The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-31
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emit place, while on another side was al
number OF lilies We're placed Will
charming decorative effect. An augment
ed choir occupied the entire loft and tn,
special selections rendered by 1t were
perhaps. the finest that have ever beer
given in the church. The blending OF
vioces produced veritable floor OF sa-
cred melody, and the soIoists and the
new church quartet gave their selec-
tions in a most pleasing manner. The
4 choir was composed as follows:
( Quartet-Seprano Mrs. Alice Otis;
/ tenor, Mr.. c. A Elston; alto. Mrs. G.
/ NJ. Whitney; bass, Mr.. l. S. Dilling-
/ ham.
/ Special Soloists-Mrs Annis Mon
tague-Turner, Mrs. Geo. a. Howard Jr.,
Mrs. Chas. B, Cooper.
Auxiliary Chorus-Sopranos- j.
G. Pratt, Miss Charlotte V. c. Hall,
Miss Z. NJ. Taylor. Mrs. Cordelia ely
mer- Yarndley. Miss S. Lillian Bying-
ton, Miss Edith Rogers.
AltoS-MrS. Cornelia b. Damon, Mrs.
Walter Alvarez Miss Carrie ID. Castle
Miss Ruth +. Whitney.
Tenors-T,r. CT. Waldo Burgess. Mr..
E L. Collins. Mr.. w NJ. Campbell, Mr..
Arthur F. Wall.
Bass-Mr. Carl Andrews, Mr.. w. f.
Dillingham;.
Double Male Quartet-First tenors,
Mr.. C. A. E,lston, Mr.. ]. ID. Dougherty;
second tenors, Mr.. c. Kimball Mr.. r.
c. Brown; first basses. Mr.. Albert F.
Judd Mr.. L. S. Dillingham;; second
BASES. Mr.. Carl Andrews, Mr.. Walter
F. Dillingham;.
Observation-Disclosures Miss lola
e. Barber. Miss Alice Woods. Mrs. Geo.
A. Howard Jr., Prof. ]. II. ANIME, DR..
Arthur NJ. Smith.
Piano Accompanist-Miss Carrie ID.
Castle.
Organist and Conductor-Prof. A B.
Ingalls,.
The pastor. Rev. VIM. NJ Kincaid,
spoke on the Easter messagefi taking
as his text Matt. 2S:6; why seek We the
living among the dead. He is not dead:
He is risen. as he said. Come, see the
place where the Lord lay
In the course of his sermon he said;
There are three witnesses TO Christ 5
resurrection. First, the testimony of the
four Gospels We have in our hands to-
day the testimony of eyewitness as 10
what they saw on that Easter morning.
We have, in the second place, the exis-
tence OF the living church. founded not
on the character of Christ primarily,
not on his teaching primarily, not on
his passion or his death primarily, but
founded primarily on his resurrection as
a historical fact-a church which has
revolutionized the world.
If there were no resurrection of Jesus
Christ then this greatest moral reform
the world has ever seen, mother of all
other moral reforms, is founded on
great delusion. And then this very day
we celebrate is a witness. So 1t is not
a legend or fiction that draws us here |
today 1t is a great historical fact. The
man Jesus Christ, crucifed, has risen |
from the dead. The Easter message. |
brings revelation. first of all of God. The !
Did pagan religions say of God either |
he is hate or he is indifference, or he is |
Justice. Christianity brings another mes |
sa ge-God is love. In the place of the |
unknown God, Easter gives us a God |
hat is known; in the place of an indif- |
ferent God. a God whose heart pulsates !
with sympathy; in place of a feared and
dreaded God. a God whose presence IS
an inspiration to love and service.
But the Easter message is something
more. 1t is not merely Christ risen from
he dead, but Christ risen as the first
fruits of them that sleep. The love that
was victorious in Jesus Christ is victor
Gus in every follower of Jesus Christ
There is one other note in the Easter
message. The world had long looked
or deliverer. The Easter message is
That Deliverer has come, with power
iqual to his love and love equal to his