| 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.
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Douglas & his mother, Mrs, Wm, Bower, Mount Joy