The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-25

The melodies softened, fell upon the
ears of the vast throng until it was
lost to everything except the exquisite
harmony of the numbers and the odor
Of the flowers.
Truly thing of beauty is a Joy
forever Of all the pretty things
that God has given US what one pref
tier than flowers.
"A poem every flower is,
And every leaf line,
And with delicious memories
Ihey I'LL this cart of nine"
Nive la Paseo de los Flores.
HOLY WEEK.
Holy week commenced on Palm
Sunday, April 10th. One of the
hymns sung on this day in many of
the churches commence with these two
lines.
Clad in raiment pure and white,
victor palms on every hand
Many were the sermons preached
that day from the text from St. John,
"rhey took branches of palm trees
and went forth to meet him"
| had the pleasure of attending
Palm Sunday services in the Great
Cathedral of this city, and they were
exec edingIy interesting. Many thou
sands of people gathered there to
commemorate the triumphal entry of
Christ into Jerusalem, but how many
Of the vast throng really knew what it
did mean? Nearly all who were pres
ent bore palm leaves plated and
weaved in various and unique designs,
some of these five or six feet tall. Ali
OF these palms were blest by the
priests and were carried home and
fastened to the balconies or other
parts of the houses to remain for the
ensuing year.
Tho Holy week commenced on
Palm Sunday there were no special
observances outside OF the churches.
But Thursday, Holy Thursday, bust
ness of nearly all kind was suspended.
Thursday morning the bells stopped
ringing and renamed quiet until Sat
urday morning at 10 o'clock. To the
visitor this was great relief as the
constant ringing Of the bells is a great
nuisance, a worry and fraud. 1t
used to be much worse, but the gov
eminent put a stop to the custom.
Under the law, as it stands now,
churches are not allowed to remain
open after 9 O'Clock at night. BY that
hour everything must be quiet and
dark. The services held 10 all the
churches Holy Sunday were very i'm
pressive, especially the one at 3
O'Clock. Hold your Protocols while /
tell you this. At the hour named
the ceremony of washing the disciples
feet was represented in each of the
leading churches. At the Cathedral
In the presence of thousands there
were gathered twelve Of the most mis-
cradle mendicants to be found in the
byways and highways of the city.
When tell you that the beggars Of
this city are the dirtiest to be found
in any country OF the world, you will
understand what the priest undertook.
He washed their feet and then made
holy sign OF the GROSS on the feet of
each of these representatives Of the
twelve apostles.
AT night | attended several of the
churches to view the Examinations.
The affairs of each we're ablaze with
lights from thousands of wax candles,
some of them ten or twelve feet high,
and as large as my arm indeed
larger. No sermon is preached, but
faint music was heard and with much
effect. The sight is very impressive
and beautiful, and never to be for
gotten by one who has seen it.
Good Friday witnessed in the
churches the most sombre rites of the
creed, There was no mass. In the
morning there occurred elias Tres
Caidas" in enumeration of the three
falls Christ is said to have suffered
while bearing the cross on his way to
Calvary.
In the afternoon "Las Tres Horas,"
the three hours of the crucifxion was
At night all the images about the
alters in all the churches were draped
in black.
In the afternoon at several of the
towns adjacent the Passion Play or
the crucitixion was presented, | am
told IN O n,aot .ooI,et;o ,.,....- 1