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Resolved, That we express to his bereaved wife, his cousins, the Rev. Arthur B. Livermore and Miss Livermore, our sincere sympathy, and assure them of our prayers that God may comfort them in their sorrow and give them peace; while we pray that our brother who ha's passed to the higher life may rest in peace,
and that light perpetual may shine upc him.
HARRY S. LONGLEY, FRANK RUCKEL, F. H. WESTCOTT, R. H. ROSE,
-X Committee.
CHRONICLES OF ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, OWEG(
1834-Feb. 10th, is the date of tl Certificate of the Organization under th name of "the Rector, Churchwardens an Vestrymen of St. Paul's Church in th village of Owego." James D. Carder wi called to the chair and presided. Job Watson and Thomas Farrington wer chosen wardens, and Jedediah Fa
Samuel Rockwell, Charles C. Nobl George Bacon, Harmon Pumpelly, Joh Howland, Robert C. Johnson and Sheldc Osborne were chosen vestrymen. Monda in Easter week was fixed upon as the da when said officers shall cease, and the: successors be chosen.
The parish was not admitted to unio with the Convention until October, 1838 "There were two communicants at the time, Mrs. Rockwood and Mrs. Hyde.
1836-Sept. 10th (or 30th). The R Rev. B. T. Onderdonk, Bishop of th Diocese, visited the parish and confirme two persons "in the Presbyterian House: viz., John Watson, Sarah W. Johnson Mrs. Johnson's child was baptized i private. (No record of this.)
1837-Aug. 29th. Bishop Onderdon again visited the parish-service being i the Presbyterian House; either Church c Session House. The Register contains n record of confirmations at the visit.
Nov .- By advice of the Bishop, and a invitation extended through Gad Worth ington, Esq., the Rev. John Baily, deacor held his first service for the parish in th Presbyterian Session House, a small build ing on the east side of the park. Service were continued throughout the winter onc in two weeks. The Rev. Mr. Baily reside in Richford, Candor, and gave the othe part of the time there.
1838-March. The vestry now calle
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e Rev. John Baily to become "the settled stor."
May .- Mr. Baily moved to Owego and tered upon his duties as minister of the rish. Use of the Court Room was tained for services.
Aug. 6th .- Bishop Onderdonk admin- ered the Holy Communion and con- med several persons.
Twentieth Sunday after Trinity, Bishop (derdonk visited the parish for the ırth time, and advanced the Rev. John ily to the priesthood; and in the after- on the same day confirmed one person. Oct .- The parish was admitted to union th the Convention of the Diocese of New rk, then undivided, at the meeting held Utica. 1
Organization of the new Diocese of estern New York (at this Convention ?) 1839 .- The vestry, through their build- g committee, contracted for building a hurch edifice, 38x58 feet including stibule. This Church was erected on a It set off from Mr. James Pumpelly's chard, on the south side of Main Street, bout three hundred feet east of Academy reet. This lot, afterwards enlarged by rther gift from Mr. George James umpelly, on the south and west, and later purchase of house and lot on the east, ill remains the property of the parish, d is now (1908) the Rectory lot.
1840-May 17th (or 27th.)-The Rt. ev. Wm. H. DeLancy, Bishop of the iocese, made his first visit and conse- ated the edifice by the name of St. Paul's hurch, administered the Holy Commun- n and confirmed three persons.
Services of the minister and missionary, e Rev. John Baily, were about this time uspended because of his failing health and ss of voice, and the Church was tempor- ily supplied by the Rev. Isaac Swart, ho seems to have remained about one ear.
The minutes of the vestry were destroyed y a fire in 1849. For this reason it is not ow easy to ascertain the term of office in he cases of the Rev. Mr. Swart, the Rev. Ir. Louderback and the Rev. Mr. Watson,
The Rev. Isaac Swart, 1841, July 26, a baptism; 1841, March 21, a baptism.
