The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-20
EASTER SERVICES
At ALL CHURCHES
Music Magnificent, Powers
Gorgeous at Catholic and
Episcopal Edifices.
fine OFFERING At ST. PAUL S
Pastor Realizes $500 for Use in De-
Praying Current Expenses
Other Churches.

At the churches throughout the city
the Easter services were elaborate yes
terday and the offerings where special
Easter offerings were taken up were
most generous.
At st. Paups Episcopal church the
services were all well attended, the
church being crowded at each morning
celebration. The audience here was for
the most part fashionably dressed and
there was the usual display Of fine
ffllinery which is to be expected. The
Easter offering here amounted to some
thing over $3.50 which, together with
the regular offering, brought the sum
total up to over $500. This will be used
to defray current expenses the money
donated by the ST. Agnes guild going
into the building fund.
The music was unusually fine and the
service more than ordinarily impress
i've at 10:45 o'clock, and the flowers
which adorned the affairs together with
the beautiful new altar hangings pre-
sented by the st. Agnes Guild helped
much toward beautifying the interior
of the edifce. Both the sermons were
on the reurrection. Rev. Smith calling
attention to the fact that the resur-
rection has furnished man with real
incentive in life and lifted him from
the low thought of life to that which
is highest and best.
The Sunday school has in fact out
grown It's present quarters. it being
necessary to hold services for the
scholars lin relays the younger children
being accommodated in the morning
while the Bible classes receive their
instructions in the afternoon. 1t had
been the intention to try and build a
new church this summer, but since the
hard times came on, there has been
some question whether this could be
accomplished.
ST. PauPs Lutheran Church.
AT st. Pauls Lutheran church there
were Easter services, the members OF
the recently confirmed classes making
their first communion. The German
communicates were received in the
morning, while the English confessional
service with attendant service of Holy
communion took place in the evening
Here st. Pauls mixed choir and the
Concordia male chorus furnished spe-
cial music.
At the First Presbyterian church, Rev.
j. Eugene Shook preached an Easter
sermon in the morning. In the even
ing his sermon was on THE Real
Stimulus of Life"
At the Christian church the sermon
was in casters Message" the speaker
being Rev. C. ]. Sharp, the regular
pastor There was communion service
at IL a. m
There was public worship and Easter
celebration at the First Methodist
church yesterday A large Offering for
foreign missions was taken up and
there was a baptism of children in the
morning. The pastor Rev. William F.
Switzer spoke of Easter and there was
Easter music. Public services were
held at 8 p. m. the knights Templar
commandery attending in a body. The
Sunday school had an Easter celebra-
ton in the evening.
At Catholic Churches.
At the Catholic churches All Saints
and st. Josephs, the services were elab-
crate in the extreme. Many nonCoth-
olics attended the exercises at both
these churches as is customary on the
occasion of great festivals. The music
was magnificent and the flowers gorge
Gus. The offerings were most generous,
amounting in the case Of All Saints
church to in the neighborhood of three
hundred dollars.
At Pine Street Presbyterian church
there were elaborated Easter exercises
by the children. of the Sabbath school.
These were held in the afternoon when
Easter carols were sung by the children
and recitations given. The superin-
tendent reported progress since last
September when the little independ-
ent mission now known as the Pine
Street Presbyterian church, was taken
hold of by it's present workers. This
showed that the attendance has con-
siderably more than doubled within the
six months it has been under Presby-
terian sway. The first Sunday the at
tendance numbered thirty two present.
Yesterday there was an attendance of
1O2 scholars and there is an enrolment
of 1S1 against 55 enrolled when Rev.
Elliott and his assistants first took
hold