The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-18
AT PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL.
Music and Flowers Express Easter JOY
Mr.. Nuttfng's Sermon.

Easter was fittingly observed yesterday
at Plymouth Congregational church, cor
ner of Third and University streets. Aside
from the able sermon on Living and Ex-
istencen by the pastor. Rev. Wallace Nut
ting, the music was the feature of the SER
vice. In the morning the church was
filed to overlooking and many stood in
the aisles The floral decorations, though
not abundant, were tastefully arranged.
The choir was composed as follows: So
pranos-Miss Sara Compton, Mrs. Z. ID.
Crandall Miss Jennie Houghton, Miss
Dora Hughes, Miss Edith Simon; tenors-
Z. D. Crandall, George G. Colman, c. B.
Day, F. II. Hardwick; altos-Miss Julia
L. Chamberlain, Miss Charlotte Rice, Miss
Calie Gillette, Miss Helen Gillette; bassos
Il. J. Colman, John Dodds, William
McAdam, David Myers, John A. Whalley;
organist-Dr. c. A. Smith; director-E. d.
Crandall.
The singing by Miss Compton of "There-
fore With Angels and Archangels," and
the solo, "Sweetly the Birds Are Singing"
by MIR. Crandall were particularly good.
Mr. Nutting chose tor his sermon on
Existence and Living" a text taken from
Tim. vi IA Lay hold of the life which
is life indeed" The preacher endeavored
to show that "love is the harmony of liv-
ing things which makes living possible"
and the sermon was logical and carried
with it sense of conviction. He COM
pared the life of the writer of Ecclesiastes,
who had met only the slower forms of
love which do not last because they are not
based on the perfect action of true souls,
with the life of Timothy, who wrote to
Paul to "lay hold on the life which is life
indeed" He argued that to be successful
In life a man must be in perfect harmony
9Th what is good in the world. Said he:
We see in the old Roman days, in the first and
second centuries after Christ. how much more
The Christians enjoyed life than did the pagans
Among barbarous people life is always cheap.
1t is not full or rich Suicide is the sin OF pa
ganistn, aud II was q highly-spproved method
Of death among the pagans. The pagan looked
az the world, aud when he tried to ADJUST IL 10
seldshuess he found that 1t did not at IL had
been fashioned for holiness; 1t had been
adapted by the Almighty to good men SO Ii
was vanity to the wicked. There 10 not now,
nor WAS there then, enough to make men happy
Without God in 1t.
The preacher further said:
The friendship that must be ended is only
ni,ery. The man who believes in friendship
must believe IN God. For he must see That so
dear thing as a true friendship is not intend
oil to come 10 an end The love that loses the
loved object forever is q mockery. No such
love is born of God. Did love suffer in this way
We would know that some fiend ruled the
world, and that love wss given only TO tor
ment us.
Ii was held that to make life worth hv-
ing at all one must believe in God; that
real and rational enjoyment OF this WIS.,
ib!e world depends upon our confidence IN
God" The speaker stated that living
Jesus means the union of truth and power.
Said he:
The hope of the world, big with immortality,
forever dependent on this same life power
With every springtime there shoot again under
the sun aud rain of heaven these Easter ouds OF
promise Pointing TO the flowers about the
pulptD. Just as the flower grows because 1od
has smiled upon it, SO is our life. fs see me,
said Jesus. In beholding because L live. ye
SHAH live also. Up through the intense cold OF
fs!thlessuess, bursting through the white pail
OF this world, which is continually casting
about itself winding sheet; up through con-
Gyion and corruption every Easter bud bursts
into bloom, aud speaks most eloQuenuy OF the
lie which II has because He lives.
In closing. the preacher said:
Christ lives today more intensely, more really
ter YOU and NE than on the nrst Easter. Be-