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Messages From Brooklyn Ministers Inspired by the Glad Easter Festival DAILY EASTER CHURCH SECTION EASTER CHURCH 1 SECTION YORK CITY. SATURDAY, Al'JJIL 7, llU'S. THE RISEN LORD Christ the Prince of Life Jesus the Life By The Rrv. Mns. John L.

Belford, Rector Church of the Xotivity. i By The Rev. Dr. S. Parkei Cadman.

Pastor Central Congregational "0 I Church aid President of the Federal Council of Churches. B-d BROOKLYN EAGLE ALL the millions who have lived on earth, not one survives as doeg Jesus of Nazareth. Well might He say, "I am the life." Kings and Jv-- -A MVS. THIS great Festival of Resurrection finds the risen Lord's Church deeply concerned for the failure of Institutional Christianitj In fulfilling His fundamental ideas and purposes. She has entered upon a reconstruction period.

Criticism and controversy are waning; a new day of affirmation and advance draws near. Seldom, indeed, has any past era known a more profound or widespread conviction of the priceless values of the victorious Christ than we witness now. The belief that individual, social and world welfare are bound up in heartfelt obedience to His teachings exists to 1928 on an unprecedented scale. The conviction Is increasingly common that if He cannot save the human race from its folly and wickedness it is, Indeed, beyond redemption. Easter emphasizes these assertions by showing that the truly divine cement in our Lord's nature was the ideal of immortality which He embodied in Himself and transmitted in His Gospel.

Since the souls of the righteous are in the hands of God, their religion is independent of science or philosophy. It has its distinct functions and its perfect freedom, because It is an ineffable fellowship between the Creator and the creature over which bodily dissolution exercises no control. This reasoning is sanctioned by Christ's survival as the Prince of Life. It transfers the things of the spirit from metaphysics to psychology, and bases their authority upon the attested experiences of the devout. The heart in which divine love registers its d-crees of reconciliation is delivered from the fear of death.

The world into which Jesus came to brinj life and immortality to light cannot miss Us appointed way to the rather and to the blessed society of the saints. Let us comfort and uphold one another with these cardinal verities. emperors, authors and leaders, artists and soldiers have appeared! and disappeared. Some have lived in memory or in influence for a fevr brief years, but none has lived so long or so vividly as "The Light of the World." He is the only one who has come back from the grave by His own power. "On the third day I will rise again." He said this calmly and Hi fulfilled it literally.

On the tombs of men we carve the words "here lies." At the tomb of Christ an angel says "He is not here; He is risen as He said." Never was there a man more thoroughly killed than Christ was. His most implacable enemies admitted His death and made no objection to Kis burial. The centurion charged by Pilate with His execution reported thl the sentence had been carried out and the prisoner was dead. The lilelesa body was laid in the tomb. That tomb was sealed.

A guard was set over it "lest His friends steal His body and say He has risen as he said." Hundreds saw the risen Christ. From Mary, His mother, to Mtry, thi sinner; from the Apostles in the Cenacle to the Apostles at Emraaus; frets the evangelisi who wrote to the Disciples who testified hundreds gave testimony, "We have seen the Lord!" Those who will not bslieve Kis words must believe His works. In that faith we are secure. It gives us assurance that we too shall rise and in glorified life possess Him who has gone before "to prepare a place fqr us." A Higher Life for All By The Rev. Dr.

Arthur Wilder Grose, Pastor All Souls Universalist Church. A Festival of the Living By The Rev. Dr. John Deans, Pastor Central Presbyterian Church. IS a wholesome practice to rise a little earlier on Easter morning than at other times in order to observe the dawning of the first faint EASTER stands In Christian thought for the higher life.

Not merely because people believe In a continuance of life after death do they rejoice when Easter comes. To some it would seem a cause for despair rather than for hope if the promise of Immortality meant only that we shall keep on in an existence that already seems almost intolerable. But all can welcome the assurance that life may become better, happier and with larger satisfactions and more enduring joys. Precisely this assurance is what Easter brings to the expectant soul ready to accept the faith that "as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive." To be "made alive" in an even truer cense than we were "made alive" when we entered this earthly life, to be "alive" and sensitive to a higher condition of being than we could possibly experience here, that surely is an expectation that fully Justifies us in making the day that symbolizes It the greatest and best day of all the Christian year. Easter means that it is always possible for us to destroy all fear, doubt, weakness and the sense of unworthiness and sin which so often oppresses us and to substitute for these depressing things a deathless courage and a triumphant hope.

