Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1928 — Page 11
AHitiL 7, .1928.
ADDITIONAL EASTER SUNDAY PROGRAMS IN THE CHURCHES
(Concluded from Page 10) way Boulevard Methodist Episcopal Church at 7:30 evening hour: Prelude—Mrs. Denver Craig. •‘Eleven Flowers”—Speedway Junior Orchestra. _ , ••Alleluia” Dale Adult Choir. “Christ Arose.” Male Quartet. “The Easter Victory” Heading Annis Shirley. “Jesus the King” Farnsworth Junior Choir. Duet—"lt Was for Me” Freeman Mrs. Pauline Barlow and Mrs. Pauline Loftis. “He Lives Again” Thomas Adult Choir. “Christ Is King” Freeman Solo. Mrs. Charles Leap, and Men s Chorus. _ .. “In the Garden” Reading tt tt tt SECOND MORAVIAN EPISCOPAL The Easter celebration at the Second Moravian Episcopal Church, corner of Thirty-Fourth and Hovey Sts., will begin with the sunrise service, which will be held at 6 o'clock and will be a liturgical service. The Christian Endeavor prayer meeting will follow at 6:45 a. m. At the in o’clock service the Sunday school, asristed bv the choir, will present the following program and pageant: Prelude Selected y Fli 'hr:!! Hollenbeck. Opcnui": Hvmn bv Congregation—" All Hail the payor” Oliver Holden r-ripturc Reading. Pr.aver. followed by the Loro s Prayer, Anthem—" Hosanna” Jules Granier Choir. “A S’nging Bouquet”—Miss Livonia Brown and Beginners Department. “Christ Is Risen Today” •• Lida Shivers Leech Primary Department. “His Easter Garden”. .Elsie Duncan Yale Blanche Rife. “The Living Cross" Lida Shivers Leech Ten Girls. „ “Thank You” Carolyn R. Freeman William Beckelhimer. Announcements. , . _ Offertory- -"Easter Sunshine’.J. R. Moiris ' Strings. Chimes, Piano. Pageant—"Jov of His Morning” Elsie Duncan Yale Choir and Sunday School. Congregational Singing. "The Day of Resurrection” G. J. Webb Remarks bv the Superintendent. Mr. D. Limvood Bedford. I. Doxology Louis Bourgeois ■R'nediction. Bile't Prayer, with Chimes. rostlude : ' Selected 7:15 P. M. Preh'd" "Christ the Lord Is Risen Tod J'" E. L. Ashfcrd Intro't—“The Lord Is in His Holy H. Purcell 11, -mil 229. "The Day of Resurrection” Henry Smart Congregation. Scripture Reading. Bass Solo Selected Mr. Virgil Phemister. Announcements. , ~ Offertory - "Tp the Evening Stsr .... R. Wagner Offertory Prayer. , _ Anthem 'Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" Lyra Davidica Choir. _ Duet "What Shall the Answer Be? . J. Lincoln Hall The Misses Livonia Brown and Elizabeth Hollenbeck. Hymn 272 "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today" J. A. Freylinghausen Sermon—" The Riddle of the Ages.” Anthem -"The King Immortal” , Walter A. Sliawker Choir. Benediction. Silent Prayer. _ , . rostlude •■ ■ Scieeted Director of Music Mrs, R. 1.. Davidson. Pianist—Miss Mabel Morris. The Rev. Vernon W. Couillard, pastor. tt tt tt MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN Tlip following musical program has been arranged by Mary Traub Busch, director, for the Easter services at Memorial Presbyterian Church. Mary Willits Rogers, violinist, will be the guest soloist at both services. Personnel of the Quartet is as follows: Mrs. George F. Goldman, soprano: Marv Traub Busch, alto: 1 Dwight Truck sops, tenor: Louis Isensee. bass-bari-tons. Miss Elsie MacGregor, organist. The program is as follows: Morning Prelude—" Easter Morning Fantasia”.. .Baumgartner Quartet—“ The Risen Lord".C. W. Greene Offertorv- "Resurrection Morn”. .Johnston Violin Solo "Arc Maria Bach-Gounod Quartet—" All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name” Galbraith (Solo—“And God Shell Wipe Away All Tears." from "The Light of the World." „ „ . Postlude--“ Easter Chorale" J. S. Bach Evening Worship of Song Prelude "All Glory to the Lamb that Died" i from "The Last Judgment" i Spohr ft.cnten Cantata —"The Man of Nazareth" James Rogers The Last Supper. The Garden. The Judgment Hall. Choral. Offertory—" Violin Solo. "Cavatina”...Raff Te Mockers. B'abat Mnter Dolorosa. The Agony. The Earthouako. Postlude—" Easter Chorale” Bach tt a tt ONE ADD CHURCEHS GAL TWO Mixed Quartet. ■ “Calvary” Freeman Duet from Junior Choir. “Christ Lives Today” Thomas Adult Choir. Postlude. Orchestra. Benediction by the pastor. The male Quartet is composed of Mr. Berov Carpenter, tenor: Mr. Roscoe McCalment. soprano: Mr. H. McCurdy, baritone; Mr. Denver Craig, bass. The mixed Quartet is composed of Mr. Roger Lawton, tenor: Mrs. Mabel Hughes, soprano: Mrs. Claud Wright, alto, and Mr. Claude Wright, bass. Pianist—Mrs. Roscoe McCalment. Pianist for Junior Choir—Miss Reva Wright. Choir Directress—Mrs. Thurman A. Washburn. Junior Choir Directress—Mrs. Hazel Ral6ton. tt tt it IRVINGTON PRESBYTERIAN .'(Temporary quarters in Carr's Hall, 5436 E. Washington St.j Sunrise Service, 6 A. M. Morning Worship, 10:45 A. M. Prelude—" Gloria” (Mass No. 12:..Mozart Hymn—Hark. Ten Thousand Harps and Voices" Mason Anthem —"Triumphant Strains Arise” Chipman Double Quartet. Hymn—“ Fairest Lord Jesus” Willis Offertory—" Offertory” Hiller Eolo —“Ave Maria” Bach-Gounod Mrs. Mary Ellery Smith. Anthem —’’Christ Is Risen” Prindle Double Quartet. Postlude—“Marche Solenelle”.....Ketterer Evensong, 7:30 P. M. • Adagio” Gurlitt • Aria" i "Rinaldo") Handel .•March” Valenti Mrs. M. D. Lupton, organist. Joseph Kendall, tenor and director. Mrs. Kathryn Dunnan Luwlow. alto Soloist. Mrs. Mary Ellery Smith, soprano soloist. W. Bromley House, bass. tt tt tt ST. MARK’S ENGLISH LUTHERAN Program announced bv Mrs. Ovid H. Dunn, organist and choir director for St. Mark's English Lutheran. Rev. R. H. Benting. pastor. 10:45 A. M. Organ Prelude—" Easter Morning Fantasie” Baumgartner Processional—"O the Golden, Glowing Morning" Le Jeune The Altar Service and Gloria in Excelsis Lutheran Order. Anthem—“ Lo. the Tomb Is Empty’’.Broome Soloists: Miss Marie Hansen, William Thum, Crawford H. Barker. Hymn—“ Christ Is Risen” Monsell Carol—"ln Joseph's Lovely Garden” Traditional Spanish (A Capella. Soprano Obligato. Miss Gladys Foerster.) Offertory—"As It Began to Dawn”.Coombs Mrs. Louis Mavis. Recessional—'"The Day of Resurrection” Eighth Century Postlude —"Easter March" Merkel 7:15 T. M. Organ Prelude— „ . "Spring Song Mendelssohn “Easter Day" Loret processional—‘‘Come. Ye Faithful” Eighth Century Anthem—"As It Began to Dawn". Vincent Soloist, Mrs. O. C. C. Fetta. Altar Servioe and Gloria. Lutheran Order. Jfvmn—“O Worship the King" Grant Anthem—" Awake, Thou That Sleepest" Jackson Soloist, Kenneth E. Smith. Organ Offertory—" Christ Triumphant” ........ ......................... Yon Recessional—" Give to Our God Immortal Praise” Watts postlude—" Easter March" Flagler Choir: Miss Louise Aichele. Mrs. Crawford H. Barker. Mrs. R. H. Benting, Mrs. O C. C. Fetta. Miss Gladys Foerster. Mrs. Paul Foerster. Miss Marie Hansen. Miss Mildred Juengel, Mrs. Harry J. Kennedy. Mrs. Louis Mavis. Miss Dorothy McCormack. Miss Mildred McCormack. Miss Helen McFee. Mrs. A. G. Staub. Miss Blanche Stillabower, Mrs. Harry Stillabower. Miss Thelma Tharp. Miss Mary Louise Wottrir.g, Messrs. Crawford H. Barker, Walter C. Blase. Charles Bruenhoeffer. O. C. C. Fetta. O. E Juengel. A. C. Mueller. Carl A. Polter, Harry P. Sims, Kenneth E. Smith. F. G. J. Stamnitz. William Thum. Norman B. Young. Director of music. Mrs. Ovid H. Dunn. tt tt tt ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL * II A. M. ■Prelude—"Easter Morning” Mailing fc’rocessional —"Welcome, Happy Morn■k ing” Sullivau
