“ % MH gy TT EATRES YOUTC EASIER LILY By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ASTER SUNDAY this year falls on April 17. Last year it was April 4 and the year before, it was April 12. Next year it will fall on April 8, As everybody knows it Is a variable date, sometimes falling in March and sometimes in April, but under the present method of reckoning date, it cannot earlier than March 22 nor For the reason that Easter therefore does not the Easter Sunday come mter than April 25. Sunday is a variable date, it save the significance as a red-letter date on Amer «an calendars that other dates, such as New Year's iay, Christmas day, Independence day, Washing ton's birthday and Lincoln's birthday, have. In ‘his relation it is more lke Thanksgiving day or f.abor day in being always a certain day of the week, but varying as to the day of the month, More important, of course, than its significance as a red-letter day on calendars is the inherent significance of the day itself. To the “hristian world It is the anniversary of the resur rection of Jesus Christ, But that does not mean that the essential spirit of Easter means some- thing to one part of humanity, set off from the rest by a religious classification, and means noth- ng to the rest of the human race. For Easter has 2 significance to all humankind and the keynote of that significance is the one word “resurrection.” the word Easter. It is derived from the word East, and East is one of the four sardinal points, It is also the cardinal point which has always been most important in all religious of all races and This rause It Is the part of the heavens where the sun fs seen to rise—the sun, bringer of light and heat, the very giver of life itself! The most primitive mtelligence of the most primitive man recognized the fact that the sun and life were inseparably assoclated and It was only natural that when he rane to worship the thing which was greater than tie, he should turn t6 the East whence came that greater and higher thing which he recognized as being the life-giving power, So each day was to him a cycle of a whole life- time. In the morning as the sun came up, life into being. As the sun mounted in the 2eavens life grew In its lusty youth and increased At its zenith, life, too, was at Its highest As the sun declined, so life declined Into old age, Into weakness, until there came darkness, the synonym for death, After a period of dark- life came again, There was a resurrection and once more, the cycle of a life-time compressed into 24 hours, there was life! And that, stripped of all the legend, custom and practice that has attached itself to Easter, is the spirit and the of Easter, all concentrated in the one word “resurrection.” So Easter has a significance that no other red-letter day on our calendars has and that significance is the significance of the fundamental and inevitable énce, Jt is that all days may be abolished from our calendars, that the calendar itself may be done away with, Bur, ao matter what may happen, so long as human tife exists on this earth, the spirit of Easter will survive, When it ends, then ends all hope for mankind, all reason for mankind's struggle to exist. . If “resurrection” Is the the spirit and the mes. gnge of Easter, then the inmost essence of that spirit can be summed up in the one word “im- mortality.” If man can find an answer to the old, old question that has troubled him through the ages, the question “Does death end all?’ he can find it In the message of Eastér, It is reas surance that the struggle to live 1s worth while and that he does not face 8 hopeless task, Even {f he did not have the comfort of his religion to thielp him arrive at that belief, he finds it In the mere fact of living. Each day, each year and each {ifetime he sees the cycle repeated. The sun romes up in the morning and goes down into dark. aess at night. But he knows that it will come ap sagain the next morning. Each 24 hours he gees the miracle of resurrection, New life ia manifest in the animal and vegetable kingdoms with each recurring spring. It ripens in the heat of summertime and mellows nto maturity in the autumn, only to die in the cold of winter, But fhe knows that life will begin against next spring. fiach 12 months he sees the miracle of resurrec- on. A baby 1s born, passes through childhood, grows into youth, reaches man's estate and then declines into old age. What If the darkness of death is only a matter of a few years away? He tins seen the recurring miracle of resurrection every 24 hours and every 12 months, Why should aot man, reasoning logically from this evidence of which he Is aware every day of his life, believe our Look at itself reremonies creeds is he. rame nn power, point, ess, tradition, myth, social mess ge of one facts of exist- conceivable other red-letter that the cycle of a lifetime Includes a resurrection just as does the daily cycle and the yearly cycle? He does so from that belief his bellef In the life everlasting, in Immortality. Perhaps It would be more accurate to say he chooses to For few men, if any, have ever solved the riddle of life to their utter satis faction. They constantly grope for the truth, seek- Ing, always seeking, the answer to the unsolved problems of life. They have the never-ending longing In thelr hearts for everlasting life and they choose to believe, and take comfort from the belief, that they shall have it. So whether he be primitive man or modern, civilized man, whether he be Christian or heathen, the essential spirit of Easter, the message of Easter Is the same--it is a message of message of Joy and a promise and a fulfillment in one, That message is delivered to