The Easter message is "Live, Live as an Immortal Soul!" beams of breaking day, for it was in such a dim twilight the first glad surprise of the Resurrection morning agitated the minds and blessed the hearts of the faithful. There was a tradition among the ancients that the sun dan. Easter morning. Not very many have taken the trouble to veri phenomenon. As the rim of the great sphere lifts itself above the there appears a glimmering, flickering, glistering light that might isily be mistaken for dancing.

At least, Easter was to them no day of o.nti weary mournfulness. Even the sun danced in joyous celebration thi risen Lord. Easter, therefore, is not a memorial for the dead but a festival of the living. Death has lost its sting and the grave its victory, for the corr has put on incorruption and the mortal' has jmt on immortality. Oi poreally Imperfect, restricted life has given place to the und illimitable life of eternity.

The dead are not here but risen. Our I teries are empty. "All that is there in the cemetery is the wornout TW.t, It Ci- Lifeys Indestructible Quality By The Rev. Dr. John Howland Lathrop, Pastor Unitarian Church of the Saviour.

ti! eir a which our dear ones have discarded. They are with God," in th. lowship of redeemed humanity occupied with the concerns fitted society of God and Christ and all "the grea; and-holy thildrerr Father In heaven. It is Life that sitteth invincible on the throne universe. r.

row beautiful It Is to live!" runs the familiar line. Around us in this world of sun and rain something stirs and we are to be overwhelmed with the enchanting spectacle of growth 'HelsRisentheWorld'sHoM By the Rev. Dr. Francis W. O'Brien, Pastor Greenwood Baptist Ch TT E3 From the celebrated painting of the Resurrection, now at Siena, Italy, by Giovanni Anlonio Bazzi (1177-1519).

and beauty. One thing alone we seem to know. We can make the life within of such quality as we will. And instantly reason asserts itself and asks: "Is quality nothing to this universe of ours?" Imagine, if you can, the full count of all the elements of a noble man's flesh and blood continuing still in the chemistry of the outer world, while all the triumphs of his victorious spirit are quenched as If they never had been. Such a conception denies the entire process of the life we now live.

It annihilates meaning, purpose, achievement, and, in any deep and real sense, progress. will not hold It! Faced with a choice of views on which to stake our living, we cry: "Only the most bewitching view is commensurate with experience and worthy of the mystery of life." "He is risen was the shout of the first Easter; and from that day to this we have become encompassed about by so great a cloud of witnesses to the life of indestructible quality that we feel the compulsion of the commandment, "These things do," and lo! the faith is born In us! OPERA SOPRAKO IS REFORMED CHURCH 309 YEARS IN U. S. CHURCH SOLOIST AS THE sliver gates of Easter dawn are thrown back and the c-urtlt reflects the gloryof the sun. once more are we greeted with Us gia 1 salutation taken from the resurrection angel's me.sage, "He Is Kin.

The power of His resurrection turns the dross into gold, yes! il dauntless victory. The power of eternal life, energizing the disciples, synci them forth to carry out the great commission, to preach His gospel ai.f the blessedness of the risen Lord into all the world. The transforming power of a great truth veering to deeds of ui-dyint jlory from the martyred disciples to our own soldier beys in the la war is a proved fact. Every humble servant of Christ, fired by the im. force ot the name of Him who conquered death, has the wjr'i .1 a garland of light.

To a world needing guidance and wisdom the light of the Easter Trinity Baptist Church, in New York announces two interesting services for tomorrow. The new auditorium furnishes an unusually fine setting for the program. In the morning Santa Biondo. soprano of the San Carlo Opera Company, will sing. "I Know That My Redeemer Liveih." from "The Messiah." and Gounod's "Ave Maria" with violin oblieato.