The Rev. Alfred Louderback, 1841, Aug. 29, a burial; 1844, April 15, a baptism. After Mr. Louderback the Rev. Dr. Andrews (Binghamton) officiated for about six months. The Rev. George Watson, who followed Mr. Louderback, officiated at a burial, 1844, Oct. 5, and at a baptism .1854, Sept. 24. His resignation took effect 1851, Oct. 1, when the Rectorate of the Rev. James' Rankine began. He continued until on Dec., 1860, his resigna- tion, to go into effect probably at Easter, was accepted. His latest official record is .April 7, 1861.
1861-April 14th, Easter, the Rev. Monell Fowler entered on his rectorship, which continued until Easter, 1863. He was followed by the Rev. George D. John- son, whose rectorship continued until Easter, 1866.
1866-June 12th. The vestry ap- pointed the Rev. Thomas W. Street "minister for one year" beginning Trinity Sunday.
Dec. 27th .- Rev. T. W. Street was elected Rector.
1868-May 10th. The resignation of Mr. Street, to take effect July 1, was accepted.
June 29th .- The vestry called to the Rectorship the Rev. James H. Kidder, of Unadilla, New York, who entered upon that office August 1, in which he continues. 1892-April. The lot on the north- west corner of Main and Liberty Streets was bought for a new Church edifice ac- cording to plan by Wm. Halsey Wood, architect. Oct 31, the corner stone was laid by the Rector, acting by the Bishop's appointment as his deputy ; and the Church was consecrated on St. Paul's Day, 1895, by the Rt. Rev. F. D. Huntington, Bishop of the Diocese of Central New York.
Thomas Farrington was elected senior warden for sixteen years continuously until his decease, and since the completion of the new Church in 1895, for twelve years the same officers have been re-elected, except- ing as removed by death.
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THE GOSPEL MESSENGER. TREASURER'S REPORT. The Treasurer acknowledges the receipt of the following sums during the month of Jan. 907, v:
Diocesan
Missions.
Diocesan
Expense
Domestic
Missions.
Foreign
General
Missions.
Missions. Deaf Mute
Christmas
Fund.
General Clergy
Relief Fund.
Church
Ministerial
Education
Colored
Missions. Relief Fund of
the Diocese
Adams,
$ 4 52 $
$ 7.71 $.
$ $ 5.51
$. $ 6.19 $. .
$
A
$.
Afton,
2.25
Alexandria Bay,
1.75
Altmar,
Antwerp,
4.08
Auburn, St. John's,
15.00
Augusta,
1.00
Aurora,
Bainbridge,
10.00
Baldwinsville,
5.00
Big Flats,
Binghamt'n, ChristCh.
50 00
..
21.00
31.78
Boonville,
8 50
2.21
10.51
Bridgewater,
1.00
Brookfield,
Brownville,
2.70
Camden,
15.97
Canastata,
Candor,
7.70
9.92
25.00
Carthage,
2.50
105.60
Cazenovia,
1.00
Champion,
1 10
Chenango Forks,
5.00
1.37
2.00
Chittenango,
1.60
1.00
.50
. 66
Clark's Mills,
Clavton.
14.13
Clayville
1.27
.58
Cleveland,
6.25 3.00
5.00
3.50
Clinton,
48.10
4.00
Constableville,
Copenhagen,
6.10
Cortland,
19.55
19.47
Deerfield,
Dexter,
Dey's Landing,
Dryden,
Durhamville,
Earlville,
East Onondaga,
Ellisburg,
Elmira, Emmanuel,
18.61
Grace,
Trinity,
55.71
24.61
13.33
15.39
Evan's Mills,
3 70
Fayetteville,
12.00
4.45
2.60
4.10
Forestport,
4.25
1.47
Frederick's Corners,
1.50
Fulton,
Glen Park,
1.86
3.26
Great Bend,
Greene,
15.00
Greig,
2.25
Guilford,
7.27
Hamilton,
5 11
Harpursville,
2.50
3.00
.. ......
Hayt's Corners,
.31
.
Good Shepherd Trinity
5.20 6.13
Cape Vincent,
Cayuga,
Chadwicks,
.32.50
St. Peter's,
Building Fund.
Fund.
Fund.
Missions.
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Diocesan Missions.
Diocesan
Expense
Fund.
Domestic
Missions.
Foreign
Missions.
