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Show ELOQUENT SERMDM AT' THE TABERNACLE IV APOSTLE Ml! Nearly 1100 people gathered at the Tabernacle yesterday afternoon to hear the Easter service arranged by the Tabernacle committee and one and all were deeply Impressed with tho sermon siven by Apostle David 0. McKay and the music furnished by the Ogtlen Tabernacle choir and soloists, solo-ists, Organist Sam F. Whitaker and Horace S. Ensign of Salt Lake. The musical numbers wore beautifully appropriate ap-propriate to the occasion and were finely interpreted. They were as follows: fol-lows: Organ prelude Sam F. Whitaker Solo and chorus, 'There is a green hill far away. Lillian Scott and Tabernacle choir. Baritone solo, "When Heaven sang to earth." Horaco S. Ensign. Solo and chorus, "As it began to. dawn." Mrs. Agnes Warner and choir. Solo and chorus "Hosanna," Mrs. Warner and choir. Organ postlude Sam F. Whitaker The service was conducted by Elder El-der Frank Williams and, following tho organ prelude, the choir sang its first number. The invocation was offered by Bishop 0. M. Sanderson of the Sixth ward and was followed by Mr. Ensign s soio. rue cnoir, wun ms. Warner, then sang "As it began to Dawn." At Its conclusion, Apostle McKay began his sermon. He first spoke of an incident of the previous day. in which he met a young boy going "Easter egging" and said that it had recalled his own youth and in it the knowledge that Easter, to a child, meant a picnic In the hills, with a bon-flre, the smell of the sagebrush and the colored Easter eggs as the chief feature of the lunch. As Easter meant "Easier egging" to a child, he continued, It meant, in a lighter sense the purchase and op. portunity of displaying new hats and gowns by the women. This was quite natural, as tho Easter season is orie of rejuvenation and awakening, when nature puts on its garments of leaves and flowers and all the world scomB to be brightened. ' This, however, should not be thought of as the real significance of the Easter observance, that significance signifi-cance being the -Message from Christ's vacant tomb," which was given by the Apostle John in his Gospel. Gos-pel. At this point, the speaker read the familiar story of the going of (.Mary to the sepulchre, of her finding it empty and saying, "They have, taken him away" and then of the two apostles, apos-tles, John and Peter, following a little later, of John hesitating at the mouth of the tomb and of Peter going into the tomb and the two being coninced by the evidence before them that the Master had "risen from the dead." After he had concluded "the reading, read-ing, Apostle Mclay said that it was but a simple story of the 'greatest message ever given to the world, as It contained the demonstration that Christ was the conqueror of death and that the simplicity of the tale was evidence of its divinity. Every man. he continued, wonders if he will live after death and all are seeking tho answer. Mary's attitude, on finding the tomb empty was that Christ was in the power of men. This was a hasty conclusion, but was indeed excusable as in it was shown the anxiety of mother love, which had brought her to the sepulchre, the first of any who had known the Christ. Her faith in him had never been shaken and in it was exemplified, the love of all mothers moth-ers for their children. The fact that John, the first apostle, apos-tle, hesitated at the tomb, said the speaker, was tho same hesitancy that is shown by all humanity in accepting accept-ing the story of the ressurection as true, but when Peter ho of the greater great-er faith came to the tomb, he did not hesitate, but going In and seeing see-ing the manner in which the grnve cloths had been laid aside, he knew that no exterior power had perform- I ed that work, "but that the resurrec-I resurrec-I tion of. Christ had taken . place and the Master himself had. removed the cloths. Continuing, ho said that no miscro-scopc miscro-scopc will ever reveal God to man. but reason will, and some day wo will come to believe the words of the angel, "Christ has risen from the tomb; all that believe In him shall not perish, but shall have eternal ! life." In concluding his sermon, ho said. "Does death end all? Does everything every-thing stop "with that occurrence? If we thought that it did. we would be -most miserable. Science is beginning to accept many principles of the gospel gos-pel and. many of tho things which have been believed with a blind faith arc beginning to bo proven beyond controversy. There Is no such thing as death, it is only transition and, as Christ came forth from the tomb, so shaJl we, for He broke tho bonds of death that His children migljt also live again." The closing song was "Hosanna" and the benediction was offered by II. H Shurtliff of tho North Weber stake high .council. nn . |