Salt Lake Herald | 1899-03-31 | Page 4 | The Day and the Event

THE DAY AND THE EVENT I Good FrIday is geneUy recomzed CcEP possibly in strictly Protestant comnvunltiesas one of the moS solemn or all the sacrdd annivesrC I is observed wIt appropriate care mmie in memory of the passion and I death or Christ and is therefore a day I of mourng In early days the i church were closed and drapedt in mourning bUt the practice finally I dwindle to Span and eventually conumiI ceased altogether In Catholic commu I nlt where the day is observed wit greater ceremony and solemnity perhaps I per-haps thtn in any other serViCes are I held but the organ is not played and the bell js selt I Of recent years thee seems to be n I growing tendency on the part of Protestant I Pro-testant Christians to recognize in ap I prpriat services the mournful sig r n1fccc of the day This is another Indication of what las ben frequently observed of laiethe gradual drawing together of the Ch5t people which I despite a little friction here and there i surely going on The dIfferent Protestant denoJina tons are becoming more tolerant more I fraternal itnd the brotherhood of man frtenal ad te b i being received as the broader creed I in which sects like minor difference lst In the same way the coursu of the two main branches of the Christian Te lgion are converging Protestanl is losing its Purtniai harshness and Catholicism is losing Us liberUy ot I the past GO Friday is the day of all days reomible for the existence of the Christian church As the death of Christ was that the ord mIght live s must the accepted anniversary 01 the day of his death remind nU churchts I and aU Christians that their existence dates from this day Inh rite antipathy to the Catholic I church may furnish a objection to a observance of the day but these reIg inns animosities are happily ding out I Got Friday like Easter and Christmas Christ-mas is the common heritage of all Christians And all these days wee handed down through the medium of the other church tle