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EASTER AT THE CHURCHES. 
Appropriate Program catried out in Recogni- 
tion of ‘*The Joyous Easter Day” 
The ‘joyous Easter’? season was 
recognized by the Manchester church- 
es last Sunday by appropriate exer- 
cises at all the churches. 
Congregational Church 
At the Congregational church in the 
evening instead of the usual Easter 
concert by the children a musical con- 
cert by the adults was given, and this 
was much enjoyed. The program as 
published last week was carried out. 
It was arranged by Miss Carolyn E. 
Allen, and proved a pleasing innova- 
The church was well filled. 
In the morning there was no special 
music. There was a good sized con- 
gregation out to hear Rev. Fay Tyler 
of Norwood, N.Y., who supplied in 
the pulpit for the day. 
Mr. Tyler preached a strong and 
able sermon on “The Living Christ,” 
taking for his text ‘“‘Of the increase 
of his government there shall be no 
end.” (Isa. 9:7). He said in part : 
“This is the brightest morn there 
comes to the Christian church. There 
is no fairer day in the whole church 
calendar. This is the day of life, not 
of death ; that bids us not only hope of 
universal life, but belief in it, —for it is 
the day when Jesus Christ did break 
the shackles that held him captive. 
“It is the very inherent quality of 
life to enlarge itself. ‘I am the way, 
Let us think 
of life with its expansive quality, and 
let us think of Jesus Christ as the 
giver of that life as well as the highest 
exponent of it. 
“Easter is more than a memorial, 
more than a day with divine hopes. 
Easter is the suggestion that inasmuch 
as Christ lived, we live; that our 
Christ is a living Christ, not a dead 
Christ ; and a present Christ, not an 
absent Christ ; a victorious Christ, not 
vanquished. 
“Men have always acknowledged 
the greatness of Christ in other days. 
That pierced hand lifted governments 
off their hinges and is still governing 
nations. The one great force back of 
human life is in the life of that lowly 
Nazarene that lived 1900 years ago. 
“The history of the world has been 
the history of a succession of leaders. 
In all that seems to have entered into 
the progress of the race there seems 
to have been a succession of leaders. 
Christ comes and stands today and 
Says the same words to you he said to 
his disciples. 
“Jesus Christ is the profoundest 
force in human life today ; the world 
has need of his leadership. What is it 
that distinguishes the civilized man 
from the uncivilized? The civilized 
man has learned how to use himself 
and his own life and the peers of the 
nations about him ; the savage never 
learned that lesson; he drifted with 
the tide. 
“Christianity has made the richest 
contribution in the suggestion of the 
idea that the spirit of Jesus Christ 
has entered into all the complicated 
forms of life. 
“We can see the power of Jesus 
Christ in the fact that he is now the 
leader. There is a power of convic- 
tion that Jesus Christ is the saving 
power in human life today,—the re- 
deemer of human life, a living Christ 
unseen by human life but a power in 
the affairs of life. Honor him with 
immortal glory !” 
The church, was very effectively 
decorated with flowers about the altar, 
the decorations including Easter lilies, 
cyclamen, dracenas, geraniums, prim- 
roses, marguerites, palms, and a beau- 
tiful large azalea with scores of its 
pink blooms. In the evening the 
plants were distributed to the children 
of the S.S. and the lilies were sent out 
to Mrs. Eliza Hill, Mrs. Susan Carter, 
Mrs. Abigail Gentlee, Mrs. E. A. Lane, 
Mrs. Susan Slade, Mr. and Mrs. Gil- 
man Burnham, Mrs. Mary Russell, 
Mrs. D. L. Bingham, Mrs. Susan 
Allen, Dea. Torrey, Miss Fenton, 
Mrs. Jeffrey Stanley, John Lendall 
and Mrs. Robert Prest. 
Sacred Heart Church 
Services at the Sacred Heart church 
were held in accordance with the pro- 
gram printed last week. The work of 
the four-part chorus prepared for the 
occasion by Fr. Powers, was particu- 
larly fine. Fr. Powers preached a 
strong and instructive Easter sermon. 
The floral decorations were simple, 
but pretty and effective. 
Baptist Church 
The Baptist church was very pretti- 
ly decorated with flowers, including 
potted plants, lilies, palms, and green- 
ery. The pastor in the morning 
preached an Easter sermon, an ab- 
stract of which is published below. 
The concert by the children was car- 
ried out in the evening in accordance 
with program printed last week. 
‘Christ the First Fruits, was the 
subject of Rev. E. Hersey Brewster’s 
sermon in the morning, his text being : 
“Now hath Christ been raised from 
the dead, the first fruits of them that 
are asleep,” (1 Cor. 15). He said in 
part : 
“The glory of the Old Testament is 
the Crossing of the Red Sea. When- 
ever the leaders of Israel wished to 
impress upon the mind and heart of 
the nation the truth of their covenant 
to God, they dramatically pointed 
backward to that crisis in the history 
of Israel when the waves of the Red 
Sea gave back before the Jehovah’s 
arm. The glory of the New Testa- 
Men Csism thes nesurrection. of “Jesus 
Christ. The messages of the apostles 
thrill with the story of the marvellous 
fact of the resurrection and every 
where through out the history of the 
early church, the pathos and passion 
of the crucifixion are blended with the 
splendor and glory of the resurrection. 
“Despite the tact that these two 
revelations of the power and grace of 
God are so separated in time and 
place, there is, nevertheless, a strik- 
ing similarity in their situation and 
teaching. In the case of the former 
the defeat of the Divine plan for the 
future of Israel] seemed inevitable. 
The great sea rolled stolidly before 
the hosts of Israel, walling them away 
from the glorious folks that had cen- 
tered in the promised land. It 
seemed as though the enemy would 
certainly triumph; the armies of 
Egypt were hastening to the prey. It 
was a glorious instance of God’s de- 
livering power. Very similar is the 
teaching of the resurrection of our 
Lordy lt? scemed* evidentothat the 
Divine plan had ‘suffered defeat. The 
Christ of God was dead, the enemy 
he had come to destroy had rolled its 
flood of darkness over him, locking 
away the hopes of man in its grim 
and ghastly vault. 
“The resurrection was a matchless 
instance of God’s delivering power ; 
themskies: weretrent,. the angel -de- 
scended, spurned with his foot the 
stone before the tomb, sent it crash- 
ing to the earth with Caesar’s seal 
upon it, and the God of glory was 
ushered forth to the light and joy of 
Easter day. 
“To understand, however, the un- 
rivaled superiority to every other fact 
recorded in history, two facts only 
need to be grasped and held: first, 
the fact of the resurrection though 
unique, no one was ever raised 
from the dead as Jesus was; second, 
the teachings of the resurrection is 
thoroughly sublime. In no other 
religion is the resurrection of the 
body so much as hinted at. 
“We must be in him in order to 
partake of him. Jesus is this type of 
the harvest yet to be. We must all 
taste death. as he did. We shall be 
raised from the dead as he was raised, 
and this same body shall be glorified.” 
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