Evening journal., 1892-04-18
BRIGHT EASTER-TIDE.
Thousands Of People Assemble In the
yarieus Places Of Worship


Market Street.-The Important Young
Man who would Not Wear His New
Clothes.
Easter Sunday has come and gone and,
although It was fair, 1t might have
been fsirer in Wilmington Old Sol,
however, did not forget to come forth In
al his glory at some time during the
day, and during the brief season that he
did show his face, everybody took ad-
vantage OF it At intervals during the
day, from dawn until twilight. the
church bells rang out merrily aud with
such volumes as was necessary to remind
the people of Wilmington that 1t was a
festive occasion.
Early IN the day there was stir In
many ho1Bahold Gay spring attire,
worn for the first time. was donned and
drapsd and looped to the young women's
taste. Mothers hustled about to get the
children of In their new raiment and the
people docked out upon the streets In
vari colored groups. There was
strange commingling Of dashing tints
and colurs, and light weight clothing
among more lmbre dresses OF those whose
new gowns had not come home yet from
the dressmakers' and the winter over
coats OF the young men who declared Il
was too cool dRv 70 cast aside a
comfortable garment Just to put on
style The divergence Of opinion on
the mperature was remarkable, some
of the girls who were most thinly clad in
lovely shades Of pearl and brown assert
ing with most convincing postiveness
that o was altogether too warm to wear
a wrap OF any kind. This most self-sat
isfed person Of the crowd, though vas the
lord young man who had his new suit
safe at home. yet deigned not to stoop to
the weakness OF wearing It, preferring to
rise superior 10 the occasion, and don his
new rsiment npon some milder day.
After the home preparations had been
CON mpleted these young people and the
men of more sombre age who could brush
up tseir old silk hats In time, Joined
the immense throng OF church goers
and Gro wded the churches The doors Of
these edi6ses were thrown wide open to
let the April air into the aisles aud vestl
bu'es. The great congregations sat be-
fore altars adorned with the purest
lilies aud other spring flowers and
listened TO the sweet music arranged as
outlined In the program which appeared
In EVENING JOURNAL OF Saturday. The
melody was waited out from windows
and doors Of the many tabernacles and
dosled over the still city.
EAsTKR PRoNENADING BEGINS.
The sun shown out In glorous bright
ness shortly before the noon hour
This was what the young WILMINGTON
ians and the middle aged people wanted
At the close Of the devotlons, while
the sun was still gliding the outside
avenues crowds poured forth and friends
OF different congregations and denomi
nations mingled on the way home, com
pairing notes on the services they had
just left aud telling the striking
sayings that they had heard from the
various pulpits This was most marked
In The centre OF the city where a number
of large churches are situated within
few squares Of each other. Altogether
Easter Sunday Of 1892, was a good day
and it will be remembered as a bright
and happy occasion.
TRlNITY's GREAT DAY.
At Trinity P r Church, Delaware
avenue and Adams street all the services
were we'll attended The decorations,
consisting OF flowers aud plants, sur
passing all adornments Of this church at
Easter The altar and chancel rails and
across the entire front Of the church were
q solid mass Of blooming flowers, they
being used as sn emblem OF this queen Of
festivals. A new lecturn has been placed
In the church by Samuel Biddle In mem
ory Of his wife, who was a member Of
Trinity Church. IL is Of solid brass, on
which Is mounted an eagle IL was
placed In the church on Saturday and
used for the first time at the morning
service. Early celebration OF the Holy
Communion was held at z a. m. The
10. 30 q m, service opened with the pro-
cessional hymn, Christ. the Lord is
Risen Again. The rector, Rev, H. Ash
ton Henry. conducted the services and
preached the sermon. His text was
taken from First Corinthians, XIV, II.
"And II Christ be not raised. your faith
Is In vain
T. Leslie Carpenter had charge Of the
music, Of which the program was given
In Saturdays EVENING JOURNAL At
offsrory William D Miller sang "The
Resurrection, by Holden. The reces-
sionsl hymn was The Day of Resurrec-
tion
The Sunday school exercises were held
in the church at m. The scholars met
In the Sunday school building and pro
ceeded to the church in body. The
church choir, consisting OF forty Choir
listers and Rn orchestra Of twelve pieces,
assisted the school in the rendition Of the
Easter carols
The Easter Offering from the chlldens
mite boxes amounted to 1926 The pro
gram was ss follows: Professional carol,
Welcome Happy Morning." carol,
'Jesus Christ Our saviour" carol,
"Ju6ilate:" carol. bv infant school ad.
dress uy the rec-n- ar0l, EASTER SOag;"
offertoTy; occasional, Praise to Jesus,
Lord and God "
At .he night service, Rev Charles A.
Hayden Of JlRymont preached His text
was from St johns Revelation, l-1S-"I
am BE that liveth, and was dead, and
behold. am alive for vermore, amen I;
and have the keys Of hell aud Of death Z"
The collections Of the entire day will 60
toward paying Of the Indebtedness on
the church. They amounted to between
500 and $500
1hs music at both services, morning
and evening, was well rendered, showing
that a great deal Of care was taken by
Mr.. Carpenter in drilling the singers
-FOUR vIoLINIsTs PLAY A SELECTION.
Second Baptist Mission school, corner
Fourth and French streets, observed
Easter Day with appropriate music snd
recitstionB. The pulpit was beautifully
decorated with lilies and other
plants. At the rear Of the pulpit
was an arch decorated with cut
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