The New York Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1874, Page 4

“THE RISEN LORD. Easter Sunday Services in the Churches of the City and Suburbs. SERMONS, MUSIC AND FLOWERS, Frothingham and the Orthodox Doctrine of the Besurrection. Father Dealey on the Keys of Death and Hell. Dr. Dix and the Queen of Festivals. LeowanD STREET METHODIST CHURCH, BROOK- tyrn, E, D.—Rev. H. C. Glover preached an Easter sermon to @ large congregation, and the music Dartook of the festal character of the day. OaLvaRy Episcopal Cuvrcn, BRooktyn, E. D.— Rev. Francis Peck, the rector, whose altar was profusely decorated with Easter flowers, preached am appropriate sermon yesterday morning to a large congregation. St. Barnasas’ Cuurcn, BRoog.rn, E. D.—Rev. Henry E. Hovey, the rector, preached yesterday morning an Easter discourse to a large audience, His church was tastefully ornamented with floral offerings, and the music was of an inspiring char- acter, well rendered. St. ANDREW’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CuURCH.—The service at St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic church, on Duane street, was given with ail the Easter Day solemnity. The high mass was solemnized by the Rev. Father Curran. The music given by the choir was St, Clair’s Mass in G. Sr. Mary’s CHURCH, MANHATTANVILLE.—At the little village church of St. Mary’s, in Lawrence | street, the services yesterday were very imposing. The music was especially provided for the Easter celebration, and Dr. Adams delivered a discourse on the nature of the festival. ‘THE HARLEM PRESBYTERIAN CHUROH.—Owing to the absence of Mr. Ramsey, the pastor of this church, the Rey. C. J. Warren occupied the pulpit yesterday morning, and preached a sermon founded on the text in St. Jonn, i, 4-7, beginning thus—“In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” JouN Street MeETHopist CHvuRcH.—An Easter Day service was preached at the John street Methodist churcn yesterday morning by the pas, tor, Rev. W. G. Cheney. His text was from John xxi., 7—“It is the Lord,” The minister dwelt upon the spiritual apprehension of a risen Lord, BEDFORD AVENUE REFORMED OHURCH, BROOK- urn, E. D.—Dr. Porter delivered a striking Easter discourse in this fine and fashionabie church at the hour of morning service. In the afternoon there Was @ gathering of the Sunday schools, with choice | musical selections by Miss Emma Thursby, with an efficient chorus. CHURCH OF SAINTS PETER AND PavL, RoMAN CaTHOLIC, BROOKLYN, (E. D.)—High mass was cele- brated with a fine instrumental orchestra of twen- ty-five pieces. The mass o! St. Sylvester and Men- delssohn’s “Wedding March" were among the selec- tions. Father Malone preached, and the altar was elaborately decorated with flowers. Cuvrcy or Sr. Icnativs.—The Kev. F. C. Ewer, D. D., preached in the morning, from the text “The Lord is risen again,” to a large and appre- ciative congregation. A great number participated inthecommunion. The singing of the choir was especially noteworthy, the fresh, clear young, voices ringing out in joyous concert the gladsome Easter hymns. Murray Hitt PRESBYTERIAN CaURCH.—There was amoderately full attendance at this church yesterday morning. The Rev. S. E, Chambers preached, The discourse was mainiy in elucida- tion of the constancy of Divine direction, a3 sug- gested by the text in Numbers x., 29., “Come thou with us and we will do thee good.” Futron SrReet ReFoRMED DvutTca Cnrurce.— | The usual Easter sermon was preached at the Ful- | ton street Reformed Dutch church yesterday by tne Rev. Dr. Manning. The audience was small, owing doubtiess to the attendance at other churches, where more elaborate decorations were to be seen. Sr. Pavi’s Ertscora, Caurncn, BRoox.yy, E. D., was thronged yesterday with worshippers, who listened to an impressive and appropriate sermon by the rector, Rey. Newland Maynard. Beautiful floral decorations adorned the edifice, and the | music was of the triumphal character suited to the festival of a risen Saviour. Mr. Maynard also de- livered an address at the juvenile celebration on “Home Influence.” St. ANDREW’s CouURcH.—At St. Andrew's Prot- estant Episcopal church, 127th street ana Fourth avenue, the Rev, George B. Draper, D. D., pastor, preached, choosing for his text the twenty-second and twenty-third verses of the sth Psalm :—“The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelious in our eyes.” CnurcH oF tHE NaTrviry.—This church, at No. 76 Second avenue, was arrayed in Easter splendor, | and over the altar shone the motto, in letters of beautiful flowers, “Gloria in excelsis.” Lake, formerly of St. Ann’s, preached on the sub- ject of the “Triumph of Christ’ to an overflowing congregation. he musical part of the service ‘was very interesting, including Haydn’s Second Mass. Sr. GzorcE’s Catrcey.—Dr. Stephen H. Tyng preached an eloquent sermon yesterday morning, in which he aptly iilustrated the significance and | importance of tne day. The floral decorations ‘were pleasing and the music, which was sung by | a choir of some forty male voices, under the direc- tion of Professor Williams, was well rendered, especially the “Excelsis” from the Twelfth Mass of Mozart, FOURTEENTH STRERT PRESBYTERIAN CoURCH.— ‘There were no decorations at tuis church yester- day. The Rev. Robert Sloss founded his discourse on the following words from rhe Gospel of St. Matthew:—“Why should any one wonder at the raising of the dead?” ‘he result of the experi- ence of eighteen centuries, the reverend preacher declared, left no doubt in the minds of the faithful Christians of the truth of the glorious doctrine of resurrection. Unsivep PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—The Rev. Mr. Tarner, at the Eleventh street Presbyterian churen, gave his views yesterday in regard to the government of the world by God. God, he said, governed His people as 4 father governed his children, a8 @ shepherd ruled his flock, as a | pilot guided his ship, Storms might rage, but He Would still guide the ship to the Waven of eternal | rest. St. BAkTaoLoMew's Cavrcn.—The music in this ehurch was renderea by the usual choir, assisted by a large body of auxiliaries, Rev. Samuel Cocke, D. D., the rector, preached an appropriate aermon (rom the text, Acts xili., 22~“He raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also be gave testimony and said, I lave found David, the son of Jesse, @ mau after mine own heart, which sbali fulfil all my will.’ Sr. Jamus’! ROMAN CaTHOLIC Circncn.—The aer- wices at St. James’ Roman Catholic church, Father | NEW YORK HERALD, MOND on New Bowery, were unusually impressive. The altar shone resplendent with gas jets and candies. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Father James Mooney, of Troy. The mass was conducted by the Rey. Father Far- | ley, assistea by Fathers Penny and Cocuiran, | The choir rendered the mags from “Macoli.’” yy Hory Trinrry—Eprscorat.