The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-17
EASTER FESTIVAL.
Flowers and Music Will Mark Is
Observance.
Special Services TO B. Held In All City
Churches Cars.

Easter tomorrow Roses are selling at
e. so dozen, or 80 cents for single
blossom. Millincr and dressmalzers arc
hustliDg to put the finishing touches on
the delightful affairs that must be de-
livored tonight To appear In Fashion 3
Annual Demonstration ia the morning.
Boy chors are rehearsing and little girls
are practising the bows which must be
made before and after the pieces To bo
spoken at tomorrow's concert And
hundreds OF ministers are making the
last revision of their sermons trying to
tell the beautiful old story Of the resurrec-
ton In new way, To arouse "a new
thought. TO use the 20 or % minutes
allotted 10 tho discourse in such way
that mt least one man or woman or child
IN the congregation will be the better for
having listened.
There will be special services in every
church In the city. Elaborate musical
programs ana gorgeous displays of flowers
Will reward the church gocr, no matter
10 which house of worship he may go
nor at what hour of the day.
For those who wish 10 attend the earliest
services of the day the Union Railroad
Company makes special provisions and
cars will leave the terminal Of the differ
ent routes as follows: Olneyyille, via
Westminster street. also via Broadway, nc
b:l5 and 5:25 IA m; Cranston street,
Broad street, Elmwood and Mount Pleas
unlt Nv ID ~ u III , s>1llIi y NH, hOatfnOf
street, also Red Bridge at 5:l5 a. M.
Washington Park, via Eddy street, at $40
a. III. Riverside at 4:i5 a. III. All re-
turning after the services
Church of the Epiphany. The services will
be as follows: Z, 9i5. IL, 3, 7:3l. Tho II
o'clock service will be rendered by the adult
choir, Mr. l.. II. Downes, Sr., organist. The
e Gas and 730 o'clock services will be sung
by the boy choir, Mr.. George II. Lincoln, Jr.,
organist. The o'clock service viii be the
Sunday School festival and very interesting
service has been arranged. O'Clock service
Process, Jesus Christ Is Risen; hymn liz;
anthem, Awake Thou That slcepest. by
Simper; Kyrie, by Stanley: Gloria Tibi
Bitch; anthem, King of Kings by Simper;
communion responses and Sanctus, by Ely
service book; hymn 1lS; Gloria in Excclsis,
Zunder recess hymn 522. 9:i5 o oclocS service
Process hymn, ll2; Christ Our Passover c.
Henry Alexander; Giorias TIE Deuin and
Jubilate, by II. Housely; anthem. Hallelujah,
Christ Is Risen, by Clare; recess hymn 522
ii o'clock service-Festival Prelude, d.
Buck; hymn lis, by Hall; Greed, by DR.. c.
Warwick Jorden; Kyrie, by Knitze; Gloria
Tibi, by l.. Il. Downes; anthem, Christ Is
Risen, by Sterne; offertory anthem, The
Resurrection, by Shelly; Communion
Responses l.. Il. Downes; Sanctus, Gounod
Benedictus Qui VENT, by Knitze; Agnus Del
by Knitze Gloria in Excelsis, by Knitze hymn
l2l.7 80 o'clock service-Prc cess hymn ll2: An.
them, Hallelujah, Christ Il Risen, by Simper:
Giorias, by Housely; Nagnifcat and Nunc-
Dimittis. by Simper; anthem, Awake Thou
That Sleepest, by Simper; hymn lis; offer.
tory anthem, King of Kings, by Simper; re-
cess hymn 522. Knitze mass which is to be
used at the IL o'clock service, was translated
and adopted TO the prayer book version by
l.. 4. Downes, the organist, specially for this |
Easter service, and as this mass was written
about so years ago and sold at that time only |
by subscription, the number of copies at the |
present date are limited. It's forte lies in its |
melody and appropriateness to the different |
parts of the service.
Broad Street Christian Church. A new 4
Easter cantata, entitled Gross and Crown, by |
Mrs. f. L. Ashford, viii be rendered by a
full chorus choir under the direction OF l..
q. sherman, organist. assisted by Mrs. NJ
Nngo, soprano; Mrs. q. NJ. Tillnghast, con.
tralto; G. f. williams, tenor, and E. A. Chase /
basso. Part Thou, Lord, Wilt Arise. chorus
by full choir; The Temptation, solo and
chorus; God Shall Charge Hi, Angel Legions
trio; Hosanna in the highest, solo and cho-
rus; Ride On, o King, soprano solo; Gethsem-
ane, solo and chorus; The Shadow Of the
Cross, solo and quartet. Part 2-The Crown,
The Strife is Ger, mezzo soprano solo; Christ
Our Passover, chorus; Abide With Me, la
dies chorus, male chorus, obligato soprano; !
Come, Gracious Spirit. alto solo, And it
Came TO Pass quartet; Lift Up Your Heals,
final chorus.
Cathedral. Mr.. Joseph Hesse, organist and
choir director. Pontiicial high nj ass, 1880
o'clock Ecce Sacerdos, Sterile; Resurrexi,
lntroitus; Kyrie, Haydn Haec Dies Grad,
Witt; Cictimae Paseliali, seguentia: Emittle
Spiritum, Schutky; Credo, Beethoven: Terra
Tremult, Ofertorium: Exultate Des
Palestrina; Sanctus. Haydn; Benedictus.
Klein, Agnus Del, Klein Pascha Nostrum,
Communio Oremus, Singenborger. Pom.
tiiicial vespers: Dous in Auditorium ]ima;
Angelus, anthem. h. vespers; Dixit Dominus,
four parts Et Ecceterrae Motus, II. vespers;
Confltebor, four parts; Frat, anthem, II.
vespors; Beatus vir, four parts PrGo Timore
Il. vespcrs; Laudste Pueri, four parts: Re.
spondeus, Il. vespers; in Exitu Israel, four
parts; Haec Dies, Klein; Et Respiciontes, r.
vespers; Magnificat, Jima: o, Salutsris, solo,
Tantum Ergo ouartet. Iaudote. Eft