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How 4. The Resurrection of Christ took from their eyes the tears of joy, away all fear of death, and answored naiqss it is extorsing people to be happy their yearnings enncerning their beloved how impossible to keep the joy from drad. Bt. Stephen cheerfully Inid down breaking out if you give them somethins The various churches in the Colony a life becauan ho sow donus standing at to be happy about: The joy which does were well filled at the different services the right hand of God. Bt. Peter slept not break forth of itself is but no imita- yesterday Easter Sunday. St Jobu's calmly on the eve of what he believed to tion affair, and blunts itself agains Cathedral was crowded to its ntmost be hip day-of execution B. Paul said and surface of Bo like the shan.
dismond used for glasscutting capacity at the Chural Euchariat, matins, "to depart was to be with Christ, which
We heard, I remember, shortly before the war, about leagues of societies, whatever they were called, of men who
themselves togethe fo banded
optimists Brid spread optimism.
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and evensong. The sacred edifice had was far better." To them all. Christ had been chustaly decorated for the occasion brought life and immortality to hight. and presented festive appearance, People who raise this will not seek help
from spiritualism. Those responsible for the decorations comfort in the Comention of Saints They were to uile, to wear buttonholes; were Mrs. Beavis, Mrs Hay, Mrs. Wake-in Christ than in any message through iman, Mrs. Murray, Mrs. Black, Mrs medians and table movings that eume of. By all mean, let the Busiety' speak Butlin, Miss Moxon, Mr. Thursby for Psychical Research tell us all it calls Pelham, Mrs. Taylor, Miss Ventris, Mrg and in doubt we have much to learn ab the sub-conscious mind and teke | Bevington, Μ ΓΗ Bowley
Mrs.
pathy, but never suppose these things Myburgh.
can bring us any nearer our lead than The Bishop was the celebran at the they are in Christ. As we think of some Communion servier, being awisted by dear one passed hence we say the Rev. V. H. Copley Muyle, chaplain. At the 11 a'clock service special hymne were sung and Pains chunted. There was a children's service in the evening. The offerings ut the services yesterday amounted to about $300,
and
The Bishop, preaching at the morning, service from the ext
they were to affirm and believe the things wore going famously that they were well. that they were getting on that every thing was well and everybody getting on, and they were to keep that up no matter of the markets or the what
A kind of weather or anything else.
Christian Science principle applied Lo business it seemed to be, an attempt to escape from the truth to spreading the illusion that whatever is disagreeable is illusion However, when things are wrong you do not put them right by ex Thou art with Christ and Christ' ploiting human gelibility, would be no
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nien were continually in the temple prais ing God. Nowadays we go around with well meant protestations that possible t be happy though one be a But those first believers did not need to tell that they were happy. People saw that much without being fold, They and it set then asking questions. had their controversies in thruse early days, ocensionally quite sharp. But we not hear of controversies about intra- mental music in the Churches. I think they would have been greally surprised by anything of the kind, because they were so full of the real tlòng that it did not matter. If they hid skilled
iheir talents; bmi jí not they would never ars I have u doubt they employed be at a lusS.
do
A man told we one Sunday not long ngs that although the electric current
had failed, and the organ could not be blown, it had been worth while coming to Church: I took that well, as it was urant, and
and 1 shall do the saine if some ther person, of a different teste, should tell me 1 has been worth while coming in spite of the organ. Awake, psaltery and
eries the seal breaking forth and harp, eri inu joy,
I myself will awake right Early The psalmist who said that knew tlant essential one. essign
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part of it was the In Christ united still are we."
What is the good of 5. The Resurrection of Christ enabled taketh off a garment in suld weather. then to revolutionize the world's thought anys Bolomon, so is be that ingethaltery and a sleepy psalmist, a ready harp and drawl singer? A beautiful They were spoken of in Arly 17.8. aa songs to a heavy heart."
A Lild
that congregation waste places af the men who had turned the world ap Sing together, ye
10 Church by
und Ale and in Their teaching
in durusalem,
you are not really waste at With great power gave the apostles side down."