General
Missions.
Missions. Deaf Mute
Christmas
General Clergy
Relief Fund.
Church
Building Fund.
Ministerial
Education
Colored
Missions.
Relief Fund of
the Diocees
Lid
$
$
$
$
Elland Patent,.
E mer,
rseheads, F
erlaken
4.25
-
laca,
34.78 25.76
mesville,
5 50
rdan,
Eddders Ferry,
Indaia
Fags Ferry L cona,
5 41
I Fargeville,
1.75
L'wville,
Manlius,
Marcellus,
3.50 1.20
2.70
8.03
Donough,
Lean,
1.20
Memphis,
3.00
mexico,
Allport,
8.57
Moravia,
Mount Upton,
w Berlin,
Nw Hartford,
5.37
Nw York Mills,
northville,
1.00
2.00
.75
1.00
1.00
1.00
Nrwich,
7.64
Geida,
6.72
Condaga Castle,
Ciskany,
13.79
(iskany Falls, 4.80
79.95
Givego,
10.50
ford,
19.13
37.15
ris Hill.
2.34
9.36
Hoenix,
Terrepont Manor, Frt Byron,
Irt Leyden,
I laski,
odfield,
Idwood,
1.60
.
1.50
Ime, Zion, St. Joseph's,
6.00 3 96
I mulus.
ckett's Harbor,
13 32
neca Falls,
53.67
48.54
erburne,
Caneateles,
9.68
aterville,
Chithboro,
eedsville,
encer,
racuse. All Saints,
.. Calvary,
7.50
1.50
2.50
- Ch. of Saviour,
.. Grace,
St. John's, St. Luke's, .
St. Mark's, . St. Paul's, .. St. Philips, " Trinity,
58.14
36.13
14.01
.
.
·
. .
.
.
. .
. .
$
.
·
100.00
5.49
(wego, Christ Ch .. Evangelists,
3.10
3.00
Fund.
THE GOSPEL MESSENGER.
Fund.
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Diocesan Missione.
Diocesan
Expense
Fund.
Domestic
Missions.
Foreign
General
Missions.
Denf Mute
Missions.
Christinas
Fund.
General Clergy
Relief Fund.
Building Fund.
Ministerial
Education
Colored
Missions.
Relief Fund of
the Dincese
$
Theresa,
4.50
150
Trenton,
Trumansburg,
20.00
Union Springs, 1.54
2.00
Utica, Calvary, 52.05
30.00
Grace,
Holy Cross, 10.65 8.21
St. Andrew's. 5.60
10.33
.6
St. George's,
St. Luke's, 6.54
3.00
Trinity,
Van Etten,
Warner.
1.25
Waterloo,
8.85
Watertown, Trinity, 34.02
St. Paul's,. 100.00
Redeemer, 9.95
6.61
Waterville,
5.09
Waverly,
Weedsport,
Wellsburg.
Westmoreland,
2 00
Whitesboro.
4.70
2.00 7.85
1
Whitney's Point,
Willard.
4.06
2.19
Willowdale, 1.23
Windsor.
12.00
Convocation, 1st Dist.
2d Dist.
3d Dist. 5.04
4th Dist.
5th Dist.
Miscellaneous.
Berlin, Guilford, Onondaga Castle, Earlvil Diocesan Missions-
C. A. Youmans Fund, $7.33; Permanent Missionary Fund,
$500.00 507 5
Diocesan Mission-C. A.
Income Episcopate Fund 1,125
Interest and exchange
23
Bishop Kendrick-
St. Peter's, Casenovia,
15
Foreign Missions 86 84
14 45
Deaf Mute Missions
23 52
Calvary, Northville,
1
General Clergy Relief Fund
450 78
Church Building Fund
1 00
Ministerial Education Fund
3 00
Bishop's Relief Fund
1 30
-
E. Emmanuel, $ 1.00 $
S
$
$
$
$
$
RECAPITULATION.
