Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-04-09
MAGNO'S MESSAGE.
Palm Sunday Services.
RAzORs AND KNIVES USED FREELY
China Wedding Origin Of Easter HaO-
Denings in the Ward.

Last Sunday being Palm Sunday, !
our girls and boys could be seen wear
ing a piece OF palm The churches
were well attended and the services
were good.
Most OF our pastors filed their
stands At the usual hours and preached
excellent sermons.
The services ct Saint Joseph Catho-
lie Church was on a high order, aud
many interesting features character
ined the exercises.
1t seems that sin and wickedness
would reign supreme on last Sunday
afternoon Just before the large bell
in the Catholic dome tolled Tor SIX
O'Clock, Willie Robinson was sliced Sc
verely on his Uranium. The Rmbu-
lance responded, aud the boy was
treated and left. We had scarcely left
. the scene before we heard OF another
cutting serape. 1t seems that quar-
: rel orisinated among 3 gang of boys
, who were following band OF music,
which terminated in the fatal cutting
! OF Irwin Allen on Broad st. Thus end
ed Palm sunday OF 'S6.
On Monday night, March 2Sth. the
Q twentieth marriage anniversary OF Mr.
Q aud Mrs. Robert Monroe was celebrat-
g ed in the shape OF China Wedding at
their residence, 101S st Paul St Al
O'Clock the brilliantly lighted par
llors, filed with the delighted guests
were the scenes of social chat aDc
merriment. The presents were mum
erous and costly.
ORIGIN OF EASTER.
n Tomorrow is Easter yearly fea
81 tival for our people. A day when tn
10 young people deliberately displa.
m themselves in dressing. Let ns nov
n see its origin:
p Easter is the Annual Festival Observ
in ed throughout Christendom in com
n. memOration Of the resurrection OF on
% Lord.
ne The word Easter"-Anglo-Sax
Eastres, German Ostern-like tn
names OF the days of the week. is
survival from the old Teutonic Mytho
ril ogy
at states that neither Christ nor his Apol
I'm ties enjoined the keeping OF this (
lie any other festival. He attributes tt
IL introd uction of the Easter festival II
iel 60 the church to the perpetuation I
u an old usage Just as many other Gu
"a toms have been established. This
ss- doubtless the true statement OF II
By case.
ed But though the observance of I'll
la became the rule in the Chrlstlf
J. Church, q difference SIS to the time
its observance speedily srrang up b
tween Christians of Jewish and &c
tile descent which led long CONT
ued and bitter controversy aud an u
happy severance of Christian union.
al No rule Ms TO the date Of Easter fe
tival having been laid down by autho
. ity, Christians were left TO folow the
ha- ent in the Jewish and Gentle Churc
led as. The point at issue really was 6
date of the termination OF the Pasch
feast, and chief point was the "kee
ma ing" or mot keeping" the 14th day
'lty the month Nissan"
This diversity Iof usage was grad
av- ally brought to an end by the verdi
OF the Church at Rome. The Rom
Christians adopted the ordinary Ge
the tile ususge, which within certain IN
eld its, placed the observance OF the Or
VAS cifixion on Friday and that of rest
us. rection on the following Sunday.
arv Some centuries elapsed, howev
nv before all discrepancy stopped, b
. Is then q more intricate question RENAL
81 ed to be solved viz: how the full mo
, ~ on which Easter depended was to
predicted. This rule may be stat
thus: Easter Day is Sunday after
14th day OF the calenuAr noont VIII
OF happens on or after March 2lst.
sav- The churches of Russia and Ores
Ii, and the Oriental churches genera
al observed the UNIFORMED calend
NO their Easter following sometimes
fore and sometimes after that Of
Western Church. very rarely as in II
the two coincide.
Easter day as commemorating
lase central fact OF OF religion has been
UNI garded Rs the chief festival of
% Christian year, from earliess times (
ich- served with stately and elaborate C
emonials-
Tor There are many aud varying ritz
u De istic observances of Easter and mi
pur- interesting and curious popular c
are toms, OF which the cooking and sci
ing Of Easter eggs is one OF the m
IL. widespread with which it is come
ed in all Christian nations.
Lookout for the boys in their Eas
riggings tomorrow.
SeS. The girls have decided 30 appea
mas their best tomorrow,
the The "War Scare" has greatly alaI
De- ed some of our people, and many
" the ideas expressed.
es6. Mr.. A. g. Booker of Chicago,
arv the city last Tuesday for New Y
= of where he will spend few days y
his sister, after which he will ret
to his home in Chicago.
keys MAeFo UN