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Show Lent- Lent will begin this year on Wednesday Wed-nesday next, the 10th, much earlier than it has done Bince 18G9. This will bring the high festival of Easter on the 2Sth of March, which is within with-in six days of the earliest period upon which it can ever possibly occur. On 'some years Easter falls as late as the 1 25Lh of April. Some years there are as many as nine Sundays between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday, but this year there are only five Sundays intervening betwten the jubilee of Epiphany and the solemn feast of , Lent. |