Right early Is the hour witness of the currection of the Lord fluence were revolutionary; they really all, you are covered with Hocks and fields
to awake, when your heart is breaking Jegits.
forth to jus Did you need an alaria (Acts e. 4 v. ) said: The ran counter to the world's accepted ideas and farmsteads nay, that is not the in which the Lord comforts clergy are sometimes asked to recommend Here is a sense in which the world needs y
clock on you wedding morning I fruicy There las We Jerusalem, book on religious subjects and they to be turned upside down to-day.
it was doubtless more convention. gladly do st whenever possible, but an must not be so much on the defensive God's goodness another happy Christian not, and if the bride was late at Church
Easter tide, the giaddest and most praise Jor Chris Impossible request was made some time there is no need to apologise
sleeping We rond of disciples ono ful all the festivals of the Church.
for sorrow.
rrow, but no one ever yet over- ago. A Bishop was asked to suggest a
If we realise at all what it means, we
And, however book on
Bre Home of the results of a con the resurrection of Christ that; we must be far more aggressive
the Christian k2 which must be conclusive, short and viction that arist is alive and with die shall find ourselves breaking forth into slept himself for joy.
Ivrists have dune car you are a fout you will never fail chicap
to that tiod has been before-hand Deep religious subjects are not Church. If these result, are
to obtain
from the
need sigh for very first.
with you. pre-evented you with Hin to be proved to the intelfect like mathe to-day it means that all members of our neither Jabal's tyre por avid's hat goodness. A fannot imagine you
Your the Church must take their churchmanship nor the voice of a prima donna matical problema. They presuppose the
get ahead of Him with your right attitude of soul. it in with the much more seriously. A Sunday Scholar own resources will do.
day heart as weil ng with the bead that such was oner asked if his faber counted him
A year ago one cannot but recall that tions. The story of the firat Bhater Yes," was che reply
fell earlier.begin before very dawn, Devout followers In subject as the Resurrection of Christ self a Christian.
anniversary - the
nade their way to the Master's must be apprebended. But I can recom but he does ant do much on it." Easter Sunday was the last day of March,
with spices for the embalming early, mend a boon on the subject written long that may be said of any of you, or if and it found us in parlous case in respect while it yet
dark.
But heavenly ugo by a medical in. It is short, you any of you in this vast congregation of the great struggle then afoot, which can read it through in an hour or two day do not intend to do any more in was entering on its darkest phax The attendants had been there before thera; filmpty, their mourning was turned into it is up, you can buy it at the Bande your gun til, say, as: Christmas, great German drive was well begun, the the stone was rolled aside, the tomb was
Puchy's forces, cenetrated for
ur, and they Jur Depôt for a few cents; and it is couche forgive me if leaky sy thun such
departed eagerly to spread the tidings which were too good he Bive to the devout. it is called The meagre religion is very little good to effort, and, as we know new, vntaumber
so good that it could not but be true, beginning to end, asserts or assGney thefund dishonour to our Lord Wh died back in a desperate attempt to break WH and which has ever since been heartening Acts of the Apostics. This book, from you, a exure of weaknes, is the Church ng our own, were pressing our armies
fine, and it looked at times as though the SOFTW fact of Christ's Resurrection. It is en and buse again that you might live would succed. Who can ever forget the
stricken, sluggish-hearted men and women to
Fur newness every pago. The Apostle, preached many unto yourselves but unto Him.
life in Christ Jesus," with a new song Fornions in many plays, thay always The Christians of the first crutery also chose the same
in their mouth, "O grave where is thy text:
God raised Jesus believed that the risen Lard would come from the dead." Great results followed again to
ge the living and the dead
The Lord hath comfortedl It is their conviction of this fact, resuits 11 would be well if faith in that article
victory 1
which should have their parallel with us of our creed was aleo revived, however
people. He hath redeemed Jornentem, in to-day
if our convictions were decisive. we may differ in our interpretation of the
world-wide sense of which the trans- formation of the wailing place in old settled all their double-there is prophecies concerning the manner. When
He culla us I think we waght to recall that time, Jerusalem is but a symbol. a ring of certitude about all their wit- the Son of Man comes will He find faith
for we experienced a deliverance whose into joy, not a worked-up, organised, ness, their trumpet
make-believe brand of over-protesting sound.
