Show rt St St. St Marks Mark's Cathedral Cathedra L Tho Hc Brewster Although the thc hour for service Sunday morning at St. St Marks Mark's was as half an hour earlier carler than usual the church was ws tilled filled before lefore the thc choir preceded ded by time the cross- cross bearer marched up tho the aisle singling singing the thc I processional hymn Jesus Christ Is Risen i iToda Toda Today After tho tine singers erl ha had taken their places time the crowd d cro in walling waiting c came caine me In filling eVer every scat seat and tho time aisles where double rows of o chairs were placed The Thc Easter Casler decorations were ere pa particularly beautiful beautiful beau beau- thu though h simple and ant an unusual feature feature feat feat- ure which added to lo the Interest was that the tino flowers fowers were all al given In memory of or v I loved ived d ones oles in iii Paradise The white marble marble mar mar- ble font Cont was wa tilled filled with pure pun Easter Eastel lles lilies Time The chancel windows were banked hanke with wih calla cala Ilc lilies Time The altar alar and amid were a mass of or time the na flagrant rant Easter blossoms bios blos and tall tail tal potted plants plant of or tho tine same stood at either cither side Palms filled the thc chancel chained and amid were serc grouped around time the pulpit and lectern Easter and calla cala lilies lles w were o banked In the tine memorial windows There Thele were services In the time morning at Gl GI S Sand and 1020 At the time latter later the thc lar large c choir rendered the full service Mrs C. C G G. Plummer san sang I 1 Know That My Iy Redeemer Redemer Liveth with wih good effect erect Tine The anthem by the thc choir The Tho Strife is OVer Ocr Men Mendelssohn Buck Buck n-Buck was splendidly given At 4 p. p in m. tho the childrens children's carol service e. e where time the Sunday school Easter offering was taken up was well el attended There was also baptism of oC Infants In the time evening at coral Evensong and the thc Easter cantata Christ Christ time the Victor Vietor Vie Vic tor by Dudley DUdle Buck was listened to toby toby toby by a congregation that overflowed tIne thc cathedral ral Time The cantata Is one ono of or tho the most ambitious pieces of oC work that the thc choir has ever attempted Under the time direction of oC the tine choir master Karl Kai Scheid and the thc organist A. A II n. Peabody time the se selections se- se welo well rendered The solos were taken by Mrs Irs W. W F P. Adams Miss U Isabel Ishel Osborne Miss Iss Amy Osborne T. T E E. Rowan Walter Waller aler Wallace and Thomas Wise Dean Brewster's sermon at the time 1030 morning moring service follows In part This Is part vart of time the story of oC the tIme first I Easter That Thiat early morning walk to the thc I sepulchre re Is easily understood The thoughts t of oC the faithful women during the thc I sad and weary Sabbath that followed tho tim were there In Josephs Joseph's garden garden gr- gr gar gar- den with the thai rev revered ed body of or tIme the Mas Mas- las las- ter The Thc time had been too loo short on Friday to do moro more than prepare for th tin embalming and on thc the Sabbath they could do no work And ns as earlY cany as possible on the thc first day lay of oC tIme thc week wEek they sped thither carrying aromatic aro are matic ointments How natural and lifelike Is the thc record As their muffled t figures hury hurry onward In the brightening dawn wo we hear them then saying one to another as os women will will will- wl- wl Vho shall roll rol us UR away the thc stone tono Loving devotion like time theirs would be blind to such suh a a practical difficulty until almost face to face faco with wih It I. I Even now the thought does not deter them It only makes them speed tho tho- faster But nut here her th they at the thc place and with some som somO are A O r t h. h l V I i 11 U ori lin UI 11 l Kul rl MM t bh I In rol rolled roll away And Antl nd then tho vision nas aa lS given of oC hta heavenly who told lold a a. 0 lie Ho who was v crucified Is risen Vas How much more than han that heavy stood stone at tho time mouth of time the sepulchre h has s been I roiled relied away b by the gospel See first how the thc disciples of Jesus became became be be- came cao like men set free However Howe we WI may seek to explain It I. I tho tine undoubted fact Is that their confidence In Jn time the resurrection resurrection res res- of or Jesus gave o a Us Its Is conquering energy to tho time early acly Christian church It I was as a witnesses to thc the resurrection that time the apostles w went vent nt forth orth to preach Why Wimy hy Because It was the resurrection which tr their conception of or Jesus Before they the looked upon Him as Jesus Deor their own beloved teacher who spoke spoke- o as never man and when an aim unjust execution took him Him from Crom them they were He sad sad somewhat somewhat as tho tim disciples of or Socrates t s were sal sad sae But after a few Cew weeks how thc thc-lr language Ian lan guage changed How the tIme men themselves are aro changed Now the they timey look upon as tho tine Lord of life as time the I rightful king o of all al men And they act with power as soMI soldiers