Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-04-07


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81 THE CATHEDRAL.
The church was beautifully embellished
with cut and potted flowers. NO evergreen
being used in the decorations The
main alter was perfect mass OF
beautiful flowers and all its surroundings
and the minor affairs were pretthy
decked. AT the 6:3O mass Rev. Father
Bauer oficiated: ats o'clock mass 1t. Rev.
MIR Sullivan was celebrant. with keV
Father McElhgOtt deacon, and Father
Bauer sub-deacOn. Solemn Mass at lO:aO
was also celebrated by Mn. Sullivan. with
the same dcacons On this occasion Father
NcEllig0tt preached sermon on the
resurrection and IL was powerful and clio
ouent one. and listened 90 with the closest
attention The services OF the day closed
with Nespers I'm the afternoon, al the CON
clusion of which the Procession of the
Blessed Sacrament took place. All the
services were very largely offended. and
the DAY was most notable one.
ST. MATTHEWS p. T.. cmgCH
Attic 1850 a. m. service the congrega-
ton WAS very large The chancel, altar,
lectuu and other parts of the church
were handsomely decked with flowers. The
music was splendid. the programme as
printed I'm Saturday mornings REGISTER
being carried out. The rector, Rev. X.
Rush Swope ID. d.. delivered very inter
osting and instructive sermon ON the topic.
Why Easter is "a Dayot JOY. HIS text was
as follows:
..Tbis is the dav which the Lord hath
made: we will rejoice and bee glad in 1t.
Psalm ll--24:
The predominant emotion in the heart of
Chlisttudom to-day, said he, is joy. Since
the vcrua light of the first Easter brought
fov and gladuccs 90 the pcrpieXed and sor-
rowingdisciples the church OF Christ has
lahored 10 make this feast beyond all 9th
ers. the festival of Christian JOY IL is
natural % ask why Easter is such a feast
ar low. The reasons advance are three
The triumph and satisfaction enjoyed
Dos our Lord Himself, iu which we share.
III. The inyigorutiug grasp of trust IN
epircd hv our confidence lu the Tact oi the
Resurrection.
III. The confirmation of our instructive
faith I'm the pcrsistingly enduring person
ality of man.
7. Year by year wc follow our Lord
through the stages of His suffering and
death. We sympdthiZe reycrently with the
awful sorrow of our Friend and Lord, but
let us not forget in the contemplation OF
this humility, the glory and splendor
which have followed He is more than
conaueror How can that be-. He is "a
couQueror who is victorious through We
tories. he is more than cOnqueror who is
victorious through defeat Such is our
Risen Lord crucifed through weakness.
lie is now In the midst of the throne "a
lamb as 10 had been slain 1t is the pos
session Of the 10Y SET before Him that in
spires ours. As the golden bells upon the
High Priests garments sounded out upon
the waiting ears of Israel from within the
veil telling them that He WAS alive. $50 be
.hr knowledge that our Lord lvcth 20
make iutes,e7aian for us. turn our hcavi-
ness into joy and grid MS with eiadnrss.
III. Upon the fact of our Lords rcsur-
rcction from the dead rests all
that is diStiuctively Christian and
NOT merely thcistic truth, that is
I'm the creed Our Lord pointed TO
IL as the ccrtihcatiou OF His mission. and
the earliest sermons of the Apostles We're
almost entirely concerned with the resur-
the t,66nnsequent9s " whfc6' u l.5ibt6d. and
above AN the reality of the fact itself of
which they were personal witnesses. rms
was the substance of tine preaching of the
Apostles of Christ And uO man could be-
come Christian without faith i'm the rcsur-
rection Every Christian was witness.
either through himself on upon the testlmo-
uy of others. 90 the truth of that event
But we are asked. Was their faith well
grounded. We answer that the fact of the
resurrection Is as certain as any historical
event cau be. l.su, was without doubt
dead Yet. immortal witnesses testify tuat
they saw and c0uycrscd with Him alive
during q subsequent period of forty days.
10 is beside the empty tomb OF the risen
Christ that our Christian faith touched the
hard rock of fact Here we put AN end TO
the cneryatiug alterations of gucsses and
doubts and reach to the frontier of the alb
solutoiy certain. The joy of faith burns
within MS. and we lift up our heart and
soul to cine risen Lord.
ILL., Us 10 not strange that this Old
world of ours has persisted ll believing
that there is not any death. Yet, as "a ln1p
gets on i'm life he finds his deepest human
interests transferred % another sphere
which is beyond that of time and sense
Our friends are gone; their bodies lie be
meath the s0d-but their souls that
which was themselves. that which flashed
in tnc cye. WAS I'm the manner the tone. the
voice, the thought, the action where was
that,
Has 10 become absorbed I'm some sea of
life. I'm which AN personality and AN con-
aciousncss has persisted. Has u sunk
back after "a NOM euiary flicker into an
abyss pf nltlihe, A0W that the material
framework whose energy IL was IS with
drawn Our hearts cry out. THE universe
can never come 90 such q dimless ana con
tcmpyible AN ISSUE as that. As We stand
beside our dead the heart keeps saying
Life and not death Is the reality
10 is faith which grows because IL has
right 90 grow. 10 is nature 90 the heart
oft man What right has the little white
flower 20 blossom up on the side of the
Alps, just on the border of the SNOW line
The right which its existence asserts 1t
belongs there. IL sprang from "a seed. IL
found congenial air and soil, and So it is a
part Of the order of things. So the fact that
the sweet white flower of faith i'm the inn
morality of being has grown i'm all ages i'm
the soil of the human heart is So Is Siguifi-
cant as 90 make 10 little less than a demon
stratiOu of the reality. How does it hap
pen II there bee no reason rit that the UNI
iycrse. our Qld nurse. as she has taken her
man child i'm her arms ald carried him
through the ages. has whispered 10 him
this hope of another life. / believe that
the universe never lies. / believe that the
whisper is true But ! have further the
resurrection of Jesus Christ 90 settle the
Quc-ti.a for me beyond all doubt The res