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THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1913.
ASTER day comes to us clothed
upon with glory. Of all days
In tho year. It Is the most
regal. Father Tabb in an ex
quisite little poem said that
the bud that first unfolded at Christ
mas reached Its splendid bloom at
Easter. From Christmas to Faster
the weeks are processional. After tho
holidays social gayety is in full swing
until arrested by tho thoughtful and
meditative aspect of Lent. In the
phadowy gloom of Good Friday Lent
reaches its culmination, and after thai
pause, when oven the stir of business
ceases and the world looks back to its
Redeemer, we reach the summit and'
crown of Christendom on Easter Sun
day. Fitly, Easter comes in tho
spring. Nature, too, has been proces
!Ounl. During the frost and ice and
unow, tho wild gales and low hanging
clouds, nature, seeming to bo asleep,
tras in reality very busy. Tho bare
trees wero getting ready to bufst into
leaf, the brown grasses wero to put
on vivid green, and everywhere the
flowers and tho blossoms, tho bees
and the birds wero coming, coming
day by day, to keep high festival
once more.
Tho pretty girl who likes on Easter
Sunday to dress herself in spring ap
parel from tho hat on her head to
tho shoes on her feet, and tho dainty
gloves on her hands, is in sympathet
ic accord with nature. Easter is a
movable feast, and when tho calendar
brings it to us on a day of sleet and
Enow, we find It hard to believe alto
gether in the fitness of things.
To be at Its royal best, Easter
should bo an April day. Tho bright
cunbeams, dashing showers and
changeful moods of April symbolize
the eternal youth of the world. Easter
Sunday In this year of grace will wear
the same joyous look that It has worn
over since the resurrection. So tho
maidens who go forth from home in
raiment befitting tho spring will wear
tho same attractive charm that has
been girlhood's own in every century.
Pagan and Christian, under every
sun, in every period, in every clime,
girlhood in its flower is the sweetest
thing beneath the sky.
I am always sorry when tho time
comes for girl to lay aside their soft
furs, heightening as they do the bloom
of the face and giving an air to the
toilet more enchanting than that con
ferred by tho most dellcato lace.
When an Easter costume can com
bine an effect of flowers and furs, it
Is simply perfect. In our largo cities
the churches aro always thronged to
tho doors on Easter day, among tho
worshipers being those who have kept
from childhood a feeling of reverence,
thankfulness and humility that sends
them to church on that Sunday, if on
no other. The organ peals in solemn
chords, the hymns are full of triumph,
tho choirs sing with a noto of Jubilant
exultation. Wo bring tho flowers to
church, and the lilies and roses,
azaleas and hyacinths are very much
at homo there. Altar and chancel are
beautiful with palms and rich with
garlands and growing plants. Flow
ers symbolize the thought of resurrec
tion, the thought that thcro is no
death, but only, oven In this world of
loss and change, tho life everlasting.
The daisies wore here last summer;
they will be here again covering a
million fields with their cloth of gold
a few weeks hence, and tho lilies
'never die. They may seem to pass
away, but their proud succession has
so break.
As for us who begin our lives in tho
cradle, and go on through glad and
busy years, from youth to ago, our
Uvea are processional, and every
Easter marks them with Its white
stone. Often as Easter returns we
romember those who were onco at
our sido and nro visible no longer.
They have left us for awhile, but they
are living beyond our sight, and their
Invisible presence may bo our comfort
and support and our armor against
sorrow.
They never quite leave us, our friends
who have passed
Through the shadows of death to the
sunlight above;
A thousand .sweet memories are holding
them fast
To the places they blest with their
presence and love.
The work that they left and tho books,
that they read,
Speak mutely, though still with an elo
quence rare;
And the songs that they sung, the dear
words that they said,
Tct linger and sigh on the desolate air. i
And oft when alone, and as oft in the
throng,
Or when evil allures us or sin draweth
nigh, 1
A whisper comes gently, "Nay, do not,
tha wrong."
And we feel that our weakness Is pities.
on high.
We toll at our tasks In tho burden and
heat
Of life's passionate noon; they are
folded In peace.
It Is well; wo rejoice that their heaven
Is sweet.
And one day for us nil tho bitter will
cease.
Tho cemetorles have many visitors
on Easter afternoon. The quiet sleep
ers in God's Aero nro not forgotten;
they have never qulto left us. Only
tho mortal part lies beneath tho turf.
The soul of ethereal essence cannot
perish with tho body. It comforts
our hearts to carry our -ifts of flowers
and leave them on the mounds under
which our dead repose.
A friend tell3 a touching story of
a visit she paid to the grave of a de
parted friend last Easter Sunday.
