South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-04-05
FILL
CHURCHES ON
EASTER DAY
Terrific Blizzard + ails TO
Keep Attendance Down
in Local Churches.

South Bend churches held their
Easter services sunday morning
amid flying snowhakes, nevertheless
the churches for the most part were
hlled 20 capacity, weather conditions
having no effect on the people Of
the city. In all OF the churches of
the city and at the University OF
NOtre Dame musical programs. sun
day school exercises. and appropri-
ate sermons marked the ceremonies
for the day.
The program for Easter Sunday
at the First Methodist church was
replete with special music. bothbat
the morning and at the ( o'clock
services 4 vested choir or more
than 40 voices sang under the di-
rection OF Fred c. Haas. organist.
His solo, "The story Of the Cross.
was well rendered. Rev. Joseph Y.
G-eene's sermon was The First
Easter Message" ," after which a class
of q persons were admitted TO
church membership Solos by T. j..
Hager l.. l.. Kemper. and c. j.
Jordan were features OF the pro-
gram.
Westminster Services.
To the morning congregation at
L4lt W toLlll4lleLtL T r . ~ y L T. 81 II
church that completely filled the au-
ditorium and overhowed into the
annex, Rev. Alfred VI. Eells. u. ID.
preached on the subject The Testi-
mony of the Tomb" The service
marked the accession of 81 m"m-
bers making a total of % within
three weeks.
The evening service Was featured
as a sacred musicale with the Am
phion quartette rendering six anth-
ems. Messers Morse and LOgsdon
each singing solos and Miss Kath-
ering Beach giving an organ rendi-
tion. All parts were well received
by the unusually large audience
present.
Recently the Westminster congre-
cation recognized the growth Cf the
church by voting unanimously TO
sanction the giving OF substantial
bonus 20 the pastor and an Increase
Of $500 TO his salary.
NJ. Pauls VI. II.
The program Sunday morning at
st. PauTs NJ. Z. church was "a
tured by selections of the DePauw
university glee club. composed OF
80 voices The sang at both the
morning and afternoon services.
Several organ solos by ". II. Tho
mas were well rendered at different
times during the services. The De-
Pauw glee club gave 1G numbers at
the 4 o'clock services some or Whlch
were solos. others We're duets and
ouartcttes. They were both vocal
and instrumental Tie singing or
Miss Martha Trippeer. soprano, was
very good.
DR.. G.. W. Heininger. Of Cleveland.
Ohio. delivered the Easter morning
sermon at the First Evangelical
church which was followed by Bap-
tssInal services and the reception or
. new members i'm the church. A sun
dav school program was given by
the primary department.
Services at the 81. PauFs German
I Lutheran church included sermon
. bv the pastor. Rev. IT. HOLE, which
7 was followed hy Sunday school ser
vices and a concert OF special music.
Three Services.
Three different services were held
at the Holy Trinity English Luth-
aran church. The pastor Rev. A.
+ H. Kcck. delivered a short sermon
ON a Living Versus Dead Christ,
at the early morning services. His
, subiect was Worthy II the Lamp
that Was Slain" followed by choir
selections Christ is Risen by Car
rio r Adams and Jesus Lives 10y
Ira y Wilson. The choir also suns
/ "Cbrist our Passover" by John j.
( Thomas and solo entitled 30 Heart
Bowed Down, Arise sung by Miss
/ Crissie Reimold. New members were
received. Holy communion was also
administered at this service.
sermon on "Christs Resurrec-
/ tion i'm Pictures and Voice was de
! IIvcred at the LaSalle theater sun
dav morning by Rev. Van Buren,
( Shumaker. AR Shumaker Is an or
daircd elder I'M the church OF Zion
/ .rhe address was preceded by an or
GAN selection 10y Mrs. lhcrenco
I Austin