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Show Friday, March 18, 1932 THE MIDVALE JOURNAL Sally Sez Ddv ~r manv mednin $ BABY FRET F U L,_ RESTLE SS? Look to this cause. We We To We BRAND When your baby fuSses, tosses and seems unable to sleep restfully, look for one common cause, doctors say. Constipation. To get rid qulckly of the accumulated wastes which cause restlessness and discomfort, give a cleansing dose of Castorla. Castoria, you know. 1s made specially for children's delicate needs. It Is a pure vegetable preparation; con.tai:ns no harsh dirugs, no narcotics. It is so mild and gentle you can gi"ve it to a young infant to relleve colic. Yet It Is as effective for older children. Cas· toria's regulative help will bring relaro!d comfort and restful sleep to your baby. Keep a bottle on hand. Genuine Castorla always has the name: Salt Lake City, Utah ~ know it pays to advertise, notice what's before our eyer, Ughten, brighten, cheer our ways, uae electrical clisplay1, HEWLETT 'S Suprem_e Jam · . 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WEST TEMPLE Everything in Canvas Goods J?E.P BB GASOLINE Packed With Power Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.-La Fontaine. 00 G!5 flJ • per week will be paid fo.: tile best SO-word artlcto &n ••whr you lhould use Intermountain mad& Goods" - Similar to abo\·e. Send your etory in prose or verse to Intermountain Producta Column, P. 0. Bos Hi.CS, Batt Lab City. If your •tory apl)Ul"a Jn thlll • colnmn you will re- tp' ""'!lve check for • • . Q5 00 W. N. U.-S. L. Week No. 321% than April 25. Why all this variation In such an important annual festival? The reasons go back into ancient history. The festival now known as Easter was celebrated by ancient Israel as the Passover for many centuries before the blrth or Jesus Christ. It was based upon the events which took place when the Hebrews were saved .from the destruc~ tlon which was visited upon the Egyptians. as given In Exodus 12:27. The first Obristlans, being In the main Jews, continued for a long time to observe the Passover as well as other ancient ceremonies. But' gradually these early followers of the Cross began_ to substltute the Christ for the paschal lamb of Israel Ln the Passover cere.. monies. Eventually there arose a difference of op1nlon between the Christians ot Hebrew deScent and those ot Gentile descent as to the time when Those the~ ceremonies should be celebrated. the -of day of Hebrew descent declared that the death of Jesus should be the date of the ending of the paschal fast, which Ln Hebrew rites, always was on the fourteenlb day of the moon in the evenlng. Therefore •the Easter festival, which followed, might fall on any day of the week. Those of Gentile descent, however, wanted the first day of the week, Sunday, to be the first day of the resurrection festival. Thus the E'rldny preceding would be observed as the date of the crucifL,;:lon without paying any attention to the day of the month, the fast continuing until midnight of Saturday. The dispute over this polnt was complicated by the irregularities of U1e time of fun moon ln relat'ion to the year. The Hebrew sacred year began at the lostant of the vernal equinox, but this t'i~e Is subject to sll~tht changes due to the astronomical fact or perturbation of the mo· tion of all bodies In the solar system. The Hebrews based their years on lunar changes, whereas we now determine the exact length of a year by the sun and stars, whlch Is more ac~ curate. It 1~ notable that the ancient Hebrews always bad trouble with thetr chronology be· cause they based t'he beginning of each month on the first sight of the new moon. The trouble was pl"incipally due to the fact that the moon revolves around the· eartb In 27 days, 7 hours, 48 minutes and 11:!h seconds, and the earth around the sun in 31,558,149 seconds. Therefore the moon makes 13.3687 revolutions to the earth's one. Full·moon times are aJso out o:t' harmony with the spting equinox, and tllts fact eaused trouble In determining time in ancient times. The result of all these complications was that by applying t'he Jewish rules to Easter, the dates of the crucUlxi.on and the resurrection, two days which were supposed to be fued for all time, var1ed constantly. For 325 years the difficulty between the Christlons of Jewish de:-~cent and those of Genttle descent continued. Not being able to decide the recurrence of Easter, the council o:f the early