Sho had with her a superb bunch of
roses, a tribute to tho memory of the
dead. On the car was a plain day la
borer. He also carried flowers. He
had a large tin pail overflowing with
beautiful lilies. Touching his hat, ho
addressed the lady. "I think we are
bound for tho same place," ho said,
"and we have a similar errand. Rich
people like you may carry such roses
as yours to adorn the graves of their
dead. A friend in tho far south sent
me these lilies, and I am taking them
to tho grave of my wife. I am very
lonely without her, but it is a com
fort to me to give her these lilies.
She loved them so dearly." The two
mourners in their different stations
were drawn together in sympathy by
a common grief and a common rev
erence as they wont on their way,
each bearing a burden of fragrance
and bloom.
Whllo we carry flowers on Easter
to the church and the cemetery, we
should not omit to carry them or send
them to tho hospital, tho sickroom,
the chamber of the shut-in sufferer,
the Old Ladles' Homo and tho homes
of tho very poor. No one can walk
through a crowded quarter in tho
poorest part of any town bearing
flowers without being besieged by the
children of the streets. They hunger
and thirst for flowers, as sometimes
they hunger for bread. I know an In
stance in which for many weeks a
woman who might have been called
tho angel of the tenements tried in
vain to securo an entrance into a
homo where poverty and crime had
been linked together. The door was
always shut in her face. Tho sad
faced mother did not want compassion
and scorned its offer. One day, it
riiust have been in the spring and
near tho blessed Eastertide, tho kind
visitor bethought her of a method that
might be winning. Sho went into tho
house as usual, and as sho tapped at
tho door, which was opened as usual
by only the merest crack, sho held
In front of her a superb roso, a rose
THE RESURRECTION.
in bloom. The flower did what noth
ing else could havo done it trans
formed nn enemy into a friend.
Easter day reminding us of the
resurrection, of the ceaseless friend
ship 'of heaven for earth, and of the
life everlasting, Is the most glorious
day of the wholo round year. As we
sing tho songs of Easter, let us for
got Badness and cowardice and un
kindness; let us walk onward bravely
and with good cheer on our appointed
ways.
Therefore, we look within for our
peace and happiness and we value a
clear conscience above rubles. Eliza
beth Towne in Nautilus.
The Glory
of
Easter Day
In tho land of the Crescent and Star,
As tho Easter day draws nigh,
I pondered tho talo of the Holy Cross,
The tale that redcemeth my soul from
loss;
And from lips of Mary afar
I hear an echoing sigh:
"They havo token away my Lord,
And I know not where he Is laid!"
Ah, Mary, your plaint Is mine!
Too often we como thru tho gloom
In the dawn of the Easter mornfng,
Its beautiful massacrea seornlnff.
. To weep at an empty tomb.
110 is risen, he is not here.
Go out on the highways to meet him;
Go bring tho disciples to greet him,
Go scatter the glad Easter cheer.
Truly aro those to be pitied who
fall of realizing the real messago of
Easter cheer. And there is a sad, sig
nificant lesson in tho way that Easter
is understood and regarded before sor
row and bereavement havo touched
and shadowed tho life, and then tho
way it is welcomed and harbored after
affliction has altered one's entire out
look on Hfo.
To the young it is a day of rejoic
ing. With its lilies, azaleas and roses,
its carols of hope and triumph, its
breath of spring and promise of re
newal, it seems an echo of their own
youth and Joyousness, a glad reminder
that tho winter is over and past, and
tho voice of turtle-doves is heard in
the land.
This is as it should bo. Wo aro not
of those who think that stern and sor
rowful truth should bo impressed up
on tho young. Time, tho great in
former, will soon enough acquaint
them with life's vicissitudes and
losses, and for those who long escape
tho scorching breath of sorrow wo are
glad and thankful. They know that
grief exists, that trials are known,
that afflictions como, but usually hope
and buoyancy whisper, "Not for us;
no, not for us." And so the strength
and cheer of youth furnish strength
and endurance for the years to come.
How soon in tho wide school of ex
perience the most of us find life out!
How impressions alter and viows
change as "events like billows roll,"
and whether wo will or not the exact
ing hand of time shapes and matures
and settles our convictions &nd beliefs.
Blessed and fortunato aro those who,
through tho guidanco of Christian par
ents and tho teachings of the Scrip
tures, have attained to manhood and
to womanhood armored to a degree
against the thrusts and wounds ofj
But, after all, that which poor
humanity dreads most, shrinks from
with greatest quailing at heart, is
tfeo separation from those held most
dear, whose lives aro our lives, whoso
removal is the stroko sounding the
death knell of Joyousness and content.
