Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-26
ERYICES AT TIE CATHEDRAL.
CHURCH SERVICES.
The Cathedral.

the seats II the vast building were nlleQ,
a considerable portion of the audience be-
ing composed of Professionals, who were at
tracted partly to witness an Easter service.
and partly to listen to Gounod's mass. Be-
sides the Instrumentation of Seibert's
large orchestra some of the solos were &C.
companied by the harp, played by Miss
frankie Lyons. This instrument added a
very great charm 80 the solos and was a
great novelty. The young lady exhibited
good deal of skill ana proficiency upon
this difficult and delightful instrument,
and it is to be hoped she will give the peo-
pie of St. Paul other opportunities to listen
to her playing. The names of all the solo
singers were given yesterday morning and
need not be repeated. The solos were all
sung reasonably we'll and some of them
very well. The mass altogether with the
orchestra and harp was one of the most
satisfactory that Prof. Manner has ever
produced since he has had the direction of
the cathedral choir.
BISHOP IRELAND's SERMON.
The sermon was delivered by Bishop
Ireland and was listened to with marked
attention by the large audience. The ser
mon in full would be too long for the
crowded condition of these columns. The
following, however, is Q full abstract:
Each feast-day in the Christian calendar
has its own significance and touches in the
responsive Tyre OF the human heart a
special keynote, and before the year has
run its course all the varied and rich emo
tions of which the heart is susceptible have
been awakened in homage to the supreme
master, and il realization of the souls
eternal destinies. Christmas speaks of
love; Good-Friday is day for sorrow and
repentance; Ascension revives our hope;
Easter bids Us re-echo chants Of triumph
ant Joy. Alleluia, Allsluis, is the frequent
anthem in the services OF the church this
morning, and in the joyousness of her
spirit she decks her affairs with the fairess
gifts of nature, she displays in her sane
tuary her most brilliant ritual, and grand
est music is heard beneath the arches Of
her temples.
Easter puts before as tho inyincibls
proof Of Our Christian faith-Christ's
resurrection from the dead; hence our
triumph. In our faith, in the Christian
religion, are wrapped up ali our hopes, all
our aspirations. We have no other hope,
no other aspiration. We have scornsd
earth, its vanitias and its pleasures. We
have laid OF the altar OF our faith the sac
riices OF mind and heart. Were our faith
IN vain, then we're We the most miserable of
men. The world around US, the world Of
unbelief and OF earthly hopes, Knocks U.s.
We hear its laughter at our reliance upon
Christ, its loud yaURtings Of it's own pleas
ures and of It's wild liberty, AID in
defence Of its wSys it heaps up
arguments and discoveries, and
invokes the high names Of its masters and
the ponderous products Of their pens. Are
we dismayed? Easter skaters all their
forces, silences all their boastings, for
Christ is assuredIy our God, and our faith
i5 as unsuitable as his throne in Heaven.
''Why have the gentiles ragged, and the peo-
pie devised vain things? The kings of the
earth stood up, and the princes met to-
gether against the Lord, and against his
Christ Let us break their bonds asun-
DER" they said, ''and let Us cast away their
yoke from u.s." Aye, but on Easter, ''The
Lord hath said to him, thou art my son,
this day have begotten thee. And now,
Dye kings, understand; receive instruction,
you that judge the earth. Easter witnesses
the most astounding manifestation Of di-
vine power ever vouchsafed to creation.
S'This is the day which the Lord hath
made; let US rejoice and be glad therein"
1t was meet and to be expected that God
appearing on earth should manifest his
omnipotence and his dom inion over ma
ture and her laws. Our reason first knows
God as the master of the universe, from
whom derive the order, the beauty, the
laws which We admire through all its
parts. If Christ Is the God whom nature
must own as her lord, let him issue his
commands to her, silence by his word her
laws, and receive through instant obedi-
ence her loyal homage. Miracles are the
necessary evidences OF divine presence,
and the unmistakable tokens
of thar presence. Only g.
God can suspend natures laws;
their normal constancy and Interchangeable
ness but make Us the more certain Whsn
they are suspended, that God is working.
That the divine intervention to suspend
these laws, in the moments appointed by
Providence, is possible 10 sane man upon
reflection woald need to have proved.
Miracles were multiplied almost at every
step, during Christ's public career, IN his
walks through Palestine. Miracles were
natural to him. We will consider but the
greatest of these. It was right that in
proof of his presence he should work the
miracle which the human mind should
deem of all Others tie farthest removed
beyond the reach of natural power. Such
was his own resurrection. Among all re-
ports OF miracles true or false which
had ever reached the ears
of men, nothing like this had ever been
heard. No false witness of divine power
would ever attempt it. The very mention
of such miracle in connection with the
Christian religion suggests in its founder
the divinity and the confidence which his
divinity permits. What test! To an
nounce publicly beforehand his resurrec-
ton in proof Of his mission, to forswsrn
and forearm his enemies, who had sworn
to make him liar; to allow them to cruel
fly him, to hold his body on the cross until
the Judicial authorities of the land declared
him dead; to have a guard of soldiers
placed around his tomb, and the seal Of
tk6 nation slammed unOn the larOa stone