, appointed by the Apostles to be kept on