Sermon Topics of the Pastor Reflect Glory of Easter
Easter services will begin at the First Evangelical Church, at 6 a. m. with a “Sunrise Communion Service”; special music, sacrament administered by the Rev. Edmond Kerlin and the Rev. George D. Reep. The Sunday School will meet in general assembly at 10 a. m. with special music and Pddress by Rev. H. E. Eberhardt, superintendent of Wheeler Mission, on the “Lesson of the Resurrection.” Morning worship at 10 :40. Organ, “Allegro com brio,” Rogers, Miss Bertha Jasper. Anthem “Speak Ye Comfortably.” Shackley. Arnold Spencer and chorus. Solo, “Open the Gates of the Temple,” Knapp. Rev. George D. Reep. Easter sermon by Rev. Edmond Kerlin, “My Rendezvous With Life.” Adult baptisms. and union with the church. At 7 p. m., Mr. Russell Hirschman speaks on “Why We Believe In Immortality.” At 7:45 p. m. Easter evaneglistic service closing meeting of the “Pre-Easter Revival.” Organ, “Adago.” Rogers. Miss Bertha Jasper. Anthem, “Hosannah, ’ Granier, Arnold Spencer and chorus. Duet, “Won’t You Come Back Home?” Rev. and Mrs. Reep. Solo, “One Day,” Marsh Rev. George D. Reep. Final revival sermon by Rev. Edmond Kerlin. Farewell to Mr. and Mrs. Reep. Service of Easter song by Arnold Spencer and the chorus for the entire evening next Sunday night, April 15. The sermon theme for the morning will be "The Living Lord” announces the Rev. J. G. Moore, pastor of the Capitol Ave. M. E. Church. New members will be received into the church at this time and the sacrament of baptism will be administered. In the evening the pageant, “The Cross Triumphant” will be presented. The Rev. Bert R. Johnson, pastor of the Downey Ave. Christian Church announces that “The Victory” will be the sermon at his church Sunday morning. In the evening there is to be an Easter pageant by young people. The sermon for the evening will be “He Saved Others, Himself He Could Not Save.” At Second Reformed Church the Lord’s Supper will be observed at the morning service. The sunrise service, at 6:30 a. m. will be in charge of the young people of the church. In the evening the choir will present “The Resurrection ” a cantata by Charles Manney. The morning services at the Speedway Boulevard M. E. Church will include the sermon of the pastor, the Rev. Clyde H. Lininger, “Our Hope in Immortality” and the consecration. The adult and junior choirs will present an Easter program in the evening. “The Power of Christ’s Resurrection will be the topic for the morning service of the Rev. Ambrose Aegerter, pastor of the Beville Ave. Anthem—“ Christ Our Passover". .Channel "Gloria Patri” Chapnel "Festival Te Deum in E-Flat”. Buck Introit Hymn. "Jesus Christ Is Risen” Lyra Davidica "Kvrie Eleison” Eyre "Gloria Tibi" Eyre “Gratias Tibi” Eyre Hvmn, “Jesus Lives” Gauntlett Offertory Anthem. “As It Began to Dawn” Vincent “Presentation of Alms” Beethoven "Sursum Corda” Eyre "Sanctus” Eyre “Agnus Del" Eyre “Gloria in Excelsis” Old Chant “Nune Dimittie” Simper Recessional. “At the Lamb's High Feast” Hintze-Bach Postlude. “Festival March” Huhn Soloists- Miss Bonnie Johnson. Miss Louise