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Show EASTER SUNRISE 3orshippers Awaiting Annual ,ervice in Garden of the Gods jn An outdoor cathedral so majestic that even the Creator might ive chosen it, is the scene of the 30th presentation of the annual "lister sunrise service in the Garden of the Gods near Colorado wrings, Colo. These exercises in commemoration of Christ's res- 1 9 , I ( . iir - wini m i iut rtnir 11 imt-iatnwi '--tii-T 84 11 as in the hearing of a vast 'jrch of the air which joins the vice from all over the world. K The service this year will be .d at 5:30 a.m. MST instead of .' usual 6:30 a.m. This hour 5I ikes the service an actual sun-e sun-e service, as the sun breaks the rizon at exactly 5:33 a.m. and .' the time the service has been npleted, the golden light of an :ly Colorado sunrise will have thed the towering limestone lfts and the majestic snow i, pped top of Pikes peak in a , 'W of beauty. ""The charm of the Easter sun-e sun-e service in the Garden of the ds is immeasurable. Acoustical-the Acoustical-the amphitheater is perfect, e music and sermon carry clear-vin clear-vin the crisp Colorado air. It is a autiful sight to see these thous-,ds thous-,ds of worshippers gathered toother to-other to listen to a story hundreds If years old in a natural outdoor f urch located in the heart of the f 'Cky mountains. Predominantly Musical -As in previous years, the Garden i'; the Gods service will be pre-I pre-I minantly musical. The Colorado flings High School 300 mixed lee a capella choir will be feared. fea-red. The choir, under the direc-E- n of Frank Gilles, is composed I j, eight voice parts from bass to , orano. These young people are jptionally famous, having won j-Tst place in national choral so- ,ijty contests several times. fa The music itself will be of Pleep religious significance and efextremely interesting from a ti Technical standpoint. The f call ca-ll ?.ured number will be "In Jos-' Jos-' :ph's Lovely Garden", a tra-blitional tra-blitional Spanish Easter melo-,ly melo-,ly arranged by Clarence Dick- nson. i Another interesting number will a Bach chorale, "Jesus Price-Us Price-Us Treasure" while the most v rring of the offerings will be ri Easter Alleleuia", a 14th cen-'Jly cen-'Jly melody with words by Charles J'sley. These young voices are of the finest features of the jjpice. - The Reverend .Doctor John H. CHeen, pastor of the First Baptist ,jrch of Colorado Springs, Will The three crosses representing represent-ing Jesus and the two thieves who died with him make a spectacular background in the Garden of the Gods. the past 17 years. This year, however, how-ever, it will be done by Miss Arline Lewis McKinney, a young lyric soprano so-prano in her late 20' s. Miss McKinney Mc-Kinney also is featured on another famed dedication when she sings "America the Beautiful" for a program pro-gram which highlights the poem by Catherine Lee Bates, who was inspired to write the immortal words when she viewed the Pikes peak region from the slopes of the famous mountain. Founded in 1921 Organ music by Mrs. Verda Lawrie supplies the background music for the service, for the vocalist vo-calist and for the postlude. The services are sponsored by the Colorado Col-orado Springs Ministerial Alliance headed by Rev. G. O. Berneking and were founded In 1921 by the now - retired A. W. Luce who for many years retired to the Garden of the Gods as his favorite place of meditation. He was seated at the foot of one of the great spectacular shafts of limestone when his Bible fell open to a passage in the book of John which read: "Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, gar-den, there they laid Jesus." The simile of the happening in the Garden of the Gods gave him the idea of holding an Easter sunrise sun-rise service there. Some 700 worshippers wor-shippers attended his first gathering gather-ing and since that time the services ser-vices have grown to become one of the foremost in the nation and have brought religious consolation to thousands of listeners throughout the world. Later, the noted Dr. S. Parkes Cadman visited the spot where the services are regularly held and said: "There is no more appropriate appropri-ate place on the globe for holding an Easter sunrise service unless one were to go to Jerusalem to find the place where the first Easter occurred." . Dr. Cadman's opinion as to the beauties of the Garden of the Gods has been shared by , the millions from over the world who have visited vis-ited it since it became a part of the park system of the city of Colorado Col-orado Springs in the early years of the present century. The Garden was a part of the public domain until 1879 when it was bought by Charles E. Perkins, an eastern railroad tycoon. He intended in-tended to build a home on it, but on more leisurely inspection, decided de-cided that no work of man should destroy the beauty of the Garden. His children later gave it to the city. Natural Church Nature, a few million years ago, carved out a natural church which is more magnificent than any since erected by man. The spectacle of these thousands of people massed together in this natural valley listening lis-tening to the voices of the capella choir reverberating from stone to stone while the towering red limestone lime-stone rocks are silhouetted against the glorious sunrise of red, blue and gold, is a colorful, incredible sight. Nature lends a truly religious relig-ious significance to this Easter sunrise sun-rise service held deep in the heart of the Rocky mountains. The geological history of the Garden of the Gods is simple. In prehistoric times, the same earth-shaking earth-shaking movements that formed the Rocky mountains caused an upthrust of limestone which extends ex-tends underground from Canada to Mexico. However, it is only in the Colorado Springs Garden of the Gods that this limestone segment upthrust shows predominantly above the ground. !ib ft I h i Sat- r f A ft Y AK s The Colorado Springs Civic jjf'layers pantomime the resur-ection resur-ection of Christ for the Easter unrise service. m liver the sermon at the, service j '.hrist the Conqueror". Dr. Skeen jjl point out how Christ lived and "rked among the enemies of the jr,.ils of men and his own soul, and ' j.it no enemy could resist his 'Jrsonality and faith in God. J 'His friends buried him in a rrowed tomb, but at the end of "'ee days he laid aside the gar-' gar-' ;nts of death and stepped for-";-rd to conquer death and the jn,:;ive. Today we join together by ie!P' millions to celebrate his resur-' resur-' :tion and to proclaim him King Kings and Lord of Lords to the "f ry of God the Father Eternal." The minister who will deliv-' deliv-' yr this year's sermon is a big, 'Vltal man. He is famed in the f.-'ikes Peak region as a mountaineer, moun-taineer, fisherman and big ir! rame hunter. Thoughts which le brings to this service are hose of a man really thinking '.o our present troubled world. s,(.:)ne of the favorite songs of the lister sunrise service is that of " x meadow lark and thrush, flit-;g flit-;g among the red sandstone ' pks. But in addition to this song ";,;re is another that is never to .forgotten . . . the exalted "Open 'j Gates of the Temple" which 'V5 Deen magnificently sung by the or soloist, Bernard Vessey for |