—This church was filled to its utmost capacity at the morning ser- vices yesterday. The floral decorations of the pul- pit were tasteful and elegant. The Easter music, by a chorus of young voices, was extremely well rendered. The text trom which Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr, drew his sermon was St. Matthew | xxvii, 64—So the last error shall be worse than | the first.” He spoke of the priests and Pharisees’ strong dread and trembling before a dead man. Sr. Josgry’s ROMAN OaTHOLIC CHuRcH, Har- | tem.—at the German church of St. Joseph, 125th street and Ninth avenue, solemn high mass was sung yesterday morning by Father Schneider, as- sisted by adeacon and sub-deacon, The sermon preached by the pastor, Father Keasler, was founded on tne gospel of the day and was explan- The music was very fine and the oral gifts of the rarest character, St. MARK'S OHURCH.—This church was profasely decorated with flowers, the chancel being fes- tooned with choice garlands, The Rev. J. H. Ry- lance, D, D., rector of the churcly, founded his ser- mon on the following words from the tenth verse of the sixteenth Psalm—* Wherefore my heart was glad and my glory rejoiced.” The music was im- pressively rendered by the regular choir. In the afternoon some 700 or 800 children joyously cele- brated the Easter festival TABERNACLE barrist CHURGH.—The ‘Rev. Ezra D. Simons, of Troy, N. Y., preached at this church, taking his text from the flith chapter of the Reve- lations—“And I saw in the right hand of him who Sat on the throne a book written within and on the back side, sealed with seven sey.ls.” Let the wintry chill sweep over the grave, the reverend Preacher said in the course of his remarks, Jesus shall soon break the seal of death in the summer of the resurrection, ji St. Mary's STaR or THE SEa.—The Rev. Mr. Cassidy celebrated mass at this church. The choir sung some very fine pleces, among others the “Regina Coli Letari.” In the course of his re- marks the reverend fathé strongly recommended the members of the congregation to show their | gratitude to Jesus Christ, for aM He suffered on their account by contributing liberally to the orphans. The Church bids them 4o this, and our Lord says :—“He who will not hear the Church, let him be to thee as a heathen and a publican.” St. STEPHEN’s CuURCH.—Solemn high mass was | celebrated at St, Stephen’s church, Brooklyn, the | Rey. Father O’Reily preaching an eloquent sermon. | In the course of his remarks he said:—‘The con- | templation of Calvary brings to our mind that we are deicides, for they who sin crucify God afresh. A Christian, if he has the heart of a Christian, | must therefore be tilled with remorse for his sins.”” hearers to preserve the fruits of the recent mis- sion by avoiding the occasions of sin. St. PAUL’s ROMAN CaTHOLIC CHURCH, HaBLEM.— Rey. Father O’Keeie officiated, the church being handsomely decorated with flowers and burning tapers, After the Gospel, Father O’Keefe made an eloquent appeal for the orphans, and a short ser- mon on the Gospel. The music was choice and | classical, under direction of Professor Marum. The | quartet choir consisted of Miss Lina Deacon, 80- prano; Miss Agnes Dowdell, alto; Mr. M. Donovan, tenor; Mr. Philip F. Sullivan, barytone; all of whom sang wita fine effect, | Sr. Jomn’s Metnopist CnurcH, BROOKLYN, E. | D.—A most interesting Sunday school service was all tne schools of the church joined. Profuse floral decorations graced the platform, and the schools waved their vright banners as they entered the holy edifice. Professor Fox played the organ. Ad- dresses were delivered by Mr. Talmage and Dr. Warren, the new pastor. Solo and quartet pleces were sung by the church choir, and choruses in which all the schoois swelled the joyous songs. | THE ANNUNCLATION (ROMAN CATHOLIC) CHURCH, MANUHATTANVILLE.—There was a solemn high mass | | at this church yesterday morning, Father Griftin | ofMciating, assisted by a deacon and sub-deacon, Aiter reading the gospel for the day, Father Gnftin | delivered an eloquent sermon on the glorious resurrection of the’ Messiah and its reassuring effect on the despondent apostles, The discourse concluded with a stirring appeal to the lstencrs to be reassured in tneir faith and be strengthened | to “fight the good fignt.’” CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION.—“The fittle church around the corner” was yesterday morn- ing crowded to its utmost capacity. The floral decorations were of tue most beautiful description and the music very fine. Rev. Mr. Houghton, the rector, preached irom the text, Revelations, i., 17, | 18—Fear not; 1am the first and the last. 1 am | he that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive forevermore”—a discourse in reference to Kaster, showing how Cnrist, by death, overcame death and made blessed and happy the progress ot the Christian soul. CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION.—This church was quite filied at the morning service yesterday. The decorations were in excellent taste. Particular | attention was attracted to the beautiful mural | tablet erected to the memory of Admiral Farragut. | lt bears a well executed medallion likeness, and | altogether reflects high credit on the artists, Messrs, Cassoni and Isola, of Twenty-seventh street. The pastor, Kev. H. E. Montgomery, D. D., | preached on the resurrection of the body, using as his text the twenty-second verse of First Corinthi- ans, chapter fifteen—‘For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.” CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PaTERNITY.—This church was filled at the morning services to overflowing. All about the altar was one mass of verdure and | flowers, The music was of the finest character. | Dr. Chapin preached on the subject of the day, his text being John xx., 16—‘Jesus said unto her, Mary. She turned herself and said unto him, Rabboni, which is to say Master.” He considered the resurrection not as an episode in Christianity, but as one of its foundation biocks. His argu- ments and their treatment were of the speaker's characteristic excellence, } CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION.—The Rev. John Cot- ton Smith preached at this church yesterday morn- ing, taking as his text the passage, ‘‘As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.’ There was @ large congregation present, but sin- | gular to say about an Episcopai church, no flowers | or extra decorations were to be seen. The preacher dwelt on the fact that all flesh, however rich, however prosperous, must finally sink in the | tomb and to destruction, There was but one way of living, and that was to make our life holy and | agreeable to the Lord, so that we might have ever. | lasting Ife. In Christ alone was our hope and our Salvation, | Tue Scotch Presnyrexian OnURCH.—The Rev, Samuel M. Hamilton preached here yesterday from the text in Luke xx., 2—“And they found the stone | Totled away from the sepulchre.” The churen was preacher took tue ground that the resurrection was the foundation stone of the Onristtan faith, | and that the faithful might see in the fulfilment | of the prophecies which had been made thousands of years before, The necessity of this belief was manifest, and the miracle which had been accom- plished was a lesson to the centuries to come. CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION.