The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-08
IDEAL EASTER DAY
Churches Were Packed in To-
peka Sunday.
Services Elaborate and Beau
tifuI Everywhere.
THE TRIUMPH OF JESUS
Furnishes. the Theme for
Preachers Sermons.
Talks Also Made
Last Night.

Last Night.
The Topeka churches were for the
most part crowded on Easter morning,
and the evening services were well at
tended. The day was a beautiful one
Elaborate music and attractive floral
decorations We're enjoyed at all of the
large down town churches.
At the First Congregational church
many persons united with the church.
1t was just % years previous that the
nrst communion service of the church
was administered by DR.. Charles M.
Sheldon. It was held in a hall on the
second floor of a store building that
still stands on the corner of Huntoon
and Lincoln streets
The crowd was so large at the First
Presbyterian church that it was neces-
sary to place chairs in the aisles. The
decorations were more attractive than
usual. The Rev. Bruce Kinney spoke
on 1.-THE Mormons" at a sunrise meet
ing of the young people of the church.
by the primary department of the Sun
day school.
The girls Of Bethany college, dressed
in white, rendered the vocal music
at the Z o'clock services in Grace Ca
thedral. More than 400 persons join
ed in the communion service later in
the day.
The Rev. Charles A. Finch preached
d
dren at the First Christian church.
The subject was 1.-THE Christ Child
The First Methodist church was
packed.
''Hallelujahs ought always to be har-
messed said the Rev. Robert Gordon
in speaking on IAN Easter Implica-
ton Sunday at the First Baptist
church.
Easter is the greatest day of the
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joice but am anxious that our jubi-
lation shall find expression in practical
ways.
Christ has been by divine power
organized forces of wickedness can
successfully oppose the Almighty. To
your tasks with new heart and zeal
Let not the attractions of the world,
er influence move you from fidelity
to Christ.
I'm the inspiration of fellowship
with the risen Christ, Paul and the
Christians of his time, wrought and
certainly not in vain. In spite of the
opposition of government, the estab
lished church, social sanctions. and
the disheartening inert mass of heath
enism, churches were organized in
Corinth, Ephesus, throughout Galacia,
and at Rome"
''Today we commemorate the great
past and the triumph of Jesus said
Father Corly, Jesuit father of St.
Marys, in speaking Easter morning at
1890 in the Assum ption church. "1n
the very moment of his death he has
ST. Paul would teach US
how to celebrate the feast of the pas
cal lamb. He was speaking fgurative-
ly but his meaning was very clear.
Each one of you must have new
heart, not filed with malice and wick
edness, but with sincerity and truth.
7 - ie inc n Inv
should 1 not be? I served with your
Jealous pastor in purging the hearts
of malice yesterday and until late last
night, when nearly nine hundred peo-
quet table, of the living Jesus, the Son
Of God, and the heavens cannot con-
tain a grander Easter
The Very Rev. Dean Hayden Off
ciated at the mass The decorations
and music were elaborate.
1.-THE dynamos in the plant of the
Topeka Edison company are better
housed and cared for than many peo-
pie in Topeka" declared DR.. Arthur
5. Henderson in speaking Sunday night
at the First Congregational church on
The New Valuation of Human Life.
Jesus asked the men of his day
How much is a mani better than a
sheep?' In many ways they regarded
4 sheep more than they did a man
How much is a man better than ma
,hine?' Costly mechines receive bet |
Ter care than many men do, often thar |
The men who work the machines. Anc
the men are wasted with a disregard |
and Iavishness that is perfectly as
founding when our attention is calico
10 1T.
"Iow many thousands are wasted in |
,oal mines. in steel factories and a |
thousand other occupations! If an ell |
9ny should invade this country and two |
,r three regiments of our army were |
a million men would rally |
% the colors But solid regiments OF |
men are destroyed each year in this |
Industries of this country whose health |
and bodies and lives might be saved |
or years of usefulness if only this |
sense of the worth of human life ano |
human souls were brought to bear |
mon this awful waste. Killing men is |
,I,lv an incident in some lines of in
1ustry.
s.S1relv governments that can spend |
~ MANY millions in warships and upol |
military establishments and pay pen
sions to soldiers. can afford to spend /
something upon it's productive workers |
when they are spent and broken and /
helpless.
zone of the things that has hurt /
Theodore Roosevelt more than any
hing else is his opposition to arbitra-
ion treaties. One other thing this new
make war upon war. Nothing in oui
modern uncivilization is more pagan |
more unchristian, more uncivilized /
more economically wasteful, more I'M
necessary than war. The peace move /
mont will not down. SenateS may with 1