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Easter Storiette
How a Wife Was Regained at
the Foot of the
Cross.
rv—v -Jlnight had crashed
I I through the woods
' •' ' U storm> but le
morning broke in
sparkling sunshine —
!rlike a white burst of
spray from a dark.
bellowing wave.
The ring of an ax cut through the
twitter of birds, fnd the throbbing
notes of a meado- / lark's song. On
the edge of the clo&ring where Heath
cot had built his log cabin, a young
pine had been ripped up by the roots,
and in swift flashes, catching the light
as it rose and fell, his ax was denud
ing the trunk of all branches except
two upper ones which on either side
extended an outstretched arm. Any
other settler would have seen in the
fallen tree only so many cords of
firewood, but in every crude incident
of frontier life Heathcot beheld an in
ner, spiritual meaning—saw in the
pine felled by the wind a Heaven-giv
en cross for his Easter standard when
he should preach his great revival ser
mon on the morrow.
The blood leaped in liis veins as he
swung his ax with tireless energy,
and thoughts leaped to his brain in a
rising torrent of religious fervor.
Standing by the compelling form of
the cross rough-liewn from their own
forests by the hand of their own
prophet he would speak to his people
a word of power such as he had never
spoken before —not even in his old
church baok in .
A sudden transformation swept over
the zealot's face. The angel had fled
and left only the man, the primitive
man with fierce, elemental love, jeal
ousy, hate. Crimson surged in his
cheeks; his eyes blazed.
The ax rose and fell, physical la
bor beating into repression the stress
of his passion. But while he chopped,
cut, trimmed, while he and tiie helpers
summoned from the settlement bore
the cross through the woods and
planted it at the head of the plaza,
the sense of disgrace that had ruined
his career and driven him into the
wilderness still goaded his soul, for
his home life had been a house upon
the hilltop, its betrayed honor mocked
at by every little dweller of the valley.
And on the following day when the
settlers from far and near cabins gath
ered in the plaza, and Heathcot rose
from his knees and stood beside the
great pine cross to preach his Easter
sermon, unconsciously it was the
spark of personal anger that lighted
his flaming denunciation of evil.
It was a dramatic scene. Above, a
dull, gray sky, weighed low with heavy
clouds; liuddiing on both sides and at
the lower end of the plaza, the rude
shacks of the Settlement high-walled
beyond by the trees of the surround
ing forest; at the upper end a sweep
of open country stretching green to
the horizon. The cross of pine planted
at this end lifted its clear-cut strength
against the background of the sky.
Equally strong stood out the frontier
preacher in his top boots, his cordu
roys, his crimson sweater, likewise
strong in bearing the men and women
of his congregation who had left the
marie ways of pleasantness and peace
to blaze a new trail in history.
Only a man lik<; Heathcot, who lived
and labored and fought with them,
side by side, shoulder to shoulder,
could have touched them, quickened
the spiritual within, and the vision of
power that had flashed before h!:n
while he was hewing the cross the
day before was fulfilled. Wlieu ha
had finished speaking, tears swept the
cheeks of those who dry-eyed had
faced privation, loss, death itself;
those who had feared neither God nor
devil were on their knees; and out
from among them stole a woman ol
sin and threw her sobbing form at the
foot of the cross.
As the others watched her, a hush
of awe fell upon them, and breathless
ly they waited for Heathcot to hurl
the lashes of righteous wrath that
should scourge her soul to fuller re
pentance.
For a moment he stood motionless,
his face now white, tense, ablaze with
a scathing light from his wonderful
eyes. Then as though drawn by a
magnet ho turned toward the cross,
the trunk of the tall straight pine
pointing sternly upward, two branches
extending like arms outstretched in
pleading.
He stooped to the prostrate woman,
bent over her, speaking in a low, hur
ried voice; lifted her to her feet.
"My people," he said in a tone of In
finite sweetness, "I have a new word
He Drew the Shrinking Woman to
Him.
to give you. God is—love." He drew
the shrinking woman to his side. "I
cannot preach longer to you to-day,
for I have found my wife—who was
lost —and we must go home together."
Easter in Italy.
The boys and girls of this sunny
land spend Easter morning in church.
