Show of interest has been reached ed The Thc visible sym symbol l lot of ot cUo resurrection having been divided dIvided and passed on n no longer burls burris beside the Sepulcher Slowly lowly the crowds melt away some climbing past the Garden of Ge Gethsemane emane to the summit of ot Mount Mount Olivet Almost as ns Interesting as the Easter cel celebration In n Jerusalem is that In another nother Old world city city city- Rome Italy There a n cross Is erected In the center center center cen cen- ter of ot the Colosseum where s so many a y Christian n martyrs suffered death learn because or of tacit their faith and Impressive services are held aronn around this dur- dur during cross d dur during rIng r- r ing Easter week espe especially I lly on Good Goo Friday In the United States the Ide Idea of open air sunrise services on Easter morning have been gaining steadily during the tle recent years It originated In California and the first servI service e of this kind was held In 1009 on tile the summit of ot Mount Rubidoux near RiversIde where stands a n cross erected t to tl the e memory of ot Fra Fia Serra the pious pious' Franciscan monk who first brought the cross cross to California and founded the missions ns In that state Jacob RIIs nus the famous writer is s said to have first conceived the idea of an Duster sunrise servIce service service ice on Mount Rubidoux during a visit to Riverside and It Is said to tot have sprung from a recollection of his childhood in Denmark Denmark when his veople people were were accustomed to make a pilgrimage at nt Yuletide Yule Yule- Yuletide I tide to the summit of ot a venerated d mountain nearby nearby nearby near near- near near- by singing Christmas carols as they went On Easter morning 21 years a ago o a little group of less than a n hundred people made their way up the slopes of the mountain from Riverside In the darkness before dawn so that the service could be held Just at at sunrise The first service was a brief one simple but sincere and ond Impressive e. e But Butas Butas Butas as his RIIs had predicted ted the religious feeling brought about by an Easter sunrise service left an nn Impression Impression Im Im- m which guaranteed its continuance Each year thereafter the Interest and attendance at this service grew In 1917 1017 7 more than Ulan pers persons per per- s sons ns ascended the summit of f Rub Rubidoux at Eastertide Easter Easter- tide tlde and the next year saw the same number of ot pl pilgrims there They They had cone come not only from Riverside but from other cities In California Other notable Easter morning s services In California California Cal Cal- ea each h of ot which attracts ts thousands of worshipers wor wor- rs are those thos In the great Los Angeles coliseum coliseum coli colt seum scum In the Hollywood howl at the Tower of Legends In Glendale and In n Pasadena At Stove StovePipe StovePipe StovePipe Pipe Wells In the famous Death valley a cross has lias been erected and there services services' are held on Easter morning In III memory of the pioneers who lost their lives on the desert Every year thousands of people attend an Easter East East- er r sunrise service In the Garden of the Gods neat Colorado Springs Colo and In the Wichita mo moun n- n tarns of ot southwestern Oklahoma for tho the last four or five years a n sunrise service has b been en held on the summit of or ono on one of 01 the rugged granite hills The c chief lef feature of ot the service Is the Pageant of ot tho the Resurrection presented by fifty members of ot the Sunday school o of Medicine Park a I |