—The Rev. W. J. Seabury preached here on the text “I shail rise again in three days.” He referred more particu.’ larly to the fact of the many evidences which Christ had given of @ spiritual nature. He had in all things shown himself possessed of a power be- yond that of men, and had so shown His power that He gathered around Him a body of men whose in. fluence now filled the whole Christian world. There was no better evidence needed of this fact than the words of Christ when He spoke of His coming atory of the resurrection of Christ from the dead, | The reverend father concluded by exhorting his — | Well filled with the reguiar congregation and the | resurrection, The body was gone when the tomb was opened and the finial was placed upon the | | structure of Christianity, Sr, ALBAN’s,—The music, which is usually ot an ; |pexceptionably fine character in this ritualistic Episcopal church, yesterday morning did not quite come up to the usnal standard, owing to the ab- Sence oi the late soprano voice, Among the pieces Sung were “Gloria in Excelsis,” “Benedictus” and the “Magnificat.” The processional, which paced slowly up the middie aisle, with burning censers and waving banners, to the altar, was very impos- ing. The ajtar and pulpit were projusely adorned with flowers, and on the fount was a little white lamb, made of choice flowers, Rev. Burd Betis took his text from Luke xxiv., 20—‘‘He went in to tarry with them.” The sermon was very short and king. CHURCH OF THE PavList FatHErs.—Easter Sun- | day was celebrated in the Church of the Paalist | Fathers, corner Fifty-ninth street and Ninth ave- nue, in a manner worthy of the “Queen of Festi- vals.” The altar was profusely decorated with flowers. The roses and lilies, blended together in gariands, sent up their combined fragrance ‘in honor of Christ’s glorious resurrection. Rev. Father Young sung mass, assisted by Fathers Dwyer and Hil, The choir, consisting of over sixty male voices, was ander the direction of Pro- fessor Salmonson, Mr. Hurly presided at the or- gan. Rev. Father Stone preached, taking for his text “This is the day the Lord hath made; 2b us Tejoice and be glad in it.” St. ANN’S ON THE HEIGHTS.—St. Ann’s church, Brooklyn, was attended by a large congregation yesterday morning. Dr. Schenck stated that the flowers were donated by some of the congregation, as in their present state of indebtedness the church did not deem it advisable to make the needful expenditure. The centre piece was a large cross, and two bouquets on the communion table and two tn the chancel completed the decorations. The music was very effective. The “Ie Deum’ sung yesterday morning was composed by Dr. Cutler, the organist, and was played on the occa- s10n of the Prince of Wales’ visit to Trinity in 1860, where it obtained the name of “The Prince of Wales’ Service.” At half-past three o’clock was held @ Sunday school festival, at which there were | reports of officers, addresses and offering of pre- | miums, the children singing Easter songs at itnter- vals. St. PRTER's, ROMAN CaTHOLIC.—The Easter ser- vices at St. Peter’s Roman Catholic church, on Barclay street, drew such a congregation as to fill every particle of standing room in the aisles and vestibule. The following officlated:—Celebrant, Father McClancy, and deacon, Father Corley, The Master of Ceremonies was Mr. McNally. The ser- mon was preached by the Rev. Father O'Farrell, | Pastor, from the Gospel of St. Mark, sixteenth | chapter—“He 1s risen;he is not here; behold the place where they laid bim.’? The musical pro- gramme was as follows:— Haydn’s Grand Mass, No. 4, in B flat, for solo, chorus and organ; “Vidi Aqusum,” by Pecher; Offertory, “Hac Dies! Goprano solo). sung by Mrs. Kaston. |The mass — | “Kyrie,'’ alto, solo and chorus; “Christe,” soprano, solo and chorus; “Gloria In :xcelsis,” chorus; “Qui Tolls,” ito, solo and chorus; “Qui Tedes,” soprano, solo and chorus; “In Gloria,” chorus; “Credo,” chorus; “Et Incarnatus,” tenor. solo and chorus; “Crucifixus,” asso and solo; “Et Kesurrexit,” chorus; “Sanctus,” »nedictus” and “Agnus Del,” chorus. The following persons composed the choir:—So- | prano, Mrs. Easton; alto, Miss Tobin; tenor, Mr. | Savage; basso, Mr. Stand, and chorus; organist, | William F. Pecher. Gracg CuuRcH.—The multitude which attended at Grace Church yesverday was much too great for tne capacity of the place, so that the aisles were | filled with visitors, who considered themselves very fortunate in being able to stand up. The preparations for the day had been notable. altar was decorated, with an immense cross worked | in fowers, and the chancel was alive with growing plants. On the reading desk had been placed a held yesterday afternoon in this church, in which | beautiful cross in flowers. The music was re- | markably good, especially the singing of the con- | tralto. The services began at eleven o'clock and | the Rev. Dr. Potter officiated, He preached | short sermon from I. Corinthians xv., 20— (“But now is Christ risen irom the dead.” He said that there was something striking in the conversion of Paul, for there was The | | Was a Christendom or a Christ; before there was a | | Resurrection is @ process, not an event. The “Christ 1s risen.” On the walls on either side of the church were the following floral inquiries:— “O death where is thy sting?” and “O grave where is thy victory f”” SEVENTH AVENUR METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUuxoH.—At the Seventh avenue Meshodist Epis- copat church, Brooklyn, Dr. Wild preached yeaterday morning. His text was I, Corinthians, xXv., 20—“But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept.” The Doctor held that a desire to know the future was natural to man; the desire, doubtless, based upon the conviction of the im- mortality of our being; a conviction that seemed to have been very generally entertained by men im all ages and nations. Even where the divine reyelation of the Bible bad not found » piscé We find ‘fien’fnder the conviction and sifadow of a future existence, This ill defined shadow was the grand underlying sentiment in-all the great systems of ancient and heathen mytholo- gies. The special conviction of immortality had given such shape and course to the nations and to their religious experience, that in the interpreta- tiou ofits history it would not do to leave out. Man was a religious creature, and even more intensely 80 when the Gospel was not, The religious sentiment was inwronght in his very being, so thatif he knows not the true God he will not fail ¢o find or make one in the sky, sea or land. For our clearer conceptions in the things that pertained to immor- tality we were indebted to the Gospel of Jesus, because of the increased light and beautiful mant- festations of immortality in the