Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-17

EASTER SERVICES AT TRINITY CHURCH.
Trinity church was beautifully deco
rated for the Easter festival. Upon the
altar was a new Cloth Of white broad
cloth, having upon it in front the word
AlZeltsa. wrought in gold-colorea six.
An Antependium of the same material
upon the lectern had for a device an
Easter cross, similarly wrought. Over
the altar in a gilt moulding was Panel
with the device "Holy, Holy, Holy" in
gilt letters upon a red background.
Beautiful white flowers adorned the
font. Within the chancel were two
harps, twined with green and with white
flowers and buds, i'll memory OF two
little children awaiting in the rest OF
Paradise the morning of the Resurrec-
ton. Against the north wall near the
lectern another harp, similarly orna-
| mented, commemorated with hopeful
and comforting suggestions the fearful
sorrow which has come upon highly
respected faunily of our community
through the loss of the Inflated Atlantic.
| Underneath this was In Ae110519n9 III
white letters. Around, also in white let,
tiers, was the text, ''IHe Earth and the
Sea shall gioe up their Dead" Disposed
variously and tastefully about the chan
eel and elsewhere were baskets and
vases of cut flowers and potted plants.
The services of the day were as fol
lows: Morning prayer at 6 a. M, at
which a congregation nearly as large as
the average Sunday congregation as
sombled; Anthems, Litany, Sermon and
/ Holy Communion at IL a. M, with a
much larger congregation and at 3.3
p. m. service for the children of the
parish, of which the prominent features
were the singing of psalms and carols,
the reception of an Easter banner and
the presentation of offerings for Bishop
! Tuttles mission at Salt Lake City.
The rector, Rev. DR.. Harris, preached
at the eleven o'clock service from John
XII, 25, &c: ''Jesus said unto her, am
the resurrection and the life j-he that be-
Heoeth IN me, though he acre dead, get
shall he lice and aohoSOeuer H0etA and be-
HeUeth in me, shall neoer die" Our blessed
Lords life-giYing power belongs to Him
as essentially 1.-THE life of the world.
He is the Resurrection, because He is
the Life 'As the Father hath life in
Himself, so hath He given to the Son
to have life in Himself !" and ''as the
I
Father raiseth up the dead and quicken
eth them, even so tho Son quickeneth
whom He will" The text refers to a
two-fold resurrection-a spiritual and
c0rporeaI one. The spiritual condition
of men is naturally oHe of insensibility
to Gods demands, ignorance of most
important things, inactivity in Gods
service, deformity of character, and con-
domination to suffer more or less of pen
atty of wrong doing, all of which may
be fifty typifed under the figure of
death. From this state nothing can
effectually arouse men except "the
voice of the Son of God," speaking
through His Word and His Spirit. The
hour has already come, when millions
have heard His voice and have entered
upon "newness of life, "a life which
shall never end. But "he that be-
lieveth in Christ may also lock for
" the resurrection of the body"
Though he be Dead" physically,
though the particles which compose his
body be scattered to the four winds, the
blessedness of his soul shall not be inter-
rupted for a moment, and " the hour is
coming when that which is in the grace
shall hear the voice of the Son of God,
and shall come forth, when the body,
purged from every imperfection and
made like unto Christs glorious body,
shall again bee ONE the home of the puri-
fed soul. There is for the Christian be-
lever no death, either spiritual or physi-
cal This doctrine is full of the most
blessed comfort. We shrink from the
idea of being naught but disembodied
spirits. We rejoice to know that, as
we have mingled sorrow and joy through
our present bodies, SO shall we have per-
feet qualification through the ministra-
tions of these and bodies perfected sin
glory everlasting" We are comforted,
too, in losing Christian friends. We
may expect soon to see them again
smiling upon us with the same express
sion of countenance with which we are
so familiar, except that it will be ineffa-
bly, glorifed We shall all share in the
resurrection of the body. Itssignifcance
for us, however, viii depend upon our
rising here from the death of sin unto
the life of righteousness. This spiritual