| SUSQUEHANNA BULLETIN : Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin VOL Vol. 75 No. 11 - March 19, 1975 MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA. Ten Cents Springtime...New Li fe Human love knows no season, but perhaps we think more about love in the spring than during other season. Certainly, with new life springing up all around us, we are led to think more about new human life. And it is true that new Lovers human life is the product of human love. Not only is new human life created by human love, but, more im- portant, it is nurtured by human love so that it may grow. The love of a man and Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, woman that creates a new And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; human life can create a " The fig tree ripeneth her green figs, . home in which the new : And the vines are in blossom, life they created can ma- 3 They give forth their fragrance. ture. Human love knows no season, it knows no age, either. It can go on and on. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. The Song of Songs. Thinking of new life Spring is the time of the planting of seeds with hope that they will mature into fruit-bearing crops. In every society there are religious ceremonies that go back to unknown antiquity, all with the purpose of cele- brating the new life and the new hopes of spring. There are fertility rites joyously observed with faith that they will help the crops and livestock to grow. Every society has its rites of spring. In our own Christian rite of spring, Easter, to be cele- brated next week, there are vestiges of early European fertility rites: the rabbit and the eggs. The main message of Eas- ter, however, is broader and more personal than a hope for good crops. It is an as- surance every spring of new life for each of us. 2 Lore cane all Hoffman, Bain Douglas & his mother, Mrs, Wm, Bower, Mount Joy
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