resurrection of Jesus. Before Christ’s time a darkness had gath- ered about this doctrine, but 1844 years ago a new light Mumined the vale of time, expanded the vision of the mind into the reaim of the invisible, truth received a new con- firmation and the indistinct became visible and glorious. In view of this the resur- rection of Christ was a keystone doctrine, Tne disciples so looked upon it, as Peter's speech in favor of the election of one in the place of Judas clearly proved. The reverend gentleman pro- ceeded with a careful and beautiiul delineation of the Saviour’s resurrection; the disciples’ surprise as they beheld the empty sepulchre, and, finally, the divine body, being the first typical fruits of them that sleep. Christ was our precedent, and the sacrament He instituted was a holy monument of His death and resurrection. At the close of the service the rite of imant baptism was adminis- tered and several adults united with the Church, alter which the sacrament was partaken of. THE RESURRECTION A MYTH. In the services at Lyric Hall, yesterday, the pas- tor, Mr. Frothingham, said:—The lesson of the resurrection 1s the lesson which has so many read- ings, and which is to be learned in 80 many moods o{mind, The Easter morning comes in the spring time, The first preacher of resurrection is Nature; she preaches it in the newly-born world, in the tenderer light from the skies, in the breeze, in the ground, in the young grass, in the bud tha: breaks the dark, hard bark of the tree and sits upon the twig like the prophet ofa new age, and the white rose, and the superb magnolia, and the Asia hya- cinthe, allo! which clothe the earth in resurrection Tobes ag oftem as the year comes round. It is the old lesson, and generations of men have read it from time immemorlal. We copy it from the ancient men. The spring has always taught resurrection. Nature revives in the spring- time, and we celebrate now ‘the festival which was celebrated ages and ages ago, before there Moses or a Lord; when the first glimpse of the divine beauty of nature broke upon men who were shut up in a long and hard winter. But we must remember that the resurrection DOES NOT COME IN A DAY. spring does not confe in @ day, as we know too Well. It does not appear when we think it should. ‘The Sun fitiully gleams through the frosty air, and ever and anon We are tempted out with the prom- ise of anew summer, and we lay by our heavy wearing garments and step off in the blithe air; | probably no man of his time who could equal him | | in attainments and culture. Even taking it as a supposition that all the remainder of the disciples were banded together to deceive the world, such a man as Paul lent an unquestionable stability to the movement. As Christ arose from the dead, so must we ail die, not in our bodies, which must perisb, but in that spirituality which will endure | forever. The present body was like the scaffoid- ing around a new building; the building was cov- ered in every portion, but some day it would come down and disappear, while the edifice alone re- | mains. It was not worth our while to lavish care | and decoration on the scaffolding, for it could not last. The soul is what we should culture and nur- | ture for its everlasting life, Boy Trivity,—Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, was thronged yesterday with a fashionable con- gregation at an early hour. The floral decorations were magnificent. In the centre, above the com- munion table, was placed a large cross, sur- mounted by & crown composed of caila lilies, white pinks and tea rosebuds, and above all burned across of gas jets. The font was filled with similar flowers, with a small thick cross in | the centre. Two large pots containing azaleas in full bloom occupied either side of the chancel, and on the communion table’ were large bouquets of calla lilies, and bouquets were in every other available place. The pulpitand the base of the jont were trimmed with trailing vines of smilax, | the whole presenting a most beautiful appearance, | and making the air heavy with sweet perfume. The music was very fine, having four wind in- struments to supplement the organ. Dr. Hall se- Tected his text irom the Epistle of the Corinthians, | chapter 15, part of the forty-tourth verse—‘‘There | 1g @ natural body and there is a spiritual body,” St. PavL’s CuvRcH.—The Easter services at St, | Paul’s Episcopal church, Clinton street, Brooklyn, yesterday, were very largely attended. Tne | prayers were read in the morning by the Rev. Dr. | Drewne. The music ana singing were rendered | with that wonderful blending uf effect and deyo- | tion for which these volunteer choristers are re- markable. Dr. Drowne preached a very eluquent | sermon on the subject of “The Resurrection,” | taking for his text the sixth and seventh verses of the twenty-fourth chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel— “He is not here, but is risen. Remember how ne spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, say- | ing, ‘The son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinfal men and be crucified, and the | third day rise again.’ After the sermon, and | during the offertory, the solo from Handel's “Mes- siah,” “I know that my Redeemer liveth,’ wag effectively rendered by a young lady who had volunteered for the occasion, and whose modesty | forbids the publication of her name. The Holy | Communion service was then administerea to a | large part of the congregation. After the services and during the aiternoon large numbers visited the church for the purpose of examining the floral decorations, which were extremely beautiful. Ris- ing from the altar to the height of five feet, on a dark crimson background, was a beautiful white cross, outlined with a narrow border of green; on each side of the eross was a ily bearing three | Crown composed of scarlet and white flowers, be- | deciaration, in large white Roman characters, | “The Lordis risen.” The chancel and seats of the | choristers were decorated with texta and flowers; the cross. These flowers and devices were given by @ committee of parishioners. Flanking the stone steps leading to the chancel and along the fyont of the church were large trees of white ana scarlet azaleas in full bloom. Over the baptismal font rose a large scarlet pyramid of flowers seve- ral feet high, surmounted by a white cross. On the other side of the church, peeping out from be- tween the large blue and gold pipes of the organ, were clusters of stately lilies. In the centre panel of the pulpit was a large white cross; on either side were two smaller ones, and running | along the top a device in many colored flowers. | denborgian school represents this with singular | beauty and force, his idea being that there was blossoms; suspended just above the cross was a | thought to-day, the central thought of every doc- | hind which,on @ dark green ground, was the | before He rose in the body; that He was a risen leaning against the blue pipes of the organ wasa | tion, large white lyre, bordered