Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-26

Thus came, and thus passed the beauti-
full, impressive and instructive exercises of
Easter day in Plymouth church.
The knights TenpIdrs' Services,
The Easter service at the church of st.
John the Evangelist was held al O'Clock
In the afternoon, the middle portion of the
chapel being reserved for Damascus Com
mandery Of Knights Tenplar, who were
present to the Kumber of forty-six, clad in
the full uniform of the order, and who en-
tered their seats in platoon, keeping step
with the music of the organ.
The entire edifce was thoroughly packe q
with people, and it is estimated that nearly
twice as many as the church would hold
went away, being unable to obtain either
sitting or standing room.
The altar and its ACKNOWLEDGEMENT beauti-
fully decorated with flowers in wreath, en-
blem and in pots, while large white dove
was perched in garland dependent from
the central chandelier. Immediately front
| ing the altar was a large floral cross, COM
posed of evergreen and snow white bios
SONS, conferred with an inner cross of light
red rossR, which was presented for the &C.
cssion by Damascus commandery, being
enblematic of the order, and which was
very elegant in both design and appear
| anoe.
Tho services opened with the Lords
prayer by the rector and the comnandry,
which was followed by hymn 10 of the
| selection. The first lesson was
from the second chapter of the book of
Aaggai, ths second from the twentieth
chapter OF John, being the narrative of
| Ohrist's burial and resurrection, and the
declaration of faith following was re-
sponded to by both the order and the
audience.
The rendering of the anthem, ''They
have taken away my Lord, and I know not
where they have laid Him. was finely
rendered by Mrs. Dow with the choir ac-
compartment, at the close of which the
rector addressed the throne of grace in q
prayer, in which he particularly asked the
slvine blessing upon our country, the
order at home and abroad, and those pre-
siding over it. The sermon of Rev. Henry
Kittson was from the words OF st. Paul:
Philippians $40: ''Ihat may know Him and
| Ike power of the resurrection
| The speaker prefaceG his remarks with
| an apostrorhe on the word "power," which
though composed of but five letters. III the
definition of whose meaning men were
| but children. He proceeded 30 speak of
| the power Of God in heaven and that of
the little prsttling child on the earth; the
| wonderful development of power in the
budding flower and expanding leaf; the
crushing of kingdoms into the dust, and
the whisper of love into the happy heart,
which though seen and experienced, can
net be explained, no more than can the
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water, which under the influence of fire,
furnish physical power which hurIs us
| over the country and across the oceans.
| Yet it is plainly to be seen that all this
| power magnifes its Lord, and is only Gre
atsd except in him. This physical power
was used in the resurrection at the sepul-
cher, and the moving away of the stone
which closed its mouth, and it was of and
used by God.
When he was asked to explain this physi-
cal power of God,would ask the questioner
and the doubter to explain the powers to
be seen in nature, from the mighty up
heaval therein to the development of the
frailest flower. Then he would explain
the power of God as physically demon
strated in the resurrection.
The speaker then proceeded to speak of
spiritual power, which, though our hearts
answer to it in tears, joys, sorrows, death
and all the tragedies and comedies of
life, is mystery which we still
less understand. This was exercised also
in the resurrection and in it God gave back
to man that which he had lost, perfect
pattern, for said Panl, ''The whole Chris
tian faith is vain if Christ be not arisen"
The spiritual power of the resurrection
| makes Us Gods, for that power is God, in
whom We exist.
Another element in the resurrection was
moral power. To this every death and
every grave bears testimony. In the time
of Christ'5 life, before his crucifxion, some
people were taking life and
death stoically and bearing them
as best they could, these being called stoics,
while the balance of them held to the
! theory OF 'let Us eat, drink and be merry
| and we're styled "epicureans." The moral
power inaugurated by the resurrection,
was tie rising of man from his dead self
to higher things: to hope of eternal happi.
ness beyond the shining shore; though
| teardimned to possess his heart and soul
| at peace in this world; though in it, to per
| sonallJ stand as it were, by the very side
| OF the divine throne, to emulate Christ, the
| noblest, most grand and eficacious man
that ever lived, and to become, as it were,
| q living parable of his experience on earth.
These three powers were combined in
the resurrection and could not be separat-
cd thersfrom, and they will give to Us our
| resurrection. You will not rise from the
grave where you are buried, clothed in a
body of flesh. Your skeleton will not stand
up to be clothed in carnal garments, as you
put on your Sunday clothes. The whole
naturalization Of the body-fesh, blood
and bone-ohanges, it is asserted by sci
snce, every seven or ten years, and when
man dies he has not the same body as that
when he was babe. As from the grain of
wheat when planted, from the decomposi-
ton Of which springs forth the new wheat,
so God in orr resurrection will slothe us
with new body like unto his own, and into
which he arose from death-into glori-
| fed body. That he arose in such body is
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