Norwich bulletin., 1910-03-28
THE JOYFUL MESSAGE OF EASTER
Beautiful Weather Sunday Resulted in Large Attend
 Church-Spscia! Sermons and Music.

i become our servants. By obeying God | He places at our command all Of His isresources that we can utilize Easter life is a life of achievement How much has been accomplished for ! the world through the power Of Christs resurrection! Every depart ment of human activity has felt It's | purifying influence.
 | It assure us of immortality. The l risen and ascended Christ shouts back from the skies: Because 1 live ye shall live also.r
 | The nob1est, safest. most blessed life | life.
 In the evening the vested choir as- sisted and sang the anthem. Am He That Liveth. with fine expression. | At the evening service two musi- cal numbers that were especially con- mendable were the tenor solo, Open
 the Gates of the Temple. by Louis Brown, and the anthem, Magdalene (Warren), by the uuartette. St. Patrick's Church. For the festival of the resurrection, the pivotal feast of the Christian year. the altars at St. Patrick's church were never so beautifully and so elab- orate1y adorned as on Sunday. Ascen- sion and caIla lilies. dainty spirea, i white roses. hyacinths and carnations were effectively disposed against a background of sword and fan palms, rose foliage, crotons and other green
 
 | en season had been removed from stat l ues and altars, and everything symbol ized the rejoicing which the church experienced in her risen Lord. Tn the solemn high mass at 1030 o'clock. Rev. Joseph E. Mccarthy was celebrant, Rev. Hugh Treanor deacon and Rev. Francis L. F'itzPatrick sub l deacon. The Rev Father Treanor read the epistle, l. Cor. v:7-S, and the gos- pei, Mark xvi:1-7, for the day, and delivered the sermon on Christ's vic tory over sin and death in the resur- rectfon. The testimony of history to the fact of the Saviour's triumph over death was adduced. and reference was made to the belief in this stupendous proof of Christs divinity having strengthened His disciples to endure all trials. even death, so firm was their faith in the resurrection and what it signified. Their faith has been trans mftted to their followers in the Cath olfc church. which, like her exemplar aims at mans up1ift and imparts to him the means to triumph over sin, strengthening his belief fin immortal fty. The beautiful lessons of Easter tide were forcfbly set forth and the obligations of Christ's followers in the present day to prove by their irre- proachaible lives that His resurrection has not been in vain.
 During the musical portion of the mass solos were sung by Mrs. F. L.. Farrell Miss Greeley and Roderick F. Sullivan. Bakers orchestra supple mented the organ. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was given by Fa- ther Mccarthy following the mass. closing the services for the day. The offertory was for ecclesiastical stu dents and for general diocesan needs. The music as arranged by Fr. Farrell was given with precision and smooth ness.
 Universalist Nhurch. At the Buckingham Memorial Sun rnf1 preached to the Universalist church members on The Power of Christ's Resurrection. His text was Philippi- ans 10, That I may know him and the power of His resurrection.- Easter Sunday calls to mind the newness of life said Rev. Mir. Cobb. While it is admitted on all sides by Christian people that there is res urrection, people ought to know and feel the power of Jesus resurrection. Do not all who accept the teachings of Christianity accept in some form or other the doctrines of life to come :? It is certainly generally received faith. The great question respecting the doctrines of immortality is, not whether we believe it. but whether we live it.
 Life is school: We begin in the kindergarten or primary class and go from grade to grade, from school to school. We begin in infancy to learn certain things and all through our
 
 and disciplins, yet in this life on earth we are only making a beginning; in the life to come under more favora- ble conditions we shall continue to ad- can in this world and then in the next we go on toward perfection.
 It is when man turns from wrong and gives his heart in royal, loving service and lives rightly, does justly, that he knows the life of the Lord.
 Christian nQ0r1a Q ffIl ness of life must strive so to live that they may know Christ and the power Of his resurrection; that is. the power exercised In his resurrection, by which we are begotten to a lively hope of an inheritance incorruptfble. and are as- sured of our own resurrection.
 We need not look upon what we term death as putting an end to progress. for it is intended to prevent an end to progress. This life is. only one step in our progress toward perfection.
 There were attractive decorations. and the special music was finely sung under the direction of Miss Carrie Champlin, organist.
 Owing to the illness of Miss Mary Rogers. the choir at the Universalist Miss Maude Baker, Mrs. Cora B. Ba- ,rer, Miss Ellen V. Marvin, Charles Parsons and Byron Matthieu.
 Second Congregational Church.
 Sunday morning there was a large number in attendance at the Easter service at the Second Congregational church. the platform having been banked with lilies, jonquils and daffo- dils. These were provided by individ- ua1s and later sent to the Shut-ins and the sick of the church.
 The musical programme had been arranged with much care and was giv- en with pleasing effect by the choir, the anthems being sung in fine voice and expression.
 With The Joy Perfect as his sub ject and John XVIII as his text, Rev. Herbert J. Wyckoff said:
 Jesus was the most joyful being this world has ever known; a man of sor- rows. and acquainted with grief yet for the joy that was set before him he endured the cross setting in due proportion the discipline of his per fecting life.
 The incompIeteness of human joy is due to a practical belief that it is based on external circumstances With the changes of fortune we smile and weep. The beauest of joy which Jesus left to us was to enrich human joy until it became, like his own, the joy perfect.
 Jesus joy was in his way of living; and this is his gift of eternal life to