Ir. the evening she will give Gounod's Divine Redeemer'' and with Victor Larsen. baritone. Trinity's soloist, will sing the duet, "The Lord Is My Shepherd Samuel Kissell. the viohnis.

The Lord Is Risen" drives darkness back, a new day. a new era, He Lives! then all Is well The mysteries of humanity, profound and searching, are but the i al By The Rev. C. B. Munte, pastor Reformed Church on the Heights.

longe to our faith in God. Tragic and dreadful tnough tney may dc. ing to the very limit our faith in the Resurrected One are turned In U- feus (Ditr gauimtr THE WIND COMETH FROM WHENCE? WHITHER DOTH IT GO? SOFTLY IT DOTH MURMUR: ROARETH DEEP AND LOW. CALM OF NIGHT DISTURDETH: TROUBLE DARTETH HERE: IN OUR MIDST GOD STANDETH: NAUGHT ON EARTH WE FEAR. LIKE THE LITTLE CHILDREN HEAR A WHISPERED VOICE.

JESUS IS OUR SAVIOUR: THANKFUL HEARTS REJOICE. MARIA CAMPBELL FOSTER. and winner of the Julliard Founds- tion prize, will play a solo at both the morning and evening services as well tory. Every heartache, every sullen despair, the sharpest discipline, oi nr of death, very death itself, that has left us naught but a memory ar i green spot in God's acre is all changed by this new note divinely givn 'o mortals, "He Is Risen." And as the gates of the Easter Day close, may it find us wi a new attitude toward life. Our steps bent, facing the morning land the Lamb who was slain, now in the midr.t of the throne.

Is the secu. 'y our freedom and happiness, where the spirit of Just men made F-'iifS icloice In the hope of the coming resurrection and we who now slv-f i the fellowship of His suffering on earth are made to know the power if resurrection and enter into the realization of the sjmbolic Easter mi4.vt;- "He Is Risen." Today is the 300th anniversary of the landing on Manhattan Island of the first ordained minister to preach in New York City. During his first year 1628 he organized what is conceded to be the oldest church with a settled ministry and continuous service in this country. It was on April 7. 1G28, that the Rev.

Jonas Michaelius. sent by a Classls In Holland, landed on Manhattan Island to become the first minister of this colony. In the summer of that year, he formally organized the Dutch Retormed Church, which has continued its existence to the present time, and which was the firs', religious bodv to be established on Manhattan island. It is also the oldest church of settled ministry and continuous service the United States. The Pilgrim Church at Plymouth, hnd no ordained minister in charge until 1629.

The Reformed Church is about to celebrat in elaborate tercentenary proceedings the estabhshrrent of the "Church In the Fort." This will be done through paseantry, processions, mass meetings, special services nl thanksgiving and other events, eliminating In the annunl meeting of the General Svnod. which comprises the entire body of the Reformed Church in America, and which will be held in New York in the early part of June. One has only to consult the datei In The Biwklyn Eavln Almanac of the foundlnu of the Reformed churches in Brooklyn to realize how soon the Manhattan Islnnd church activities spread to Iine Maid. The three oldest Itelormcd churchex of this boro were c-tabhslicd In the same yenr 1654. They are the Old First.

7th ave and Carroll the Rev. 8. S. DBUKhiry. pastor; the Flatbush "First i Church.

Flatbiii and Church the Itev. J. Frederic as the obliRiito. The Rev. Dr.

Oeone F. Eadie, the magnetic Scotch preacher, ill occupy the pulpit In the mornir.i;. speaking on "Thp Glorv of the H'-surrection" and In the en "Tlv Magnetism of Christ." The church's new place of worship has greatly un reased tile interest in the various socle'ies. and many new members have been added to the roil. REV.

DR. CADHAH'S EASTER MESSAGE CHRISTIANS of the Greek Church on Easter morning greet one anotherwlth the words, "The Lord Is risen!" The customary answer Is, "He is risen Indeed." So gracious a custom is worthy of emulation. What sublimer hope do we cherish than that emphasized by the day oi resurrection? The glory of It should surely bo reflected in radiant faces and Joyous speech. Of old in the gray dawn the risen Lord met the two Marys with the salutation, "All Hail!" It was the challenge of a conquerer and the greeting of a friend. It sounded the keynote of gladness and triumph with which Easter should be celebrated to the end of time.

