The Russian colony of Shanghai joclebrated their greatest festival of the year last week, their Easter, tone week Inter than that of the Julian Calendar, concluding the period of religious instruction on array night with services lustrating the Resurrection of Christ. Services were held both in the Russian Church in Chapei and in the French Concession, in Lida Terrace, where a tent' had been erected to supplement the dwelling, usually utilized for a chureh—this latter under the patronage of the Union of Russia Army and Navy Ex-Service Men.
Most of the local colony of Russians had spent last week strictly fasting. Both churches were crowded on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights—the congestion fon the first being so great that three women fainted, As with the Anglo-Saxon Easter, new dresses andi lo the men got, out. best Sunday clothes. Children zot_more than the usual Saturday night bath and cleanliness as truly ext to godliness.
Norday nit serves bean ud continued until late into lit, though many came but wr the hour of midnight. Throngs ume and went from the Chapei ug for hours before and after e change of day. Just before the of Easter, everyone bought candle, while the priests and church dens, in procession, carried away the bier of Christ.
With. the stroke of 12, the choir broke into the vigorous. "Christus Voskries," i.e. Christ is Risen; the bells chimed and each lit is candle.
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