Show FAITH AND HOPE EASTER MESSAGE promise of immortality most gior glorious ious to the world of humanity sorrow and lone III 1 e s s and bleak w 1 n t er come to the entrance of the cold dark tomb and lot the ton b Is bright ich light natural nn tural the nil glorious angel of file resurrection S stands within hit they thought it the grave of life abw it ls is really the womb amb ot of the lilor lillig till nil aglitter with tile stin rising of a new nil und botter bittor lay the tradition of i faster easter Is a holy our one the feist feast tacks tilt iberl l allent we u line have learned to isoe associate I 1 wit tile lie nil NII alt but the aliu resurrection I 1 to 0 tilt lie lull tt us essential tu to abe achl asllan falah christmas is a season of 0 J joy 0 y of blithe blithesome ille ss lit at tilt the advent of il file saylor bior ii or to it 11 world arld sobered b bi its and calvary easter bring lirlin d t is of fulth and 11 hope e 1 the ea dnn of the religion inaus ind nucile Maid maiddie dim is as ans ed tigh tho tina inny ij ny ca c imitating a in and symbolized s by the little bilte cross aleavy larn liv artel we u tire lire still inclined int lined to seek 0 o ace tit lit tile tomb to us the ines sage collias conies again why seek ye the alie living union among the dead ue he Is not lot 1 lien I r lie he is ilen chervin llos lies the ines suge of easter hii I 1 of immortality beyond tit alir nor or Is it a mere coincidence that easter blister falls at this season spring I 1 simply hlin rily nat natures ure s wity of reiterating the die easter message me shuge through gli the long winter the world orld of nature lius hus se seemed e ed its asleep beep in death tr trees ees bare fields destitute death appeared to reign su supie me then just as we are almost wearied enough to give up hope the sup sap begins to run little green things to shoot hoot birds to chirp as cheerily na as ever it Is natures message of immo immortality artal to the world of humanity there Is another and a war ider aspect 0 of f the easter ines message e we seem to be by the tomb of much that Is holy hell gion belief in principle idealism how dead they seem to be See klAh only material things lings ti ne neglest gleet tul ful tf things of the spirit the world Is tn in a parlous state the few who ho vite te hold held their beliefs look about in perplexity and fl dismay ismay lias ilas the very body of tile the falth faith been rei removed noved ali ah no in ili tit the midst of our anxious grief conits the reviving eving re heartening tin illo lie Is not bend ile he Is risen ker ever the faster easter festival comes canies around alter after the inevitable agony ond anil every spring the magic words tire are s pok m and wu we go forth ednd in invulnerable armor for the fray fra for ile he Is 19 not it dead lie Is risen so shall we other men ill sini rl ilar |