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Easter Recalls
the Promise
of Eternal
Of all the anniversaries which hu-
manity celebrates, Easter is the most
significant. Christmas i8 the joyous
celebration of a birth, of the begin-
ning of the most eonspicuous and po-
tent life in Luman history. It re-
lates pr irily to a life on earth, to
no that is comprehensible
because it is expressed in the material
forms that make it tangible, visible,
unt easily subject to the human un-
derstanding. But the whole purpose
of that life related to an existence be-
youd the material, to another and a
different life infinitely more Impor-
taunt, and Easter is at once the sym-
bol and the assurance of that larger
and greater existence for which man
Is designed and to which earthly life
f& but a vestibule.
The event which it commemorates
resurrection from death so well
substantiated by the evidence and so
tremendous In its implications, that
for nearly 2,000 years it has been by
far the most powerful influence in
the theught and action of mankind.
In that event is the promise, the as-
surance, the proof, the certainty, of
fmmortality., It has given to human
life an lmmeasurable importance, has
extended it from a few hours to an
eternity, has lifted it up {rom the
dust and clothed it In the apparel of
divinity. Eternal life! That is the
meaning of Easter,
existence
Is i
Firm Bolief in Immortality.
But in the necessary freedom of hu-
man reasoning there are always theo-
ries antagonistic fo the meaning and
significance of Easter as well aus di
rect deninl of that conception of deity
upon which the Christian and all re-
ligions are based, snd denial In par-
tieular of the historical evidences
apon which the Christian world
founds its faith. Positive atheism,
powever, Is not, and never his been,
nu serious mensce to human welfare,
here 1s something instinetive in hu
manity that protects it from such a
negation. Nowhere. and at no time
since man beeamme eotscions of his
own egn. hus he been without some
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a dens,
the idea of
KO deeply
immortality,
set and
that
serious headway
firmly wilhi
intellectual denials can make
them.
more sub
tle, are those mechanistic theories of |
human life now unhappily prevalent
in many of our higher institutions of
leprning, which reason the soul cut of
the name of pseudo
science. When a youth is told with
an alr of that thouzht is
merely a physiological process, that
and, of course, are but
the products of the mechanical stimu-
ius of a physical organ, the brain;
taught indirectly, if not
there is no thing
or soul: he Is (if
theories, deprived
against
More Gangerous, because
body in the
authority
ideas ideals,
he Is
that
as mind or spirit
these
all
when
directly, such
he accepts
not only of
but of all incentive,
mal, for living. 1 man Is only a
mechanical automaton, as of
otir psychologists contend, life indeed
fs without purpose or without hope,
and is not worth living.
religions foundations
other than anil
some
Consciousness of Soul.
fantastic and
contradicted by the in-
of every hu
inconceivable that
tut such
theories are
dividual consciousness
man being. It is
even their creators and distributors
actuaily believe in them. They are
in effect the denial of all human ex-
perience, the rejection of all knowl
edge. Those activities of conscious-
ness which have created all that is
erent ; and fine snd wonderful In
science, in art, in literature, in archi-
tecture, in mechanics, are but fortul
tous reactions to mechanical stimulus
in a physical organ! We are all
Frankensteing, soulless beings pro-
duced by a soulless nature! And such
pernicious absurdities, clothed in ses
quipedalian terminology to give them
an air of profundity, are gravely im-
parted to youth as learning. No won
der that now and then a youth says
to himself “What's the use?” and com-
mits suicide. And If they expressed
truth all humanity, indeed, would bet-
ter commit suicide and put an end
to the colossal farce of existence,
But fortunately for mankind it re.
joets such nonsense in the guise of
learning, with proper contempt. [It
knows that it has a consclousness that
fs elf, an ego, a mind, spirit, a soul.
“What makes ench one of us be what
we are is only the soul,” sald Plato
tong ugo, and that Is the common
conviction of humanity. And that
goul, however it may be subject to
material limitations In a material ex-
depressing
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“THe Is Rigen”
“Queet and clear the birds are singing,
At Faster dawn!
Hark, O hear! the bells are ringing
On Easter morn
And the song that they sing,
The good mews we bear them ring,
Is “Christ, the Lord, is risen, is risen?
“Easter buds will soon be flowers,
Fragrant snd gay;
Winter's snows give place to showers,
And night to day;
Life and light forever reign!
Yea! Christ, the Lord, is risen, kb risen I”
to a
the
is not
death,
in itself subject
material Pogether with
consciousness of a soul is the virtual.
istence,
ly universal and und hangeable convie-
tion that it survives physical dissolu-
tion. That is a which
springs instinctively soul
conviction
from the
reason, without which, indeed, life it-
irrational, and the truth of
jg demonstrated by the event
Easter commemorates, Con-
sciousness, feeling, reason, fact, all
unite to make life after death the
only rational, the only supportable,
the only satisfactory, solution of the
problem of human existence.
Death's Terrors Overcome.
It is only in that faith that human
life acquires a meaning and a pur
self is
which
which
fs given hope and assurance, and it
{s only in that faith that death loses
its terrors and becomes. the instru.
ment of promotion and of triumph. In
that faith life is a fruitful progress
for eternity: and he who by that
faith and by the character of his life
has more than destiny secure,
contemplate the event of death with
unfearing tranquility, knowing it to
already won. "So live,” says the poet
when thy summohs comes to
join
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each
shall take
His chamber in
death,
Thuu go not, Hike the quarry slave at
night,
Seourged to his dungeon, but sustained
and soothed
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy
grave
Like one that wraps the drapery of
his
that
the silent halls of
couch
About him, and ies down to pleasant
dreams,
what matters death, indeed, when
it 1s but a sleep from which one
wikes to a more abundant life St.
Louis Globe-Demoerat,
CENTRE HALL. PA.
| Galilee
Rememberest thou the way
in sandal shoon He came,
Upon that day, that wondrous day
They spoke His beoly mamo?
Hushed were the land and sea
As with an angel's breathe
It was the road to Callloe
That leads from Nazareth.
The path was sere and dried,
The vines had ceased ta cling,
And on the dusty roadside cried
A Lird with brolen wing;
To bloom the dead loaves stirred
Beneath His footsteps pressed, i
And from His band the wounded bird
Flew to its waiting vest
As on His Way He went,
The fold’'s lost sheep to secl,
He healed the arm in palsy best,
And kissed the loper’s cheek.
And, from the city's din,
Stoned from the shadows, orept
The nameless one He clesased from sin
As st His feet she wept
With corn was Canaan green,
Yet wated there no bed
For Him, the outcast Nazarene,
On which to lay His bead.
The road to Galilee
Must lead Him, wandering still
Up to the Cross on Calvary
That beckoned from the hill
Rememberest thou the bill
To which st last He came,
That day of days the world stood still,
No more to be the same]
The grave no more to be
Victor again o'er death
"Twas on the road to Galilee
That leads fromm Nazareth
Jobin 8. McGroarty in Los Angeles Times
CEREMONIALS OF
MAUNDY THURSDAY
the =
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chumens
Of the
ing this day in ancient times, perhaps
the import this washing
of feet. This practice was preva.
in the
and there ig even men
its performance in Spain as
the Fourth century. Grad.
ually, in the monarchistic countries,
the custom developed into the cere.
mony i
of as
years
tice
the
rected that the feet of the poor wen
ghould first be bathed by her servants,
in warm water and sweet herbs,
James 11 was the last
arch to perform the ceremony, for his
William of Orange. In
many queer customs featur
ost it was
the
Middle
of
Ans
ages,
many poor men as there were
of his age. In England the prac
continued in that fashion until
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