Raster Pay! The young year pauses on the threshold of the spring.
Stops a moment there, and crosses to a world of blossoming.
Easter Pay! The breezes vagrant wander from the South, and set
L,oose a flood of odors fragrant—hyacinth and violot.
Easter Pay! The T,ord Is risen—and, with sunlight overpoured.
Mature, bursting from her prison, risos with her risen l.ord!
Or. the round of years eternal! It Is worth a winter's pain
Just to listen to the vernal wind among the trees again!
It is worth a life of sorrow. Just to know, when It Is past.
That a glorious To-morrow dawns upon the heart at last.
It Is worth the three days' lying in the Sepulchre alone.
Just to hear the angel flying down to roll away the stone!
For the hope of future laughter gives to tears their one excuse-
Just the crown that followed after made the cross of any use.
I.enten sackcloth, Lenten ashes—what have we to do with them.
Only that in contrast flashes brighter Easter's diadem?
It Is not the blood of Jesus that releases you and me
But his risen soul, that frees us from the dread of Calvary.
Easter Pay! The world expects It—waits the larger Easter dawn
When the "Christus Itesurrexlt" tells of wrongs forever gone;
"When America, victorious o'er a world-old, worn-out lie.
Comes at last, serene and glorious, to her greater destiny-
Turns her back upon the whining ery that gold alone Is good.
Turns her eyes up to the shining mountain peaks of Brotherhood!
Hope and trust of all the nations! Thou must burst this gilded shell.
Ere unnumbered generations hail thee as Emmanuel;
Thou muat kill the curst condition where the many feed the few,
Crucify the Superstition that the Old must needs be true;
Then, when thou hast trampled under foot the ghosts of gold and greed.
Thou mayst burst the tomb asunder—then shall Christ be risen indeed!
Ci)be £D[an>d,Ci>he £E)eamns
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If^esurrectton
33? William Croswell Boane
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#WHEN the mod
ern mind staggers
before
only actual diffi
culty is. St. Paul's
question: "Why
•should it be thought a thing incred
.ble with you that God should raise
the dead?" still has but one answer—
namely, that there Is no reason why
ft should he thought incredible; be
cause raising the dead, as the Apos
tle illustrates it in his Epistle to the
Corinthians, is the most natural and
isual thing in the world under certain
conditions. "That which men sow is
aot quickened except it die."
Life not only after, but through
*nd by means of death, Is the univer
sal law and the universal event. Only
there must come first the undoing by
decay of the bondage within which the
principle of the seed is held. So long
as It is imprisoned in the shell it ia
"bare grain," but when its outer cov
ering is shed in the cocoon, or broken
In the egg, or rotted in the grain, then
the latent life comes forth and God
?ives It a body, and"to every seed its
■own body." So after death and burial,
when the wrappings of this earthly
flesh are dissolved and done away,
"the body that shall be," "the body of
glory," shall emerge in the fullness of
time.
The miracle or marvel of the resur
rection of Jesus Christ, like other
miracles, lies in the fact that it dis
regarded the element of time and also
-did away with the conditions of de
cay. "He saw no corruption."
So much for the marvel of it. Now
for the meaning of it.
First of all, of course, it means that
•all the dead shall rise and live again.
"If we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even so they that sleep
«n Jesus will God bring with Him."
The corollary to the article in the
•creed, "the third day He rose again,"
Is the article "I believe in the resur
rection of the body, I look for the
resurrection of the dead or from the
dead." One does not need, one would
not dare, to draw away the hearts and
hopes of men from this great and
blessed revelation of Holy Scripture,
this strong and positive assertion of
the Christian faith. But it is wrong
to postpone the meaning of our Lord's
•resurrection to this final point of hu
man history. It has a clear and more
Immediate application of what the
Apostle calls "the power of His resur
rection," "dead indeed unto sin, but
alive unto God, through Jesus Christ
our Lord." This must be recognized
and realized as the immediate practi
cal purpose and result of the great
fact of Easter Day.
What is its message to men and
women?
It is easy to dream a dream of hope
and delight about the future; easy to
have a sentiment and emotion that en
able us to face physical death with
an outlook beyond the grave and con
sole us in the hour of bereavement.
God forbid that there should be any
shadowing of this hope. But the prac
tical question concerns our daily life
now.
Humanity stands to-day, as it has
stood for all these centuries, facing
the fact of the wonderful life that our
Lord lived here on earth, with the
strange and inexplicable combination
of fleshly reality without the restraints
and hindrances of the flesh. And that
means, In the first place, the pattern
set, and In the next place the power
fclven to us to live our lives on higher
i|inea.
Translated into plain English, the
great Easter thought ia that we may
not be absorbed and immersed in
merely earthly, temporal, carnal
thoughts and things. Life, never more
than in our day, is crowded with busi
ness, with pleasure, even where it is
not choked with indulgence and suc
cess.
