Middletown transcript., 1917-09-29
ST. ANNE'S CHURCH
People Should Help Each Other in
The Service.
LARGE FLAG in THE CHURCH

Sunday, September 3Oth. The 18th,
Sunday after Trinity.
Services 1870, Morning Prayer and
Sermon,
11.45, Sunday School session,
7.3O, Evening Prayer and Address.
SUNDAY Or The LORDS DAY
Rev. LILO, II was in the Spirit on the
Lords day."
Sunday is always feast in the Church
that is, a day of religious joy. As every
Friday through the year reminds US of
the crucifixion, SO Sunday continually
recalls the bright Easter, when our Lord
rose from the darkness of the tomb to
die no more.
Therefore it is called the Lords Day.
the day of all the seven which He hal
lowed by His resurrection, and which
all Christians hallow with prayer and
praise, resting from common labor.
Sunday is not the Sabbath. The Sab
bath was the seventh day of the week;
Sunday, the Lords day, is the first.
The Sabbath celebrated Gods rest
from the work Of creation; Sunday re-
members our Lords resurrection.
The Sabbath was Jewish; the Lords
day is Christian festival. Early Jew
ish Christians kept b 9TH days the seventh
and the first; and writer's of the Greek
Church refer to their custom of assemb-
ling for worship on the Sabbath and the
Lords day, meaning Saturday and Sun
day. Evangelists and apostles, in the
New Testament, refer always to the
seventh day, Saturday, when they speak
of the Sabbath; but when they speak of
the chief occasions of Christians meet
ing for the eucharist, and offertory, and
preaching, they call it, as St. Luke in
the Acts, and St. Paul to the Corinthians
''the first day of the weeks" or, with
St. John, the Lords Day, for he says in
the Apocalypse, II was in the Spirit on
the Lords Day..
The Rector is prepared to baptize in
fants on any Sunday. No notice need
be given in the case of infants. A pri-
vate service for the instructions and
baptism of adults may be arranged for
by consulting the Rector. The Rector
will be glad to baptize your children
whether or not you are members of this
Church. No fee is expected for this
Service.
COOPERATIVE In THE SERVICES
Members of the Congregation are
reminded that the impressiveness and
heIpfulness of the Service depend very
largely upon the heartiness with which
the Hymns are sung and the responses
made. Conditions in that respect are
capable of improvement among us. The
people should help each other in this
matter, remembering that to use so low
voice that it can hardly be heard few
feet away is little better than useless.
In reading the Psalter, if everyone will
pause slightly upon coming caesura, or
which occurs in every verse, the congre-
cation will be much more likely to keep
together, and avoid conveying the i'm
preston that it is a contest to see who
can get through first, or who takes the
longest time. Originally, among the
Hebrews, one half of each verse was
sung by one set of Levites. and the
other half by the other set.
LARGE SILK FLAG PLACED IN THE
CHURCH
There is no custom more in keeping
with the fine traditions of the Church
than the new and growing practice of
displaying the National Flag inside the
Church. There is some uncertainty as
to the most appropriate location for the
Flag, bnt the concensus of opinion of
our Naval and Military Chaplains seems
to dictate the right or Gospel side of the
church, which is, of course, the left of
the congregation. This is in harmony
with the military practice of placing the
Flag always at the right.
This world in which we live is lift
ing world, testing. trying, proving
world, tempting that it may educate,
select and better the growth of the
spiritual man. Those who stand the mo-
raj test survive, those who fail, suffer
| destruction.