Christian church finally appealed to the astronomers in Alexandria, Egypt, for ald. However, the sclent1sts were not of much assistance. for they had no lunar tables such as we now have, computed by master mathematicians. They nt~ tempted to make rules, but tlle variations o:f the full moon in reference to tlle year would not cause Easter to fall on Sund!;l.Y any more than any other day, All wanted lt to come on Sunday, so each natlon celebrated to suit ltself so that It would come on that day. Thus In A. D. 387 the Ga u1s celebrated Easter on March 21, in Italy It fell on April 18, and In Egypt It fell on April 25. Eventually the selection o:f a certain Sunday was definitely fixed durjng the Sixth century A. D. It was designated as the Sunday between the fifteenth nnd twenty.first days of the moon fn tlle flrst month of the Jewish lunar years. It was directed that tile computation should be made nccordln~ to the tables of Vict'orius of Acqul· taine. Introduced tn 457 A. D. Because of the f•lct thnt Brltaln bud c~ased to be a part of the Homun ('111J)ir€', the Sixth century decree did not ·dfef't tlle British church nt first, and It con· nued tO cnlcuhue Eastrr on a basis previously ..,.ppro,· ·~1 nt TtoLUe. Th f. mn.tter was fi.Mlly df.s... 1. President Hoover greeting tho crowd gath. ered for the annual ~'Easter egg rolling" on tho lawn of the White House. 2. Sunrise services on Easter morning In tho Garden of the Goda, near Colorado Springs, Colo. 3 The Easter lily, one of the loveliest of all Easter aymbola, 4. The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, Calif., where an Impressive Easter morning aervlce Ia held every year. posed or at a synod held at Whitby ln Yorkshire In 664 A. D., after which the clergy or the British Isles conformed to the general practice of the western church. Accordingly Easter Is now observed by both the Roman Cathollc and Protestant churches on the first Sunday after the full moon (or fourteenth day of the moon) on or next -ifter March 21. So it cannot be earlier than March 22 nor later than April 25. Thus It Is possible for the astronomers and mathematicians to tell in ad~ vance on what dates Easter will come each year, and they are now known for more than a century in ·advunce. That', of course, Is based upon the assumption that our calendar will continue unchanged. But there is a posslbUity that some tlme within the ne-xt few years o. new calendar system wlll be adopted and in that case Easter Sunday will be a fixed date Instead of a variable one. So, in case you're interested 1n knowing what wlll be the Easter dates for the next few years, here they are: 1933 ····:········~·····••• Aprli 16 1034 ••..••..•..• , ••.••• , • April 1 1935 •.•• , ...•••• , •..• , •• , April 21 1936 . • • . • • . • • • . • . . . . . . • • . April 12 1937 •.•.•.•.•••.••••• , . • h.-larch 28 1038 •••..••••.•.•.••.•.•. April 17 1939 ••.•.•....••..•.. , . . . . April 9 1940 . • . • • • • • . . • . . • . . • . • . Jl!arch 24 1941 • . . • . • • • . . • • • . • . . . . . . Aprll 13 1942 ..•....••••••••••.•.•. April 5 1943 •..••..... , • • • • . . . • • . Aprll 25 1944 ............•...•..•.. . April 9 1945 ....••........... , , .... April 1 1946 , • . • . . . . • • • • . • . • . . . . • April 21 J947 .•....• , ..•..... , .•... April 6 1948 ..•.••..•..••....•.. 1\!arch 28 1949 ..................... April 17 19iJO •..••••••••• , • , • • • • • • . A.prll 9 Just as Easter is now a variable date, so has lt a variable meaning to many different people. To .t1le child, who cannot grasp its rellgious significance, It means a day w.hose symbols are rabbits, little chickens and Easter eggs. To those children, too, who like to think of any festival time in terms of something good to eat, Easter time means cn.ncly eggs, candy rabblts and other candy symbols of tbe day, not to mention those fragrant, sugary piles o.1' the mystically marked confection, known as hot cross bUns. How did a bakery product come to be associated with Easter anyway? It gQes back to the days of the ancient Saxons who worshipped Ee.ster as goddess of the dawn and benign giver ot new life with the coming of the vernal equinox. That was long before they had ever beard of Chrlatlanlty and the Resurrection. In thelr joy at the return ot new life 1n the springtime they brought the Easter goddess their sweetest cake.:~. at the snme time eating great numbers of them themselves. They clung to thls culkDm even after they