March 23 , ! 9^
Easter Service: Quiet, Sober Worship
By Sarah Vance
'I'he I'.aster season, is one time
(luring the ehurch year when every
Moravian who is able will return
to the home and church of his
youth to worship. For Isaster is
not a social season, hut a time of
(|uiet and sober worship in a Mo
ravian family, more than any other
season of the year.
Faster preparation begins on Ash
Wednesday—the first day of Lent.
However, the services are more
fre(|uent during Holy Week, which
begins with the Holy Communion
on J^alm Sunday. That evening
and each evening of Holy Week,
the congregation gathers again to
retid the Acts of Jesus Christ and
His last week on Fairth paralleled
from all four gospels.
By Thursday, the first of the
visitors will arrive for the Maundy
Thursday Communion. They will
' Salem S | u :i r e flawlessly
groomed decked in specitd haister
rainment of new budding leaves
and the blooming pear tree. !
Up on Church Street the maple
trees will be sprouting their first >
spring greenery. The iron gate at ;
the entrance of Cedar Avenue will ;
he down ;ind the bright winter |
grass in the graveyard will look
like a piece of green cloth checked
with till sorts of brilliant flowers— |
j) o t t e d lilies, tizaleas, luircissus
blooms, gladioli, jomiuils, itansies,
fruit blossoms and violets.
On Friday afternoon :i few of the
visitors usually find their way into
Home Church for the reading of
the Crucifixion from the Passion |
Week Manual. Tlnjy listen reve
rently to the Acts of Friday while :
the bright afternoon sun makes the
stained glass windows vivid with
color. 1
Many visitors will come to the
Hood Friday Love Feast. They
will not hear a long and polished
address, simply a short account of
the burial of Our Lord as recorded
in the gospels. They will also share ^
together a very simple meal of ;
coffee and buns.
Flarly the next mornitig, men and
women scattered all over the green
checkerboard are on their knees
scrubbing the flat white stones
until they glisten in the sun. i
A loud-speaking apparatus is set
up from one end of the graveyard
to the other, and a system of
microjihones runs from the en
trance of Cedar Avenue to the
scaffold where a pastor conducts
the service. All day people are
milling through the graveyard-—to
send) stones, arrange flowers, do
technical work or just to look and
w atch.
l.ate in tlie afternoon, some peo
ple walk south from the graveyard
to Home Church. It may only be
five o’clock, but still they go in
side the church and stay.
By six, the church is rapidly fill
ing, and it is full by seven — a
\Vhole hour before the combination
of many Moravian choirs and out-
,side towTsiieople, and a small or
chestra, sing and play the Easter
cantata, The Seven Last Vocals of
Christ.
-After this musical worship ser
vice, the activity is just beginning
in the church. By one o’clock,
lliere must he many gallons of
steaming coffee, hundreds of doz
ens of eggs scrambled, baked hams
sliced and sugar cake cut, because
at one, about five hundred hand
mcnihers will meet in the Fellow
ship Hall of the church for break
fast, along with ushers, choir mem
bers, and other helpers.
At two o’clock, the bands usher
in Faster iiKarning by playing two
choral tunes in Salem Square;
“Sleep Thy Last Sleep” and “Sleep
ers, .Awake”. Then they divide into
groups, and board buses which take
them to all parts of the city. The
hand ^jiembers play in the street
to proclaim the risen Saviour and
return to the church at five.
At six, the bands are stationed
from Home Church to Cedar Ave
nue and the center of the grave- j
yard for antiphonal playing. One .
grouj) will continue it all through
the graveyard while thousands of ^
])Cople walk quietly from the steps
of the f-Iome Church, where the!
Bishop leads in the Easter Litany, j
“The Lord Is Risen”, to the center |
of the graveyard.
Here the service is concluded at
7 ;00 a.m. with the entire band :
p 1 a y i n g Beethoven’s “Creation
Hymn” and the choral “Sing Hal
lelujah, Praise the Lord.”
Comps Show Sophs The
Aren’t Too Wise After All
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and May Day activities.
Linda, new president of the ris
ing Juniors, is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W, R. Chappell. A his
tory major, Linda was chairman of
Rat Court this year; she is sopho
more editor of Sights and Insights,
a Parents’ Day committee chair
man; she has been class hockey
captain and a cheerleader in intra
mural athletics.
From Cheraw, S. C., Martha Du
vall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. F. Duvall, is planning to major
in sociology-economics. She is a
member of the Choral Ensemble,
the I.-ecture Committee, and the
Pierrettes. She is currently secre
tary of the Freshman Class and a
participant in the May Day page
ant.
By Judy Golden
After Ueing apprehensLe about
comprehensives for about a month,
all the sophomores trudged en
masse to the science budding last
Monday for the first of the tests.
We dreaded them and we \vere
justified. They were terrible!
Everybody suddenly realized how
little they knew about the work
and current events.
The test was divided into three
sections. The first was concerned
with public affairs. It included
questions on government, eco
nomics, and education. Questions
on internal improvements and in
ternational events were sprinkled
thoroughly all through it.
One of’ the ea’sier ones was,
“Where are tlie Olympics to be
held in 1956?” Everybody thought
it was easy until they checked
later. Most people put Australia.
The answer was Finland.
Tlie next part was on medidne
and science. There were questions
on the polio controversy and lung
cancer’s being caused by smoking.
The questions on science were
particularly hard for most of us,
hut a lot of the topics have been
shoivn in news reels. Jets, guided
missiles, and atomic energy were
subjects.
A typical (luestion in this section
was, “Where are the
s of
mov: itnport
ant atomic weapons lals
the U. S. located ?”
The third section, literaltiTf, and
arts, was easier for mof
than the other two ■ It
questions on novels anc potiry,
broadway plays, sculptuTe
t'topk
'■ OTitainecl
iTtovies.
television, and architectutt. Sonic
of them were hard, howevtj, .such
a,s—“What is the essentia] char
acteristic of an abstract painting?”
There were various reacbens to
the tests. When we turntd (o the
first page there was a general litter
throughout the room, nor 1c men
tion the roar when tveiyhody
started to answer—“How dnl Sec
retary- Benson see.k to' rowe hog
prices in 1955 ?”
After the tests everyV>c4y ■ 'was
asking “Who was Albert Schweit
zer?” and “What did yon pot for
. , . ?” 1 asked a few people what
they thought of it. There were re
actions from “I thought it was Jun”
to “I’ve got a headache'" to "It
gave me an inferiority rornplex.”
I think everyone was irnpressed
evith how pitifully little ’.hey knew
about current events.
■ After this I’m going lo ,staK
taking a daily trip to -i-t Hilary
to read the paper. I ooEl fveit
know what’s happening arontid me I
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