Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-28

-- -sII5 Iaqles Connected With the
Holy Trinity Church inSOuth Nashville we're
busily engaged late yesterday afternoon in
decorating the chancel, altar, lecturn, font
and reading desks with white lilies, japon-
icas and geTaniums. The choir have made
some very fine musical selections, which
they viii render during the religious ser
vices to-day.
CHRIST CHURCH.
No pains have been spared by the ener-
getic ladies AID gentlemen of this church
to make the Easter donations as elaborate
as possible. Flowers OF the most costly
and varied character have been obtained
and distributed prOfusely. 1t was decided,
however, not to put the flowers in their
proper places until this morning, in order
to keep them fresh.
The font has been decorated with
twining evergreens and white lilies and
flowers. Two beautiful crosses Of fern
and cauliflOWeTs, one white and the other
garland, have been carefully made. One
will be suspended over the altar and the
other will rest upon it underneath the
cross; hung upon the wall will be this in
scriptiOn: "Christ the Lord is Risen To-
day. Suspended from the reading desks
will be two or three rustic baskets con-
tanning precious flowers. The screen
stretching across the ehancel will be laden
with choice flowers. Two Gothic chairs
have been decorated and entwiued with
wreaths Of eyergreens and various kinds Of
flowers.
At four O'Clock in the afternoon the Sun
day school children of Christ Church and
its two missions, st. Peters and st. John,
viii have a gala reunion. The children
will enter the church singing, "Onward,
| Christian soldiers" and after some other
| appropriate exercises, the rector, Rev. Mr..
/ Graham, will first call the names of the
classes Of Christ Church Sunday-schOOl,
| when two scholars, representing the class,
| will advance to the altar, one with an Of
/ fering Of money and the other with flowers.
| The money will be placed on a waiter and
| the flowers IN a cross, decorated with ever
| greens. This same ceremony will be OBJ
| served with the classes of st. Peters and
/ St. Johns mission schools. The former
| school will be represented by an anchor
/ and the latter by heart. When the three
| crosses are covered with the flowers they
| will represent Faith, Hope and Charity,
and will presen. q handsome appearance.
The offerings Of money are the amounts
that each class has saved during the year.
| Perhaps the best time to witness the
decorations will be a. night, when the
! Sunday-sChOOl designs viii be placed
| anon. those in the chancel and altar.
! The musical exercises at this mornings
services will be as follows:
Easter Anthem-Dants.
| Gloria Patri-Bisla.
Gloria in Excelsis-Phelps.
| TIE Deum-Ward.
| Jubilate-Ward.
| Ofertoy-Chapel.
The choir is one of the best in the city,
being composed Of Miss Ellen Carter, so
| pTanO; Miss LenOra HasslOck, alto; +. NJ
| Nevins, tenor; and A. j. MOultOn, bass
Prof. J. d. He;neberg, OTganist.
| It has been decided to distribute The
flowers used in the decoration among the
poor If the church and those who will bC
unable TO attend to-day. This will be
| done tomorrow, and is considered as {
kind, generous act on the part Of the char
itably disposed ladies of the church.
ST. ANNE's CHURCH.
! The ladies Of st. Anne's Church, Edge.
field, were busily occupied yesterday il
| decorating the chancel, altar, font, lecturl
| and reading desk, with choice flowers, IVY
| and evergreens. A beautiful cross Of flow
ers, furnished by Mrs. Weber, was sus-
| pended Immediately above the altar, and
/ on either side Of the altar was placed a
wreath Of pot-house plants. The lecturn
was surrounded with wreath Of fragrant
| flowers, with a large camelia in the centre.
| The readin. desk was entwined with flow
ers and evergreens, with a cross in the
centre. Stretched in front of the choir was
an extended line Of flowers representing
these two words, "The Resurrection
The choir Of this church is composed of
| some excellent singers, and has made such
selections as will be appropriate to the Oc-
casiOn. In the afternoon there will be a
Sunday-schOOl celebration, which will
doubtless be very entertaining, as an elabO-
rate programme has been arranged.
CHURCH OF THE ADVENT.
As is generally the case, the ladies of this
church have not been idle while so much
decoration was going on around them.
They met at the church yesterday after
noon, and having an abundance of flowers
and evergreens to select from, commenced
to decorate the chancel, altar, lectrrn, font,
reading desk and Bishops throne.
Some excellent musical selections have
been made by the choir, as follows:
Opening pIece-They Have Taken Him
Away - Willard.
Easter anthem-Christ, Our Passover
Willard.
TIE Deum-Sir John Goss.
Jubilate-Guenther.
SolO-By Mrs. Sam Marshall.
The music for the evening service will
be:
Opening piece-Ljft Your Glad Voices.
Hamburger.
Gloria in Excelcis-Millard's Mass in G.
OffertOry-Christ the Lord is Risen To-
day-Lloyd.
The following ladies and gentlemen will
take part in the singing: Mis-. Sam Mar
shall, Miss Alice Claiborne, Mrs. Fred.
Davies, Miss Lena Lotion, Mr. J. G. Rip
ley and MIR. Lester. Miss Susie Elliott is
the Organist.
CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION.
Some natural and some artificial flowers
were used by the ladies, yesterday, in the
decoration of the altar in this church.
There will be morning and evening service,
High Mass being celebrated at 10 A. N.
this morning. The choir will sing Won
Weber's Mass i'm G, aud will be assisted by
Mrs. Ha,t, leading soprano. Mrs. VESSEL
will preside at the organ, which instru-
ment has, by the way, been recently re-
paired.
In the afternoon, at the conclusion Of
vespers. the Sunday-school will have festi-
val. during which the children will BE
given presents.
THE CATHEDRAL.
The tabernacles and altar have been
properly decorated with natural and arti
fcal flowers and with an extra number Of
lights. Services will be held at $50 A. NJ
S A. NJ, 1870 A. NJ. and at 7:30 p. NJ.
Solemn high mass will be celebrated at
1890 A. N, and vespers at 7:30 P. NJ.
Selections from some we'll known musi-
cal composers have been made for the Occ2-
sion by the choir.
ST. COLUMBIA, EDGEFIELD.
Religious services will also be held in
St. COLUMBIA Church (CathOlic) at A. NJ.
Hioh mass at 1O.20 and vpsDpTS in the