Diocesan Missions $1,060 82
Diocesan Expense Fund 96.37
Domestic Missions 9 71
Bishop Rowe-
St. Peter's, Casenovia,
15
Hopital Good Shepherd-
Advent S. S. Offering for Diocesan Missions- Grace, Lafargeville 17
St. Mark's, Syracuse, 9
$3,445 3
FRANK L. LYMAN, Treasurer, 108 Pearl Street, Syracuse
Church
Fund.
General Missions
Missions.
The Gospel messenger.
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April.
.- Fifth Sunday in Lent.
.- Sunday next before Easter.
.- Monday before Easter.
.- Tuesday before Easter.
.- Wednesday before Easter.
.- Thursday before Easter.
.- Good Friday.
.- Easter Even.
.- Easter Day.
.- Monday in Easter week.
.- Tuesday in Easter week.
.- St. Mark.
.- First Sunday after Easter.
BISHOP'S APPOINTMENTS.
April.
.- Thursday, Evening, Carthage.
.- Friday, Evening, Great Bend.
.- Saturday, P. M., Cape Vincent.
.- Sunday, A. M., Trinity, Watertown.
.- Sunday, P. M., Brownville.
.- Sunday, Evening, St. Paul's, Watertown.
.- Monday, A. M., Antwerp.
.- Monday, Evening, Evans Mills.
.- Tuesday. P. M., Lafargeville.
.- Tuesday, Evening, Clayton.
.- Wednesday, P. M .. Ellisburg.
.- Wednesday, Evening, Pierrepont Manor.
.- Sunday, A. M., Grace, Utica.
.- Sunday, Evening, Trinity, Utica.
.- Monday, Evening, Holland Patent.
.- Tuesday, Evening, Trenton.
.- Thursday, P. M., Skaneateles.
.- Thursday. Evening. Marcellus.
.- Friday. Evening, Ithaca.
.- Saturday, Evening, Groton.
.- Easter Day, A. M., Groton.
.- Easter Day, A. M., Moravia.
.- Monday, Evening, Camden.
.- Tuesday, A. M., Altmar. .- Tuesday, P. M., Lacona.
.- Tuesday, Evening, Pulaski.
.- Wednesday. A. M., Mexico.
.- Sunday. A. M., St. Peter's. Auburn.
.- Sunday, Evening, St. John's, Auburn,
28 .- Tuesday, Evening, Clarks Mills.
30 .- Thursday, P. M., Chittenango.
30 .- Thursday, Evening, Canastota.
May.
3 .- Sunday, A. M., Manlius.
3 .- Sunday, Evening, Cazenovia.
4 .- Monday, P. M., Homer.
4 .- Monday, Evening, Cortland.
5 .- Tuesday, Mc.Lean and Dryden.
6 .- Wednesday, Slaterville and Speedsville.
7 .- Thursday, Candor, Spencer, Van Etten.
10 .- Sunday, A. M., Onondaga Castle. 10 .- Sunday, P. M., Warners.
17 .- Sunday, A. M., New Berlin.
17 .- Sunday, P. M., Mt. Upton.
17 .- Sunday, Evening, Guilford.
18 .- Monday, P. M., Harpursville.
18 .- Monday, Evening, Afton. 19 .- Tuesday, Evening, Bainbridge.
20 .- Wednesday, P. M., Earlville.
20 .- Wednesday, Evening, Sherburne.
28 .- Thursday, A. M., Willowdale.
28 .- Thursday, P. M., Kendaia.
29 .- Friday, A. M., Romulus. 29 .- Friday, Evening, Willard.
31 .- Sunday, A. M., Aurora.
31 .- Sunday. P. M., Union Springs.
31 .- Sunday, Evening, Cayuga.
June. 7 .-- Whitsunday, Sunday School Rally, Syra- cuse.
11 .- Thursday, Evening. Waverly.
12 .- Friday. Horseheads and Millport.
13 .- Saturday, Big Flats.
14 .- Trinity Sunday, A. M .. Trinity, Elmira, (Ordination) .
14 .- Trinity Sunday, P. M., Grace. Elmira. 14 .- Trinity Sunday, Evening, Emmanuel, Elmira.
THE FIRST PALM SUNDAY.
