Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1914 — URGE GOOD FRIDAY AS NATIONAL HOLIDAY [ARTICLE]

URGE GOOD FRIDAY AS NATIONAL HOLIDAY

All Denominations Working Together to Have Week Before Easter One of Worship. There is a general movement on the part of Christian people to make the week between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, known as Holy Week, a time of meditation, prayer and public worship. The Lutheran association of Chiacgo has started an organization looking forward to having Good Friday observed as a national religious holiday the same as Christmas. The supreme court of the United States has declared that this is a Christian nation and it seems "right that the anniversary of the day upon which Jesus Christ died, upon the cross to become the savior of the world, should be observed as a national holiday. We are living in a hard, material age and most people do not give sufficient contemplation to religious worship but If Good Friday was commemorated as a holiday the attention of all classes of people would be called to the atoning death of Jesus Christ. The Christian world makes Christmas and Easter great days for .worship of Christ, but Good Friday, the day which commemorates the death of Jesus, is almost entirely neglectedDr. Curnick is holding Holy Week services at the Methodist church, and will preach on Good Friday upon the subject, “The Cross of Christ.”