The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-16
POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE
Bishop SnttrrIee's sermon mt 81
Marks Pro-CnthcdraI.


a Streets. southeast. was the centre OF in
terest for Epizcopalians yesterday. There
services we're held throughout the day
with the Bishop of Washington Off lat
ing. The chaucel was beautifully deco
rated with Easter lilies. flowers. and
palms. while hanging from the walls with
in it we're streamers OF Southern sniaN'
The music was inspiring and many peo-
pie passing on the street near the cnur'
were attracted inside by the beautiful
strains.
The services began at $50 o'clock, in the
morning. when prayers were sad and hoiy
communion was administered. At the II
O'Clock service. Bishop Satterlee oficiated'
assisted bv Rev Dr. WiIlilm L. Devries,
rector of the church, and the Rev L.
HAYES. The Rev. Or. Peters acted as dea-
con. Holy communion was also aanini7-
tered at the close OF this service
The Rlshon preached an eloquent sermon,
taking for his theme The Power OF an
Endless Life" He said that Christ IS tue
only man who ever died and aiter"ard
returned to earth. In his death and lc-
turn to life there is undisputable evidence
! that there is a life hereafter in which God
is the predominatng figure.
is there a life to come? 10" many
men have asked themselves that cues
ticn? All the religions of this world,
heather. as well as Christian, tell us
about a life hereafter" said the speaker
Wherever YOU travel on this earth, you
find all men believing vaguely. mysteil-
ously. in the life to come. Yet WheIe
/ is the proof? a man asks himself You
20 out and gaze up at the starlit skies
/ but the silent heavens give no token You
I gaze upon the face Of nature; there s
/ change and decay in everything you see
! there Is death, but no proof OF life after
; death. Go to ancient Nineveh, or ancient
! Egypt, where you move with teeiing Of
! awe through the dismautled ruins. You
/ are surrounded by gigantic traces OF fG m
I er life: your feet are pressing the ground
! trodden before you by untold multitudes.
You ask where those teeming mulutudes
are now, but no voice answers; the silence
! of the ages remains unbroken.
Countless armies Of the dead have set
] sail for the shores of time; every day and
! every moment new souls are going. enc
! by one our own friends, father mother,
! children. embark on the ocean Of eternity,
] but no traveller returns from the still land
/ beyond the sea. Not a voice, not a whisper,
| comes back to tell us whether those souls
]
| Must We be left in uncertainty? Is there
nothing to show that the land beyond The
/ sea is something more than a dream?
| AS Europe once gazed upon the discov-
erer of the western continent the man
! who first told of a land beyond the bread
| Atlantic, and proved it by going there, so
] the whole human race gazes upon MOI c
! wondeTuus Man. He told OF that land be-
I You'd the sea of death, whose sun never
] sets and where God shall wipe away all
/ the tears from our eyes forever. He talk
/ ed Of that life to come. net as IL it were a
| dream, but certainty. and all his teach
! ings to his followers were about the way
| TO prepare for that endless life.
Then he said not merely to his follow
| ers. but openly to vast multitudes, that he
/ would go to that land and return. They
| did not believe him. They nailed him 10
| the cross and tainted him with his words,
! He saved Others himself he cannot save.
| After he was dead they thrust a spear
! through his heart to prove that he Yves
dead. Then after they had buried him, they
went to the Roman governor and said: Sir,
We remember that that deceiver said. after
| three days he would rise again
! And so to make matters sure. they Sc
! cured his permission to stamp the Govern
ment seal upon the fastening Of the tomb,
! and rolled a stone Of many tons weight
| against the door. and set sentine,s to
1 watch the stone Oh, how careful his enc
! mics we're that there should be 10 deceg-
. ton. The preparations were complete. 70
! human eyes and human thought, that 81
leuce OF the grave was TO remain unbrOh-
en- forever.
The hours glide on and the appointed
! time draws near. The moment az last ar
! rivts. That door is open. and that store
o. mi by wit
] but by a power from within. The risen
/ Saviour comes forth. and Lefore his face
/ the sentinels fee. And the whole world
! gazing upon that open door Of the sepul-
chre and he form which energies there
from beholds the one man OF all the earth
I whose soul has set sail from the shores
1 of time and returned from that land beyond
| the sea.
The life to come is. no more "a dream
no more matter Of uncertainty and
doubt: IL is fixed reality. proven by an
| historical fact"
The music was exceptionally well render
| ed. The boy choir OF the church was
| strengthened by number Of adult voices
and the combination proved a most ef-
| fectiye one. The following was the pIo-
gramme:
Prelude Third Sonata. fret movement Gull
! mIut; Professional, 100, Christ our Passover,
I Chant. l14: rc Deum. stephens: lubilate, Chant
! %: Irtrgit Anthem. Behold, the Angel Of the
] Lord, Tours, short KyrieS Tails; Gloria 1ibi.
I Eyre; Nirene Greed. Eyre, Hymn Before sermon,
! l2l; D0zoIogy. Old l0Jth; Ssnctus. Eyre, Com
! muuion Hymn. lis; Gloria in Eycel-.~, Eyre:
1 Reces.ion1l, ll2; Postlude, Halclujah Chorus,
! Handel
At $50 O'Clock special services were held
for the children Of the Sunday school and
| the congregation. In the evening Bishop
| Satterlee again presided over the services
1 and preached the sermon. The following
| musical programme was rendered:
Prelude, march, from Israel in Egypt Handel;
| Professional. 10. Gloria Pltri. Chant D.; MaCut
feat Nuuc Dimit.is, White, Anthem. As t Began
J 90 Dawn Poster. Hymn Before Sermon. Ito;
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