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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 02, 1888

Page

2

Easter Festival Inspires Flowers and Choirs Across Churches

After a March of cold storms Easter brought pleasant spring weather and large gatherings. Catholic services stayed solemn yet bright, Cathedral and Immaculate Conception offered elaborate musical programs, Trinity drew its biggest crowd, and Dr. Brooks sermon carried strong Easter lessons. Floral decorations impressed across denominations with elegant arrangements and many children’s gatherings. Ladies displayed stylish bonnets and spring outfits enhancing the festive scene.

Church of the Immaculate Conception Trinity Brooks

Easter at Trinity in a garden of roses

Great Easter decorations transformed the Trinity nave into a spring garden with white pinks white roses and fresh geraniums. About 8000 attended the 9 o'clock service, with packed galleries and standing room only. Dr Brooks preached on immortality and the resurrection, stressing living life anew through Christ. The 4 o'clock service honored children with poems and 700 pots of flowers distributed to the young attendees.

Trinity Ostera Hyacinthe C. W. Galloupe Copley Square Jesus Jesus Christ St. Paul Christ Brooks Adam God Allen

Hymns At Mission Church Procession Open Service

The Mission Church of St. John the Evangelist staged a notable scene as 11 o clock marked the opening of service. Priests and choristers processed down the aisle and, after a brief pause at the altar, moved about the church chanting an Eastern hymn led by the cross bearer.

Mission Church of St. John the Evangelist

Pageant of lilies and white flowers at ceremonial mass

The procession featured altar boys in snowy albs and surpliced choristers followed by clergy in stoles and surplices. Father Reeve Hobbie led in a gold chasuble as banners and guilds adorned the chancel. The sermon by Father Hall spoke of Christ and Mary Magdalene, with a white horse bearing three angels in the scene.

Fathers Hall Osborne Reeve Hobbie I. H.S Father Hall Christ Mary Magdalene

Easter service at Church of the Advent dazzles crowds

The ornate Easter service drew worshippers beyond capacity as the Church of the Advent featured a gilded horsehair banner above the altar, seven censer lamps, lilies and lilacs, a Kneisel led orchestra, and a sermon by Father Grafton on the resurrection seen theologically. The offertory included Haindel's Largo performed by ten violins. Father Sherman assisted as celebrant with a gold chasuble.

Church of the Advent Franz Kneisel Haindel Father Grafton Father Sherman

St Pauls Easter Service Draws Crowds and Devout With Ornaments

The Grecian portico of St Pauls filled before 10:40 as regulars and the public gathered for Easter worship. Flowers decorated the chancel with lilies azaleas and palms while the service included eleven church music selections. Rev Courtney preached from Romans four, urging regeneration as true Easter joy and the transformative “newness of life.” Dr Courtney and Dr Harris administered Holy Communion after the sermon.

St. Paul’s Christ Barnby Gounod Calkin Courtney Dr. Courtney Harris

Easter Festival at Christ Church Sunday School

The Christ Church Sunday school held an Easter festival with floral emblems from classes and penny contributions. The primary department featured about twenty children reciting verses and placing floral letters on a velvet arch forming Band of Mercy. Eva Douglass received the missionary medal for bringing six new scholars, while several pupils earned perfect attendance books.

Christ Church Griffin F. le Comnte Band of Mercy Eva Douglass Munro Amy Freeman Julia Hendricken Sophia Bibbey Omy Rogers May Dougherty Daisy Wilson Henrietta Widdup Jincie Bartlett Gracie Haislett Emily Collyer

Easter Floral Decorations at South Congregational Church

A large Easter display brightened Dr. Hale's Exe ter street church as visitors watched the service. Floral designs framed the pulpit, with a prominent cross of calla lilies atop the choir gallery, enhancing the church’s architecture without hiding its features.

Easter Sermon in City Church Promotes Life Enlargement

The Rev. Edward E. Hale preached on This is life eternal from John 17 8. He urged Easter's lesson be the enlargement of life through present duties, honoring men as sons of God and striving to improve others as well as oneself. The church featured palm decorations and bright flowers surrounding the pulpit and platform.

Edward E. Hale God

Arlington Street Church Easter Service Fete

The Arlington Street Church displayed green decorations with two large palm trees and white lilies as the central cross. Rev Brooke Herford preached on friendship as a gateway to heavenly life and urged patient continuance in well doing with children given potted plants to remind them of steady nurture. The morning service drew about 1200 attendees and the Sunday school festival followed with songs and a commemorative canticle. The morning program will be repeated next Sunday.

