The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-23
PALM SUNDAY AT 81. MARKS.
1he Additional Room Not SuAcient for
the COngregatiou.

4ne Additional Room Not Su0cient for
the COngregation.
The Palm Sunday service in st. Marks
church yesterday morning drew . very
large congregation. The addition to the
church,. which gives about eighty more
sittings, was open for the first time, but in
spite Of the extra room the building was as
crowded As ever, and as usual chairs had
TO Be placed in the aisles to accommodate
the worshipers.
The choir, under the training of Mr.. H.
Sherman Sharpe, is showing marked i'm
provement, and gives promise that the
music on Easter will be Of very high
order The boys take the chorus parts in
good time, and with both volume and ex-
preston; and there are number of cx-
cellent solo voices. Two solos were given
yesterday morning. 1.-THE Palms." Of J.
Faure, by Mr.. Whitney Palache, Of San
Francisco, and Jerusalem" by Mrs. w. J.
Grambs.
The lesson read during the service was
the story Of the last supper, the agony in
the garden and the betrayal. The sermon
following by the rector, Rev. David Clai-
borne Garrett, was from the text, Luke
xix:41-42, "And when He was come near,
He beheld the city, and wept over it, say
ing. If thou hadst known, even thou, at
least in this thy day the things which be-
long unto thy peacel But now they are
hid from thine eyes,"
Mr.. Garrett began by telling of the cir
circumstances under which these words
were spoken. Christ had left Bethany to
go to Jerusalem for the last time. He had
sent one of his disciples to get colt on
which to ride as He came to the top of the
Mount of Olives. The pilgrims who had
gathered at Jerusalem to attend the feast
of the passover fiocked out Of the gates to
meet Him. They thought that he was the
promised Messiah who had come to re-
deem Israel-set up temporal kingdom,
splendid beyond that Of any period in
Jewish history. In honor and laudation
the multitude threw branches of palms in
His way, and shouted hosannas.
But Christ, when He beheld the city,
wept over it as mother might weep over
an erring child, and said: "If thou hadst
known the things which belong unto thy
peacel But now they are hid from thine
eyes,"
The speaker continued that the occasion
represented crisis in the history of Jeru-
salem: the time for choice between the
things which belonged to her peace and
the things which belonged to her destruc-
ton. Such time comes in the history Of
every nation-a turning point where the
decision means life or death. Such q
crisis comes in the history of cities; such
. crisis may come even in the history Of
this place, when the people can choose be-
tween that which seems to make for tenn
poral prosperity and that which makes for
justice and honor. With the individual,
too, the same decision has to be made,
and Christ stands, as He stood over Jeru-
salem, saying: IF thou hadst known, at
least in this thy day, the things which be-
long to thy peace"
Before Mr.. Garrett began his sermon he
announced several special services for the
coming week. At 8 o'clock on the after
Moons of Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
the regular Lenten services will be held
On Wednesday morning at O:3O the sacra-
ment of the Holy Communion will be ad-
ministered, and in the evening at 7:30 an
address will be given. A three-hour SER
vice will be held on Good Friday, from
noon till 8 o'clock in the afternoon, and in
the evening there will be an address. The
rite of baptism will be administered on
Saturday afternoon at o'clock. Easter
morning at 7:30 there will be early COM
munion, and at IL o'clock the regular SER
vice; at 8 . special service for the Good
Templars; at 4 service for children, and
at 80 the full choral service.
The Easter offering will be used to pay
of the mortgage on the church and clear
the floating Indebtedness.