Postcard from the Past: Easter Services at Church in 1908

A headline in an April 1908 Wyoming weekly newspaper reads, “Appropriate Services, Beautiful Decorations, Fine Music and Excellent Sermon,” and the story reads:

Easter Sunday was all that could be desired in the way of sunshine and calm. The day opened warm and bright and all of nature smiled, as though she too partook of the Easter tide.

There was a general outpouring of the people to the churches. 

St. Barnabas’ Episcopal Church was the scene of a beautiful display of flowers and plants and presented a most charming appearance. The house was filled with devout and interested worshippers and everyone spoke with pleasure of the services and highly praised the sermon, although the subject of death does not convey the most cheerful thoughts. 

However, in the hands of Rev. McCullough, it took on a most beautiful and inspiring light. He likened death to a bird’s nest, with its broken and discarded shells, while the spirit, like the liberated bird, went to a higher happier life and knows no sleep in a cold and gloomy grave.

A full choir rendered delicious music, with Mrs. Gustave Jensen at the organ. McCullough is steadily advancing in the estimation of his congregation and the community.