The Newtown bee., 1897-04-23
THE VIEWPOINT BEE. NEWTOWN, FRIDAY, APRIL 23.
 CIRCULATION: JANUARY 1, 1889 61o LAST WEEK, s1ooi
LitchfieId County News.
WATERTOWN.
EASTER AT CHRIST CHURCH.

EASTER AT CHRIST CHURCH.
 The Easter services at Christ church
 were to the reporter the most impress i've he ever attended. From the first service at 7,45 8. m. to the children's , service in the evening, there was note of triumph running through the whole, which told of world redeemed, Say four risen, ring of sincerity which came not from the choir only, neither from the preacher alone, but from all present. Saint and sinner alike all joined in the joyous strain which comes only with an Eastertide. The chancel and some of the windows on each side were decorated with profuaion of potted plants, Easter lilies predomina- ting. On the chaDcel table was the us- ual number of cut flowers which are the yearly gift of Mrs w. E. Gurus of New York. The service throughout the day. including those at Oakville were in charge of the rector, MT Cunningham. At the evening service the Sunday school occupied the front seats and after an ad- dress by the superintendent, H. H. Hem. l inway, the children marched up by | classes and presented their offerings. | For some years past each child in the l Sunday school is given paper pyramid l at the beginning of Lent, in which to collect their Lenten offering and on Easter day at the Children's service which Is generally in the evening, there is large pyramid shaped box placed in the front of the church near the chancel, and each class marches to the front and places their offering in the box. A seI- mon suitable to the occasion was preached by the rector, MT Cunningham from the text, "The trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised.'' He be- gan his discourse by relating an incident which happened at the repairing of an t old English church. In scraping the old plaster from the walls they came f upon picture of graveyard and in one corner there was picture of what those t who painted it evidently supposed hell [ looked like; namely, seething furnace ! with 8 great many devils with long T hooks ready to reach for those who were c ioomed and drag them down. The although crude in the extreme, vas evidently intended to convey the hen prevalent idea that the resurrec a ion would take place suddenly in a mo. i, nent as it were, the good or the elect U soing into life and the doomed being aught on those long hooks ard drag 'ed down to eternal death. The idea las done great deal of harm, mainly trough it's grotes queness, some claim Il ng that 1t then was fair representa-. lon Of what the resurrection was going f, be like. They did not want to bother O, bout it. A wrong interpretation of his text ana others like it led up to a4 his erroneous idea. The language of " Paul is in great many cases figura. We and in the text quoted above he is violently referring to the last great act m the drama of life, an act which comes W ot suddenly but which has been com di 'g along gradually. The body, for in- m 'ance of man 35 years old has been 'surfected, so scientists tell us, about, cl Ve times. This is the idea of the resur- Ia .ction. 1t is process that Is going on ell Il the time. A man Is resurrected just in often as he can count seven years in VI s lifetime. The same thing is true of sh le mind and the soul. A complete ps lange takes place just as in the body. ody, mind and soul may be resurrected, ade new. Still we have scars, scars 'h hich remain even though all else Al lange and which can only be healed trough the blood of Christ. Your res "' 'rection is going on all the time right gre and now. It is either upward to- Es ards eternal life or downward towards 'ath, and the Judgment. Resurrection is .,, 't according to our works but accord s to our faith in Christ. The follow g is list of the Easter music:
 MORNING.
 'elude. Festival Dudley Buck nthem' Christ our Passover, Danks Denm Fay pu troit, "I Know that my Redeemer Liveth." Su
 From the Messiah W rertory, "This is the day." Cooke 1stlude selection, Messiah
 EVENING. tic 'elude selection Messfah ~ Beloved" Statuer o"