Sit unons. Miss Frances Henzie, soprano: Miss Bess Griffith, contralto: Mr. Spencer Hansing, tenor; Mr. Howard D. Miner, bass. Organist, Miss Jeanette Riker. Director. Mr. Howard D. Miner. tt tt tt FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 10:30 A. M. Voluntary. “Holy. Holy.” Invocation and Lord's Prayer. Gloria. Quartet. "Festival Te Deum” Dudley Buck Hvmn (Congregation Standing) No. 514 (all verses). Anthem. “Happy Morning” Sir Arthur Sullivan Young People's Club. Scripture Story of Easter Morning. Mayflower Band. Song. “The Lovely Easter Day” Carolyn Freeman Primary Department. Prayer. Solo, “The Hosanna” Granier Miss Heider. Announcements. Offertory. Choir Response (Congregation Standing). Quartet. “On Wings of Living Light”. Bartlett Violin Obligato, Mrs. Harold B. West. Sermon, “The Immortal H*pe.” Mr. Caughran. Prayer. Hvmn (Congregation Standaing) No. 151 (first, 2d and 3d verses). Benediction. Organ and Choir Response. Postlude. Quartet: Miss Frieda Heider. soprano; Miss Mildred Johns, contralto; Mr. A. D. Hitz. baritone; Mr. Raymond Edie. tenor. Mrs. Harold B. West, violin. Mrs. Berta Miller Ruick, organ. tt tt tt BROADWAY METHODIST EPISCOPAL The Broadway Vested Choir of sixtvflve voices, directed by Willard Elman Beck, will sing Daniel Protheroe’s cantata, “Eastertide.” Sunday evening at 7:45 in the Broadwav Methodist Episcopal Church on Fall Creek Blvd. and Broadway. Mrs. Mary E. Wilhite, organist, will accompany the choir. Soloists for the cantata are as follows: Mrs. R. J. Kreipke. soprano; Mrs. M. B. Orr. alto; Frank Parrish, tenor; C. C. Lloyd, bass. Following is the cantata: Part I. The Passion. Chorus—“ There's a Green Hill Far Away.” Alto Solo—" When the Morning Was Gone.” Baritone Solo—"And Pilate Asked Them.” Chorus—"We Found This Man Perverting the Nation." Baritone Solo—“Then Pilate Called Jesus.” Chorus—“And They Were Instant With Loud Voices.” Bass Solo—“ When Pilate Saw.” Chorus—" His Blood Be Upon Us.” Organ—" The March to Calvary.” Bass Solo—" Now From the Sixth Hour.” Chorale—“O Perfect Life of Love." Part 11. Easter. Alto Solo —“As It Began to Dawn.” Chorus—"And Behold. There Came a Great Earthquake.’’ Soprano Solo—“ They Have Taken Away My Lord." Tenor Solo—“ Come Unto Me.” Chorus—“My Faith Looks Up to Thee.” Soprano Solo—“ The Morning Purples All the Sky.” Chorus—“ Now Is Come the Salvation of Our God.” The combined choirs. Junior. High School and Adult, totaling 150 voices, will sing at the Easter Sunday morning worship at 10:,45. Following is the music for the morning service and evening organ numbers: Organ Prelude—“Christus Resurrexit” Ravenello Processional—“ Love Divine.” Doxology liymn—"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross." Anthem—" Come, Sing We Loud Hosannas" Spence Offertory—“ Savior, Thy Undying Love.” Anthem —"Unfold. Ye Portals” (“The Redemption") Gounod Hymn—" Hail. Thou Once Despised Jesus." Organ Postlude—“Exultemus" .... Kinder Organ Prelude—“ Concert Overture in G” Kinder 7:30 P. M. Hymn—" All Hall the Power of Jesus’ Name.” Offertory—" Spring Song" ... Mendelssohn Cantata —"Eastertide” .. Daniel Protheroe Organ Postlude—“ Toccata in D-Minor" Kevin
