The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1895-04-20
EASTER SERVICES.
Everywhere the Joyous Festival Was
Happily Celebrated.

happily celebrated.
Easter Day was bright and CHEEKY. and the
churches throughout the county celebrated
attractive services, which were everywhere
LARGELY attended.
Trinity Church, ElktOn.
The services and floral decorations ut Trim
ity p. T.. Church were as usual very attractive
The subject of the Easter morning sermon by
the rector. Rev. William Schouler was "The
House Perishabe and the House Imperish
able the text being from III Corinthians,
V. 1-5: "For we know that, if our earthly
house of this tabernacle We're dissolved, we
have a building of God, an house not made
with hands, eternal. in the heavens with
verses following. Easter commentaries the
funllment of Christ'S prediction, destroy
this temple and in three days will raise it
up" when He ''spake OF the temple of His
body And because that temple was rebuilt
and on immovable foundations. the earthly
tabernacle of our mortal bodies shall give
place to the "house which is from Cod
"alcrnal,n and ''in the heavens" the body
rHrruptibIe for the body incorruptible. and
.l-hioned like unto Christ's glorious body,
now in Heaven. 1T is aS though we beheld
some grand cathedral suddenly assume full
proportions, and appear in all its majestic
beauty, and that while it was the
first, yet that it should not stand alone, that
d. erection was the prophecy and pledge of
multiplied handiwork by the same skilled
builders of structure upon structure, springing
up ;s in night, and aptly harmonizing with
the original choice workmanship OF Il mastt
hand
an this we groan, being burdened, so the
apostle declares. And true it is that we
realize, while dwelling i'll this body Of clay,
the burden of physical ills and inlrmities,
and Of the temptations that address them
selves to the bodily nature. and which. if
yielded to, bring the spirit under bondage to
the lower instincts OF our material being
Yet the promise of deliverance in the end
and Of the body spiritualized and trans formed
supplies "A basis Tor patience under bodily
trial and for perseverance in the struggle with
those temptations that address themselves to
the bodily sense
The house is Iron Heaven because il is
from Him Who dwcllcth in the heavens, and
from Christ the Head, exalted unto Heaven.
and the source OF the new life in the soul
" hich has lis outcome IN the glortled BODY
The Apostle speaks Of being clothed upon
with our house which is from Heaven: Ian
guage which seems to involve comparison
OF the r, surrecton change with the putting
on OF II garment over that already worn; and
which would be in harmony with his teaching
elsewhere, where he lIkenS the relation of the
present body to that which shall be to the
bare grain implanted. and the same grain in
its ripeness and maturity. We cannot under
take To define the exact relation Of the body
OF time to the body OF eternity; but that there
is a certain identity preserved, or a certain
connection between the two, that the one is
linked on 50 to speak, to the other, SO that
there is no absolute and total break, hOWsc-
ever it may he explained the connection
may be that OF the seed with the flower
appears from ScrIpturai statements like that
found in the Resurrection Chapter of FIRST
Corinthians where, Paul declares that "it
Is SOWn III corruption, IL Is raised III lncOrrup-
ton; where the two Alternatives are made of
one and the same subject; and where, again,
he makes the express and precise statement
that God shall quicken your mortal bodies -
. l-KOmans viii, H.
That we may share in the glorious promise
of habitation in the house which Is from
Heaven, let there be the renewal of our
spirits after Christ's likeness, and the Setting
OF our affections on things above, not on
things on the earth.'
The anthem, why Seek Ye the Living
Among the Dead was sung nc the morning
service, and five Easter carols ut the
evening service, on which occasion the
rector led the school in responsive reading
and there was IA joint recitation Of the 'Duty
Towards God and Toward Our Neighbor. "
, from the catechism. Remarks appropriate to
the occasion were made by the rector The
Sunday School Lenten Missionary Offering
/ through the missionary boxes distributed
previous to the Lenten season We're received
at the collection.