The idlers and loungers, with no
thought but amazement, are far too
many.
The craze for accumulation of ma
terial wealth is wearing out the
strength and dulling all the finer facul
ties of men and women. And the
carelessness and idleness of people
who, with opportunities of service to
society and the demands of home du
ties, waste daylight hours and turn
night into day with games of chance,
accentuated too often with the covet
ousness of gambling, are a reproach
to the best inheritances and instincts
of Americans.
"You have no leisure class in Ameri
ca," an Englishman said once to an
American girl.
"Yes," she said, "we have, but we
call them tramps.
Leisure there ought to be. Men and
women there must be who are free
from the strain and strenuousness of
incessant occupation, but it ought to
be a leisure for intellectual cultiva
tion, for philanthropic interest, for
the storing of energy, physical, mental
and spiritual, which shall benefit man
kind.
"Awake thou that sleepest and arise
from the dead!" This is the Easter
call, the Easter cry.
Hiding even one talent in the nap
kin of refined indolence or self-indul
gence or burying it in the dirt of
sensuality and sin, either one makes
an "unprofitable servant" and lays up
against the second coming of the Lord
an account of wasted powers and lost
opportunities which will then be b&>
yond recall.
Coloring Easter Eggs.
There still exist plenty of old-fash
ioned mothers who spend the day be
fore Easter coloring eggs and staining
them with printed calico. If the chil
dren are permitted to participate it ia
a really gloriously mussy event, in
which they revel and scream with
delight. There is no pastime so charm
ing to the youthful heart as
those particularly delicious kinds
of plays that cause all sorts
of havoc to one's garments and
one's countenance. Ink bottles
and coal pall 3 have ever been the
favored playthings of infancy. These
may possibly be considered miserable
makeshifts for the delights of digging
in mother earth. Anyway the Easter
egg dyeing process has qualifications
not unlike those of the ink well and
the coal bin. After the dyeing there
is sure to be a cleaning. Rut what
matters that? The fun is the main
thing. The results are nothing.
Symbol of Christianity.
We dare not forpet to-day that
venerate an empty Cross; it ia
empty forever of that Burden which
once hung there, tortured, dying,
dead: and banished, too, is that
blankness of despair, that sad dis
may and disillusion with which it
was veiled until the first Easter
morning. The Cross—not the Cru
cifix—is the symbol of Christianity.—■
Walter Lowrie.
"Feast of Caps."
Good Friday is often called the
"Feast of Caps" from an old-time cus
tom which required every lady to ap
pear In a new house cap, while Easter
Sunday was known as the "Feast ol
Hats" for a similar reajioa.
CAMERON COUNTY RRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL i 6, 1908.
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| How, by God's Way, |
£ Which Is Not Our Way, Jj
Easter Spoke Its Old |j
Message of New
P Life |j
was a sad Easter for Mrs.
/r Farnham. Three times
if / ! [§ since the lilies last blos
somed had death come to
her house. Her mother, her
|Mj \ husband and her boy had
filled her heart. Lacking
them, It was empty, and it ached with
a strange perplexed grief, a confused
question as to the purpose of her life,
which now seemed to her a shrunk
and withered thing.
She went to church on Easter morn
ing because her beautiful house was
intolerable to her, rather than because
she expected to find comfort. The
masses of white flowers, with the sug
gestiveness of their heavy fragrance,
carried her back to the funerals of the
last year. The familiar words of the
service sounded like mockery to her.
"Let us keep the feast;" "Even so
in Christ shall all be made alive;"
"Set your affection on things above, not
on things on earth." One by one she
caught at the phrases, only to find
each was powerless to help her.
The hymn was no better:
The strife is o'er, the battle done;
Tile victory of life Is won!
For her strife was just beginning,
and defeat instead of victory seemed
her fate. She could not lift herself
out of her personal woe far enough
to apply the words to anything but
herself.
She left the church, avoiding speech
with any one, and, with her heart like
ice in her bosom, she took an electric
car toward her desolate home.
A half block before her house was
reached the car stopped with a sud
denness which startled the passengers.
Mrs. Farnham got off, thinking that
she would walk the few remaining
steps; but she saw the motorman with
a white face raising a small boy In
his arms from under the fender of the
car. The little fellow was unconscious,
and there was an ugly bruise on his
temple and a deep cut on his neck. Be
fore Mrs. Farnham realized what she
was doing the child was carried into
her house, and she was enlisted with
the doctors in a fight for his life.
For a week the issue was doubtful.
