The Cairo bulletin., 1909-04-12
EASTER SERVICES
BEAUTIFUL WEATHER FAVORED
THE GRAND SERVICES AT
THE CHURCHES.
Music, Sermons and Sunday School
Exercises Drew Large Audiences
-Masons Attend Services
at Lutheran Church.

beautiful services planned A. nearly
Iall the houses of worship in the city.
Elaborate programs cf song and rect.
tations were given and some excel
| lent sermons were spoken from the
pulpit. This was true especially a
the Catholic churches, tie Methodist
church ard the Presbyterian church
Masons at Church.
At the Lutheran church the Mason
Tic fraternity attended service last
evening and the sermon by Rev. Clas
III. Armstrong, the pastor had special
reference to Masonry. it was an eA-
ceptionally excellent sermogI in para
as follows:
The resurrection of the man Jesus
was an epoch-making incident in hui
manity's unfoiment in the ascent If
man, 1t is too deeply interviewer n
the history of our race, to be doubted
seriously. After the glorious dawn
of our first Easte, men changed their
ideas of death and the after-life.'
Mars, god of death, no longer "a
hideous, cadaverous' specter, robed
in winding sheet, holding an hour
glass in one hand a scythe in the
other, ready to rush forth and NOV
down his trembling prey, has ty
modern poet-prophets been converted
into Whitehead. smiling seraph; one
who lovingly and tenderly puts the
seal of death on voiceless lip and
marble brow. and who-gathering
the newborn soul to his bosom
floats from shores to time into an IL
limitable eternity, where with gold n
key, he unlocks hat gate of pearl, to
admit his precious trophy of earth
into the glorious brotherhood of ce-
lestfals. Truly, indeed, can the
Eastermessenger of old Jerusalem
point to an empty tomb with che
hand and upwari-beyond the veil
with the other, saying: Not here,
hut risen.
The import, the message of Easter. |
not so much an appeal to intellectual |
man, is more fully graspel by the
heart, the soul, the spiritual man |
the fair tapers of hope are to be kept |
burning constantly on the altar oil
faith. We, as deciples--as they who |
belong to that mystic brotherhood of |
the temple-must not be fathless but |
There is no unbeief,
Whoever plants seed beneath the |
And waits to see it push away the
cIod,
Trusts he in God.
There is no unbelief,
Whoever sees meath winters fields Of
snow
The silent harvests of the future
grow,
Gods power must know
There is no unbelief,
For thus by day and night uncon-
sciously
The heart lives by that faith the Fps
deny
God knoweth why"
The crucifiction, without its Easter.
would have accomplished little or
othing relative to our Racial regen-
ration. II must be a living Christ
ne willing il Is true. to walk .
through the valley of the shadow"
ut leading captivity captive"-that
ruly saves; one able to remain by
he pilgrims side us he essays the
ncehtain journey over times cause
'ay. And at this time, Sir Knights l
nd friends, ] desire to emphasize
hat casters symbolism but points
the real Christ, not lat rest in a
cck-hewn tomb in the Holy Land,
M ever present--with us until the
I'd; seeking by silent infu mo-
oirit over spirit. soul calling to soul !,
to restore Gods image to man
nee lost when Time was young in 9
lat STORED, vanished Eden.
Did you ever hear the story of the g
ST portrait of Dante, PAINTED on the d
ais of the Bargello, at Florence? y
or a long time it WIS supposed that l.
us picture hal utterly persisted. 1t +
al been heard of but never seen. At IL
ST appeared an artist determined to r.
hi it, If in existence. who went to 81
g place where tradition said 1t hal !"
zen painted. The room was used /
storing place for lumber aud ~
raw, the walls being covered with -
rty whitewash. BY his orders the p'
APPS of rubbish were removed. and n
began carefully and patiently the IN
moval of the whitewash from the DC
ALL Soon. very soon, Lines ana
Tors long hidden began to appear, g
d by and by the grave, sad lofty.
bic face Of Italy's MASTERPIECE
'ked forth again upon our world
li~ht Nj
',Wonderful, marvellous, beautiful"
y YOU? Truly so but no'hng t.
mpare to the marvel that Christ
'rks on humanity as patiently
ltury after century-he lovingly ar
d tenlerly strives wi hin that 20
laboratory, the heart of tn
IN. to restore the image lost for oh
lg, but still there. If concealed. te