man in many forms. It comes to him In the riot of bird songs which greet the sun on every morning in spring. It comes to him in the greenness of the grass, in the swelling buds on the the flowers which push their way up through the earth when the warming touch of the sun is laid upon it. It comes to him in the softness of the blue sky, in the fleecy clouds floating above him and in the gentle caress of the breezes that touch his face as he goes forth to start day's work, It too, as he watches young animal lambs, calves and colts wabbling about -unsteadily at first and then, as they gain strength, running around in those funny, awk- ward, stiff-legged little jumps which are always so fascinating to watch, believe and COMmes believe, hope, a trees, In each comes to him, life about him It comes to him every minute of the day as Nature, In all her forms, cries out exultingly “Spring has come! Spring has come!” Even If she did not tell him in those words, he would know it himself—in the surge of new strength In his own body, in the quickening of his blood after its winter sluggishness., As he hears the call of spring and the message of Kaster he feels the de- gire to pass the message along. He passes it along in as many ways as it comes to him--in the happy note In his volee as he greets his friends, in the little snatches of song which he finds himself sing: ing and in the effort which he makes constantly to put that message into words, One of those efforts takes the form of writing poetry. Even though the spring poet is a subject for many of our stock jokes, the fact remains that the urge to write poetry is a part of man's effort to pass along the message of spring. For all spring poetry Is fundamentally an effort to express the feeling of resurrected life. And Easter, which represents the crystallized spirit of spring, probably brings forth more attempis at poetic ex: pression—and perhaps more real poetry--than any other day on our calendar, Though the theme of all the Easter poems may vary, through them all runs the thread of rejole ing, rejoicing In the return of new life to the fields and woods, rejoicing In the new hope that springs up in human hearts at the coming of the springtime and more especially at the thought that Easter means the promise of life everlasting, These poems illustrate those joyous thoughts: At Easter Time Easter ltlles, daffodils All the world thelr perfume fills, While adown the dim alsies ringing Hallielujahs, Hark the singing, Echoed in the far-off hills Walting time is o'er at last Finished all the prayer and fast; Woodland songs are echoing Woodland bowers beckoning: All the walting time Is past Hall the glad, sweet Easter Day! Lifted is the vell of gray Christ is risen In His glory It is finished now, the story Clouds of gloom have rolled away Hallslujah'! Joyous sound: What was sought at last is found Through the dim aisles hear it ringing, All through woodlands hear the singing, Echoing the world around Ww KW Easter Day Words titter Christ His Mankind, keep Strip off your cannot returning Subllies, Set your lamps burning Speech ia left Ket you to singing, Fling your hearts open wide, Set your bells ringing Christ the Chief Reaper Comes, His sheaf bringing. speechless; Earth wakes her song-birds, Puts on her flowers, Leads out her lambkins, Builds up her bowers This ia man's spousal day, Christ's day and ours wed Bristina Rossetth HOW Ww Corpus Christi {iante, flaming torches of advancing dawn, into the Tomb, confirm its vacancy, That every eye In certain day can see it 1s no dream of worn centurion, Nor any parable of Gentile lore, That Christ hath risen and goeth on before His very mourners Into Galilee, Passing mid lilies redolent with prayer. White as the wings which seraphim unfold in grace above thelr coronets of gold, Or as the robes triumphant saints will wear He blesseth by his presence in the way Each creature waking to eternal day; Ere this God's purposes were but half told His flesh was rent apart on Calvary, Those veins which opened at the spear's mad thrum Gave priceless blood unto the very dust: Yet not all hell could change the prophecy That not a bone of him should mortals break Nor worldly kings from him his portion take While iighaboveearth'sdarkness reigned the Just!’ And so, though torn by many a man-made creed The garments of our falth still seem to be, The firm foundation of our hope is He, firuised, but surviving every foe, the seed Sown by His Word In stanch and fertile ground Will bloom till all its Mowers of Love abound; For what shall vanquish Immortality? «doa M. 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He has produced methanol { which seems to have all the propertics of wood alcohol; synthol, equivalent to a highgrade petrol; and a substi | tute for benzine, General Patart, a Frenchman, has | been experimenting with coal-produced | synthetic alcohol, which shows a sav | Ing of 15 per cent In calories over | petrol. The temperature of the radi | ator In which It is used was consi] | erably lower than in cars using petrol Marigolds Marigolds are old-fashioned flowers, | but none the less satisfactory in small gardens. They are exceedingly easy to grow and begin to flower in a few weeks from the time the seed Is planted. Moreover, they will thrive In rather poor soll, having a tendency to make heavy foliage but to throw few flowers when the ground is rich, The odor of the marigold is not very pleasing, it is true, and they are not to be recommended for house decora- tions, As bedding plants, however, they are extremely useful, It the world will be gulled, let It be guiled.—Burton. #
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