Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-26
EASTER SUNDAY.
The Day Appropriately OBJ
served in All the Churches.
handsome Decorations and Beautiful
Musical Programmes.

st., Abstracts Of What the Several cIersymsl
Said In Sermons.
Easter was specially observed among thu
churches yesterday. Following is . briel
account of the exercises in each:
Free Baptist.
The floral decorations consisted of larg,
Easter lilies arrsyed in front Of the pulpit
Upon the platform we're potted plants, Der
muda lilies, smilax, white and red roses
petunias, geraniums and others. A wreatf
Of green was placed around the pulpit
The musical programme composed the fol
,oviue: Anthem. "Christ Our Passover,
Holden; offertory, "He Il Risen." Clair
carol, "Easter Bells; anthem, II Am He
That Liveth." The effect of the bells
an the carol was pleasing fea-
tur.. A brief abstract Of Rev. Mr..
H.yes sermon is given below
Easter brings US assurance that there i,
life beyond the tomb. The parents, chill
drep. friends we see no longer are not lost,
but only gone beyond our range of vision.
And as Jesus was the same well-known
Jesus, and breathed the same loves after
Easter as before Gethsemene, We need
not fear that death has cooled the loves or
changed the personality of our own who
have gone before. And fer ourselves we
must look forward to death, not as an end
of life, but as renewal, and in the present
DAYS cherish eternal ambitions, AMI live by
the purpose of loyalty to God which is the
foundation of every right life and the only
foundation for life eternal.
Methodist
On each side of the pulpit and in front
were ported plants, Easter lilies, ferns,
Gala lilies, smilax, begoniss, heliotrope,
p;nks, wreaths of green, parlor maple and
roses. The musical programme was rem
dered by the regular choir. 1.-THE Strife Is
Ger" and "Spripgtide Birds Are Singing
we're the anthems. Prof. Cook very finely
rendered solo, "The Resurrection" by
Shelley. An Easter hymn and selection
from the Methodist Hymual were also q
part of the programme. The sermon is
given briefly as follows:
The text was in Job xiv, IA, eff man
Die Shall He Live Again." Having spoken
so recently on the pretended revelations Of
spiritualism and of other superstitions, the
question naturally arises as to whether OF
not all revelation and hope of another life
are likewise without foundation. There
fore, let US see, this glad Easter morning
il the hope we have of Immortality is rea-
sonable hope. There is much unbelief in
sfuture conscious life. The reasons for it
are not far to seek.
There are doubling Thomases who want
more evidence. A vile sensualism, the pre-
vaence of evil, some phases of so-called
science, and the results of sinful life are
other reasons. Since our dead vanish out
out of our sight and are never heard again,
and people who have died with the under
standing that if it was possible they would
communicate with the living, but have
never been known to do so, and since so
many say that the resurrection of Christ,
like the expe tation of man, is q creation of
his fancy, let us reason together and see If
we cannot give q reason for the hope that
Is In US.
universalist.
The floral decorations were very hand
somely arranged and consisted chiefly of
Easter lilies, wreathes Of green smilax.
potted plants and several other beautiful
kinds of flowers. The memorial pieces
we're very attractive. They were as fol-
lows: VIM. r. Smith, wreath; Mr.. j. S.
Hobbs, bouquet. E.ster lilies; Mrs.
Chisam, white flower piece; Mrs. Springer,
heliotrops piece; Mrs. Avery. piece, white
flowers, smilax; Mrs. T.. NJ. Boynton,
piece, white pinks, smiIax; DR.. Lapham,
Gala hllies; Mrs. J. F. Hill, bouquet Eas-
ter lilies, basket white pinks and smilax ;
Miss Grace Richards, bouquet, roses.
Following is the musical progra1 me;
ONer,oria. O.pan. Eugene Thayer
Te Deum, Thos Spencer Lloyd
Gloria, Mazart's 18th Mass
Hymn-,Jesus MY Rsdeemer Iivies."'
Csrol-"God Hath Sent His Angels" Howard
Iiveth., Hsrdel
Lord
Carol-"Song OF Sweetness" Exhardt
An,hem-"The Magdaiene," Geo. VIM. Warren
The sermon was from the text ia John
TX; IS, III Have Seen the Lord" Mr..
Leland said:
"The events which prompt the thought OF
this occasion are of more than usual impor-
lance, and vary in their character from the
sadness of the burial scene to the gladness
of the resurrection of our Lord. The sad
dest moments of our lives are those when
We stand weeping over crushed and buried
hopes. The glsddest moments are those
when we stand in the full enjoyment Of
hopes realized.
We all know what it is to be defeated
We know what it is to be victorious. We
have been under the shadow of despair
We have rejciced in the sunlight of sue.
cess. Our experience is but repetition Of
the experience of all who have lived before
us This variety of sunshine and shadow
Rladness and sadness, has come into the
lives of all. The shadow helps US to appre.
cate the sunlight. The misery, want and
sorrow which tinges our lives, helps US &c