Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-04-26
EASTER IN GRANTWoOD
AT CONGREGATIONAL

brentwood Congregational Church
last Sunday for Easter The church
was given beautiful pulpit setting OF
ferns and palms and blooming plants
arranged by Mrs. r. w. Ansell. The
doors opening into the lecture room
were lifted to make room for the large
congregation that filled every avail
able seat
Rev. Noah Cause preached on the
"Isisen Lord in the Modern World
He said:
The essential principle of the resur
rection is to be found in the fact OF
the living Christ in the world of today
Christ is not in yOnder sky but here in
the world wherever GOD is. He has
come again in marvellous manifesto
ton in the recent world conflict to
Sift the wheat from the chaff out OF
all the nations. A new alignment
has taken place. In the crucifixion of
the world on the relentless cross of
intolerable suffering and sacrifice, the
glory of the resurrection of a new
world order was made possible. To-
day we stand in the glow of a new
resurrection dawn.
However, there is nothing final to-
day in the operation of the principle
of the resurrection. 1t is Il continu-
Gus process. CrucitiXion and reSur-
rectiOn go hand in hand as Il parallel
process in the amelioration of the race
AS it ascends upon a spiritual plane
of evolution. But there are epochs
of human history especially pregnant
with the dynamics of the resurrection.
This is such an epoch. The accumu-
lated reactionary forces of darkness
and oppression had continued through
the war in their blind bigOtry to cru
city the world, but inevitably yielded
to the logical sequence of the restr-
rection of divine forces that make for
human freedom.
These liberated forces. having
broken over the barriers of restraint,
are now flowing in innumerable chan
nels. whose intricate ramificatiOn is
beyond the human mind to know only
in part. The hard and fast channels
of the old order of rigid social and
political life have been swept away !;
new ones are in a process of CON
StructiOn.
That the dawn of this new epoch
of resurrection history, upon which
we are now entering, eclipses any
that has gone before is apparent. To
ho rln
yield to MONDAY splendor is not so
certain In the fluid state of the world
today, there was never such an OBJ
portunity to mold and fashion it in
the likeness of the Master. VIII the
church and all lovers Of the Risen
Lord rise to the occasion? The hour
of the church's opportunity has struck
twelve A plastic world surrounds
us 1t awaits the voice of the prophet
and the seer whose soul has been
stirred by the vibrant notes of a
world-Order striving to articulate with
the far-fung, redolent ray of the first
Easter morn.
The Jesus of Calvary has become
the Christ of glory His radiant living
personality seeks to dominate the
world of today; it is challenge to
the church that should stir it to its
very depths. But has the church the
spirit of martyrdOm and the passion
for Christ service that shall impel it
forward into the very heart of a world
still fraught with the suffering of
cricifiXiOn will it stand alOof or will
it become vital factor in the solu-
ton of world problems in this day
of transcendant opportunity? | be-
lieve that in the light of the reSur-
rection morn the church will rise to
claim her own and become mighty
factor in the solution of world prob
lens
The service was of high order
throughout; the rendition of the Re
Surrection" by Mrs. O. X. Saint. at
the close of the service will long be
remembered. The double quartette,
under the leadership of Mrs Saint,
also sang exceptionally well. All this
was in the morning The chorus choir
led by Mrs. Cause sang in the eve
ming