of the Kin King Pentecost means the time organizing Into Inlo a n compact body hody of those disciples already alread fired fined with wih new newa a aspirations by the resurrection of their Lord So tIme the Catholic church couraS courageous courageous coura coura- ous hopeful going forth to overcome S tho tIme sin und and the time unbelief and amid tine the weariness wean wean- ness nc-as of the tine world finds Il Its sure suie starting point In the tine revelation of that fr first t Easter gas gas- ter day Lk Like the time stone rolled away from the time door of the time sepulchre wel weights that had mad kept these men timid maid uncertain of oC themselves were rolled away No Now consider it well wel Thc Tine starting point of all al tints this wondrous chance chano from timidity to coura courage e. e from weakness to strength from sorrow to hopefulness 11 separating prejudice lo to brotherhood was that Easter Caster revelation of oC time thc risen and glorified Master aster As to time the manner of the tIme resurrection Itself there Is a delicate reticence In the time gospel gos- gos pel records What a theme here horo for grandiose such a as Imaginative tive literature particularly of oC that ago would eagerly seize holt hold of But Dut not so with whim wih tho timo evangelists The They m make ke no attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to describe the rl rising of the thc Lord The They only onh toil tell tel tin us what tho time witnesses es saw saw saw- time thc stone rolled roiled u away way tho time empty tomb lomu- n and d later r time the rl risen cn Jesus Himself In iii Ills His Ils old dear comradeship yet ct with wih a difference as of ono one now belonging to a 1 sphere above this earth earth- That 18 is all ni that tho tine gospels tell tel us with harmony as to tho ho main fact on only tho the more marc mark marked marko d by their variations In details That I Is what they toll tell lol u us of this timis cr great al Easter Easler truth ono one one of tho the pivotal truths in human history hits his tor tory tory enough for faith enough for sound reason but making no damn claim caim to satisfy Idle curiosity How lio time the creed of or tho the church rings s true to that apostolic simplicity aim sim Tho The third thir day He lie Te rose roso again from Crom the thc lead dead Let the tine stone atone I of doubt be rolled away And let tho time of oC hopeless s sorrow bo be rolled awn away If such sorrow weighs on any heart hero today Let Lt the time blessed sunshine in In Iv from tho the faith nUh In personal Immortality Tho Time Christian Christan with the light of earth In his mind and his heart Is sure of oC seeing again and knowing the tho dead ones he lie once loved lovel hero here and has hag lost awhile awhile- Joyfully sure of or being joined In a far Rr more mor perfect fellowship than was possible possible ble blo here with wih tine the faithful who rest in God Blessed are arc thc they that mourn for or thc they shall be comforted Easter Baster sets set tho time seal of oC assurance upon that hint promise Wino Who ho will wi blame your human mourning Surely rot n He who wept b by the grave gravo o gr of or His Ills friend Lazarus But lut let not your our mourning mourning mourn mourn- mour In ing bo be a sorrow without hope With Wih the church of all an the tho Christian Christan centuries realize your our gla glad giad confession I 11 in time thc communion of oC saints I believe e In he time resurrection of or the tho body Tho Time stone of oC hopeless grief gref Is rolled awa away And Ant small shall not nol tIme the dead dent wel weight ht of or sd- sd sel- sel bo be role rolled away A thoughtful writer has said ald Id Ho Ito who lives wholly with wih his fellow men departs from this world without going through h the time dark laric portals That I Is a part of or the thc Easter Easler gospel gospel certainly J It t is because of oC Easer Ens- Ens ter er and amid that thal supreme p-onal p personality that Incarnate love that embodied unselfishness unselfish ness which gives Its Is meaning that mon today tOlay can realize such u a u truth as that that-no hat no dark lark portals portal for tho tIme man who lives ives J es wholly with his fellow men Let the time love of Christ constrain us to toivo live ivo 1 0 unselfishly even n as it H Is written that lie He Jo died for all al that thc they which live hive lve 10 no longer live J e unto themselves but unto Him who wino for their sakes Bakes died and amid ro rose roto o again again- And so let every ever stone slone of ot low and ba base o arid and impure motive o moU bo be rolled awa away Timid women saw the great reat stone rolled rolet away from froni Christs Christ's sepulchre on that first Easter morning lon long ago aso And men and arid women from that day to lo this through brough Him who burst that Imprisoning tomb tomb have havo found found and and still we ma may find Ind Indle hife le life to be no longer the sepulchre of oC burled buried hopes and burled bulled loves and fettered tel fet wills wis Time The power of or the thc lon tion ton Is 18 an fn abiding and present power We can cnn if IC we will wi go RO forth orth with Christ Christo to o liberty t and jO Joy and victory |