SIC FIXING OF EASTER Presented a VEXING PROBLEM RRR Rk ent upon ¢ casu doubt or inq over, Something o attaches to this ron dox that now and ther curious and the Inq { i a writer in the Kansas City The time of the Crucifixion is as <colncident Jewish over, or paschal feast, in the calendar month “Nisan,” t of the vernal The scurity In regard day from the Christian Gospels themselves, The Synoptic Gospels seemed to favor the day as the fifteenth of Nisan, that of St. John, the fourteenth This es- tablished, by the of evidence, that the Crucifixion occurred on Friday, the day before the Jewish Sabbath, According to Matthew, resurrection occurred “in the Sabbath, as it began to dawn to- ward the first day of the week” with the Pass. Jewish he month equinox, first ob to the Arose preponderance the the end of Ecclesiastical history preserves three distinct phases rel the sub- sequent day which eame to be known as Easter. Although the observance of Easter was at a very early period the practice of the Christian church, a serious difference as to the day for its observance soon arose between the Christians of Jew- ish and those of Gentile descent. With the Jewish Christians, who associated the death of Christ with the sacrifice of the Paschal Lamb at the Passover, which ended “on the fourteenth day of the moon at evening,” the Easter festival followed the paschal tradition, no matter what day of the lunar month it chanced to fall upon. The Gentile Christians, on the other hand. follow. ing the Synoptic Gospels, identified the first day of the week, Sunday, as the day of Resurrection, and kept the preceding Friday as the anniversary of the Crucifixion. This was the phase of the controversy that characterized the first centuries of Christianity, The second stage in the Easter con- troversy centers around the Council of Nice, A. D. 325, where so many doctrinal points were given authenie sanction, commemo be kept on Sunday throughout the of astronomical science, and the Ro man pontiff was to communicate the date to the churches. This arrange- ment fixed the date of Easter Sunday as the Sunday “following the four teenth day of the paschal moon.” and (aster | > > LAA is Easter time! { love's redeeming grace 1 wide the heavenly i ynened make for me a nd may 1 ever fait Until I see His face. "Tis Easter time! I pray egain To know His blessed will, And in my heart | hear again rtm be stl"; His voice say, "Peace, For all the emptiness of life He comes from heav'n to AIL - "Tis Easter time! I live again The stone is rolled away From every tomb of doubt and grief — My night is turned to day; And in my heart Christ reigns as king This resurrection day! Peandh Cham Orarsee defined the paschal moon a fourteenth spring equinox.” But this ruling did | not all difficul The third phase of the controversy arose from the divergent calendars and cycles in vogue in the Eastern and Western church centers, St. Augustine tells us that in the year 387 the churches of Gaul kept Easter on March 21. those of Italy on April 18, while the Egyp- tian Christians celebrated April 25 as Easter day. The British and Irish churches for a long time adhered to an ancient system of computation, though they observed Sunday as the Easter day. With the adoption of the Metonic cycle as a guide, the formula for fix ing the Easter date was determined as “the first Sunday which occurs aft. er the first full moon, or. more acen rately, after the first fourteenth day of the moon, following the 21st of March, which is the vernal equinox.” As a result, the earliest possible date | of Easter is March 22, the latest April 25. he moon whose day followed the settle ties, Observance of Lent HE observance of Lent began within 150 years after Christ's time, but there was no specified number of days of fasting. It was extended to about 40 days hy the Fourth century and in the Eighth or Ninth century it was fixed to commence with Ash Wednesday and end with Easter Sunday. Forty days are thus observed, since fast {ng 1s not observed on the interven. ing Sundays, EASTER RABBITS AND EGGS HAD MEMORY'’'S PART IN THE RECORDS OF Unpleasant things may be pleas. antly remembered and, In a sense, gloried in. Among these are hard. ships overcome, dangers survived and sacrifices that bear fruit. So it was held by Aeneas, who assured his comrades that in days to come they would rejoice to recall thelr trials and tribulations. One can readily enough understand this, It is only the treasons that it is unpleasant to recall, There can be nothing painful in the recollection of difficulties mas tered. An old philosopher was con- vinced that the gods rejoiced to see a good man In difficulties, for that involved a conflict In which it is pos { 18 loyalty to truth and right. Brown | Ing makes this very clear In one of his poems, The thing that stings is ardice, falseness and | Shakespeare's counsel “to thine self be true” cannot be improved A man's future, the point f which he looks back on his journ 'y through life, he does and thinks every would can i8 determined by have happy recoll have them, bu life with things and pre Memory may ings or To return the su from and in the mem emn thougl memory {it rid of. his rejoice be y Mark | 8 ir 1 i i na inn Not an Eas CANADIAN BUTTER The butter exports In 1932 British isles, ——— Real Bitterness self, Your local dealer Pure Bred Vegetable only b cents a package, carries Ferry Reeds, Adv, Textbook's Short Life SHREW’'S GOOD WORK The short-tailed shrew, a high- strung . delicate creature frequently inhabiting Japanese-beetle infested territory, In captivity, prefers grubs to other delicacies, such as raw beef, liverwurst, and squash seed, The shrew's ability to eat from 10 to 20 larvae at one sitting, the entomol- ogists say, Is a factor in keeping down the insect population, Severe Itching Eruption on Baby's Face and Scalp Cuticura Healed 1 I — “When baby was between two and { three months old an eruption ap- 's . 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Christians are sup- posed to have adopted the egg-rolling custom to symbolize the resurrection and the eggs were colored red in al lusion to the blood of redemption.” Easter: Monday is always a gala day for the kiddies, If they have any une broken eggs left, especially is this so for those youngsters in Washington. On that day thousands of them go to the White House and Capitol lawns to roll thelr vari-colored eggs, There is hardships must from these. Easter banished doubt, Easter outcome. awaited many, to a little group of men News. . faced. Difficulties and conveyed to them no promise of escape 950 daily world that THE EDISON is a great Hotel” ters in New York. One block from Empire State Build. ing, Fifth Avenue, and the largest department stores. Single. $2 to $3.50. Double, $3 to $3, None higher Direction, American Hotels Corporation GEORGE H. 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