Consciousness flickered and wavered,
but would not come back. Meantime
Mrs. Farnham had learned that the
boy was nobody's child. He had sold
papers since he was hardly more than
a baby. He had lived wherever he
could find a shelter, and had eaten
whatever he could get. The fact of
home was something he had never ex
perienced. The grieving woman for
got her grief in her devotion to the
wait who had been cast at her door
by the strange decree of what we call
accident
The day came when the boy's heavy
eyelids lifted and his childish curiosity
at his surroundings unloosed his
tongue. To open to him the doors of
new life was the most wonderful of
Joys for his foster-mother. After hia
long silence It was as if he had come
back from the dead. That he could
talk and laugh and eat and love
seemed like a proof of the power of
life over death. Somehow Mrs. Farn
ham came to believe that it was such
a proof, and that it was sent to her
In her desolation.
Out of the boy's almost fatal acci
dent there was wrought for him the
miracle of home and love, and the op
portunity for an educated and useful
manhood, and for the grieving woman
(he springtime brought new hope as
the lonely winter passed. By God's
way, which is not our way, Easter
spoke its old message of new life.—
Youth's Companion.
The Eastertide's Leson.
Since our existence is divided into
two sections, the one under the temp
tations and sufferings of this present
life, and the other that which is at
tained in the security and Joy of
eternity through Christ, so the circle
of the Easter festival is divided into
two sections, the time before and after
Easter. The time before Easter points
us to the conflict of this present life,
the time after Easter to the blessed
ness which we can obtain through
Christ. The Lord's passion shows us
the present life of suffering. The res
urrection and glorification of the Lord
shows the life which we shall receive.
Custom Not Christian Alone.
The giving of eggs at Easter is de
rived from the old nature worship, and
is not confined to the Christian na
tions. The Parsees of Persia and In
dia distribute eggs at the opening of
spring, and in many other nations the
giving of eggs at the commencement
of spring Is as common as New Year's
gifts with us. In Hungary the boys
sprinkle the girts with rose water and
receive eggs in return.
Caster.
Now, while the dawn with tints of rose
Smiles through the gray skies, every
where,
Softly about her mernlng car*
The Easter mother goes.
The little rooms we call the hours
She gladdeneth for all our sakes;
And In their cradles gently wakes
The earliest Spring tlowers.
The dark hath somehow fallen away.
For where she deftly hath uprolled
The snow-white curtains, we behold
The dawn of liaster Day.
And with a cheerful song she gives
The first birds welcome to her door.
While all the Kaster world once inure
Rejoices that it lives.
—Frank Walcott Hutt.
Legends of
the Beautiful
Forget-Me-Not
"The sweet forget-me-not that
blooms for happy lovers," has more
beautiful legends clinging to its name
than any othev flower. They begin
"In the beginning," with the creation.
According to one beautiful tale, the
Lord called the plants In the Garden
of Eden before him to give them their
names and color. As he spoke to one
after another, a tiny flower thought it
self unnoticed and, fearful of being
quite overlooked, it timidly pleaded:
"Dear Lord, forget me not" The Cre
ator turned sternly toward the little
plant that dared to interrupt him,
then, seeing how sorely afraid it was
he gently smiled upon it, gave it for
its color the heavens' own blue, and
called it Forget-me-not as a reminder
that it had once been so foolish as to
doubt him.
It is the Persians who have fash
ioned a beautiful legend to tell how
it is that those flowers are scattered
over the earth as the stars are spread
over the sky. According to them, one
morning of glory when the world was
new an angel stood weeping outside
the closed gate of Paradise. He had
fallen, in that he had loved a fair
immi
"He had fallen, in that he loved a fair
daughter of earth. Together they en
tered in, for the angel's great love had
lifted the woman to Paradise."
daughter of earth. When his eyes
had rested on her as she sat on a
river's bank weaving forget-me-nots in
her hair, heaven and his mission to
earth were alike forgotten. Now he
might no more enter in until his be
loved had sown all over the earth the
forget-me-nots. He returned to her
and, hand In hand, they wandered,
planting everywhere the sweet azure
flowers. When, at last, there remained
on earth no spot barren of these blos
soms, they turned again to the gate
and found it open. Together they en
tered in, for the angel's great love had
lifted the woman to Paradise.
Names for Good Friday.
Good Friday is called by some na
tions Black Friday, by others Still Fri
day. Denmark calls it Long Friday,
in recognition of the long fast. This
fast was undoubtedly the origin of eat
ing "cross buns." In the thirty-sixth
year of Henry VIII., an enactment was
passed prohibiting any baker printing
the sign of the cross, the Agnus Del,
or the name of God, upon any bun or
loaf of bread.
Marvelous Easter Egg.
A very precious Easter egg was
once presented to the late pope by
an English lady of high rank. The
shell was made of finest ivory, snd
the white matter of the ordinary egg
was represented by beautiful white
satin. The yolk was a golden case
wherein was a ruby set la diamond*
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