The New York herald., 1922-04-17
Long Queues Awaited Open
ing of Doors at st. Pat
rick's Cathedral.
MANNING AT ST. JOHNS
breaches on the Resurrection ;
Rabbi Wise Talks Of Cruel
fixion Of the Jews.

Easter Sunday was observed through
out the city yesterday with impressive
services. beginning with the early
masses in the Catholic churches and a
z o'clock Easter dawn service in Cen
trail Park under the auspices of the
New York Federation of Churches and
closing with vespers last night.
For the first time in history an
Faster service was broadcasted by
radio telephone.
The early morning service in the
Park was held in the Mall opposite
Seventy-seventh street, with Bishop
Herbert Stipman presiding. Nine.
Louise Homer sang and the Rev. DR..
Henry Van Dyke read poem of his
own composition entitled God of the
Open Air." There was also selection
by the Gloria Trumpeters and a SER
mon by DR.. John McNeill, pastor of
the Fort Washington Presbyterian
Church.
Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes cele-
bratcd, pontifical mass at st. Patrick's
Cathedral at IL o'clock and impaired
Papal benediction.
Bishop William T. Manning preached
the Easter sermon at the Cathedral OF
st. John the Divine in the morning. and
festival evensong was held there at
o'clock. A children's service was held
at 3 o'clock.
At old Trinity early communion was
celebrated at 6 80 and a children's 3
eucharist was held at 9 o'clock. AT
1880 the Rev. Caleb r. Stetson, the
new rector. preached his first Easter
sermon in Trinity. The day closed with
evensong at $3.50.
EARLY services were held also In st.
Pauls, Grace Church and other Epis-
copal churches. Special Easter services
were held in the afternoon and evening
at Salvation Army Headquarters. 122
West Fourteenth street.
Before the doors were opened for the
pontifical mass at st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral crowds OF early comers stood on
the steps and stretched in long queues
up and down Fifth avenue. At the SER
vice a request was made through Mgr.
Lavelle by the Archbishop for prayers
to be offered daily for John Mccormack,
the tenor. who is seriously i'll.
Bishop NIannins's Sermon.
At the Cathedral of ST. John the
Divine Bishop Manning selected the
eighteenth verse. first chapter, OF Reve-
lations as his text: II am He that
liveth and was dead. and behold 1 am
alive forcvermorc." He said:
I'VE are here to rejoice and give
thanks for the greatest day In the his
tory of our race. The day on which
Jesus Christ arose and came forth out
of the grave was the day that changed
the world. The resurrection has been
called the best attested fact In history.
whether men believe in Easter
message or not they cannot dispute the
facts that have followed from 1t. On that
day Of the resurrection something hap
pencd which changed the face or the
world. History centers at that empty
tomb. The old order ran right up to It.
The new order starts directly from 1t.
Every time we put the year 1929
on letter we recognize that history
took new beginning on the day Of
Christ's resurrection. From that day
there has been an absolutely new faith
and hope, an absolutely new certainty
Of God and the future life. an abso-
Iutcly new spiritual force at work in
this world
"The only thing which explains all
this Is that Jesus Christ. the son of
God, who came down from heaven FOR
our sakes. rose on that day from the
dead"
Greetings From the East.
Immediately before the services
Bishop Manning received from Ecu
menical Patriarch Meletios OF Con-
Stantinople. head of the Eastern
Church, a cablegram which no read:
II am wishing you and your church
every rejoicing granted by resuscitated
Christ"
DR.. Van Dyke. professor of English
literature at Princeton. preached the
Easter sermon at the Park Avenue
Presbyterian Church, of which he was
the pastor for many years and where
his son. Tertius Van Dyke now occu-
pies the pulpit. DR.. Van Dykes text
was the fourteenth verse. fifth chap
ter. Of the Epistle to the Ephesians
Awake thou that sleepcth and arise
from the dead. for Christ shall give
thee life" He said evolution does not
antagonize religion, but supplements II,
and asserted all animal matter Is iden-
tical because IL is perishable. lie con-
tinued:
'vThe soul that is Joined to the body
OF man does not necessarily share the
fate OF the body and we can be sure OF
eternity for the soul by faith and re-
lgion only"
At Trinity Church, Broadway and
Wall street. DR.. Stetson preached from
tho text, "If ye then be risen with
Christ. seek those things which arc
above" He said:
"As Christians we rejoice that Christ
conquered death and that we shall rise
as He did and that there Is life OF
reality and joy ahead of us. All this
is true. yet there is confused thinking
about heaven and the life to come.
what are the conditions of this
life? Where Is heaven and where Is
hell? The picture OF heaven which
came to us from the Jewish Christian
imagination served useful purpose in
It's day, but these ideas do not appeal
to our present day thought. We do
not want a heaven Of golden streets
and pearly gates, but the need OF
thinking out the meaning OF cverlast-
ing life is pressing. Much doubt and
urbelief are due TO false ideas. intel
icctually untenable and morally re-
voting. like some ideas OF hell that
were and are current.
The Easter service In the new Park
Avenue Church was crowded and hun
dreds OF persons we're turned away. DR..
Woelfkin In his sermon said:
THE play of youth, the pressure OF
duty, the dreams Of ambition. the excite
ments OF pleasure make US forget the