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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Proposals for Coal Supply to Boston Public Buildings
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