Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-28

CT we but Christ that uveth in us.
 This gift makes joyous appeal at
 the season when we commemorate Jesus birth; yet the joy of Christmas tide is but a joy of anticipation: only | q promise of what shall be when he who came as the babe in the manager l natures into the man who shall save | his people from their sins
 | This joy is enlarged but not com l pleted. by his atoning death; for while | the pledge has been kept, there Is no l conception of rejoicing salvation l while Jesus lies dead in the tomb in | Joseph's garden.
 The joy was made perfect Tn the completed power of his resurrection; | in the setting wide the door into eter- l nal life whereat whosoever will may | enter.
 The significance of this joy is not
 rts quantity, but it's quality: not in l mere endless existence, but in life | aIight with perfect joy.
 | Whether our joy present and future | be of the sort that changes with the l smile or frown of fortune, or tn eper- | feet joy that lighted Jesus way to the | Father. depends on whether we re-
 ject or accept this bequest of Jesus | Broadway Congregational Church. l Broadway church was filled on Sum | day morning at both services. Easter l lilies, jonquils. daffodils, palms. pines, | and rubber plants were prettily ar | ranged about the platform and pulpit, l the Sunday school classes having fur | nished the flowers which were distrib- uted among the sick and shut-ins. l The quartette sang the anthems at both services with feeling and express | sion, while the solos fty Mrs. Charles | Tyler Bard were skflfuily given. her | full soprano voice being at JUS pest | Preaching from John XIX: 3, coucsrnlng Mary before the tomb crying, Rev. MT | Worcester said:
 l Tears on the resurrection morning! l But she did not know yet that 1t was ] a resurrection morning. She wept for her utter loss, as she supposed-"They have taken away my LorR'-and then | for ignorance-"and I know not Where l they have laid him." But the ignor- ance was even greater than she guess
 ed; had she known that he lived she | need not have wept at all
 | How much of our sorrow is due 10 | ignorance? Everyday disappointmentE | are often much less serious than we l imagine. or have pensa ting advarf- | tages discovered later on. Changing l views of doctrine and Of chuTchly en- deavors which seem to many to have 1 taken our faith from us have not after all affected the risen Christ and the | power of the endless life. Our trouble | is that we do not understand yet what l Is happening. The progress Of the 1 kingdom toward the conquest of the 1 worlds life is often more real and con | stant than we see. and discouragen1 | would be less frequent if knowledge | were greater And much of our mourn | ing for our dead is due to our neces- | sary ignorance of the conditions of the | life to which they have gone.
 | Now we know in part" Let the em- | phasis be rather on the known than on | the unknown, and on the fact that the | more we know the surer we are of God and of Jesus Christ. Him we may know | in any case. and to know him is eter- | nal life. And this gracious detail of | the Easter story pausing to tell us of | a woman's sorrow and surprise, is one | nf nat lgflnvvlad
 that ieaSes no room for tears.
 First Baptist Church.
 At the First Baptist church Sunday. 1 departments of the church. The | church was prettfly decorated with palms, Easter lilies and daffodils. The special music was finely given.
 Before the sermon; Sunday morning ! ferred to the fact that this Easter is l the Sunday that marks the one hun- | dred and tenth anniversary of the | church, as it was organized March 29, 1900. He gave in brief resume the | story of these years the struggles the victories. emphasizing the thought 1 that the day of struggle was indeed years and especially those of the last decade, those most familiar to us the church of today. with thanksgiying to God can enter more heartily and joy l ously into the spirit of the Easter | tide.
 The sermon of the morning was | based upon II. Timothy i: 10 and l. Cor. 1 xv:57. In the course of the discourse, 1 MT. Thayer said: Strange that the l Christian should choose the name of 1 the heather goddess of spring to con-
 vey the most triumphant truth of our | faith; and still is there not a sfgIifi- cant symbolism hidden in the word ? The goddess of spring victorious over the god of winter; the reign of life l triumphant over the tyranny of death.
 And yet how do our souls respond to l the Easter message, He is not here; he is risen"? Bear in mind that the message proves Christ to be all that l he claimed he was: establishes his | teaching as true. and proved that he accomplished the work he came to ! do To this message may our souls respond in language more significant | than the inadequate signs of ceremo- | ny; to this story may our souls re- 1 spond in the vernacular of triumphant i faith, Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus I Christ who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light 1 through the gospel" Yes, Christ rem
 dered death imperative, Christ
 brought life to light. Christ brought | interruption to light. Have you thank
 ed him?
 Christ Episcopal Church.
 Christ church in it's floral decora- tions presented a very beautiful ap- pearance for the Easter services. the | flowers for the altar and chanceI hav- ing been brought by the Sunday school 1 scholars and other individual contribu- tors. Easter Ii'tes decorated the altar | and masses of white stock and tulips, daffodils, jonquils and yellow tulips l were arranged in front of the lectern l and pulpit. The memorial windows l were banked in flowers, and the font presented by ex-MayOr and Mrs. F. 1 L. Osgood was decorated in white by | their direction. The arrangement of | the chancel flowers was in charge of l Miss Maud Carew Buckingham. For | the service of morning prayer and | Holy Communion the vested mems | choir. under organist and choir direc- | tor w. F. Habekotte, rendered the | special music in finished form. l The rector, Rev. Nelson Poe Carey. | preached from The text, Romans viii:2, For the law of the spirit of life in 1 Christ Jesus made me free from the | law of sin and death. delivering a dis | course of much power. A feature which | contributed to the Easter joy for the | rector and congregation was the offer ing at the morning service for parish I axnenSax IT anOuptad fO nractieal1v