The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-03-27
IN THE
CITY CHURCHES
JOY DAY OF THE YEAR is APPRO-
PRIATELY CELEBRATED
IN BRookINGS
MUSIC FORMS A PLEASING FEATURE
Of the Services at the Churches and
Appropriate Sermons are Deliver.
ed by the Various Pastors

Easter, the most joyous feast day OF
the year, was appropriately observed
at the various churches of the city.
Special music formed an important
part in the services and sermons ap-
pirate to the day were given by the
various pastors. The weather, while
not cold, was cloudy and damp, but
the services at each church were at
tended by large crowds.
At st. Pauls Episcopal church Rev.
Paul Roberts, the pastor, held special
Easter service at eleven o'clock, with
morning prayer, ante-communion and
sermon. In the afternoon Mr.. Roberts
held services at Bushnell, and in the
evening went to De Smet for a special
Easter service.
Sunday was a day of good things at
the M. e. church. In the morning the
choir rendered an Easter Cantata of
about a half hour in length. This was
indeed a rare treat and the choir Is to
be congratulated upon the effort which
they put forth to give the people Of
Brookings such high grade Easter
music. Following the ~cantata the
Sunday school gave an Easter pro-
gram. This consisted of two parts.
The first part was an alteration of the
Risen Lord and the second part q
memorial service in commemoration
Of the life and services OF David Liv-
ingstone. At the close of the program
the superintendent, Mr.. G.. H. Atkin-
son, made a statement of the aim OF
the day which was to bring in in cash
and subscription an offering equal to
5000 from the school to be applied on
mission work throughout the world.
When the money was counted there
had been $3.50 in cash paid and sub
scription to bring the amour consider
able over the amount aimed at.
In the evening the choir, assisted
by Prof. Carl Christensen and an or
chestra of seven numbers, rendered
a mixed program of music and o
to the delight of the large audience.
Specia! numbers were rendered by
Mrs. John Roberts, Mrs. Roberts and
Miss Leekley and Miss Irish, all of
which deserve special mention as we'll
as the special number by the orches-
ira. The half hour of music was fol-
lowed by an Easter sermon by the
pastor on the Power of the Resurrec-
ton. Withal the day was a very great
success as a religious celebration of
that most wonderful day of days,
Easter Sabbath.
At st. Thomas Catholic church two
services were held. In the morning at
$3.50 high mass was celebrated by
Father Shean and in the afternoon 1T
four O'Clock the Easter sermon end
benediction We're given. Special music
was given by the choir, adding greatly
to the beauty OF the service. The choir
at the present time Is the best one that
the church has yer had and their
efforts are greatly appreciated. The
alters yer decorated with the Easter
lilies and ported plants. Following
the morning service here Father
Shean celebrated high mass at Aurora
and music was furnished by the
Brookings choir.
At the Baptist church two services
appropriate to the day were held, with
special music under the direction of
Miss Mary B. Allen. A pleas
ing feature was several numbers both
morning and evening by a double quar-
tette, consisting of Misses Maggie and
Caspari, altos, and Misses Highly and
Furnish, sopranos, and Messrs. Bar
lett and Pratt, tenors, and Schaphorst
and Skinner, bassos. Prof. Christen-
sen gave a violin solo at the morning
service, and MI. Pratt rendered q
trombone solo in the evening. DR..
Tilden gave an Easter sermon in the
morning, and at the evening service
gave n Of his interesting lectures.
Easter service was held at the Luth-
eran church on Sunday morning, with
baptism and Easter offering, with a
sermon appropriate to the day by Rev.
Fossnes. There was no evening SER
vice.
Although the weather conditions
were anything but ideal for Easter,
when once inside the First Presbyter-
ian church the spirit OF that joyous
day prevailed everywhere. At the
morning service which was held at IL
instead Of 1890 the Sunday school
met with the regular congregation and
the pastor gave a talk especially for
the younger ones. At IL noon the Sun
day school rendered their special pro-
gram. The evening service was a
musical service, at which the choir
rendered a delightful program to an
audience that completely filled the
house.