Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-17
SERMONS ON THE RESURRECTION BEFORE BIG EASTER CONGREGATIONS

1 obtains in every realm of life, and es- pecially in religion.
 1 A second experience we should remen1- 1 Der: that when the faith and the fact ] have met. the mystery is not lessenad bltt greatened What. achievement follows our believing. ushers into great nyster- ies. Tho faith and fact of the resurrect- cd life. as they met in Jesus. have et- i fected twenty centuries of altruism phil antfropy- and Christian coBsecraton | This Is the gospel that brought fife ana 1 immortality to life.
 1 Assisting tho uuartetta in the finely rendered anthems were Miss Isabel H. Mitchell violin, and Charles D. Gallup, cello.
 i One infant was baptized by the pastor and the following were received into membership in the church: By confess
 sion Miss Edna Martha Bogdanski. Mrs. Richard Gregson, Miss Lillian Agnes 1 Ross. Miss Florence Bertha Whitehead. Edward Frederick Bogdanslli, George
 Anson Birmingham. Charles Tiffany. Earl Bartsch Whitehead; by letter. Mrs. i George Anson Birmingham. Mrs. Annie
 Thompson, Mrs Charles Tiffany.
 GreensviT1e Congregational.
 Rev. C. H. Ricxetts' morning sermon ae the Greenevillo Congregational church
 was from Luke 24: 39, Behold my hands and my feet. that 1t is I myself handle mo and see; for s spirit hath not l flesh and bones as ve see me have" The subject was The Testimony of the Res urrection
 Life not death is the keynote ot the Christian religion The evidence is the resurrection. The houe of the world lies
 not so much in the face of fife as in it's
 continuance. Individuals come and go
 so do nations. ideas. manners and GUS
 toms.
 The greatest event to give imrAtus to
 the fact of life was the resurrection. The doctrine has always been subject 10 criti- cis5a. and the latest and most intensive
 is thc de0ial Of a bodily resurrection of Jesus. The followinfr was eiven as an ! answer to these objections: The evidence Of the word itself. It csN mean only the
 conliu back cs that which went or was taken aay. There is also the evidence Of the vanant tomb. What became os the body of Jesus? Did the disciples over
 power the guards and remove the body far secret burial? Wehe the guards sleep
 ing? Tlifs was very inp-ohahla. An ar
 eument in support Of the bodily resurrec-
 tion Of Jesus WAS fourd in the fact that
 Jesus nerf5rmed physical functions after the rasurrec.ion which would have been
 impossible without q physical body.
 Trinity Episcopal.
 ful. eucharistic service was rendered hy the cho'~ in the morning at Trinity
 Ep' sconal church Speaking from the
 text II Timothy 1: 10. Our Saviour,
 Jesus Christ. who ha-h abolished death. and hath brought life and immortality ia light through the gos,7 7el" Archdeacon l. Eidred Brown said that the pre- sumDtive evidence of reason offers strong ground for belief in a future life. The
 process Of Gods evolutionary working in
 nature and man furnishes an analogy which points 10 furE1er development be- voad the grave Sc'ence assures us that
 from the dawn of life there has been a
 stoady progression towards the highest present moral and spiritual qualities and attainments Of man.
 The doctrine of values is in favor ot ) immortality. Such va,ues as justice righteousness sG.f sacrifice. love are ; worthy to survive this fife. if the uni , verse is built on a rational plan. But
 Jesus is the expert in matters concern ing God and the spirit. And Jesus as sures us tlat death is but the birth into
 9 higher life. And He proved that His 2 {bnowiedge was accurate and His teach , tin- auchencc ,, Himself rising from the ] dead.
 : ii is He 'who hath brought ife and Immortality 10 light through the eos7e;. l He is equally "at home" in His subjel4 n l w1lether d'scoursing about this fife or the { life beyond.
 . The beaut'ful floral decorat ions on ii" - altar puirit and reading desk included 0 memorials from ". T. O-cott, Mrs C. E 9 Hal Mrs William F.-isUel. Mrs N. H
 ! tS- 9F.. { Snodgrsss and Mrs. Lester. $. A. Gilbert !, NTr. and Mrs. Robert Washington Mis- ' Matilda F. Randall three memorials. I D memory of Mrs Elizabeth Randall anc h AIr and Mrs. Henry L. Parker. Unirersaiist Church
 9 At the Church of the Good Shephert { (Universa.ist) the sermon by the pastor a Rev George II. Welch was upon Abun r dant Life from the text John 16 S3, Ii ', the word ye shall have tr,buiation bu # be o4 good cheer. have overcome tn II world.
 The outstanding feature of Christian
 writing and speaking with respect to tk e message of the Easter season. he said i l, the note of certainty that prevails in tn n thought of the resurrection. Argument g for Immortality Of life, for q partallin e of the eternal life, do not saVor of mod n ern thinking. Jesus sad. Be Of goo e cheer, 1-have overcome the world" An = T, f I be lifted up, will draw all me l. unto me" He explicitly states tha S. death brings pain and sorrow for the mo z, ment Greater joy in an accompIishe e fact will come after.
 Il, Our first assumption then is of the iiv l. ing Christ who sne9ks now as he did i l. other days and who calls people to tn kind of i fe that sf-all be eternal over l., coming the world as he overcame i :. Overcoming the world. then as I under d stand 1t and believe, means a conin = over 10 another world, a higher world c
 thinking, willing and acting.
 We must recognize the spiritual side ( 'd all living as well as the material. Ther T. IS a spiritual, man. Jesus calls us to Il, A. development of this. spiritual God-lif $ within in order that we may overcon le the world by coming over to the God-iIf lg and find it's possibilities within our soul e' Trinity Methodist Episcopal. !. as In hts sermon Sunday morning ,d Trinity Methodist Episcopal church th 10 pastor Rev. Robert L. Roberts, 'Ph: D ar preached upon The Resurrection of th |. Dead and set himself to answer thre
 questions: What is man? What is death O. What is resurrection? Man was show 70 to be neither body nor spirit but unio
 of both. He Is an embodied spirit x, I'd lis a soul and has q body" but body re part of his essential nature. He is 64 duplex creature. and can never be an. e. thing else and be human being It C. this union that makes him man-diff e, 70, him from pure spirits, makes him a ne ed order in creation. He is the apex of m; ns terial creation now. where it blends vii j; l the spiritual, He is the n1eetiug nofrt