Into this high and hopeful mood the day should lead us. Since it last dawned many of the sons of men have known prostrating bereavement. They have come from Ood's acre dazed and crushed. They have found life straightened and impoverished through lost companionships. Few there be who have lived In any world of noble friendships but must yearn for "the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that Is still." After a thousand Easteri have come and gone since that first one our common thought of death is still essentially pagan.

Men talk and act as though life ended in the cemetery, as though our blessed dead were captives of the grave. The symbol of the day is not a black clod, but the Easter lily, lifting its white beauty from the clod. Easter speaks of life, not death. Wherefore, Sursum Corda. lift up your hearts.

Hear the salutation of Him who could not be held by the sepulchre In Joseph's garden, and who for us all brought life and Immortality lo light. APRIL 2. 1S23 RIDGEFIELD. CONN. In the Qarden of Qod By The Ar.

Dr. J. I.ane Miller, VanUir Central Methodist Church and President of the Brooklyn t'cdrratim of Churches. DR. MILLER WILL GIVE DAWN SERMON FROM this time on all life about us will move forward.

It Is significant that Easter on our calendar marks the tlnnwhen the earth becomes vibrant w.lh renewed vitality Bhoots beneath the sod are planning to push through; anxious buds on the trees are waiting i.s bur.t forth; proud robm redbreasts are searching for places to build their nests; sllrrlng fouta winds send everything aqulvei. The world stands tiptoe. For long monthl nature In funeral garb has been solemn faced. Her graves are In gardens, loo. On Ea-ster they are wide open and help to the that leads to the rent tomb In Joseph's garden.

Each year my Easter prayer Is that I may not ovcilook the inspiration of the spring. To some people Christianity Is a which consist! mainly of rthlu. To others It Is a doctrinal stn'unent tor Intellectual con sumption. Willie both these are factors In the understanding of Christianity, Miss Florence will sing "The Lord li My Shepherd." by Dvorak, and "The Omnipotent." by Schubert, at the Men's Conference of the Bedford Branch Y. C.

A. tomorrow alleinorii. Hie Gloria Trumpeter will render "Natures Adorn! irn." by Beethoven, and "Iln.in-a hv CHanier. In addition Oeor'te E. Bet's will plav the chimes, tilth Kur.sey the piano, and Howard Wade Kimscy will lead the mass suv re ot the Faster mus'e, Tl -v l'r I'aiUcs Cadman.

the of Ccivral C'onirceHtioiial nnrrM ntul pre-liient of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ In An'-rlca. will make ihe address, his siiblect I) "1 he F.i--er Message, 11. Walter Riinnd. eveculhe of tr.e B'-rlfoid R'nmh M. A tind chairman of the Mens Conlciencp.

will preside. Mystery of the Future By The Rev. Dr. J. Howard Mrlish.

Rector Holy Trinity Episcopal Ch inch. The Brooklyn Federa'ion oi Churches has completed for the fifth annual l.a.'cr Dnwn open air service, which will be held Easter, tomorrow, around the Memorial Arch the entrance of Prospect Park, a rar about 10.000 persons attended lit; pre trie and the address will be given the Ir. I.ane Miller, pastor oi Central Methodist Church and of the Federal ion. Among the llicnkivn ministers who will take Dart will be the Revs. Mark cls W.

O'Brien and John W. l.ai r.dale. The meeting Is imdeiv initial miiuI in character and Is tor every citizen of Brooklyn, recartl-Vss ol rare, cried or color. It Is one oi the lew davs in Brooklyn's church vear when of all creeds call unite in one r-p-at nut-of-door service in honor of the Master, in rase o' inrii'inont weather the exercises will be hcid In the Albec Theater. The Ri'V.

