Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-03-30
EASTBR-TIDE
The Great Festival of the Resur-
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The promise OF typical Easter weather
was not fulfilled last Sunday, clouds and
chilling wind taking the place of the bright
sunshine and soft air of the previous week
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Easter spirit, and the services called out
large congregations of worshippers.
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At St Michael Eplscopal church tne
chancel and sanctuary were ueCoTateu M!tH
potted plants ana cut MOVERS Easter illes
predominatng III the general erect AOoNe
the altar was cross Oh oeautlul roses;
The lighted corona adued 10 Vhe general
effect. AT the CLOCK A. NJ service Vliere
was a celebration Oh Vne hoiy COMM ''i,luh'
with the usual musical rendering anu ule
singing OF an Easter carol by Ine cno,r'
large number OF persons parlQok Vi Une
elements. At the lO:3O service beauseahu
Commandery OF knights ienlPlar MeLe
present III tull uniform, entering the G ,lI.
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the resurrection of Christ as an attested
fact, of st. Pauls application OF the great
ruth to the ColOssians to whom he was
writing, and finally of the application
which we also should make OF 1t in our
daily lives. A portion OF the remarks was
directed especially TO the knights, alluslon
being made to their honorable history as a
Christian order, and an eNhortatlon TO
them to show in their lives the principles
which they profess. After the sermon the
Knights left the church to the music OF
the occasional hymn, " Go forward Chris
tian Soldiers" The holy communion was
then administered to those who had not
partaken at the early service.
AT o'clock large congregation was in
attendance to hear the Easter carols sung.
The children of the Sunday school were
massed in the seats near the choir and
several new carols were sung by them, the
choir assisting. After few brief remarks
by Mr.. Collins the lenten offering for
missions was taken up. This was the re-
suit of the savings of the children during
Lent, many of them having worked and
earned money to be given for this purpose.
At all the services the music was excel
lent, rejecting great credit on both organist
and choir
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The floral decorations at the centre
church were unusually beautiful. Inc
main features were the arch ABOVE Ihe
choir arranged with hlles, splrea and Will
lows upon background OF laurel, ana the
masslng OF lines, marguerltes ana custer
ing palms at the sides OF the pulpit BEFORE
several OF the memorial WINDOWS mowers
were placed, lncludlng oeaulllul cluster
OF lilies from an old friend before that OF
n. Is. winston. Ihe quartet rendered the
anthems IN manner fully 10 MAINTAIN
their high standard; and IN addltlon the
congregation were greatly surprised and
moved by the presence OF Mrs. Mary Howe
LAWN, who sang Immediately after the
sermon, with great tenderness and power,
the old hymn so often heard and so freight
ed with sacred memories, "HoW calm and
beautiful the morn.
Rev. Mr.. Day preached from Iech. XIV,
81, upon The accumulating evidences for
immortality" God solution OF the cloudy
and dark day OF human life he keeps for
the end OF it; ''at evening time 1t shall be
light" but increasingly do we see what
that solution is to be. The proof, not math-
ematical, but con7incingly probable, for
immortality is cumulative one. Nature
makes man her end and gives him soul
which she herself labors to compel to
transcend herself in ideals and freedom.
The souls own inner witness, its fixed and
dominant ideas, 'God, duty, Immortality"
and its Increasing dependence, proportional
10 its higher growth, upon love and life;
and history, as the development OF the race
OF such souls, revealing growing posi-
bility, appropriateness yet Incompetence,
and so demanding society and kingdom
OF the spirit, carry forward the proof. So
say the great masters of the souls life,
poets, prophets, seers and philosophers.
So declared the Lord, OF himself and OF
men, by the fact OF the unconquerableness
of his own life. The whole movement OF
evidence results IN the lndlssoluble COM
initial of man to God in hope and love
and also of God to man, bound by his own
honor to make good that which by all the