Jesus is the divine uncertain on the earth?
magnitude and whose significance in the optimism, lasting only as long as it cata Son of God.
AT THE UNION CHURCH.
history of mankind will stand out greater sang Jesus who was crucified on
and more impressive as futurogenerations hope which radiates from the Cross, the keep blinkers on its eyes, but the enduring Calvary is now alive and able to save all
The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachio preached look back on it. The dawn was slow victory which is won in a life and death men. The crucifix with a figure of a dead
at the l'nion
but it camo at length, and finally as the Christ an inadequate emblem of Ap-Church, yesterday morning.
an impressive sermon
Madonna tolic Christianity,
year was verging to its close came the contest with evil, open eyed and at closest The empty crus
ilies and arum lice had been effectively
consummation, sooner than we could have quarters.
And I think every sarmounted by a crown is better.arranged in front of the pulpit.
The
Christian soul will The looked for, and more complete.
"Amen and say the world needs to hear from the singing was bright, the choir rendering nowe of the Armistice reached us,
that on this BELY ristian Church the game note of der
SLvie. an Easter authem in excellent th into rejoice. The joy broke forth; nothing dawned, it becomes us to raise our songa nobody had to summon his neighbour to Easter Day of 1918, of alt that have ever tainty. Perhaps we can best get it back
Taking as his text.
Break
and triumphs high, for the history of by studying, in a prayerful spirit, the joy, ye waste places of Jerusalem, for could have kept it back, indeed, what had attitude of those disciples, for it is ter the Lord bath
(Isaiah 52, 8), of the dumb to sing and the lame man risen nade
as plain and large as his them change the Jewish the Rev. Mr. Maconachie, said!--
to leap as an hart. Men found the wafirmation Sabbath to the Lord's Day, observe a On December 11th, 1917, men literally selves praising God who thought they badtory can write it of the truth that power
for
of in the streeks Jerusalem weekly Eucharist, and so witness that wopt joy
fongstten the way, calling upon the whole belongeth unto God and God only, and that
Hin
purpose uf good toward the children thousands of people in Jerusalera iwell bone of them were Christians, some were world round to join them, just us the pro- of men is not to be frustrated by all the bezarze batievera 21 their crucified Lord Jews, many were Mums, bint phen did of old, Sing. Ove been embattled hosts of hell. We can take on alike were moved beyond restraint as for the Lord hath done it; shout our life to day the triumph songs of the 2. It empowered them to deal with sin, Their preaching and teaching
General Allenby entered, sustentatiously lower parts of the earth; break forth
carly Christians and feel that their strong pandered to the tastes of their hearers Sheikh in charge of the Mosque of Omar and on foot, by the Jaffa gate. Tho
iuta singing, ve mountains, O forest and Because Jesus is raised and is coming cried out,
overy tree therein. That was true joy,imagery of speech and symbol, which bad
Daven wearing thin in an Praiso Allah the_British real pruise, genuine, spontaneous thanks. again in judgment-repent
an easy-going world, has been re-stamped their WAB
reality They
said He had been raised to have come. Now we can live in penou giving which broke from hearts that had
before our very eyes. Seeing these things bless men by turning them away
Our sufferings are at been within sight of breaking for sorrow tranquillity.
in the great world what man shall despair The long-drawn strain was and distress.
of them in his own life and soul? their iniquities. Candidates for baptism over, and in the transport of relief only We are to have "peace celebrations " had to be greatly in earnest, and lying such words as those of my text and those of a formal kind one of these days when and deceit were punished with death
Rth round about it would fit the occasion.
formal peace is
T
grim darkness of that time and the weeks Just after it, when the road to Paris was in danger and the Chanel ports seemed possible prey i It seemed the very hour of the power of darkness. "Darkest juat before the dawn the old saying proved tree. but the dawn was slow and our hearts were heavy.
the year between this Easter and last is
tain that the conviction that Christ had hath redeomed Jorted his people, He happened might have caused the tongue without moral meaning if it is not a
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We have at last temple bas been known for many years which followed as it is recounted not so good as they ought to be
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