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Show Easter-Time Pagan ' Observance Great Day Even the Pagan Easter, on which the Christian day of rejoicing" was superimposed in many lands, was a great day. The Pagan observance signified the resurgance of the human hu-man spirit after the rigors of winter. win-ter. To the early Christians Easter $was a day of triumph because it? justified his faith in the victory of life over death. The Christian meaning is the same today. Although the world remains unsettled, nations suspicious suspic-ious and plotting against one another, an-other, Easter Sunday is a token of all ressurrections, the time when we count the world's gains and rejoice in them. |