The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-04-01
Resurrection RejOicings.

Aesurrecti0u heJOicinss.
AS our readers will perceive by the ser.
mons which we publish to-day, the one COM
mon sentiment Of the churches yesterday was
that expressed by one Of the apostles Of old.
"The Lord is risen indeed" It was a senti-
ment that was responded to in the Catholic
and Protestant Episcopal and other churches
by the sacramental host of Gods elect.
Though the day was unpropitious for the
gathering together of large assemblies, still
joy and gladness reigned in every Christian
temple, and we trust also in every Christian
heart Lilies and asters and other flowers,
products of the greenhouse and the garden;
music, thrilling, glorious, heavenly; gaslights,
brilliant, beautiful and expressive in de-
sign, were combined to lead the thoughts
of the worshippers toward the pros
pectlve joy and glory and blessed
ness and peace of the final resurrection
OF which every Christian has an assurance in
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
st. Adams church was richly decorated and
presented an elaborate display of ritualistic
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, professions incense,
gorgeous vestments and other paraphernalia
suggested by the occasion. The Rev. Canon
Dorset, of Chicago who preached, said that
''Our Joy is too large, our hearts are too full,
and we want ceremonies to explain it to us.
And these ceremonies" he added, ''tell us
that Christ has risen to-day" In Grace
church DIR. Potter presented, in a very clear
and convincing manner, some reasons which
account for the growing infidelity of this age,
and especially for the great lack of faith in the
doctrine which the Church yesterday reaf-
frmed as TIE basis of her future success as it
had been in the past. He asked Of those who
talk Of death as an inevitable fate, dire ne
cessity. patural consequence, to be met
with philosophic stoicism-who deny the
resurrection and assert that beyond the grave
all Is dark, drear and unknown-that they
look the subject squarely in the face, and they
shall find that with this doctrine are bound up
the hopes and fears Of the Christian world.
"On this day." said the reverend doctor,
''of all days in the year, our risen Christ GER
titles to us the existence of another and
purer life." The Right Rev. Bishop Potter
administered the rite of confirmation to
twenty-five persons in the Church of the
Ascension, and preached on the universal
rejoicing of the Easter festival. He encour-
aged his hearers with the thought that there
will be another morning, of which this, the
greatest and most joyful of our Christian gala
days, is only faint promise. In treating Of
this resurrection doctrine DR.. Scott, of the
Church of the Redemption, very truly and
touchipgly remarked that "Christ's love for
mankind was unbounded; that there is no
limit to the mercy Of the Almighty, though it
might prove a fearful thing to fall into the
hands of the living God should Loan trespass
too far upon His fasherly care"
The Rev. Father Mooney struck the key.
note of Christianity in his discourse on tho
resurrection, in st. Bridget's church, yester-
day. 'Eyery heart" he said, SHOULD rejoice
in concentrating the resurrection of Christ,
the Son of God, for If we had not this festival
we should have no Christianity, and all the
miracles He performed and the revelations
He made would have proved fruitless.
Easter commemorates( IA.
ton OF Christianity Ofne Rev. Father
Quinn, in st. Peters church, exam
ined the testimony upon which this
truth is asserted and believed, and de-
clared that even ''the Jews, who mariyred
the fulilment of the prophecy that
He would rise again, 70 nnset
a guard Of soldiers to watch the sepulchre in
which His holy body had been laid" All
this testimony, the preacher remarked, tended
concusivsly to prove the divinity of Christ,
and to stamp the symbols of truth upon the
records Of His life. In the ether Catholic
churches in the city the sermons were all
based on the same fact and were presented
similarly. Such was the case in the Brook
lyn churches also. LIN st. James Cathedral
the Rev. Father Sheridan drew attention to
the greatness of the miracle yesterday COM
memoratsd, its literal and typical Importance
and the lessons to be deduced therefrom.
Father Cassidy declared in ST. Mary's Star of
the Sea that it is the triumphant resurrection
of Christ that has for almost one thousand
nine hundred years given to man the pledge
of resurrection on the last day.
The great Plymouth church pastor was too
unwell to preach to the anxious thousands
who waited for him yesterday, bat he put
another Beecher in his place, and the congre-
CATION had to take the will for the deed.
There seems to have been a commendable re-
ligious rivalry between, Brooklyn and New
York churches in respect to the mhsical pro-
gramme. 1t was grand aud grandly per-
formed in both cities, as our reports to-day
will testify. In St. AIMS sae Heights DR..
Schenck said, in reference to the great theme
of the day, that ''there was not single fact
in history SO old as that and yet 50 perfect.
We have not On record single instance OF
the writers and chroniclers Of that day to de-