Arlington Street the Astor Brooke Herford Lacey Larcom Herford Uhen

Easter Services at Second Church Boylston Street

The Second Church on Boylston Street held an Easter morning service with Rev. Edward A. Horton delivering a sermon drawn from Revelation 11 15 and a quartet led by Minnie E Stevens Lilian Carll Smith L H Chubbuck and A F Harlow with Jeannette W Crawford at the organ. A large crowd filled the house despite crowded aisles as ushers pressed forward for seats. The afternoon children's service featured a grand plant pyramid and floral cross while Superintendent Brown led singing and programmatic addresses by Rev W S Key and Hon George S Hale following carols and christening of four children.

Boylston Street Edward A. Horton Minnie E. Stevens Lilian Carll Smith L. H. Chubbuck A. F. Harlow Jeannette W. Crawford Horton Brown W.S. Key Old Boston England George 5. Hale Boston

West Church Sermon on Embalming and Resurrection Hope

The West Church service on Cambridge street featured a simple interior as Rev. C. A. Bartel preached on John 19. The living body is the beauty of the world, and embalmment is about faith not merely preserving flesh. He contrasted ancient burial practices with spiritual preservation through prayer and memory, urging readers to hope heaven will not eclipse earth and that distant recognition awaits.

Cambridge Street West Church C. A. Bartel Jesus Egypt Greece Rome Nicodemus Rock-Hewin Christ Heaven Earth

Heavenland and immortality notions at Park Street Church

Rev David Gregg spoke on Heavenland at Park Street Church, weaving biblical tales of the land of light with Easter lilies around. He argued humans use reason memory conscience and imagination to choose their future home and criticized neglect of the Old Testament in favor of the New. He warned that more revelations could dull acts of goodness.

Park Street David Gregg Heavenland

Easter Day Sermon: Vision of the Holy Land in Hymns

The message speaks of a glorious home land beyond daily duties, a place of joy and riches, where two realms of singing and worshipping converge. It urges humility, recalls the Easter resurrection, and invites believers to decide their privileges in the world to come under the Redeemer's guidance. Music featured responsive reading with organist C. H. Whittier and violin by Benjamin Cutter.

Shaw Redeemer C. H. Whittier Benjamin Cutter

Easter Observances Across City Catholic Churches

Catholic churches in the city held elaborate Easter services with long rituals, flowers, lights, and rich music. At Cathedral of the Holy Cross Pontifical mass was celebrated by the archbishop with a 100-voice chorus, while Immaculate Conception, St Marys, St Josephs, and Holy Trinity all featured solemn high masses, vespers, and orchestral accompaniment, drawing thousands and keeping interiors lavishly decorated.

Cathedral of the Holy Cross Charles J. Lewis Church of the Immaculate Conception A. Charlier S.J George E. Whiting St. Mary’s Church St. Joseph’s Church James Campbell D. J. Whaaley Byrne Rome John A. O’shea Holy Trinity F. X. Nopper

Easter services and Sunday school celebrations across churches

A day of Easter observances filled church services and Sunday school anniversaries. At the Church of the Disciples a children’s service featured chants carols and readings with 700 scholars at Old South Church for the Master festival of its Sunday school. Weekly reports noted expanded Hope Chapel work and new plant gifts for children.

Church of the Disciples Henry Stone C. R. Eliot Dorchester Samuel J. Barrows Christaan Register Edwin Horne Old South Church Hope Chapel Luther A. Wright George A. Gordon Morse Hope Chapel Sunday School Church of the Unity MM. J. Savage Lillian EE Don OE Sawyer J. W. RR. Baker A. J. Pratt Savage Howard M. Dow L. F. C. Richardson Charles R. Adams

Easter Music at Dorchester First Parish Church

The Dorchester First Parish Church held an Easter service with responsive readings and a sermon by Rev. Christoper R. Eliot. The regular quartet, including Misses Allen Whittier and Messrs Daggett Bethune, performed Easter hymns, notably Handel’s O Had I Jubal’s Lyre and Messiah selections. The pulpit area featured calla lilies, hyacinths, roses, Easter lilies, smilax, and palms in a lavish arrangement.

Dorchester Christopher R. Eliot Allen and Whittier Messrs Daggett and Bethune Haindel Miss Whittier Jen Messiah

The Doctor of Deane and Miss Fairlie in a Quiet Village Tale

A brief village tale centers on a bachelor physician in Deane facing rival plans from an Episcopalian clergyman. Miss Fairlie emerges as the heroine with charm, wit, and a touch of gypsy wildness. The love plot drives a domestic, lightly satirical mood with a hopeful ending for most. Queen Christina of Spain described in a separate note with stately bearing.

Deane Saint Charity Miss Fairlie Mary Towle Palmer Boston D. Lothrop Company

Proposals for Coal Supply to Boston Public Buildings

City of Boston invites sealed proposals for supplying about 1500 tons of anthracite coal for public buildings and schools for 80 days. Bids due April 7, 12 noon, to be opened publicly. Coal must be dry clean and screened, weight per ton 2000 pounds, delivered and housed under supervision, price per ton to include delivery.

Crry Haut Boston City of

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