Some writers have noticed that there is a connection between the First Pahn Sunday and the Feast of Tabernacles which our Lord spent in Jerusalem in the last year of His ministry. Thereby is sug- gested an interesting train of thought.
Of the first Palm Sunday St. John tells us that "much people that were come to the feast (of the Passorer). when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried, Hosanna : Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord." The carrying of palm branches and singing the Hosanna
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psalm (the 118th) were ceremonies of the Feast of Tabernacles, which gives count- enance to the suggestion. Let us accept it.
St. John tells us that those who went to meet our Lord were "much people that were come to the feast." They were not inhabitants of Jerusalem, but were people from all parts of the Holy Land. The last time these strangers had seen our Lord was at the Feast of Tabernacles or on the journeys connected with it; for the Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles were the two occasions at which every one who was a true Israelite endeavored to be present at Jerusalem. Now that partic- ular Feast of Tabernacles was the climax of our Lord's ministry; it was the occas- sion on which He solemnly and formally claimed the allegiance of the nation of Israel as the fulfilment of the types of the great feast. I still feel the thrill which went through me when I first read Dr. Edersheim's account of it in his book on "The Temple, its Ministry and Worship."
"The festivities of the Feast of Taber- nacles," he says, "were drawing to a close. It was 'The last day, that great day of the feast.' It was on that day, after the priest had returned from Siloam with his golden pitcher, and for the last time poured the water at the base of the altar, after the Hallel (the proper psalms) had been sung to the sound of the flute, the people res- ponding and worshipping as the priests three times drew the three-fold blasts from the silver trumpets-just when the inter- est of the people had been raised to its highest pitch, that from amidst the mass of worshippers who were waving towards the altar a forest of leafy branches, as the last words of the 118th Psalm were being chanted-a voice was raised which re- sounded through the temple, startled the multitude, and carried fear to the hearts of their leaders. It was Jesus who stood and cried, 'If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink.'" The rite then just finished was commemorative of the draw- ing water from the rock in the wilderness, and our Lord thus proclaims that He is the Rock of their salvation. "For they
drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ."
"Jesus stood and cried." It was not a conference with a few Jews in a corner of the temple, as some of our Lord's dis- courses may have been. He cried with a loud voice, which rang through the temple and thrilled the vast multitude. It was His proclamation of Himself to the assembled nation and people, and His challenge to them to receive HIim as their Lord and God and King. It was what He had been preparing for by His ministry of two years and a half through the length and breadth of the Holy Land, and there was not a person who heard that voice who did not know who it was that made tha claim upon them. I believe this inciden was the particular fulfilment of tha prophecy of Malachi: "The Lord whon ye seek shall suddenly come to His temple even the Angel of the Covenant whom y. delight in; behold, He shall come, saitl the Lord of Hosts. But who may abid the day of His coming ? or who shall stand when He appeareth ?"
It appears from St. John's narrativ that after this, our Lord gradually with drew from his public life, and at lengt! went into complete retirement at "a cit called Ephraim." The multitudes dis persed to their homes, and would not se Jesus again. If they thought of our Lor in the meantime, the memory of that Feas of Tabernacles would be strong withi them. And so when they came up to th Feast of the Passover, and heard tha Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they ro curred to the rites of the feast; they too the branches of palm-trees and marche, in joyful procession to meet and escort ou Lord into the city as "the King of Israel.
