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Show I ' Thursday, March 22, 1928 T1IE BINGHAM BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH ' (JrVArV U I t JSCS . A 1 4 I M V , hl,-- v ,c mil . k ifui'fJM ' .) ltf, cTmjn$posjjj?? contrary to religious tenets to eal eggs, during Lent, but when Knstei marked the end of that period they were the first fleshly nourishment aft er the fast. to sanctify the body. The custom of dyeing Euster eggs goes back for many centuries. Peas-ants In the European countries dyed them red, as a symbol of Christ's blood, but the lords and ladles cov-ered theirs with gold leaf. Lntcr more elaborate decorations were used. Sometimes they were marbled In a variety of colors; sometimes they bore cupIds and love knots, flam-ing hearts and the signs of the zodiac. Sometimes they were halved and the shells hinged together with ribbon and lined with gilt paper and religious pictures. Among the Venetians it was the custom to give a friend a gift egg bearing the giver's portrait, and many other variations on egg decoration were common In Frunce, Spain and Belgium. Half a century ago Easter eggs were made of porcelain, Ivory, mother-of-p-earl, bronze, silver, or gold In the form of little cases to hold vari-ous trinkets. But the modern child, favoring something useful as well as ornamental, prefers an Easter egg which he can first admire and then eat So we have the elaborate con-fections in the form of chocolate rab-bits sitting on a nest of spun rugar In which are a plentiful supply of candy eggs. Euster goes buck to certain beliefs of the ancients also. Eggs had been as-sociated with the worship of Ash-toret-of the Astarte of the Phoe-nicians, Lsla of the Egyptians, Diana of the Greeks and Itomun? and Host re, whom the Teutons' worshiped In the spring. Incidentally, the name Eas-ter Is said by some to be derived from the inline of this Teutonic goddess, although others assert thnt It was named for an old pagan spring fes-tival In honor of the sun's new birth In the east. The Egyptians regarded the egg as an emblem of the recre-ation of things and of man's regen-eration. Then, too, the egg with Its life germ destined to produce a liv-ing creature when warmed by the mother hen Is easily associated with the Idea of the earth blossoming forth under the warm rays of the sun in the spring, both closely akin to the general Idea of resurrection. Since the Kesurrection of Christ occurred in the spring, It is easy to see how the symbols of the egg and all re-vived life in the springtime came to be associated with this event In the history of Christianity. The egg as u symbol was taken over by the Hebrews us an emblem of their delivery from bondage and next the early Christians took It over as their symbol of the Uesurrection. The more intimate association of the rubblt und the egg is probably due to a pretty little legend which comes from Germany. It is as follows: It was a lovely day in early spring-time and Mr. Rabbit was hurrying along the woodland path, taking some wild flowers to a elck woodchuck friend. Suddenly she cam upon a lot of loose feathers In the path. She t By ELMO . SCOTT WATSON S T E B means many to muny people. some It means new and new fA To some it means end of Lent, a of from worldly To others It mesne the beauty of the white lily. And to still others It means rabbits, Euster eggs and Joys of childhood. But back of all these superficial symbols Is the one essen-tial fact toward which all of them point Euster day Is the anniversary of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the spirit of Easter is the reas-surance that there Is life after death, that the soul of man Is Immortal. Easter customs, like the customs which have come to be associated with Christmas, St. Valentine's day and oth-er holidays and speclul dates for ob-servance, are a mixture of the Chris-tian and the pagan. To the Christian, conscious of the true meaning und re-ligious significance of Easter, It is a matter for rvgret thut m.'ny persons are seemingly more fumlllur with the pagan symbols, which have become associated with Easter Incidentally, than they are with the true symbols of that day. They regard the empha-sis upon theee symbols as responsi-ble for the statement often made that "Easter, Christmas and other Chris-tian holidays are merely adopted pagan festivals," and point out that this Is a fallacy similar to an asser-tion that the American Fourth of July Is a festival In honor of Chinese dra-gon gods, adopted by the superstitious Even the Easter fashion parade, when milady appears at church on this Sunday morning In a new frock and new millinery, Is a symbol of resurrected life in the springtime when all nature Is putting on new rai-ment. It Is also carrying out the old British tradition that It is "good luck to wear something new on Easter day." The Easter Jlly, as a symbol of Eus-ter, Is a combination of the religious significance and the manifestations of nature. In Its snow-whit- e purity It Is emblematic of the flawless life of the Christ. And when the Illy bud opens In the springtime and the white blos-som comes forth in all its glory, It is the one perfect symbol of resurrected life. So these are the symbols of Easter, each representing a different tradition, perhaps, but all emblematic of essen-tially the ifame thing, an awakening after a sleep, life after death Resur-rection I There la no death, who aaya there la mistakes Transition for decay. Eternal life springs everywhere the same I Death story to dismay. PromlBe of everlasting life is writ Plainly on Nature'a scroll, Aa with the trees, the flowering shrubs and bulbs, So Is it with the soul. A period of Bleep, of darkness black As Calvary's blackest night, And then the Resurrection's sun shines forth With God's perpetual light. Ah, you blind followers of faith, or fate. Read for yourselves the roll, How gnarled brown root, apparent dead, revives, . Thus Is it with the soul. Matilda Ann Allen. looked about her and then discovered a nest full of eggs. "Oh, dear me," exclaimed Mrs. Bunny "a fox must have stolen the mother chicken. And there are her eggn, get-ting chilled. I'll Just sit on them to keep them warm." So saying, she put down her baskets and sat upon the nest. Imagine Mrs. Rabblt'a surprise, when she got up from the nest, the next morning and found that a family of chicks had hatched from the eggs. "Since their mother Is gone 1 prosume I shall have to take care of the poor little things," said the tender-hearte- d Mrs.' Rabbit This she did. Ever Blnce then the rabbit has been associated with Easter and Easter eggs. In some parts of northern Germany the children hang eggs on trees sim-ilar to Christmas trees and candy fa-vors, gifts and all sorts of Easter nov-elties ore placed on the tree around which the children gather, and sing happy songs on Easter morning. Peasants in other European countries were accustomed to hang festoons of eggs over the chimney piece and lo band them down as heirlooms, for they were regarded as treasures to be kept and not as baubles to be de-stroyed or thrown away. In England, under the old ecclesiastical laws, rent was payable in Easter eggs; games were played with them (a fact which was probably the forerunners of Eas-ter " such as that ob-served each year on the White House lawn In Washington), especially by the children In north England. Still another association of the egg with Eoster lay In the fact that It was Yankees and associated in their su-perstition with the Idea of their in-dependence. Of course, every one knows that the use of firecrackers, which were invented by the Chinese as an offering to dragon gods, and the punk, with which the firecrackers are lighted, which are burned as In-cense in Mongolian temples, came to be associated only by chance with Fourth of July celebrations and have nothing to do with the essential spirit of Independence day. Similarly the symbol of the white rabbit which lays Easter eggs came to be associated with Easter day by chance and has nothing to do with its essentinl spirit. Regardless, however, of the phi-losophical and theological aspect? of this question, the association of some of these familiar Easter symbols, pugun though they may have been In origin, with a Christian festival have a certain inherent Interest. The as-sociation of the rabbit or hare with Euster has its foundations in the an clent belief in European and Asiatic-countrie- s that the hare is the symbol for the moon! 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