And It is to those whoso wjiolo future
has been darkened by dire affliction
that Easter is most precious, because
THREE MARYS AT THE TOMB.
it is full of teaching and hope and
promise not only for the life that now
is, but also to a marked degree for
tho ono that is to come. Often and
often tho only gleam of comfort a
stricken heart can feel Ib tho hope of
reunion In a brighter world to come.
It buoys ono up whon tho deep waters
of grief and boreavomont threaten to
engulf tho soul.
Many mourners find a forlorn sat
isfaction in standing by tho spot
where their beloved ones havo been
laid. If they could only realize that
in reality it is empty! No love, no
remembrance, nothing that constitutes
Hfo Is there. Life, lovo, memory and
vitality revel In a land
"Whoso fields nro ever vernal.
Where nothing beautiful can ever fads,
But bloom for aye, eternal."
It would seem that tho most signi
ficant, comforting and inspiriting les
son's of Easter wero for thoso who
mourn. It has to do with tho sepulchre
and tho sleep of tho dead. Yet only
In their past tense. Its true meaning
is resurgam I shall rise again; It has
to do chiefly with life, renewal, spring,
ing from torpor nnd death Into vigor,
activity, endurance, all that goes to
make up tho groat word, Life I
That definition is not to be applied
only to those who have passed out
of this nresent life. Bonis thorn
which are dead to all their best In
terests; burled, as It were. In Iniquity
and sin. Their lives daxkannii hv
Boparatlon from all that constitutes a
irne ana wortny mo, to such cpmes
the clarion cry; "Awoke, thou that
tlocpost, and arise from the dead, and
Christ shall givo thed light." These
words wore not spoken to tho phyBl
eally dead, but to tho dead in tres
passes and sins.
A resurrection from one's old self,
and from an exlstonco nt variance
with truth and righteousness, might
well bo begun at Eastortldo. It
would, indeed, bo tho beginning of
etornnl life. The purity of tho lilies,
with their waxen petals, symbolize the
white and spotless bloom of tho soul
that, freed from all mortal trammels,
has arisen to celcctlal Bphores. In
like manner a soiled and broken Hfo
may become cleansed and pure by
the casting away of thn garment of
sin; ana scemng at tne "hands of God
a garment new, and clean, and white,
tho beautiful garment of righteous
ness. Ever from the land of tho Crescent and
Star
"As the Easter day draws nigh,
We ponder tho talo of tho Holy Cross,
The tale that redeems our souls from
loss"
and most thankfully and with sacred
joy do we welcome this most inspiring
and inspiriting day.
What should we do for comfort, if
when we stand by tho cypress trees
EASTER MORNING.
wo could not look beyond the mourn
ful shadows and Bee tho glimmer of
a breaking Easter day? What hope
would there be for crushed and poor
earthbound souls if for them there
could be no spiritual resurrection, no
rising into a new life, now and hero,
through a renewing by Christ?
To every mourner we would say,
"Havo faith in a third-day morning,"
believe tho true lesson of Easter day,
and you shall be comforted. The
Christian Work and Evangelist
LL Christendom at this season
proclaims tho resurrection of
Jesus Christ and rejoices in the
promise of immortality.
No other figure of history has left
such an indelible impress upon hearts
and minds of men. His was a life of
servico, of love, of devotion to man
kind, and even In tho hearts of those
to whom the resurrection Is not ac
cepted belief, there Is reverence and
admiration for tho Hfo and works of
tho Great Teacher. Tho leaven of his
Hfo has spread from the little band of
disciples ho gathered about him until
today nearly one-third of tho entire
peoplo of tho world aro devoted and
acknowledged followers of tho Naza
rene, and to the Intelligent followers
of other creeds ho is a teacher and
leader of men, comparable to Brahma,
Buddha, Zoroaster and Confucius.
It is fitting that tho commemoration
of his resurrection should be contem
poraneous, with us at least, with tho
rebirth of naturo. Even as ho rolled
tho stone away and put aside tho ha
biliments of death, so at this season
tho timid violet, tho Jonquil, tho cro
cus, the spear of grass push aside the
cerements of darkness nnd death, and
look up with smUlng faces to the Bun
shino of Hfo. On ovcry hilltop and in
every valley the story of tho resurrec
tion Is being ro-enactod day by day.
The greatest lesson In tho Hfo of
Jesus Christ was that that of service,
ana moro year after year Is tho Idea
of sorvico entering Into the hearts and
minds of men. Tho world is growing
bettor. MHUons of mon and women
aro Btrlving today, Individually or col
lectively, to alleviate suffering, to pro
mote health and happiness, and in a
myriad ways to make better tho condi
tion of their fellowmon. To him who
brought light from darkness, Hfo from
death, immortality from oblivion, may
be attributed all that is good In our
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