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Show 1 1 3 I I Easter in j - Jerusalem FTEK the wonderful mid-J mid-J V night mass on the eve of AT,v4 Easter, when at 12 o'clock rnXsva, bells sounded within the JntjyA church, and. as each one of AWVJ thousands assembled Vy'r3 lighted his candle, the cry cnt up. "ChrlBt is risen!" fifz came the Easter morning CH ceremony In the court of iV(' the holy nepulcher. gjva Ah, how gentle, how ten-(K ten-(K der, bow touching, bow vl-Sr vl-Sr tal It was, that simple I greeting of tb wonderful morning after the delirium and the fury of the holy Are! Hobert lllchens says In the Ontury. All hearts were excited to frenzy by the holy fire. The Easter morning procession pro-cession moved hundreds to tears, held them tensely silent Instead of the blue dome, Bpangled with artificial artifi-cial stars, a faint blue Bky was over our heads. Instead of the glare of the torches, the sunbeams fell mildly upon us. Instead of the yelling multitudes, multi-tudes, we heard the sound of the wonderful won-derful bells. They began to peal forth Just before the procession entered the court from the city. Down below me I saw tears streaming stream-ing over the seamed faces of many Russians as they signed themselves, kissed one another, told one another, "Christ Is risen!" answering to the triumphant proclamation of the bels, which, unwearied, reiterated their marvelous message to the children of men. And the canvasses In blue and red and gold came slowly Into the court, and a man carrying the cross, and boys In red and gold with swinging swing-ing lamps on chains, and many priests In black. And there followed a priest with bis arms full of flowers, and behind be-hind him another bearing on high tbe risen Christ crowned with a halo of gold and framed In a glory at blossoms. blos-soms. Then there rose from tbe thousands I of pilgrims a cry of sweet exultation, exulta-tion, and the bells Beemed to grow loader as they told Jerusalem that the rntrble house was empty, that the stone had been rolled away. The blshopB appeared In pBle yellow, earl color and gold, all holding lighted candles. And last of all came Dam-lanos, Dam-lanos, bearing a staff and a Jeweled picture of tbe risen Christ. The procession pro-cession stopped. Tbe bells were silent. si-lent. There was a pause. Then tbe patriarch took a step forward, gated at the Immense crowd of adoring pilgrims, pil-grims, lifted tbe Jeweled picture of Christ, held It out toward them and said. "Christ Is risen!" As his voice died awsy the priest with tbe flowers raised his arms and showered blossoms over the crowd; the bells pealed forth again; the pro cession moved on and the pilgrims, ragerly lighting their candles and embracing em-bracing one another, closed in behind, crying, "Christ is risen! Christ Is risen!" And so Into the darkness of the great church, quietly, softly, tbe procession pro-cession gradually vanished. Tbe gloom was lit up by the candles of priests and ptlgTlms Through the doorway I saw Immlanos In his gorgeous vestments vest-ments sink humbly down to kiss the atone of unction. Then the Russians, weeping with Joy. moved forward and hid htm from my sight Ntv Idea for Easter. TW m-ret m ij-un In th l-nstr lontit line, Thst mlt-M M to h allmeiinn Of tr ha1irr Meh and flri; It wmilil double all tt envy And would niphtx lh styla, An-1 1i to ) (he triumph Of (to Jiurnr 1nn n, alifc, Jf. t.n h f)'.iMrt softly In th vrrf f"rmot sent. An1 ns"! bin.l to the wMpr! iili." M "Ah.' wn1 "Ain't It Ht V Thrn thm ladr with th bonnt C'ouM t'f tme m-n loin h a spring. Or If thsl were ti unhandy, H yf pull a hlWB atrln. Anl thu eau li P up (lyty Krrn h bonnet a neat a cn. flaJ:r l-ART" IMfoPTATIO.N. |