with green, to maten | PUY | appeared, | lantern of the traveller throug! and then comes the chill wind and the frost and the gusty day and the storm of dust and the flurry of snow, and we are driven back again, and thé hope of the year is postponed, And yet we are sure of tie resur- rection. It may nof.be to-day or to-morrow; but it will come as inevitably as the earth revolves anincident. There are those who contend that in the legend of Jesus the resurrection was a process, and hot anevent. A brilliant writer of the Swe- first an incarnation of the spirit in the flesh; the Tesurrection was @ process of excarnation—of emergence of the spirit out of the flesh—and this process of excarnation, he contends, began with the very first day that the Son of Man His first struggles were with THE LIMITATIONS THAT BESET HIM, his wrestlings wjth himself, his efforts to put | the traditions of his people. These were the en- deavors of a great spirit to cast off the flesnly thraldom of the body. But as the years went by month after month strippea off some more of these cerements, and granted the spirit power to emerge into greater and more visibie beauty; so that even the organs of man could see the ascen- | sion every day, @ new light in the eye every day, | @ new tone of sweetness in the voice, a new grace | in the demeanor, @ new delicacy in the toucn | every oa the sign that there was something at work behind thia mask whica would at last throw | it off; ana the legend goes on to say that there were times of singular transport and exaltation, when it seemed to those who were the companions | of: the Son of Man that the veil was visibly luted, | the very raiment was transfigured, the face shone with heavenly splendor, rays of light hovered about the person, he seemed to be communing | with invisible forms of the dead, and it was as if | he listened to great voices that spoke to him and | called Him the “Beloved Son.” Then the veil | would drop again, the curtain would fall, the vi ton would disappear, and they would see only th: visible person moving about over the earth like | one of themseives. 2 BUT AS THE END DREW NEAR | the mask became more and more thin, the splen- | dor broke ee it more and more, until when | the violent touch was laid upon it, it fell away ; all | the burden of the cross was too much for the Irame to carry that once could pass whole nights on the mountain tops in the midnight ews; aad when the spirit of death touchea it upon | the cross it was finished. For @ tew about like the @ dense wood, limmering between the trunks of trees, now | jhrowing a trail of splendor over some open space, | then disappearing again fora time, then, anon, | flashing Out once more, but always more and more distant, until at iast it is gone. I? 13 A FANCY, and yet it is a fancy as nearly accordant with the New Testament as any other, for the accounts of the ressurrection in the New Testament are con- fuss bee te. There is no single, consistent presen- tation of the resurrection of Jesus in the New Tes- tament; and if there were, the evidence is altogether too slight to be trusted. We cannot believe @ stupendous wonder on the testimony of men Whom we cannot cross-question. There was @ time when eminent priests said that the resurrection of Christ rested upon evidence that would stand in any court of justice; but those priests were Episcopalians, and the evidence never was produced before a court of law, and tt has long since ceased to be valid in a court of literature, Bat one thing is certain, a characteristic thing in the New Testament, which must never be for- gotten—and it always is—the great preacher of the resurrection, Paul, brought into prominence | one great thought, which is, or should be, @ live days the figure was seen flashbin trine of rt Tt was th rrection that deserves to be weighed, That the Son of Man rose in Himself being from first to last; THE BON-OF MAN W/S PURELY HUMAN, He was humanity; He was without limitations of passions, feebleness of will, crudeness of disposi- malignity of temper; untrammelled in His joses und affections, a being who moved free e realm of mind and feeling and conscience, who was already in His nature emancipated trom’ the corporeal, terrestrial and bestial element that drag others down, He was, said Paul (and this was the whole of Paul’s doctrine, the very soul of it), @ sinless man, and the sinless man, said Paul, cahnot die; the sinless man 1s immortal; eternal death cannot hold him; he will break through the bara, he will emerge. And with this thought he caught hold of the tradition that le had emerged, and that justified the faith that He was the spirit- ual man; and, says Paul, the spiritual man alone is raised from the dead; the resurrection is not of everybody's body, it is THE RESURRECTION OF THE SOUL; the resurrection of the Son of Man, and none others rise, Christ the first trnits and afterwards aside the olden thoughts that clung to him from | part of the flesn and emancipate itself from the | jad doubtful and hard to discriminate and | pet AY, APRIL 6, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. : | from the stuny tomb and brought him out staggering hideous in its formation; those that are Christ’a. At his coming Paul never 7” § never believed, the 8 immortality was jen and women; it was for believers, ior he son4 of men, for those who were brothers of the spltitual man, for those who were spiritual themselves—that ts, for those who were already risen abpve the deathliness of death, This was the doctring, and, consequently, the primary thought in Paul’s mind and in the minds of all the early Christians and in the minds of the most spiritual Christ! since, The primary thougit has been the resurrection o! the Son of Man—that is, of the man, This Son of Man 1s not an tnaivid- is historic On, a, a ni at a particular date in history. The Son of Man is the inmost of you and me; He ts our true sell, He ts our mind, our will. The Sonof Man is an order, ig. class of man. The Son of Man isa kind of mi rational man; a man whose heart is pure; whose soul is clean; whose conscience is honest; whose life is iree; who is superior to the lower | Slemants s BO. BAD, Us Hompeanlen pnaee 3 Wi ot the slave of lust, or greed or willulnes ah is immortal as fy ESSING IMMORTAL QUALITIES, This is the doc ype of the resurrection. This is the doctrine of to-day—the reaurréction of the Son of Man. Now, that resurrection must first, a resurrection of the body. The feel the power of the rising the ly need resurrection or oir ly, are esors of thei bodies, Consider in how few people the body comes to its own. We are ments of people, scraps of people, figments of people olten. One ti @ hand, another is an eye, another is an e another is @ limb, a foo! other is a etomac another 18 a brain. But how iew. put them all together, live in every champer. Many ilve tn the suburbs, many live in the attics, a few live in the dressy parlor ; but how few live in the divine house all over, as if it were a divine house! Here is one