Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-01
IDEAL WEATHER EASTER DAY
Large Congregations Thronged Local Churches Sunday Special Music and Beautiful Floral Decorations to Com memorate the Resurecton-Nineteen Baptsed at Cent ra Baptist Church and Seven at First Baptist Church Sunday Evening.

these people a dim shadow of exis- thee without strong life or color.
 What answer does Jesus Christ give these beliefs? Jesus died on the Cross. He was as dead as any of those soldiers in France today, Yet when the lamp of His life was shat tered the flame did not go out in the dust His spirit was not absorbed in- to any universal life for his personal ity still lives in the world and He is still a personal force. AS He lived after death SO shall we live. He was far more glorious at Easter and As- tension than His crucifxion. He lived no pale shadowy existence on the oth- CT side of the grave.
 The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God" Are these sol diers who are laying down their lives by thousands in France righteous They are being cut off in the heat of battle with their hearts full of battle rage. They car hardly be said to die as ideal Christians. Yet they are dying fof their ideas of right or at least their idea of duty. In the phase ology of the English soldiers they have gone west, but when they go into. that lurid bloodstained sunset they are entering upon a better life than the one they lived on earth if we can believe the Easter story.
 At Trinity Episcopal church there was holy communion at 7.S0 in the morning and at 1880 o'clock there was morning prayer, sermon by the rector, Rev. J. Eldred Brown, and holy. communion, The floral deeora- tions were very prettily arranged. First Baptist Church.
 Easter was observed with special services at the First Baptist church Sunday Potter plants and cut flow CTS were prettily used in the deeora- tlons and a pleasing programme of Easter music was rendered by the choir. Preceding the morning service seven members were received into the church by baptism. The pastor. Rev. George H. Strouse. presented the Eas- ter story from Matthew 2S:S: For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it." In part Rev. 1 Mr. StrousG spoke as follows:
 1 The Triumph of Right This is the burning question of the hour. The
 Easter message says, yes and most emphatically so. There never was a darker hour fnan when Christ hung ] on the cross and never a greater dem onstration than when He rose from 1 the grave-that right must and will 1 triumph. Again when the hour l strikes God will bring to nought the 1 machinations of evil men. We await
 another glad day when the light and l joy of liberty and democracy will find 1 their way into all the world Again
 there will be an earthquake and the angel of the Lord will work deliver anee for those on the side of right !, and justice.
 1 Travelling in pain precedes birth The most beautiful fountains of life 1 and comfort are struck with the iron heel of disaster and calamity. Dan- 1 iePs courage brightest along side oi l Nebuchanezzar's furnace. And history repeatedly tells the same story. Be- fore the birth of goodness and nobility l and Christlike character, there must be pain and agony and even death The high and holy beckon us on but we must drink the gall and carry the cross and climb the mountain and storm the castle, but victory is as- sured through Him who snapped the chains of death on the first Easter day.
 ] The present crisis with all its agony and bloodshed bespeak tho dawn of brighter day when justice
 and truth shall reign on the earth.
 How long are we going to live? Int
 Easter message tells us we shall live forever How do know it? God tells us and We may bank on what Ht
 says.
 I am the resurrection and the life. h'
 that liVeth and believeth on Me shal
 never die-these are the words O T Jesus and they are eternally true.
 1 m ho i, charge of the Bible school, when it. annual Easter concert was held.
 The school met in the Sunda!
 classes into the auditorium where al
 enjoyable programme was given. The school orchestra, assisted b!
 Messrs. John KulSla. clarinetist, ant
 Alfred Bliven, cornetist, rendered sev eral selections and assisted. with tn
 musical numbers.
 Caring for the success of the even
 ling were Mrs. Calvin Swan, Mrs. Johl Parsons, Mrs. Douglass and Superin } tendent Stephen E. Peckham Mis- , Blanche Armstrong, Mrs. Robert Otis , Miss Elsie Lindberg and Miss Grac
 Stetson assisting.
 } The following programme number g were announced by Assistant Super : intendent Earle Stamm: Orchestra Q selection: song, Hail, Glorious Kine y school; song. A Carol for Easter Day k school; responsive reading; prayer, b r the pastor; exercises, members c }. Beginners department, little Louis e Higgins, Lucille Morse, Anna Taft an il Pauline Unsinn; song, Just Becaus = Easter Is Here, Junior department . exercise, Flowers of the Garden, OliV
 Rathbun, pansy, Hazel Pierce, dais. e Ruth Robinson, tulip, Margaret We n and, lilac; recitation. Easter Resolu e tions, Harold Frink; song, Songs ( o Rapture, sschool: exercise and son
 Easter Blessings, Ellen Snow, Bes e trice Cuprak, Marion Browning, Hal n riet Pierce and Natalie Holden, Mi: d Rose Thomes, accompanist; recits e ton, Fear Not, Burton Robinson; ret l. itation, Spirit of Easter, Miss Edr a Shaffer; exercise, Glad Easter Bell > Misses Helen Risley. Dorothy Farre
 Blanche Wilbur, Virginia Woodwort q Alice Wulf and Margaret Unsinl ,e song, Ginning Bells, Junior depar ic ment Miss Rose Thornes. accompal Q ist; announcements and collection ,o The offering was taken by Maste ,e Thomas Farrell, Lloyd Rathbun, The, i'd dores Bushnell and Lester Peckhan "a vocal solo. The Baby's Prayer at Tw L. HSHt, was very loVely, as rendered. ~t
 little Pauline Unsinn, accompanied ] ,, her sister. little Miss Margaret Ul ,- sim; missionary recitation, Liz I,, From the Cross, Miss Laura Peckhal " with four nations represented by fol y, children dressed in costume, Oli' ;ss Rathbun, Japanese: Ruth Robinso tt Chinese: Donald Royce, Indian; Ere, a die Tourtellotte, Hindu; exercise, Re :. urrection. Misses Elsie Bromley. Eth ,e Miller, Helen Woodworth, Anna Pc ,e lxins and Dorothy Holden; song, IT llo Morning of the Year, intermediate d u partnAnt. recitation The Way fo Il