Article May 20, 1905 Issue

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with contributions from Samuel A. Eliot

The prevalent idea of the Easter service seems to be a kind of popular show, a chance to appeal to a taste for the noisy and gaudy. We are often told that faith in immortality is losing its hold on the minds and hearts of thinking people. Certainly our ways of celebrating the immortal hope and our habits of public worship on Easter Sunday are but ill adapted to upbuild any sincere convictions or to inspire earnest endeavor for attainment. I venture to hope that the minsters and people of the free churches will set their faces steadfastly against the progressive vulgarization of the sacred festival, and that they will endeavor to restore the Easter service, if not to simplicity, at least to seriousness and impressiveness.

Samuel A. Eliot.

The Christian Register.

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