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Show Titanic Disaster Will be theme of Many Sermons Now York, Apill 20. The Titanic disaster will be the theme of sermonB in hundreds of chinches tnroughouj the United States tomorrow. In Now York the principal memorial service I will bo held in the magnificent new j cdtliedial oi St. John the Dhine. Bishop Bish-op Greoi, head ot, the Episcopal diocese dio-cese of New York, will officiate. At old Tilnlty church, a similar memorial me-morial son ice will be held. Trinity is to be the scene on Tuesday next of an olTlclal memorial sen Ice undor tho auspices of tho British consul general gen-eral and the St. GoorgoV society. Tho musical programs m most of tho Now I York) churches will reflect tho feeling of sorrow and grief oer tho greatest i marine disaster of hlston, Tho hymns "Nearer, My God to Thee' and ' Guide I Me, O Thou .Great Jehovah," played bj the Titanic's band Just before tho boat sank, will have prominent places. Requiem music and such numbers as Gounod's "M,esse Solemnelle," Chopin Cho-pin a 'Funeral March," and Handel's ' "Dead March will be heard in many I churches. How thoioughly the days sermon? will be devoted to the Titanic may bo judged from scanning tho subjects' announced an-nounced by the pastors of tho ten biggest big-gest New York churches today. They aro as follows "Tho Groat Catastro- phe," "The Lessons from the DIs- ( astei," "The Cry of Peril," "Heroism of Private Life," "Reflections on the Loss ot the Titanic," "Lost," "Gods Voice In the Disaster," "Sympathy," "Tho Modern Mind in the Presence of a Great Calamity" and "The Sonow of the Sea " |