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Show SUIISE PRAYERS ST IE BSPTIST CHURCH 1 EASTER Elaborate preparations are being made for Easter Sunday at the First Baptist church. A sunrise prayer meeting will be held at 6:30 lasting one hour This is the seventh sun- ihlse prayer meeting hold, and it Is I growing in interest and favor. The j bible study, will bo given up, and an Easter program will bo given by the adult and primary departments of the school. Thcro will be recitations, songs and drills by tho primary department, de-partment, with 'selections by mem bers of the adult department. The main auditorium will be a picture pic-ture of beauty Easter Sunday. A former superintendent of the school, Mrs. McCracken, now of South Pasadena, Pasa-dena, Cal., remembered the church with fifty of the choicest callas that California produces. An additional assignment from San Francisco will help to make tho platform a bower of wljlte. A large cross, trimmed in white, covered with flowers, will help to make real tho fact that "He is not here, but Is risen." as He 3ald. A suitable musical program has been arranged, and special soloists will add to the servlco of the hour. Miss Ruth Johnson will preside at the piano, assisted by Mr. Cunningham, Cunning-ham, on the violin. The following mil. slcal numbers will be given: Prelude, "Morning" Greig Offertory violin, "Flowers of Spring" La Fargo Tenor solo, "Redemption" ...... Stults Jay A. Smith. Baritone solo, "Hail Thou Blessed Saviour" Gideon! .Lawrence urccnwcu. Qe Easter anthem, choir, "I Am Ho ' That Liveth" Burke Postlude, "Rondc d'Amour" Van Westerhout Evening Music. Prelude, "Nocturne" Chopin Offertory "Venetian Boatsong" . . . Mendelssohn Baritono solo, "The Shepherd King" , Verne ' Robert Grecnwcll. The theme of the Easter sermon In the morning will be: "The Immortal Im-mortal Life: Is It a Dream or a Reality?" Real-ity?" Tho evening service will conclude con-clude with an impressive ordinance observed especially at Easter time. |