with the stomach of an ostrich and the brain of a sparrow; here 1s another with the stomacn of @ sparrey and tne brain of @ seraph. The philoss pher is all head; the reformer is all conscience; the philanthropist is all heart; the saint is. all soul. here ig the person who is at once prain, heart, conscience, soul, the normal person, using every fibre, every faculty, employing the whole oi this superb machinery that the crea- tive spirit has given to every one of us? The planet hag never seen such aman. As we consider Man how imperfect the body of man is! How un- graceful, how few complete forms there are, how many A amiebe beaatilul faces and how little sin- gniar loveliness of expression! Here are beautiful Jeatures, but blank as marbie; there is a beautiful soul, but looking out of a mask that 1s almost here one limps, is crooked and twisted. Or, see again, how disfig- ured and contorted and wasted and disabled by disease is this body oi man! Hereditary disease it may be, or incidental disease; how iew well people there are; how few people who have @ single day when life is to them an inexpressible boon; when there is no ache, no pain, no seuse of weariness, no conscious- ness of heaviness; and consider how many there are who are weighed down by disease, whose lie is anticipated by disease, who are doomed to a premature death by disease; how few live as long a Fae, ought to; how Jew, while they live, really ive Then consider this thraldom of habit; consider how every person is thwarted and cramped by some malignant habit which holds him bound so that his tether is only an arm’s length. It may be an unconscious habit, a habit that the person 1s unaware of; and yet it has its fine string avout his limp, or about his heart. And then think of those Whose habits are coarse, vulgar, brutal; who are . SLAVES TO SOME DEMONIAC POWKR, seated in their nerves, possessed of tneir muscles, poisoning their blood, and absolutely compelling them to crawl, a8 it were, on all fours, through this majestic world. Tbink of the weariness of labor, the thraldom of work, the graves of bitter toil that so many are imprisoned in. See how the fingers get thickened, how the eye gets dimmed, how the ear becomes thick, how low the thoughts have crawled, how hard it 1s for desire to soar or hope to spring; the long, weary days given over to the hardest labor, oor associations, bad food, insufficient clothe ing, shorrible sounds in the ears, hideous forms belore the eyes all the time, no deliverance. Is not the body in agrave ? Is the body raised irom | the dead while these things are? Yet they need not be. Why, what are these bodies of ours? Complete engines, made by the periect artificer tor @ periect end, Tuink of the tallor’s eye, the musician’s ear, of the pianist’s delicacy of” touch, of the sensitiveness of tue blind man’s finger. ‘Those are but bints of what we ought to be if we were what we ought to be. These bodies of ours would be temples, not dungeons, palaces, not caves, wings, n0t clogs; they would be powers ‘that bore us on, So fine, so sensitive, so elastic that | they would seem not to belong tothe ground at all; they would seem capable o/ foating out into the air; death would fairly have no domimion over them ; 1t Would be easy enough to believe in immortality if our bodies were what they ought to be. And yet how easily they might be made so, A simple touch of reason would Call the: irom the dead, a3 in the legend the voice of Jesus calied Lazarus | under his cerewents. Suppose, for instance (il we may allow ourselves the supposition), that men ate and drank just as they should; that they had © | air and light and cleanliness; that tney reformed their kitchens; that they studied the art of eatin, and drinking and taking food; that tuey exercise enough; that tuey understood periectly and con- formed periectty to the conditions of heaithtul and glad existence; why, in a moment you see the Tevolution, the regeneration that would take place. You see at once that there would be A RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, | complete, entire; how little passion there would upon its axis. Resurrection is a process, and not | be, and all these gigantic vices that curse us would drop off. There would be no more crime, tor there would be no temptation to crime; there would be no hunger o1 lustiui or intemperate desire in | spirit, for the perfect balaucing of the system would take care of itself; and thus, through this resurrection of the body, why the world would know What resurrection meant. And now this tine 1s coming. There ever has been a time when men were thinking so earnestly, 80 Intensely, on this very matter, of the use they ought to make of their budies, of the power o! the will over the body, of tue | power Oo! reason, of Sweetness and Cleanliness over the body, and of the tremendous issues that were involved in the treatment of the ene Teachers | are abroad teaching the people how they ought to dress, eat, sleep. Nay, we get behind these super- | ficial facts and consider now at least how people | ought to be born, how children ought to be brought into the world, so that they shall distance Uhese horribie precedents that DOOM THEM TO DEATH. Let this teaching go on; let it be understood; let it be disseminated broadcast; let it be acted upon; let it be worked into the mind, and you ‘Will see that the Son oi Man 1s not dead, that there is such @ thing as resurrection in ressoli, con- | science and goudness of the Son of Man in all of | us; and the consequence o! taat resurrection who can foresee ? But the resurrection of the Son of Man shows itself in other ways than in a transformation of the body. It shows itself in social transformations, too. It is a significant thing that the first anticipation of the early Christians was of a new earth, a new society, @ regenerated human existence—a millennium, in other words, And so firm was their faith in the power Of the risen heart of man to make this that they believed it might come any day. They thought that it might be here by the day afier to-morrow, and they were on tip-toe to mect it.as it came over the hills. Their faith was too hasty, but was it not sound? Because, wherever this conception of the risen Son of Man—that is, the normal heart and consclence—has entered into the world this trans- formation has appeared. Great men all through the Christian times, good men and earnest men have shown tn their lives, m their teachings, in all their influence the power of this regenerating life. Take any of the heroes, any of the great reformers, teachers and philanthropists of Christendom, of any sect whatever, I care not what, from Augustine to Channing, and the power of this risen Son of Man appears trausfiguring the earth about tt. TAKE THEODORE PARKER, There was a piece of New England granite; a per- fectly independent man; strong of will, tesung everything by his thought, resentiul of all au- thority, waiking with sturdy and large steps over bad ariny and yet that man, as if ne were a little