If they live in or near Rome they will
surely goto St. Peter's, the largest
church in the world. There they see
thousands of lighted candles, altars
covWed with lovely flowers, and to
their ears wonderful music softly
floats. After the service is over the
whole congregation pours out onto
j the sViare facing the church, and
I turning"iooks up at a balcony over
| the midine doorway. Here a figure is
| seen dressed in beautiful robes. It Is
| th-a pope. As he rises and lifts hia
i hand thousands of head 3 bow to re
| ce've his solemn Easter blessing.—
Exchange.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY APRIL 8, 1909.
Across the world his mPssfiKf rings,
And, hearing it, men cease a while
To madly strive for worldly things
Or cling to longings that are vile.
And, having wrought for good or ill.
Pay lo "ing tribute to liim still.
Wherever slender steeples rise,
Wherever mellow chimes are heard
The love he taught still sanctifies.
The nobler passions still are stirred;
By every friendly look and thought
We spread the message that lie brought.
If by to-morrow men forget
For hirn the anthems rise to-day;
The cross is sacred, for him, yet.
And still its shadow marks the way,
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The Christian
3 Festival of "
Easter
BSSfSBF ALL the holidays in the
year Christmas and Easter
stand more prominently on
t ' le P a se of history than any
others. Throughout all the mutations
and vicissitudes that have entered
into tlie world's history during the
past two thousand years the two fes
tivals that commemorate respectively
the birth and the resurrection of the
Man of Nazareth still shine with a Ins-
ter that remains unfaded after the
lapse of two centuries.
The Christian festival of Easter is
not only a celebration of great an
tiquity, but many of its popular ob
servances are clearly of pagan origin.
In northern Germany the ancient Teu
tons were accustomed to celebrate the
feast of the Goddess Ostara, who was
the personification of morning, or the
east, and also of the opening year, or
spring. This custom continued to be
observed down to the beginning of the
present century. The pagan rites in
stituted by the Germans were brought
into England by the Saxons, and un
der the name of Easter the Teuton di
vinity was honored by the Anglo-Sax
ons with joy and feasting about the
same season of the year that the
Christian Easter festival arrives.
It was about the year 68 A. D. that
the formal institution of the celebra
tion of the day by Christians took
place. To the followers of the Risen
Lord the heathen season of rejoicing
at the rising of the natural sun and
the awakening of nature at the death
of winter waa easily suggestive of joy
at the rising of the Son of Righteous
ness—the resurrection of Christ from
the tomb. It also followed as a natural
result that the devout adherents of
the Christ in their reverence for the
day upon which was performed the
greatest and most sublime of miracles
should continue to set it apart each
week as a day for divine worship, to
the utter exclusion of the Sabbath of
the Decalogue.
The rites and ceremonies that char
acterize the celebration of the Easter
festival, although modified somewhat
In this age, still retain many of the
features that marked it in earlier
years. In the early church the cere
monies lasted eight days. Courts of
justice were closed itnd aims were dis
pensed in the churches to the poor
and needy. Popular sports, farcical
exhibitions and dancing were indulged
in. These lat*er frivolities, however,
were abolished by the reformers of the
sixteenth century. Our Anglo-Saxon
ancestors held daily services in the
churches from Palm Sunday to the be
ginning of the Easter festival. People
saluted each other with the Easter
kiss and the words "Ex Surrexit" (He
has risen), to which greeting the reply
"Vere Surrexit" (He is risen indeed).
The chief solemnity of the occasion
was the celebration of the Lord's sup
per.
In Russia Easter Sunday is a holi
day that exceeds ail others. At mid
night of Saturday a metropolitan or
priest, preceded by a cross-bearer and
boy bearing holy water, vessels and
candles, and followed by a solemn pro
cession, issues from the church and
going round the wall sprinkles it with
holy water. lie then pronounces a
benediction upon thousands of large,
round, gilded leaves, pyramids of but
ter with palms stuck in them, and
eggs in great quantities. This cere
mony signals the close of Lent, and
ushers in Easter Sunday. Joyiiii
voices of the faithful are heard crying
out: "Christos vor Chris" (Christ is
risen) and the response: "He is risen
indeed." The kiss upon either cheek
is then given by all; this salute being
given arid received by emperor aud
serf alike.
Electric Lighted Easter Eggs.