The three great feasts of the Jewis year, besides their other signification's, wer feasts of the harvests : the Passover of th barley harvest; Pentecost, of the whet harvest; and the feast of Tabernacles ( the final harvest of the year, of the grape and other fruits. In this aspect the typified spiritually the Messianic harvest ingathering of the people into the King
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om of Christ-first the faithful of the ews, next the converts from the Gentiles, nd finally the redeemed of the whole world. As Edersheim remarks, in the Feast of Tabernacles we have the only Old estament type as yet unfulfilled ; the only ewish festival which has not its counter- part in the cycle of the Christian year. But is this altogether true ? Have we not in anticipation of the final fulfillment in he instinct which not only gives the name o Palm Sunday, but which takes the account of that day as the Gospel for the irst Sunday in Advent ? As we remem- ber the procession of the first Palm Sunday inging Hosanna to the King who was hen exercising His Kingly office to redeem is by His death, and to exalt to His throne by His resurrection., we may add to the mpression by remembering also the Feast f Tabernacles, and that prophecy of Zechariah: "And it shall come to pass hat every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles." And then we may remark how the Apostle S. John, when amid the august imagery of the Revelation he would represent the joy and glory of the Redeemed after the last harvest in which 'the reapers are the angels," draws his figure from this Palm Sunday and the Feast of Tabernacles: "After this I be- held, and lo, a great multitude which no man could number, of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues stood before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms in their hands ; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation (Hosanna) to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb."*
Thus the Palm Sunday procession down the Mount of Olives, over the valley of the Kedron and up the heights of Jerusalem
*Rev. vii. 9, 10. The whole passage should be read. V. 15 should read thus-see the Greek- Therefore are they before the throne of God. and serve Him day and night in His temple! and He that'sitteth on the throne shall spread His tabernacle over them."
becomes the type of the ascent of the Church to the Heavenly City, where the Redeemed keep an unending Feast of Tabernacles in memorial of the everlasting salvation which was wrought for us when the Son of God became the Son of Man, and "Tabernacled among us" in the world that was. J. H. E.
A Commemoration of the Institution of the Holy Eucharist and Preparation for the Easter Communion, said on the Even- ing of Thursday in Holy Week.
Processional Hymn 100.
Ante-Communion Service without De- calogue, with Collect, Epistle and Gospel for Thursday before Easter.
The Nicene Creed. Hymn 221.
Address .- "This do in remembrance of Me,"-in which we are exhorted to exam- ine ourselves now and here, and to pray for forgiveness.
The priest kneels at the Litany Desk. and remains kneeling till he rises for the Absolution-the people all kneeling.
Silence for a short space.
Priest .- Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, &c.,- -and thy neighbor as thyself.
Silence.
Priest .- (A shortened form of the Ten Commandments, with silence after each, as follows :
1 .- Thou shalt have none other gods but Me.
Silence.
2 .- Thou shalt not make to thyself any idol to worship it.
Silence.
3 .- Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Silence.
4 .- Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath Day.
Silence.
5 .- Honor thy father and thy mother.
Silence. 6 .- Thou shalt do no murder.
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THE GOSPEL
MESSENGER.
Silence.
7 .- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Silence. S .- Thou shalt not steal. Silence.
9 .- Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Silence.
10 .- Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor's.
Silence.
The priest begins the Confession in the Communion Service, which is said by all still kneeling.
The Absolution in the Communion Service.
The Prayer for the Church Militant.
Benediction .- The God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, &c.
Hymn 106 .- The Story of the Cross, omitting Part 4, sung kneeling.
Recessional .- Hymn 92.
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AN EASTER CAROL.
Adapted from the Greek by the Rev. PHIPPS ONSLOW.
Springtide birds are singing, singing, For the day-break in the East ; Silver bells are ringing, ringing, For the Church's glorious Feast. Christ is risen ! Christ is risen ! Sin's long triumph now is o'er. Christ is risen ! Death's dark prison Now can hold His saints no more !
CHORUS, after each verse.
Christ is risen ! risen, brother ! Brother, Christ is risen indeed ! Christ is risen ! Christ is risen ! Brother, Christ is risen indeed.
Holy women sought Him, weeping, Weeping at the break of dawn,
Sought their Lord where He lay sleeping, In the love of hearts forlorn.
Life for death on death's throne meeting, Joy for sorrow, faith for fear, For their tears the Angels' greeting- "Christ is risen, He is not here."
Loved Apostles scarce believing In His triumph o'er the grave Hear the tale amid their grieving, Hasten eager to the Cave; Find the folded grave clothes lying,
Death's unloosed and shattered chain, Find Him gone, death's power defying, From the cavern sealed in vain.
Mary comes, a refuge seeking For her mourning and her shame, Lo! a well known voice is speaking, Lo! the Master calls her name. First the Life o'er sin victorious She who wept for sin adored, For her tears the mission glorious To announce the Risen Lord.
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