cuild, held the Son of Man by the hand and looked up into His face, and caught inspiration from His eyes, and had his heart so softened by Him that more than once Theodore Parker said to me, “I | owe more to Jesus than to anybody else in the world.” Take John Brown; an oid Testament man, abit of Mount Sinai; a man whose iather was the Adirondacks and whose mother was the | Old Bible; a man of tremendous thought, a fighter who carried bis weapons about him and went, musket in hand, @ pioneer, a champion, & man Who held bis life at a pin’s tee; a man who had no hesitation in taking lie if tt stood inthe way of | truth; @ mountainoys man, a man whom it was an experience to look at, so craggy was he in his form, face and expression. And yet the Son of Man {n him had risen from the graye of passion and selfishness and hardness and seif-will, 80 that he did deeds as tender and exquisite as an angel could do, Setting out on an expedition which was 1 but certain death to him unless the finest con- ition were conformed to, an expedition that re- quired the utmost secrecy, he allowed a railroad train lied with people to pass on to its destina- tion, and refused to interrupt it because those people were going on thetr own business, which it was not jor him to stay, though it was morally certain that if they proceeded they would carry the tidings of his enterprise; a man who woald not kill others although it was ail but certain that unless he did he would himself be killed; aman who, prostrate and bruised, wounded and bieed- 1ng, Made no complaint, uttered no harsh word, breathed no spirit of invective, but was ‘ied like & sheep to the slaughter, and opened not his mouth.” ‘This man, on his way to execution could lift up from the ground a little negro cnild aud kiss it, and be giad that his ue had been given for such ashe was. That was the Son of Man. THAT WAS THE RISEN CHRIST, That was the soul rising superior to all the limit- ations of sense. And you sce that wherever such person has appeared things have changed, rts have been softened, laws have been miti- gated, there have arisen sweeter customs, more compassion and pity, more sense of justice, more desire for equity, more ieeling of human equality, more aspiration, more hungering and thirsting after good things, greater endeavor to form. What is this but the resurrection of the Son of Man? ‘This ts the demonstration that the Son of Man is risen, ‘Think of vhe efforts now making to educate the men of this generation! A little more than ten millions of dollar given in a single year, here in AlMerica, to the education of those who could al- ford to buy none for themselves, Think of the ef forts on the part of women to educate themselves, Hear their knocking at the doors of colleges; car their plea x knowledge and light and opportunity. This is te rising of tue Son of Witness this earnest criticism of the evils of foneey; See this imperative demand for honor and ny 4nd truth in public servants. Hear this oe ne nobler civil service. Mark this determina- tion it knaves shail be pilloried. Observe the po str a enthusiasm which brings nobie at- i tees a hone Who have lived weil and fought Mis oe tle. Taois is the rising of the Son of jan. is a sign—a sign in evil times, and in Some respects these are evil times—that the Son of Man is rising from the grave; for, while we re- member ail the dishonesty and fraud that make our times 80 ugly to consider, we must not forget the opposition to it all—the'keen eye, the quick ear, the determined will, the beating heart, And Tay not the othe ane that characterizes js generation of ou: been tis comes out Inte, "-° Cer has always think that Iam And you will not, I am sure, draw an illustra- going too far from my subject af 1 is Movement of women enone nae u against the ain of intemperance. Here is a grave been barieda in Lies the o ni wan ae rave, bow dari ere the worm diet rf flere corruption never ceaseth. How many | oat it! Not only the r, the i” ran’ the good-for-nothing; not only those whose lives seem to be of little moment to their kind, but the best there are, the choicest spirtts, the tenderest hearts, men and women’ of genius, people whose Promise of life would otherwise be of the very noblest and sweetest—these are buried in this grave and they cannot extricate themselves, NO WILL, NO PRAYER on their part will roll away that heavy stone and enable them to come out into the light and free- dom that they were born to, Who shall speak the word of deliverance? Men have tried to do it many and many atime. Authority, law, force have tried to do ts in vain. The angel must come from above; and in women there is, perhaps, the angel that may do what men have failed to accomplish, I know as well as any, Iam very far from for- etting all the objections to the method employed, he obtrusiveness and superstition o1 it, the use of lawful means in it. These are due to the want of education, the want of experience, to the limi- tation of thought in which these women move. But out of it 1 see this:—Woman, first of all, comin; forward to lay what spell she has at her command upon one of the crueliest of the evils that curse mankind. Woman, the emt. est sufferer, the tenderest helper, seo her putting authority and violence away, dis- claiming probibition, appealing to the by pleading, praying, imploring, tr; to touch the conscience, trying to represent persuasively the forms of reason, the real justice of the case, There is sometning in this that 18 very touching to Me, and indicates, under another form, the pro- cess of the resurrection of the Son of Man from his enemy, the grave, And the participation of women, that is now 80 common, in social reforms of every kind; the elements of tenderness and trust and ieeling that are infused, the warm en- thugiasm that is beginning to kindle all througn our communities, are signs that the Son of Man, the pure Humanity, is beginning to assert itself. According to the legend Christ, you know, was not of 9 man and # woman, but of a woman. And it is the welcome of that Son of Man that we cherish. Let this spirit spread, and may we not hope to see @ society of men and women that we Peennaee to think will live after they seem to be e: 1 cannot leave my sntieee without one more tl- lustration—the resurrection of the Son of Man in the form of religion. If the Son of Man ol the New ‘testament was characterized by any one thing more tpan another it was by His complete superiority to the carnal in religion, His elevation above forms and ceremonies, His emanoipation from brick and mortar, the ireedom with which He walked above all the definitions that men give of God or inan or the soul or of the future, Here aoes Teally seem to have been one whose soul lived in the presence of aGod whom He dared call His Father, whose trust was boundless and simple, whose conscience was clear as it was tender, an whose soul to all the robustness of the hero added all the sweetness of the saint; @ person who repre- sented the purest and freest religion, and this