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Still main iden glory of the promise y Res derest land, a odor of illies and bo ever with a scroll soft the dainty and the the { ovenant re irrection and preacher's Easter text Stretch neck, pread the a} fut AE sie iat Baby her nay Bella Ca & gen the She gives herself swies of her new Easter heesked maiden and proper as unts five of very of gle A round ughts is she beco in a and of mes her ghie CO black silk gown short and skirt. A monstrous with fat pink bows under Admiring contem- w hite-stockinged eggs i tiffly starched pantalettes ngled with pleased anticipation of ding the fat, pink, also green, blue and red eggs waiting her at home when serv. ice Is over. The preachers voice soothes like lapping waves, The church is warm. Of a sudden the pro prieties of 1845 are forgotten. Bella's head falls against grandmother's Pals ley shawled arm and she sleeps » * ® new low neck sleove, round bonnet ties her plation 8COOD fat pink chin of her two rojecting is soon beho “1 the Resurrection and the Lite.” Again the words of the Easter fall on Miss Bella's ears This Easter a lover in soldier's unl About him The new am text her thoughts center The preacher and his world are so far away Life, and the joy of the lilies—and . * » “1 am the Resurrection and the Life.” it is Mistress Bella now, In the old How John had laughed at chosen black because she feared she was too old now for bright colors! As if the new Easter dress was not ingness, with its long, slender polon. aise and perky bows everywhere over the shirred, puffed, bouffant un- ih “I am the Resurrection [Ate The little black draped figure of the oid lady in the and the of the preacher. haster, A IN NPN PN NPN SNS The husband an little ones laid AWAY and that last and bitterest loss { all, died at grief {or the losses of the years Siboney she strove to OT draw the face, ti 088 her » COD ering tears of age. of chiffon and from her lap framed LEK» in ud face of : he through srandma’s The ne were For she whispers foy that are ge ler sn Soul ora AEECTS pile is RIWAYS recompenss Oldtime Easter Feasts Lasted for Days N OLDEN endeavored another in the Eurpass elaborate Easter Polish one times to I and Following is a display feasts sumpliuous do- CC of a feast given by the sixteenth cription Prince tury: “In middie of the huge tables stood a lamb of candies and marzi- pan, which distributed only ladies, dignitaries and churchmen Around if, representing the seasons ot the year, stood four wild boars each stuffed with hams, sausages and The prince's chef showed Sahiecha in cen the were io of game-—-hares, partridges, hazel hens, ete --these were for the twelve months of the yoar. “Around the tables numbering the gourkas—that is, large square cakes stuffed with all Kinds of fruit—and 365 babas, for the days of the year; each was one ell (two feet) high, and on their iced surfaces were vari- ous inscriptions and motloes, prov- erbs and witty verses, invited guests took great pleasure in deciphering.” In the way of beverages thera were, from “King Batory's time,” that is, 100 years old; then twelve silver pitchers of old Tokay, then fifty silver barrels of Spanish, Italian and Cyprus wines, and 365 bottles of Hungarian wine. For the household there were 8.760-the number of hours in one year--quarts of homemade mead. The guests feasted during one whole week. As soon as the Easter gervice was over they surrounded the tables and the entertainment lasted until midnight. The prince's band played lively alrs and the young peo- ple were never tired of dancing, nor the elderly ones of talking of the “good old times,” and drinking to the health of the prince. This feget doubtless symbolized the idea that all the hours of all the days of the week, the month and the year should offer homage to the sacred lamb, the central figure of the conse: crated feast To the Unbeliever Is it too much to lay Your unbelief aside Just for this one brief day, Just for His sakes who died Nails ed to the cruel tree, There where the darkness fe Is it too much, since He Gave so freely and well? i? Is it too much to give Him they could crucify For teaching men how to live, For showing them how to die? Humbly He came, and so He went on His righteous way. s it too much to throw Doubt aside for today? much to bow ols a little while? t of His bleeding brow, See His pitying smilel He gave us His all and took Nothing but sin away; Is it too much to look Upward with love today? 