Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-08
SEASON OF PENANCE
BEGINS WITH CHURCH
| OBSERVANCES TODAY
1orten Season Ushered in With
Ash Wednesday Services.
! Bishop Rhinelander to
Speak at Garrick
pu1NELANDER SPEAK S

r,,, renitential season of Lent began to-
6eh Wednesday, with rervices in
uay, cturches which mark the laying
msas n,ss of frlvolities for 40 days
rr,o neriod which commentaries the
,i,o,ce of Jesus i'm the desert, derives
~ nan,e from the Saxon word for spring,
rs is s.n,,yt,en-tide." Today takes its name
LEI the Catholic ceremony of marking
ne Sign Of the cross on the toreheads OF
..nieo,,,,,nioants Wy with the ashes of the palms
connacrated on Palm Sunday of the pre-
yious year.
,ntemento. homo" the priest pronounces
a., Iatin as he makes the symbolic mark,
,.,,io cinis est ct in pulvarem reverteris,
p,nh in English is Remember, man,
W., art but dust, and unto dust thou
s'i1 AZ the Catholic Cathedral a mission for
..tidren was opened by the Redemptorist
Toihers. to close next Sunday. MONDAY
: ontsn services opened simultaneously In
many downtown churches
Al Old st Paul's Episcopal Church, Sd
,,rset below Walnut, the daily MONDAY
ssrvices was ushered in by Bishop
Tthelbert Talbot, of Bethlehem, at 1880
o'clock.
~ 81 Stephens Episcopal Church opened
the daily MONDAY services at his church
AZ the same hour, as did the Rev.
pr Louis G. washburn, rector of Christ
trnIscopal Church., at the historic church,
qd street above Market All the Episcopal
daily services closed at 1885 p m. ex-
cent at st. Peters, Sd and Pine streets,
,vhere the Rev. DR.. Charles s. Hutchinson,
rector of st. Clements Church, preached
half an hour earlier. There will be even.
ing PRAYER. and sermon at 8 o'clock this
evening at st. Peters.
Bishop Philip Mercer Rhinelander, head
Of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania,
opened the monday Lenten services under
the auspices of the Brotherhood of st.
Andrew in the Garrick Theatre, at 1890
o'clock
Taking as his text the words, Behold,
we go UP to Jerusalem, and all things that
are written by the prophets concerning
the Son of Man shall be accomplished, :"
the Bishop pointed out how the spirit of
these words teaches the best ideal and
method of faithful observance of Lent.
Taking them as a practical guide" he
said I'VE should use Lent as a time for
reaching after holiness, going up to our
Jerusalem, our holiest place. where God
calls and waits for us. We should also
rse II as time for recognizing Gods per-
sonal will as the only sure way of safety
and satisfaction and as time for prov
ing our readiness for sacrifice, prepared
for Christ's sake, as Europe's soldiers
are for country's sake, to go up to
Jerusalem at any cost"
The Rev. DR.. Charles ]. Smith. rector
Of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, New
York, preached at Old st. Johns Lu-
theran Church, Race street below 9Th, at
noon He spoke especially of the war in
Europe and its relation to the teachings of
Christianity.
"Never before has there been Lent
like this" said Doctor Smith. eff others
have been sorrowful then 1t is still more
filled with the anguish of suffering. The
times are out of joint The whole world
lies prostrate before the spectre of it's
iniquity. Its sins have thrown 1t into
mourning Having forsaken God, it is
but learning the lesson of what it means
to have Gods spirit far from it. Suffer-
ing, bloodshed, savage brutality greedy
selhshness are temporarily upon the
throne.
But in it all there is also bqy," he
continued, "as Christ's way of final hap
pness leads always along the path of
sorrows."
The speaker pointed to the sadness of
the war as ''the heavy cross the world
bears today as the price that must be paid
for peace, neighborliness, fraternity, the
triumph of the better over the lower
things of life"
"If men and nations refuse to be led
by the friendly spirit of God" he asserted,
then they must suffer upon the cross of
their own making until they have learned
the lesson through suffering that the spirit
of Jesus Christ in every human relation
Is the measure of all human happiness"
Doctor Smith said that I'VE as an Amer
lean nation are in perilous times, and this
tp
rule"
MISSION FOR WOMEN
Besides the mission for children, the
Catholic Cathedral will begin mission
for women next Sunday and one for men
the second Sunday in Lent. Missions will
be opened and Stations of the Cross re-
elted in the Catholic churches throughout
Lent
AT St. Josephs Catholic Church, Will
ling's alley below 4th street, the Wednes-
day monday services were opened by
me Rev. John ID. Butler, s. j., with a
lb'minute talk at 1905. followed by Bene-
dletion of the Blessed Sacrament The
Rev Michael A. O'Kane, S. j.. will preach
tonight at the Church of the Gesu, 18th
and Stiles street, At st. John the Evan
sehsts' 18th street, above Chestnut, the
opening regular Wednesday sermon and
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was
given at 1905, to be followed by the
weekly Lenten sermon tonight. The Rev
rather j. IL, ReaIy, o. p, WIN be the
monday preacher
Ihe universalist Union Lenten services
VIII be ushered in tomorrow night at the
Shurch OF the Restoration, Master street
Delow nth, when the Rev. DIR. John Clar-
enee Lee will preach.
Ihe Lenten sermon schedule of the First
rresDytertan Church, 7th and Locust
streets, which begins the first Monday in
aprii Is being prepared by the pastor, the
rev Edwin Yates Hill.