bad embraced Christianity. Some of the early Christian leaders were o. bit dubious or preserving such a relic of a heathen religion but some tolerant person who was also a genius for com~ promise, suggested to the priests tbat they bless the pagan cal->es, marking them with the cross. Thus t"he Saxon Easter biscuit was made fit for Chrlstlan consumption and for centuries after-wards it was felt that they were endowed with some special spiritual qualities. A few crosstuns baked on Good Friday not only would not molder, as would other bread, but lf kept throughout the year they would be an efticient medicine for various Uls when crumbled In a cup of water and thus tnken into the body. To most people Easter means a time for coming forth in new clothes and although some ot our philosophers have bewailed the extravagance of the uEaster style parade" as a stgn that we have lost the spiritual significance ot the day In reality It Is In keeping with the essential spirit of Easter, which is shared by Christian and pagan alike. It is the idea of "resurrec~ tlon,'' of revived Ute after apparent death. It marks the climax of the year when all nature a wS.kes from sleep, throws orr tbe death-like chlll of winter and beings to live nnew. With all nature pointing the way by bedecking herself In new raiment, tt Is only natural that mankind should celebrate the surge of new life by putting on new apparel. So when milady appears at church on Easter Sunday in a new frock and a new hat, It: is not mere human vanity expressing itself. She puts them on because she must! She has responded to the fundamental instinct by responding thus to the call of spring, to the message of renewed life. There is an old British tradition l'hat It is 41 good luck to wear something new on Enster da.y,'' but that ls a mere outgrowth of the essen· tlal Idea of the Eastertlde. Far as some of the symbols of Easter and their meanings for different' people may seem to be removed from the essential spirit of Easter, they are in reality not so far removed. For all ot' them are based upon the idea of "ressurec· tlon'' and Lt "resurrection'' is the spirlt and the message of Easter, then the inmost essence ot that spirit can be summed up in the one word "immortality." If man can find an answer to the old, old question that has troubled him through t'be ages, the question "Does death end all?" he can find It In the message of Easter. It is reas. surance that he does not :face a hopeless task. Even It' he did not hn,,.e the comfort of his religion to help him arrive at that belief, he finds it in the mere fact o:t' living, Each day, each year and each lifetime he sees the cycle repeated. The sun comes up in the morning and goes down into darkness at night. But he knows that it wlll come up again the next morning. Each 24 hours he sees the miracle of resurrection. New life ls manifest ln the animal and vegetable kingdoms with each recurring spring. It ripens in the heat ot summertime and mellmvs into maturity in the autumn, only to die in the cold of winter. B.ut he knows that llfe wlU begin again next year. Each 12 months he sees the miracle of resurrection. A baby is born, passes through chlldhood1 grown into youth, reaches man's estate and then declines Jnto old age. 'Vhat if the darkness of death ls only a matter of a. few years away? He has Heen the recurring miracle of resurrection every 24 hours and every 12 months. Why should not man, reasoning logically from this ev:tclence of which be Is aware .every day of his llfe, believe that the cycle of a lifetime includes a resurrectlon just as does the dally cycle and the yearly cycle? He does so believe and from that belief comes his belief Jn the life everlasting. In 1m~ mortality. Perhaps 1t would be more accurate to say he chooses to believe. For few men, of any, have ever solved the riddle of 1.ife to their utter satisfaction. They constantly grope for the truth, seelc:.lng, always seeking, the answer to the unsOlved problems a! life. They have the neverending longing In their hearts for everlasting ll:fe and they choose to believe, and tal'e comfort from the belief, that they shall have it. So whether he be primitive man or modern. civilized man, whether he be Chri~tian or heathen, the essential spirit of Easter, the message ot Easter is tbe same--it ls n message of hope, a message o:f joy and a promise and a fultlllmen1 In one. 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