Evangelical Church. In the evening there is- to be a pageant of Easter, “A Message of Hope.” The Rev. G. L. Farrow, pastor of the Victory Memorial Methodist Protestant Church, will use “What Shall I Do With Je-js? Shill I Crucify Him?” as his morning sermon. In the evening there will be a special Easter program. “A Risen Christ and a Burning Heart” will be the topic for the morning sermon of the Rev. Victor B. Hargitt, pastor of the Bright wood M. E. Church. There will be special Easter music. “The Cross Triumphant’’ will be the Easter pageant for the evening service. The junior choir will appear at that time in vestments. At the Emmanuel Baptist Church the pastor, the Rev. H. B. Hazen, announces an Easter service with the Lord’s Supper for the morning service. The sermon for the evening is to be “He Is Risen.’’ Also a musical program. The Rev. L. C. Howe, pastor of the Broad Ripple Christian Church announces that on Sunday morning he will preach his closing message, “The Call of the Ministery.” Kenneth Ball will be ordained to the ministry at this service. The evening sermon i.; to be “After Easter, What Then?” At file Edwin Ray M. E. Church there will be a silent service from 5:30 to 6:30 a. m. The organ will be played continously at this time by Miss Freda Hart, the regular organist. Worshipers may come and go at their pleasure announces the pastor, the Rev. William Talbott Jones. The communion table will be spread. At 10:45 a. m. the regular morning
g IT ,do it better with J arage Heaters fj 4 S . . * 11 eatrolas, , . / ' " ’ g JHr SEE THE %• 1! i 0 >%#f T\ fUrm^u W IJP 3m : ft /|I home show jnjr 1 |Jh “ 'Booths 113, 114, m JgjgjpA S \ -pz_3 \ i TsJffFS M L iVJ Nwwmss | , _ , . , , , : t II I— AC fn/>Tir onn
(fas (jarage Heaters and Heatrolas, Incinerators, Time-O-Stats, ) j *' Waterless Cookers jgf
' QAS \ RANGES New Process Smoothtop Tappan Roper The largest and most complete line of gas ranges in the city. All styles, all models, all sizes.
-; "® ?11 I! ill 8i lilt jjj | *
'xliJii lin ulAi\ AHOLiIS TiMiLiS
service will be held. The sermon will be “The Impulse of Easter.” In the evening the choir will give an Easter cantata. Plans for an attendance of 1,000 at Easter services are being made by the Christian Men Builders, Inc., of the Third Christian Church. Merle Sidener, teacher, will take as his subject, “Alive Again.” Pasquale Montani, harpist, will play. The service will be broadcast over station WFBM from 9:30 to 10:45 a. m. The Rev. Floyd Van Keuren, rector qf Christ Episcopal Church, will have three celebrations of the Holy Communion on Easter Day. There will be a quiet celebration at 6 a.m.; at 7 a. m. there will be a celebration of the Holy Communion with Easter hymns, and at 10:45 a. m. shortened morning prayer, Holy Communion and address by the rector. There will be special "aster music at the midday service. Paul Leslie Raymond and E. V. Alexander will be soloists. The church school Easter service, with the full choir will be at 4 p. m. A special service has been prepared for the presentation of Lenten mission offering. The Woman’s Auxiliary of Christ Church will meet on Tuesday afternoon at 2:30. Miss Anna Locke will give a resume of “The Church Awake.” Mrs. J. C Todd will lead a ten minute discussion on Church Current Events. Dick Powell, tenor soloist with the Charlie Davis Indiana Theater Stage Orchestra, will sing "The Crucifiction” on the Easter program of the Christian Service and Girls’ Federation classes of the Third Christian Church. Seventeenth St. and Bioadway, Sunday morning. Mrs. William Werner, pianist, Miss Elizabeth Stamm, cellist and Miss Esther Stamm, violinist, will also be on the program, which will begin at 9 o’clock. Mrs. Curtis A. Hodges teaches the I ar’eration class and Mrs. F. E. Smith, is teacher of the Service class.