at a time and in @ nation where the swad- dling bands and cerements of religion were of tremendous strength, where the soul was swathed round with all manner of official incum- brances, in a nation that had become wedded to tts Jorms, that all but worsuipped brick and mor- tar, that believed that God aciually dwelt imemar- bie halls. This Son of Man rose above it all, and shone with a glory that irradiates us to-day. And ever since those who have sought this spirit, who have felt the power of that resurrection, have in the same way ascended until they moved in @ plane that was a high table land, to which our GOD HIMSELF 18 MOON AND SUN. Take @ symbol o1 it. The ovher day, in Westmin- ster Abbey—one of the grandest cnurcnes in the world, te greatest in Engiand, the type o/ anti- uity, Of vemerabieness, ot old magnificence— ‘he Dean, @ churcnman of high churchly rank and dignity, and of the nobiest scholarship, intro- duced a professor of phiiology to tecture On missions; and both the Dean and the professor openly avowed the doctrine that all faiths were a brotherhood, that Christendom was not to ap- proach the Moslem, the Turk or the East Indian in a spirit of lofty superiority, but was to go im the spirit of friendimess and traternity; that the best faith was that which produced the best men and women, and that if Chrisuanity meant to overcome the world it must do it through its re- formers and its saints and its character—that is, it must show there isa man. There is the sym- bol—Westminster Abvey, Dean Stanley, Max M@l- ler—and that symbol is only an emblem of a move- ment that is passing over, noi our land alone, but ail civiiized countries; a movement of faith, of ireedom, Of emaucipated thougit, of open wor- ship, of clear sight aud insight. Why, people woo can hana down such faith as that; people who can continue to be religious and yet so free, are already risen—risen from layers upon layers of dusky death! ‘Take tis single belief in the immortal life which Christendom is celebrating to-day, and see the effect 01 the resurrection uf this Son of Man, this pure Humanity tu that. Take the belief a8 a fact in the world and see What @ compieie transiorma- tion it has undergone simply through the open heart of man. The oid belief dwelt on the resur- rection o1 the body. I[t lived in the charnel house; its anticipation was of a time when all the limbs and members that had been buried time out of mind should coine flying together through the air and meet at a particular point of time and space, and there present themseives at the throue of judgment; g belief in bones and sinews, in nerves and teudous; @ belief that lived in grave- yurds and that dragged the graveyard up Into Heaven, Mark the change. Grave- yards are forgotten; the body is allowed oO waste away like a wornout garment, Dust may have its dust; ashes may have their ashes—let {t go. The immortal creature 1s a beiug, not a vody; & person, not a bundle of members; # heart, @ thinking being. Consiier the immense change that has passed over the human mind since it entertained the thought of a living, a happy im- mortality, instead of a reproduction of swaddling bands and cerements! It is in the men wno enter- tain @ new faith like that. And the idea is not spectral, for these immortal persous are thought of RoW as living, sympathetic, useful; working all the time, heipful ali. the time, keeping up their old as- sociations, That is to say, this social world is ex- tended indefinitely over the future. There, again, is a sign of a great advance in thought in the whole couception, not merely of the tutufe life, but of this ltje, and of men and women, And consider, again, that the juture life ts thonght of as opening out of this. It was formerly thought of not as connected with tnis at all, ex- cept as the earth is connected with a person who leaps up from it into the air, This form of exist- ence was spurned. BUT NOW THE SPIRITUALIST, the foremost modern believer in immortality, re- flects back upon this lite. it 18 this world; it ts the man in this world who 1s to ive agai. Con- sider the reaction. People wao thus think of immortality must think of themselves here aa immortal beings, and of their interests here as immortal interests, and of their work here as undying work. ‘The element of progress comes in; and progress implies persons who can progress—capability, the possibility of develop- mént. And at once, at that thought, we stand upon our feet. We cultivate ourselves. We believe in knowledge, in advance, in experi- ence, in refinement. We aspire. We think of ourselves not as mere perishable creatures of dust, but ag creatures who can learn more and gain fervor, Is not that something? it seems to me that @ holy taith like that, to hold it sincerely, is a great privilege; to hold it not &@ nursery story, Lot as an old tradition, not as a aomething that ts to be caught from the Church, not as some- thing that must be accepted as supernatural revelation on supernatural grounds, not as some- thing that must not be mass renee but taken for granted; but to hold @ faith like that eet tenderly, with reasonableness, with force of mind, with intelligent conviction, to hold it asa part of one’s own nature, 18 enough to dignity man and make bim already immortal. it seems to me that to hold such a faith as that Clearly, intelligenity, deeply, lifts the humanity that isin us far above the thoughts of death, and we do hot think of the resurrection of a body but of the resurrection of le. Sowing peck gather together the various lines which perhaps seem to you confused and tangled, but ‘ynien are only 80 many illustrations of one leading thought—the thought of the Easter morn- mg—the thought | would impress ede you is this, that the resurrection 1s to be internal, a resurrection of mind and heart and feeling first. The great apostle of the resurrection taught that only the true believers rose again into light, but all the rest passed into the land of shadows, and entered upon a dim, feeble, fainting, crepuscular kind of existence, which was not worthy to be called life, The Christian Church afterwards held that only the true believers attained to any im- mortality that was worth having. All the rest attained to an immortality that nobody woula think worth having—an immortaitty 0; Names, The Spiritualist believes that the immortal lile—as it deserves to be called ilie—belongs to the gcud, the simple, the pure hearted, the affectionate, the | ing; and he works away all the time to make this world the better for his being init, All the rest, he supposes, will find their way across the border and will linger alon; such fashion as they can, groping, perhaps, after better cyte enjoying None ot the light and beauty that belongs to the risen sons and daughters of men. Thus, all of them, each in his degree, or kind, or way, bears witness to this cardinal truth, that tne resurrection is of. ie yi Man, & A yet Is a i Ui ipetedt The g hope ts for the good heart; bone ia for the great soul. Give us the good heart,