Cornelius is'e, p.isior. will pteach totnortow morning at the Itetonned Chun li on the Height on "Tt.uks lulling Both Ways The choir will rentier the following special Fi iir music: "As It Began to Dawn." bv I'halfln: 'fprlng B'irsts by Jewell, sr.d "In the End of the by Fneeks The vs ill pl.iy. "In I'nnullshim." by Dii A lrhnn." by Fmilkes hi i rvm-i Mr. V''i '11 thi in of ihe i -it i aii mat cummuiilty crv lia, early service and from tl i 'res. yet Its heart Is en Inspiration for lite.

This lust came lo bud In Joseph Harden. It was the consciousness of a Chtlst hnm 'he cross could noi Berg, pastor, and I he rui'iaoim Church. Kings H.hnv and K. 40th the Rev. Charles W.

Boeder, pni-tor. The vear alter the Uinvcscnd Reformed Church, ll'i Neck the Rev. W. R. Torrens.

was organized. These lour churches apparently supplied nil spiritual iieeiln of what is now Brookhn for nenrly a quarter of a century, lor It was not until 1677 that the HH rhnnh to be founded here in the nth Century a organized. 'Mint wat the New Ulrrcht Church, now nt 1R'! ave near st. with the Itcv It. Rnosriirad pastor.

Not one ot the He-formed rhiirehe.i of Bnio'dvn vni organized In the century 1700-1IVH). The Rev ErncH H.illltbv. DP. of Manhattan, crnrrnl fcrr'i" fur chinch extension wotk of the pi'i nal Congregational hone will spenH to the vn-iri p-op'e of tlv Fltbiih Conqr. Church, tomorrow evening.

that hns alrpndy been inamlc-ti i iris year. Indications point lo a niu iarRcr attendance, proud' the weal her Is good. The Religions Work has had rrectel a lame pla'tmni directly under the arch ami I1 'i the speaking and sinning will h- hc.i.d bv i(JT 13 not yet made manifest," says one of the spiritual geniuses of the New Testament, "what we shall be." We know life in it earthly manifestations with ever deepening knowledge and this Is our glory end pride. But what Is beyond death Is as great a mystery as It was In the day of Every religious man should be an agnostic as well as agnostic. Now are we the children of Ood: this Is experience.

It Is not yet known what we shall be: this Is Inexperience and Ignorance. Men who talk glibly and assuredly about life beyond, whether In churches or the laboratory of psychical research, or the halts of philosophy, do not help Mrncst and thought fill men. 1 for one do nut want a religion without mystery. I want the deepest and most searching mystery, but mystery that does not baffle and discourage, a mystery that chal'cnges heroic imih and calls for a great adrrntute. Surely the Easter faith is mys-twy, not of darkness, but of light.

cvenlMxly In attendance The olnrij nail down or a tomb emprlson. which burst upon His lo.Iowcrs on tha first Easter Day. This gave Christianity Its creative geiili.s. It trail barren llv'i Into fruitful rilsclplrs. Deserts benrath the rays of this rising, eternal Sun, were Immediately transformed Into characters as beau'liul as the Irrvel? Plain of Hharoti.

The Church sprang full-blown from this open Easter tomb. gardeners our rcponMnillly Is to care lor' tills mstrutl in) who Iravrs are for the healing of the nations and underneath whost viaiy. Wsuie humantiy can find, In punt Ion and spiritual onwlailon. Al the service tomorrow at the Toinpk.ns Avenue Comtrrja-lionai Chn.ch. the pastor, Dr.

J. TVnival Hmit', will prea'di on "More Than Borvival." at ie niiisleal pro-cram Will I of anthems and solo; hv the ch hi lite rvc-liint there 'II K. ivlee hv in" I s'n, 'l: 1 Vj'T'til. Pi'd 1 i' "i til bilil i nun en A ca Trumpeters, who have been a'' itr: In Ihe Noonday Theater incilti -s will I'iri'l music. The on vrvl' w-'l be led bv Ihe Palvallon A'niv IJ.md of the Brooklyn Iick't.

i'1 i i. a'i'l 'he nr-nt chorus wlil be let! by I Piivn. Or iliauiuan of tin cuiiinu.ju, will.