Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-04-02
true man and therefore the righsful absolute

MASTER Oh all our actions
There is no part of our life from the cradle
to the grave, no place in our body. soul or
intellect over which He does not claim supreme
control and mastery. We have NO longer to
deal with great religious teacher whose
wondrous wisdom We may merely admire.
and whose grand character we may venerate.
If Christ be risen we have henceforth to Go with
a truth so tremendous that it brooks and can
| brook no hindrance TO its complete control.
The man Jesus is heneeforth no more an in
spired. and wise, and loving guide He 10
nothing less than the Lord and absolute Mas
ter Of our whole being
But this is not all which the Resurrec-
| ton proves. He is our life, St. John tells Us,
and that in such a sense that .he that hath
the Son hath life and he that hath not the
Son of God hath not life
| Let US ask what our Lord and what his in
spired interpreter mean by Life"
| By life is meant more even than the i'm
mortality of the Soul. In the sense of con-
| tinued existence after the death of the body,
the Souls of the wicked apart from Christ live
on to all eternity as the Souls of the right
eous. In this sense of mere continuance
there is an eternal life of evil as well as of
good. The Immortality of the Soul is not
then the truth TO which Easter and Christs
Resurrection specially witness, though they
| do place the Souls immortality, which be-
| fore had been oEly an imperfectly un-
| derstood belief, beyond doubt
No! Merely to exist eternally is not to live
| To live is to exercise perfectly all those fac
ulties of body and soul and intellect which
| God has given to man, and which cannot be
rightly exercised apart from Him who gave
| them This is to Give according to the
Holy Scriptures and this alone is to live.
And the power to live thus can come only,
Scripture further tells US, from the risen
Man Jesus Christ. Observe that neither our
Lord nor His apostles say, God is the res
direction and the life" HE that hath God
| hath life." No; our Lord would teach US
that there is no immediate access to God for
any human soul Jesus, the risen man stands
absolutely between, or rather, He himself is
God and man in one. 81, that is, 81, Jesus,
am the resurrection and the life" There is
no approach to God but through Jesus Christ.
81 the door; | am the way; | am the
life"
To those who possess that faith in the
risen Lord, what strength is given by this
fact what magnifcence of courage and of
hope, They that have the Son have life.
No man" He says, lean snatch them out
of Ny hand" Jesus Christ is victor, Jesus
Christ is king. "All power is given into
o christian, rejoice with exceeding great joy |
on this day of thy Lords Victory; your
Head yonr Elder Brother, is risen from the
grave that is common to us all. He withholds
nothing from you, He is King of kings and
Lords of lords, and ye are His children, His
brethren, His dear friends. IAN things are
yours, and ye are Christ's and Christ is
Gods"
The following program was rendered at
this church. yesterday
Professional Hymn lO5.
Full Choral Service, (Talli's Responses
Psalms and Canticles. (Chanted.)
TIE Deum (n g. (Philip Armes), Mus. Doc
O-ol).
Anthem, "Blessed be the God and Father"
(Dr, Wesley.
Choral Celebration of Holy Communion.
Communion Service Throughout. Tours in |
F. Hymns, etc.
EvESsoNG.
Choral Service (throughout).
Psalms, (chanted).
Cantate Domino, DR.. Hodges.
Deus Misereatur, Service in g.
Anthem.
Hymn I0l.
Recessional Hymn 495.
The floral decorations in the chancel at
St. Marks Episcopal were beautiful and
elaborate On the altar was beautiful
cross of lilies and other white flowers. On
the pulpit was beautiful mass of flowers
dish shaped and of different colors. On
the right of the rector on the reading desk
was beautiful floral star. The whole of
these flowers were choice and beautiful and
in exquisite taste. The singers were all
provided with bouquets were also many
ladies of the congre CATION.
UNITARIAN CHURCH.
The following was the program of music
rendered at the services yesterday
MORNING.
Sing Alleluia Forth, Dudiey Buck,
Christ Our Passover +. Seh,H,ng,
The Magdalene, G. ". Warren.
Sing Sweet Carols, 4. r. Homard.
In Excelsis Gloria, Rer. +. A. Cheseiey.
Sweetly are the Birds Singing, r. II. Uouyton.
Let the Merry Church Bells
Ring, Rer. ". II. Lyon.
Praise the Lord, Mozart.
Come Holy Spirit. gilbert.
Hear O Lord, Hatsoa'
He is Risen, h. Gedder.
Christ. Our Passover, SchW,Hg.
Christ is Risen, A. T. Cobb.
| Know that NV Redeemer Liveth, Handeh
The following is synopsis of the Easter
sermon by Rev Philip S. Thacher from the
text: Cor XIV 5l-''We shall be
changed" Easter, the festival of spring, lie
a.. J,t ~
ing of nature there lies a prophecy of our
Immortality. There is no evidence that we
shall ever cease to exist. Science in her
postulate of the indestructbility of matter,
and her proof of the conservation of energy,
asserts that there is no annihiatlou. but only
change There is evidence that the thinking
power is independent of the bodily organza-
ton 1t is not thinkable, that all thought
and consciousness should perish, and eternal
night and nothngness set in.
The mystery of our awakening from I'M
consciousness into conscious life has once
occurred. The birth into the immortal life
will only be a repetition of the wonder which
has already taken place. The greatest
minds have had the thought of another life
the Hottest hope of it belongs to the loftiest
spirits We know not what the nature of
the future life will be, but we feel assured
that 1t VIII be rational, Tor reason now rules
the universe, from the atom TO the star. 1t
will be just-justce is the imperious hunger
of the soul The theory that we are all to be
equal in the future is a monstrosity of
thought. Lives cannot be reduced to one |
level The old loves and tendencies will ex-
Continued on fourth page.
The burdens of Womanhood.
Thousands of women silently suffering !
untold misery, simply because they shrink
from consulting physician in those numerous