The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-04-01
Easter Lilies and Roses AdOrn. PuI.
pit From Which DR.. Hunting of
ST. Bartholomew breaches

Easter and its significance 10 the
Christian was the topic upon which
Rev. Dr. e. c. Hunting. rector of St
Bartholomew Episcopal churcn de-
livered his first sermon as rector oi
The ely chhrch, Yesterday morning
in Good Times Hall which is being
used temporarily by the congregation
for its services.
The hall was beautifully decorated
cut flowers and foliage, which rob-
bed the unornamented walls of their
baroness and sharp outlines. and lent
to the building the appearance of a
bower of blossoms.
The congregation WAS unusually
large and appreciative, and at the
! conclusion of the, regular service
nearly. gil remained to participate in
the sefvlce of the communion. This
participation was regardless. of past
or .rGfsent afliliatlon of c6mmnfii-
cants ,pt the Special invitation of the
rectof''f
.IEGie is only one subject today. .
said Rev Dr.. Hunting. Upon this
morning when the grave was broken
and Jesus Christ arose his resurrec-
ion with all that it means for us
must claim our thoughts Instinct
lively all men turn that way think
! many men who do not believe Christ
! rose from the dead still feel GER
tain eNaltation the leaping within
! them, of some glorious unknown
spiritual possibility when Easter
morning dawns
1T is II good thing that mortal
| men have an idea of Immortality and
| find pleasure in telling one another
| that one at least of all the billions
who have lived and died here-one
arose from the dead and lived on
arth again.
| Christ has risenl Can we grasp
The meaning? The one inevitable
| fate of man avoided; the one invin-
chile power of the world conquered!
These are tremendous ideas, and yet
we hold them today. They are real
TO MS, through the personal expert
encc of Christ, and we are trans
| lated by our own instincts and needs.
at is evident that with all joy in
| heir risen Lord the disciples were
! in Il strange bewilderment all the
! lime that they were with Him. Evil
IDENTIFY He WAS something more than
| they thought Him when they fol-
| lowed Him in Galilee. And all the
world since has echoed their loving
| curiosity and longed to know more
| OF the conqueror of death and the
| savior of the world. 1t is good for
| as to have this sublime description
| Of the risen Lord, given in His own
words in the gospel.
"lf anything has come to make us
meal thing our human life is, !
think there is nothing so joyous as
the knowledge that the life Christ
| has and gives us is everlasting and
has the continuousness and change
lessness of eternity itself.
See howe we alter. sAEe make
plans and finish or change them. We
-alip from one stage OF our career to
another. We die and others take
our places, finding the same mystery,
the same changes. We ask our
selves If this is living. Is it not like
| the wing of an insect that touches
| the river a hundred miles long. 1t
makes II ripple and the river goes on
as before That is all we have to do
with life Then come the glorious
words of Christ, ! am he that liv-
eth forevermore.
There is large. lc, life that is
not transitory like the insects wing.
The thought of an eternal God is the
only thing that gives consistency 10
the fragmentary lives OF men. the
fragmcntary history OF The world.
| ne 1tSllIlctllOH lcdCiltS iHu'
death is not the putting out OF life,
but only an event; merely an expert
once that Christ went through. This
glorious example has shown men
thai deathi;i!s only cirHlmstance
and is without real principle OF be-
iG,. Death has no more power over
life than the clouds over ehe. sun.
Each second is football that
J brings us a little nearer to the gate
| of death. Through lis dark portal
all who walk the enrth must pass
And as you think Of mans piece
meal life and doubt as 10 the future
let this sweet voice come 10 you
clearly; 1 am he that liveth and
was dead, and am alive foreyermore.
And at once death changes from {
terrible end OF life to a most mys
tcrioua but no longer terrible expert
enoe Of life Would, TO God I could
make you hear that voice this Eas
ter day.
The musical numbers by the quar-
tci. comprising Miss Miller, soprano
, Mrs. Wallace. alto; j G. Baylis
,