QAS TOASTER No scorching or burning with this toaster . . . you can see the bread from all angles as it toasts. Special price during Home Show Week . . . ZSe
ft I ; —=jc==== —~ | NWPSOCtSS J If i y .I W I o (I
■PITTSBURGH
c Automatic Water HEATERS
All the latest improvements in hot water heating are embodied in these new heaters;;; guaranteed by the oldest and largest manufacturers of copper coil water heaters in the world. Liberal allowance for your old heater.
SOFOT A wonderful combination water softener and automatic water heater.
The lesson topic will be “The Meaning of Easter and Our Lord’s Resurrection.” Miss Frances Smith and Miss Catherine Riley are chairmen of the joint program. The Rev. Francis D. McCabe, rector of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Irvington, has announced that Easter Sunday will be observed in the church by a celebration of the Holy Communion at 7:30 a. m. At the mid-morning service at 10:45, the rector will preach on the subject "Where Are the Dead?” At this service the newly organized Boys’ Choir will be present for the first time and will sing. In the afternoon at 3:30, the church school will present a pageant and piesent its Lenten offering. In addition to the regular hymns, special Easter anthems to be sung will be “Christ Our Passover,” by Shepherd, and “He Is Not Here,” by Read. B. T. MacDonald will play the offertory solo, "Open the Gates of the Temple.” An Easter program will be given by the Sunday School at the Unity Methodist Church Sunday morning and the p>tor, Rev. E. T. Howe, will preach at night. Evangelistic services every night during the week by Rev. F. F. Crider of Shelbyville. At the Emerson Ave. Baptist Church Rev. H. C. Odell will preach in the morning on “The Resurrection.” In the evening the choir will present “The Easter Victory.” The Easter services at Calvary United Brethren Church, corner of State and Hoyt Aves., will open with a sunrise prayer meeting at 6:30. A goal of 500 in attendance has been set for the Sunday school, which meets at 9:30. Following the class sessions the children will give a short Easter program, and the pastor. Rev. L. P. Cooper will bring a message on "The Triumph of Easter.” The choir will give an Easter can-
X
tata “The Joyous Bells of Easter” by Carrie B. Adams at the evening service at 7:45. The choir of the First United Presbyterian Church will present “The Garden of Joseph,” an Easter song story by Elsie Duncan Yale and Dr. Adam Geibel next Sunday evening. “The Lord Is Risen Indeed,” will be the Easter morning theme of the pastor, E. A. Daum. The following announcements have been made by the Rev. L. C. Fackler, pastor el St. Matthew Lutheran Church: The Brotherhood will be entertained in the church auditorium on Tuesday evening. The Ladies’ Aid will meet in the church auditorium Thursday afternoon. Thursday evening at 8 o’clock the Willing Worker class will present their three act play “All on Account of Polly” in the auditorium of School 21, Rural, Southeastern and English Aves. The Rev. K. E. Thorne, pastor of the Beech Grove Christian Church announces the services for Easter Sunday to be as follows: gunrtse Prayer Meeting. 6 o'clock. Breakfast, 7 o’clock. Bible School, 9 30 o'clock. (Easter Goal Is 349i —J. A. Newman. Superintendent Preaching and Communion, 10:30 o'clock. K E. Thorne. Pastor. Christian Endeavor -Intermediates. 5:30 p nv. Mrs. Thorne. Superintendent. Christian Endeavor Senior*. 6:30 p. m.. Mrs. Thorne, Superintendent. Fester Cantata. 7:30 p. m. The next regular Brotherhood meeting will be April 10. Six o'clock dinner with a good program including address by H. Lee Andrews and musical program furnished by Everett Todd, choir director University Place Christian Church. C. M. Hamilton, formerly superintendent of Westside Mission, will preach at Dublin Church Easter Sunday. The regular choir practice is conducted each Thursday evening after the supper at 5:30., Rev. Thorne, director.
