The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-18
GREAT CROWD AT ST. MARKS.

Mr. Garrett on the Present Resurrec-
tion-Beautiful Music.
Easter was celebrated at st. Marks
yesterday by the most impressive services
ever held in the church. The interior was
beautifully decorated for the occasion
the altar surrounded with palms and
Easter lilies, and the rood screen trimmed
with ivy, lilies and callas. Under the
direction of Professor H. s. Sharpe, the
music was better than ever before.
The attendance was so large that ten
minutes before the hour for beginning
every seat in the church was occupied,
and the aisles were filled with chairs, and
by a lit after IL O'Clock men and women
were standing in all the available spaces.
The service opened with the majestic pro-
cessional:
The strife is DER, the battle done!
The victory of life is won;
The song of triumph has begun,
Alleluial
The powers of Death have done their worst
But Christ their lesions hath dispersed;
Alieluia!
The organ was supplemented by vio-
loncello and cornet. and the boys sang
with perfect time and expression, not only
Il
the splendid offertory anthem.
Before the sermon the rector, Rev. d. C.
Garrett, made a short address to the con-
gregation. reminding them that it was
nearly two years to day since he had
first stood in the pulpit OF st. Marks, to
which he was then a visitor. The work in
the parish had been blessed; and whatever
might have been the disappointments and
NJ hate tha 80
years, the church seemed now in posi-
ton of strength and power for doing good
in the community. The people were united
and jealous, and he was devoutly thankful
that he was the rector OF st. Marks.
The sermon itself, which was very brief,
but unusually earnest and eloquent, was
from the text: "If We then be risen with
Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ stitch on the right hand of
God"-Colossians ill., l.. The subject was
the power and significance of the present
resurrection. After touching on the
thought that the resurrection of Christ
was usually accepted as pointing to a
resurrection of the body after death, the
speaker called attention to the fact that
st. Paul in the words of the text had
meant something elsa present resurrec-
in the earthly body. This resurrection of
which st. Paul spoke was the rising from
life of SIN to better existence with
Christ; resurrection in which the Chris
tian puts off the old man-Adam-and
puts on the new man-Christ and His
works. This resurrection of the present
life, said the preacher, is the most i'm
portant. for without it any other
resurrection is impossible. This rising
from the earthly and animal life to a
higher sense of duty and a fuller knowl-
edge of spiritual laws is the one thing
which gives significance to this human ex-
istence. Just as the plants throw off their
old and withered leaves to make place for
new ones, just as the grub emerges from
the cocoon winged butterfly. the type of
immortality, SO man casts aside the NOR
tai and sinful and puts on the immortal
strength and beauty of a Christian life. OF
such a resurrection as this, Christ's rising
from the dead on the first Easter morning
is the true type.
The sermon closed with a forcible ap-
peal to the listeners to enter upon the
higher life of Christian duty.
In the evening there was festival ser
vice and sermon, for which the church
was again crowded. The order of music
was as follows:
| Proct sional Hymn-"At the Lambs High
Feast Observation-Disclosures.
Choral Service. ech
"MsxElfcat'i Observation-Disclosures. Goss
"Nunc Dimittis'
Anthem-"He Is Risen. Clare
| Hymn-"Jesus Christ Is Risen Today" -. Carey
Authenticity Have Taken Away Ny Lord"
Rece.sionai-.The Strife is GER Pa'esi Ina
The annual meeting of st. Marks parish
| will be held this evening.