Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-16
BISHOP SPALD|NG'S
MORNING SERMON
st. Marks Cathedral ProfuseIy
Decorated With Easter
Lilies.
SPLENDID MUSIC A FEATURE.
Large Congregation Manifested Pro-
found Intercst--lIow the Day is
Kept By the World.

ST. Marks cathedral was packed
solid with people at the II O'Clock
service long before Prof. Peabody, the
otganist. began the professional hymn:
aud the sermon OF the day was preach
ed by Bishop Saplding Among the
proflse floral decorations were many
lilies sent from San Francisco by Geo.
NJ. Scott former mayor Of this city,
and the greatest interest was manifest
ed all through the service both IN the
splendid music and the scholarly SER
mon preached by the bishop. Tho text
was from Psalms XXX. ., and the
speaker said in part
WORLD KEEPS EASTER DAY
"Heaviness may endure for a night,
but 10y cometh IN the morning
Am old English carol sings The
world itself keeps Easter day ana
though the world does not keep II
lust rs the chIrch would have here.
she does keep 1t IN a very beautiful
way, Easter Is the festival Of spring.
Winter, with It's chill and death, Is
over. Spring has come with It's sun
shine ana life the flowers bloom; the
trees shoot ont their buds. We MI
our churches with flowers, We array
ourselves IN garments of beauty ana
praise. The JOY of our hearts fnds eN-
preston in hymns Of gladness. our
old Saxon fore(athers Kept the feast to
I1ostera, goddess OF spring aud we
still keen holiday,
IF this be crude. partial concep-
ton of Easter JOY aud Easter glad
ne ~, it must not be overlooked. Christ
came not Ia destroy but TO fulfil.
Keep the old He seems 10 say, but
| viii show you, in that old, new
beauty, | viii teach you, for that old,
higher use; | will help YOU where
the old Joy fails As a new invention
Is not a new creation. but an adap-
ton Of elem ents already cxisting-mat-
ter and the forces Of nature being In
the universe as much before the In
ventiOn as after--sO Christianity dis
covers for us beauty We had ignored.
gives us capacities to use rightly things
we had been misusing, shows US noble
value In much which we had overlook
ed.
THE DEATH OF JESUS.
"The Christian keeps his Easter with
-
greater and more lasting. What the
fuller. deeper Christian Easter SOY is
we may learn by thinking of What
came to the Apostles Of Jesus on the
first Easter. Their heaviness endured
for night, but joy came IN the morn
ing. In the first place, the 'heaviness'
of the Apostles was their sense of loss.
Jesus had been n personal friend. The
wonder OF His comradeship they had
not been able fully to understand, hut
To share it. to keep it. they had glad
~ forsaken all earthly interests and
followed Him. Now He was dead.
He had been put to a shameful death
as malefactor. Instead OF an hon
CT, His acquaintance with them was
deemed a disgrace
But on Easter morning the wo-
men who went to the sepulchre found
II empty. There were no signs OF
haste, no indications of robbery, The
linen clothes lay there, the napkin that
had been about His head was neatly
folded in a place by itself. Two heav-
emily messengers In angelic apparel
sat the one at the head and the
other at the feet. where the body OF
Jesus had lain He was not dead but
was alive forevermore. Jesus took
upon Himself our human life to show
It's worth. He died a human death
to show deaths weakness He rose
on Easter from the dead to bring
life and immortality to light
In the second place, the Apostles
were IN heaylness because they had
lost their Master His gospel had
seemed so true, so wonderfu; but
when He was killed His message
seemed disproved He had been con-
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nation. Was 1t all a lie, this thought
of Gods loving fatherhood. OF mans
real brotherhood The resurrection
was the guarantee of the truth OF the
gospel. Though crushed to earth Il
had risen again; therefore II was the
truth, The heaviness OF disappointed
hope passed away in the Joy Of certain
~ which came on Easter morning
GOOD WORK BRINGS HAPPINESS.
And then. in the third place. He
was their Leader and King Work
brings the true man happiness,--not
merely work for self. but work for
others, work " n uplifts and leaves
its mark for good upon the world.
Jesus had called the Apostles to
great work. They We're 10 preach the
gospel to every creature. They were
to set up a kingdom against which
the gates of he'll could not prevail.
They accompanied Him up and down
the highways and byways of that
Eastern country. With Him they
touched the sick; with Him. spoke
words of cheer to the sorrowing: with
Him laid hands upon lepers and re-
stored them to health, In token OF
His power to restore sanity and man
hood to the morally diseased. But on
Good Friday their Leader and their
King died a dsgraceful death. Their
hearts were heavy, for there was moth
ing for them to do but sadly TO re-
turn to their old tasks which now
seemed duller than before. Easter re-
newed the commission, and made II
more wonderful than they had dreamed
1t could be before. Their Leader and
their King had triumphed over death.
and was alive for everemore, 10 be
with His Church to the end OF the
ages,
Here then. is the Easter message
Use all the Inspiration which ma
ture, fresh and full OF life. can give
YOU. But when the heaviness comes
which natures brightness only lntensi-
fes--the heayness OF loss OF doubt OF
a sense Of uselessness. enter into the
Christian JOY We may have stood be-
side an open grave while the sun shone.
and only seemed to mock, or the rain
drops fell dlsconsolately; but Christ is
risen. and Easter tells us that the lost
are found the doubts are banished.
strength for duty has been given, JOY
comes In the morning--a Joy which