If ifs done with Heat you can do it better with qas...
OAS . . . used with these new and improved appliances ... transforms the ordinary home into an ideal abode ... a clean, attractive place to live; smooth running and happy because most modernly equipped. By inspecting our unusual display of up-to-date equipment, one appreciates more fully what gas can do for the home ... to increase its comforts, to lighten its labors and lessen expenses. Os course you must see the GAS SHOW at the Home Show—April 7 to 1 4. You will find much of interest in these gas conveniences for the home.
Citizens GAS Company
45 South Pennsylvania St
Sunday School Lesson
The International Uniform Sunday School Lesson for April X. The Power of the Resurrection. Mark 16:1-20. BY \VM. E. GILROY, D. D„ Editor of The Congrcgationalist THE story of the Resurrection of our Lord finds its most fitting and beautiful symbol in the resurrection of nature at spring time. We never grow tired of spring, no matter how many years we live, nor how deeply we share the experience of generations that have gone before us. Spring always brings a quickening of the spirit, anew sense of life, and a deeper response to that great mystery which underlies all change, renewal and progress. Wo have never solved the mystery of spring. Genuine Expression Is not this essentially true of ; the resurrection of our Lord? I Scholars for ages have studied the record. The careful eye of the critic has scrutinized every detail, and again and again the critic has assumed that he had disposed of these narratives as cunningly devised fables.” The critic has laid great stress upon the discrepancies in the different stories, only to prove that these stories come to us from the ancient church without any such thing as connivance or r conspiracy on the part of ancient disciples ail to tell the same story. ! The narratives of the resurrec- ! tion, whatever may be their literal historical value and setting, i come to us as genuine expressions ! of tradition in the early church and of the things that early disciples I believed. Perhaps the differences ! in the narratives in point of detail i suggest that the essential and ultimate facts may have been someI what differently reported even at
r Llid | 1 f * wftmm | j
SE\VEL Electrolux i. & Gas Refrigerator 'ftvl Produces ice from the heat that freezes ... without noise *V. pCii\V. or moving parts. The Servel is free from trouble and lasts •la/V a lifetime. *\<
p Your 3$ Homes with
BRYANT Qas Furnaces
\ADIANTFIRE Qas Heaters Produce heat that is clean, odorless, smokeless and ashless. Sizes and styles for every requirement.
PAGE 11
an early time in the life of the church. It is worth while always to remember that the documents of the New Testament come to us from an age when scientific and historical criticism had not developed. They come to us also from a time when there was little or no tendency to challenge stories of the most miraculous circumstances. Spiritual Faith Today we are making increasingly a distinction between spiritual faith in the resurrection and the mere acceptance of certain historical facts. Into this whole matter one can not go, but the distinction, difficult as it seems, has much validity. It means little to believe hi the physical resurrection of the body of Jesus unless one believes very vitally in the spiritual fact that Jesus lives and lives for ever. And there are some, who are content to read the ancient narratives without any effort to understand just how Jesus returned and made himself known to the disciples, who do find the fact of the resurrected life of Jesus in the experience of the disciples and in their own experience today. We can not dissociate the resurrection from spiritual faith. It was to those who had power to see him t..at Jesus returned after ijis death, and it is to those who have power to see him and to hear his words today that lie makes his living presence known.
£rownin ß’ B ) * ~b east j CLOTHING J i■ n i— i ii mm ■ r—i i