5. E. pe ob Kl Lesson of Season That Brought Peace to Afflicted Little Heart sobbing bit YOUung los ed tha Was The whom gEweet he been buried in He thought that she Ye mother had earth fs . ake riad tried care to con Your mother still, dear,” she sa er again She minute She the same as ever chile ‘sh r said so; and 1 know 1 kissed her, and ¢ y me again is No, no,” wept the The doct fs true, becanu did not kies had known, me back dead it she wir back ave kissed ghe she would hs again she always did And, oh, ch—my mother is dead i know it ecHs EY gar sighed tl} sore and face there vas vet life : us that when he rose from the dead He did his and his im; t im, 0u day he rose pot answer when mother ples called bh Eryn to show us that That was the fir had always hoped-—but known befo Le again dis ft one this seeming death Lo one re ally dies st Easter day Men they had never then-—that Is it not ¥ , ww surely © the dead could rise tiful, dear™ The child for a little forted. Then looked familiar chair where the sweet mother had been wont to hold i m and pet him, and again he broke into sobs. He was only and little mind could not grasp the great, truth which his aunt had been him At she said: to you some time 80 th il under stand.” It, w beau seemed com: he over to the five his BW ent telling I will show it at you w last ime that the early springt as in pt the young mother had been laid away from his sight. The cold winds were blowing, the trees looked bare gaunt and dead. Out among the leafless woods the sunt led the grieving child “See these poor trees,” shé said to him. "Does it not look to you as though they were quite dead?” He felt carefully of the which she held out to him “Yes,” he answered: "it is only an old dead stick- ~just good to burn in on and branch “It seems 50,” she admitted, "but wait a while, and we will come back One warm, sunny day, a few weeks later, she took him to the same spol showed him the same bough it was covered with “soft, tender green leaves were bursting thought was dead,” she sald. “Wat do you think now?” “It wasn't Jead, was it?” murmured the child slowly. “What pretty leaves! I am glad it wasn't dead.” “They seem dead, but they really live; and somewhere they are happy and beautiful--more beautiful than they were here-—just as the leaves are more beautiful than the bare tree” The child gazed after them. Then he looked back at the once dead-look- ing, bare trees. He remembered well the queer, brown sticks. How wonder ful it was! “They seemed dead,” she reminded him again, gently; "but you see that they were not.” “No,” he rejoined thoughtfully, “they were not” “It is so with our dear ones” she repeated. "They may seem to be dead, bug they are not.” One day =he took some poppy seed and showed to him, Or is 12 in his “Is it pepper?’ he asked powder that my father nses told him not but It is pep it seems just as “No,” she it?” he answered again dead, doesn’t “Yes," positively. “1 am going to it the earth here,” she sald gravely; and sha up a trowel and dug into the earth Then she scattered the dead powder in the hole that she had made, and covered it carefully A fortnight later she took the child to sea it. “You remember that dead sowed lLiere, drop into black she re “Yes,” answered quickly Is This is the little board might know.” ‘And yet these pretty little gray- plants came from those dehd, she told him of them?” he “Right out be asked “Yes They you know; small and there was the in each one of and soon they will be covered with bright flowers. We could never believe anything so strange if we did not see it right before And so it ig with loved on we dead They not dead; other we do not they from the bodies, as the leaves broke from the tree, and these little plants from the dead seeds.” Yes I see” breathed child, through starting tears But hid were dull loving seemed so yet Our eves the es that are and in some world, where, lHfeles bloom best Just Yes, the the trying to make it very For hundreds of years the dead trees leave ts from still could died sent men aunt, to him went 1 out, dead not really would live ist to sl NOW Us and the seed, pian and believe that again taught us how he ¥ Ree in © d to a ii¥ 1 the the dead on as he es Sr ie agi “Qut Among the Leafless Woods She Led Him.” great hope came to would live after death that every vear they rejoice on the day Christ rose. For two thousand years they have kept that day. Just think what joy it rought into the world!” “Is it the happiest day in the year? he asked her. She thought of the day birth, and spoke of it “But 1 think,” he sald at last thought: “that it was more beautiful to have him come back from the dead even than to have him born; so 1 them that they of Christ's She did not And any fault with his She knew that just then, to Day of the Goddess of Dawn. Easter, or, as it is called in Ger was the day of the Goddess Ostra (her Anglo-Saxon name was Eastre), the goddess of dawn, of the coming morning light. In her honor the bonfires were lighted, and deep-rooted indeed must the worship of her have been, for the name was kept and applied to one of the highest Christian feasts. Ws Benefits of Lent, “After all,” said Mrs. Gadsleigh, “wa really need the quiet and the selfde nials of Lent.” “Yes,” replied Mrs. Ka Flippe, "1 don't know how 1 should ever have been able to collect the evidence 1 shall need in my sult for divorce if it hadn't been for the lull that Lent has brought in my social affairs”
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