The very newest thing in Easter
•»ggs is to be seen in the toy shops
these days, consisting of an enlarged
reproduction of the ordinary hen fruit
with a tiny electric light apparatus
concealed somewhere inside it. There
is a peep-hole at one end, and as you
put your eye to it you press a button.
Then the interior of the shell is flood
ed with light, showing a scene of more
or less brilliancy and gayety.
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«> to Calvary |
(From Stalner'a Oratorio, "Crucifixion.") 0
Tlina wide the gatest for the Savior X
waits ©
Co tread in Bis royal way* 8
Re has come from above; in bis 0
power and love 5
to die cn this Passion day. o
Bis cross is the sign of a love divine. §
Bis crown is the thorn-wreath 6
of woe. g
I Be bears Bis load on the sorrowful q
road 9
And bends 'neatb the burden low. 5
Bow sweet is the grace of Bis sacred §
face 5
Jlnd lovely beyond compare 9
Chough weary and worn, with the X
merciless scorn Q
Of a world Be has come to spare. X
Cbe burden of wrong that eartb Q
bears along, X
Past evil, and evil to be ; o
Jill sins of man since the world x
began, ©
Chey have laid, dear Cord, on thee. §
Chen onto the end, my 6od and my Q
Triend, 5
With Chy banner lifted high! 0
Chou art come from above, in Chy §
power and love o
Co endure and suffer and diet R
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Woman and
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Life Festival
ffW/jflftaWßl.V THE dim childhood
fiyj of the ' iunian race .
man . not woman, was
nia(^e cent;ra ' fig
much that celebrated
triumphs of life
over death, the conquests of mankind
over the foes that beset and menaced
the highest but not the strongest of
the animals. Fatherhood was honored
more than motherhood, in some parts
of the crude, young world, and the pa
triarchal head of the family quite
eclipsed his mate or mates in such dis
tinction as came from obedience to
the injunction to "be fruitful and mul
tiply and replenish the earth."
It is different now. In this stage of
the world's development the festival
of the renewing and reawakening of
life is mainly feminine, notwithstand
ing the fact that it. celebrates the res
uerrection of the Son of Man.
Women, not men, make of Easter the
great spectacle and day of rejoicing
which it has become in nearly all parts
of the Christian world. Women pre
dominate in the churches. Women
give the Easter streets their glow of
color and wealth of charm.
The world understands now, if it
did not long ago, that woman is the
high priestess of the temple of life.
She is the mother, the nurse, the
guardian angel of childhood. She is
the teacher, the comforter, the home
builder. She takes few lives and saves
many. She risks her own life that
others may live. Woman earns her
primacy in the great festival of the
year's new birth.
In the realm of the spirit, also,
woman is the priestess of life. She is
the embodiment, in a higher degree
than man, of the hope of the race, the
buoyancy and faith of the soul, the op
timism of trust in the reign of good
and the triumph of life over death.
She has more of the resurrection
spirit than man.
It is for this reason, quite as much
as because of woman's grace and
charm and song and laughter, that
she fits so pre-eminently the Easter
environment. She has the spirit and
mental outlook of spring. She re
sponds more sensitively and joyously
than man to the re-awakening of life
on the earth, the bursting of buds, the
unfolding of little leaves, the quicken
ing of forest and orchard, field and
garden.
It is easier for woman to believe
than for man, easier for her to feel
and thrill to the appeal of the resur
rection. She enters more intensely
than man into the very heart and
soul of the Easter story. And the
spirit that accepts most unreservedly
and gladly Easter's religious and his
toric meaning is the spirit which is
best attuned to the springy glory of
the world.
The difference is clearly marked
early in life. Easter is far more to the
girl than to the boy. The former, not
the latter, finds that the day appeals
to her strongly before she understands
much of its signilioance. The bill's
interest is narrower, less certain, less
hearty. He is out of touch with much
that his sister feels in the Easter cere
monies and the Easter customs.
From infancy to old age, therefore,
the spring festival is distinctively a
woman's festival. It is feminine in
outward beauty and charm. It is femi
nine, also, in the inner grace of the
heart that feels and the spirit that be
lieves in the reign of good and the un
ending triumphs of life over death,
the cradle ever the grave, the new
over tli© old, the soul over the mortal
body.
A grateful man never has to look
into his pocketl>ook to see how much
he has to be thankful for.
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