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Show LENT WML BEGIN TOMORROW; EASTER WILL COME EARLY Baeter Hunday will coma earlier tins year tha a for many years past. We hare to go back to ltM for a data oar-roapondlng oar-roapondlng In esrllnese of time to the date of Baeter thla year March t$ we have to go bark to tha year Mis to find Dast mi- failing n an earlier date and In that year it rait op tha Had. master comes as a culmination to the forty daya of fasting known aa ..mi. so aa a result Aah Wednesday cornea earlier this year aad the churches are planning their programs of obaervance. Teontan devotlona wilt begin at the Catholic church tomorrow morning and at both tha 7 an o'clock masse tha ashea will b blessed and dlatrlbuted. Every- Wednesday night during lent special spe-cial eervicoa will be hold, at which the Roeary of the Hteased Virgin and Benediction Bene-diction of the Blessed Sacrament will be observed, and the choir will sing the Oregortan .'hauls. At the Piidav nlaht services tbe Stations of the Cross will be msde aad the Benediction of the Bussed Ba-rament said. The choir will sing the "Stabat Mater Daloroaa ' The Bar. (Samuel R Oolladav an-nouncee an-nouncee that St. Mark s rSptacopal church tu ohaerve Lant by holding special services ser-vices throughout the forty days of abstinence. ab-stinence. There will be child ren'a service ser-vice every Wednesday afternoon at 4:K o'clock at Which tha children's rhotr will sing Bible stories will be told to the children with Inddanta In the Ufa of Christ. Fvery Wedneadav nlglu ape'-tal services will be held at ft o'clock and the congregations w1l he addressed by mem-bare mem-bare of the Episcopal clergy . beginning Wednesday. February , Bishop H. S. Spalding will have charge of the evening even-ing meetings Services sv-fll hr held daily at 4 o'clock, with the exception of Wednesdays, when the epeclal children's services will be held. Celebration of holy communion will be held ctery Thursday Thurs-day morning at 10 o clock and every Wednesdsv morning at T o'clock. Regular Regu-lar sen-Ice will he observed on Sunday and the rhlldren'a choir wltt sing at the Sunday afternoon aervlres. St. Paul's church wltl begin the ol-aervance ol-aervance of lsnt with the holv communion commun-ion at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning aial In the evening the Utan oil) be aald. Practically the same form of celebration will be obeerved wt St raul's c.mrch aa that outlined for Ht. Mark's church, with the exception that the rector of tlie former for-mer will eddress his congregation on a review of Important books on the church ami society. Lent, which hagl ne tomorrow, is t he fast of fortv daya before Master, begiu-nJng begiu-nJng at Ash TVedneedev srd extending through tha Saturday which ushers In tha master day. Lent oertalnly la of very ancient Institution, In-stitution, though the Xew Testament ontaina no reference to It. Lent, meaning mean-ing sparing, was first alluded tj by Ire-naeua Ire-naeua and Tertulllan. Lent, while it 'taed to be rigidly obeerved. Is odav onlv retained as a church reason of the cnen-dar cnen-dar with special service imd aroaf aoi lecta and prayers, and hi tiie ratted Htatea only In the aafjtlcan i ntreh and the Protestant B(iiscopa!. |