The Newtown bee., 1894-03-30
THE EASTER SERVICES.
TRINITY $ OBSERVANCES.

Easter was fittingly observed at Trinity
 with rare flowers beautiful music and an excellent sermon by the rector, Rev G. F. Linsley. The flowers consisted of potted plants in massive banks in front of the pulpit and reading desk, and the
 pure white Easter and calla lilies were used for the Ietable decoration. The music was carefully prepared and we'll rendered. MT Linsley took for his text, Cor. 15: 1G-17, "If the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised, and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, ye are yet in your sins" and handled his subject in very convincing manner. Among other points brought out were the following :: Millions of Christian people are con- | fessing to-day their faith in the great doctrine of the resurrection of the dead. We join the ranks of a vast and mighty army as we gather here and the rest are assembled elsewhere to celebrate the | resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. | Why are the churches filled to-day with | larger numbers than on any other day of the whole year? Why is it, that the worldly and ceaseless can hardly stay at home on this Easter day though they may be seldom seen in the house of God during any other part of the year? Is it not because there is something in this great truth of the resurrection which takes hold of the heart of every human being ,and satisfies some need that is in no other way fulfilled? Wherever you find | any man or woman with real manhood or womanhood in them there you will find that this great truth of the Risen Life appeals most strongly to the needs of their souls. The human soul naturally reaches out to the infinite. Present scenes and present joys and present hap piness do not make up the full satisfac- tion of these restless, eXpectaut, hopeful longing hearts of ours. There are sc many plans thwarted here, so many cherished hopes deferred, so many con. tradictions, so much jarring on our ideas of the fitness of things that the heart o1 man aches in it's unquenchable desire fol some time and place where these hopes may be fulfilled. Here we may sigh ant weep but we insist upon believing tha
 we shall come at length to that land pre- pared for us, where there will be no nor, signing and no more tears. Difficultie
 meet us here, mysteries surround us, bu we expect, we believe, that the time vii
 come when all these will be explaine, and we shall see not through glas
 darkly, but face to face and know evel as also we are known. This view of hu
 man life is that our earthly existence
 but transient and temporary, that it the vestibule through which we pass t ? the broadened and lofty dwelling plac of the Most High God. What does Rev
 elation teach in regard to these grea
 questions concerning human existene
 and the end thereof? Gods Reveale
 word makes ttis presumption in favor (
 this higher idea of life and death ee
 tainty. The one fact upon which tn {. whole faith of the Christian world d.
 bends is the fact of the resurrection { away the corner stone of the great builG f ing, or the keystone of the arch and ther
 by endanger the whole structure, so T. move the fact of Christ's resurrectio | from the worlds history and you thereb !. remove great spiritual power from tf t spiritual world, you make not only ia O probable but impossible the resurrectie II of the dead. The general rule had bee
 and now is that no one returns from u
 life beyond the grave to tell the world what awaits it. But do not the dead ri after all? If not then is not Christ raise
 If the dead rise not then Christ was dee IN ly humbled but not exalted. If Christ
 not raised mankind have no ideal of h . man conduct as pattern for their live ,n Christ is risen. Yes, believe it becau
 He was seen by many persons who d
 not expect to have that enraptured 10 B. One man of all the untold myriads WI have lived out their little lease of life
 earth has come back from the grave, q has risen from the dead and now is
 ac Gods right hand forevermore. That
 the rich reward in store for you and m
 Submit to death first we will--our bot
 laid in the earth so let it be, but our so
 will live on, our soul and body at leng
 in Gods good time will be reunited al
 will then enter upon an unceasing hap
 ness and eternal bliss in the immedia
 presence of our God. And so, to-day,
 we gather together to hear once mo
 the beauteous story ef the resurrecti
 life and look forward into the eternal an m ture, when all those whoa in the gray X shall come forth, when earth and 2