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Show IK TEMPLAR li SERVICES OF BEAUTY Immanuel Baptist Church Decorated and Thronged; Hear Dr. Bowerman. The Easter services of tho Immanuel Baptist church were of a very imprcts-iv0 imprcts-iv0 character. Members of the Utah commandery, Knights Templar, were tho guests of the morning, seventy-five uniformed uni-formed knights being present. The spacious Sunday school quarters were crowded to their capacity 700 persons per-sons being present, and many were turned away for lack of seating. Tho rooms were beautifully decorated with calla lilies. The music was elaborate, a pleai;l;ig feature being the processional, "Onward, Christian Soldiers." by a trlrLH1 chorus of thirty voices. Tho Bevr L. S. Bowcrman gavo a special spe-cial word of welcome to tho commandery and announced that pledges enough had been received from thc church and friends to fulfill tho conditions of the church extension' board, and that It was hoped to begin work on the auditorium about May 1. Tho sermon for the morning was "Tho Resurrection." In part Dr. Bowcrman spoke as follows; Some years ago tho word camo to our city that Marshfleld, Mo., had been blown away. Father and I responded, re-sponded, with others, to the call for relief 125 out of a population of 3200 were dead and ruin and desolation desola-tion were everywhere. In our wanderings wan-derings wo picked up a McGuffey's Sixth Reader, lying open, and tho first words we saw were, "And after the storm there was a calm." A calm like thc silence. of death it was then. After tho storm there ls a mystic pause in nature and humanity. These disciples of Jesus felt It In the lowly homes after that scene of tho crucifixion. cruci-fixion. Every sensibility seemed dead. . It was the calm after the storm. What a change since that day of waving palm branches and shouting "Ilosanna!" How terrified tho storm of human passion that Friday morning! morn-ing! How hopeless that morning of the first Easter day'. Two things I call lo your attention atten-tion this morning. First, the fact of the resurrection; second, the significance sig-nificance of tho fact The fuct is tested and must 'be by purely the scientific historic method weighed as any other matter and tho historicity his-toricity determined. Tho fact rests upon four evangels Paul, the writer of many epistles and tho writer of tho "Hebrews." Five hundred saw tho risen Lord, the larger part of whom still lived when Paul wroto twenty-five years after thc resurrection. resurrec-tion. Ten appearances aro recorded to Marv Magdalene, to the women, to James, tho two on the way to Emmaus, ln thc upper room, Thomas Thom-as absent, In tho upper room. Thomas present: by tho seaside and the thrice-repeated question to Peter, to Peter, to the 500 at once, at tho ascension. No fact in all olden history his-tory Is better attested. The growth of the Christian church adds its testimony. tes-timony. Thc significance of that fact: "If a man die shall ho live again?' That's tho question of the soul through thc ages ln India, China, Chaldca, Egypt. Greece. Russia, m the world of today "Shall ho live again?" Job hoped. Socrates reasoned, rea-soned, others conjectured. Jesus spake with assurance. "I am the resurrection and thc life" not a day, but an ever-present, vital fact, an ondless llfc already begun. We have no time to discuss theories. Thc re-embodied spirit, tho living personality, person-ality, not earthy but heavenly, not materialistic but spiritual the glorified glori-fied personality. Dr. Bowcrman paid a. splendid tribute to the Templars of old. thc knights guarding pilgrims to thc holy sepulchre, the story of the crusaders, struggling with Turk and Saracen. Then the story of tho death of the old order and martyrdom martyr-dom of many of Its leaders. Dr. Bowerman'n closing was especially pleasing to the Sir Knights, as he told of their silent Influence and their gen-tk gen-tk acts of peace; the story of the vision of the open grave, a risen Lord, a blood-rcd blood-rcd cross of service oven to martyrdom. Thc old knight brought from lh0 cast the vision that the ages were losing. "Ho has risen." |