Show ar ft f 7 j a J 1 i b r y K j K N Ni I i 1 7 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ASTEP Is t here tf What Is Is the the- s pint of Caster Casler This r red d le lettery-g lettery el day lay on on our calendar I y which we observe this tills year eal on March 11 81 n tins tinsa hasy a n number of different j symbols any one line of which may remind us of that day for fOI all nil or of them are based upon tile the same s funda funda- fundamental fundamental mental principle I To o the world It 13 the lie anniversary of the I resurrection of f Jesus Bat that dues not mean that bat the essential spirit of lister Enster meads something to one olle part of humanity set off from from tile the lie re- re re remainder by hf a U reli religious lous belief and that th they lime hate e a n monopoly upon tile the joys of the lie Easter Laster season Fur lIr Easter r has a universal significance and the ke keynote note of tit It lies III's In Ilse Idea of resurrection Look at nt the word itself laster itself leister It 11 ItIs ItIs Is derived derl from the lie word w Ia East t and East Enst Is one of the lie four cardinal cardin paints It Is nl also o the cardinal point which h hilS always been most mo ml t t Important In la nil all religious ceremonies of nil all races and creels creeds This Is because uH it II I la is the lie part parI of the heavens h where the lie sun lIn Is secs to t the rise rise he sun bringer of light 11 and heat the lie cr very Il cr gl cr of life lIe Itself The most t primitive Intelligence of or the Ilic most primitive man recognized reI the trie itch that tile the sun and life liCe were Inseparably abl as us associated and It was only natural turu I hunt when lie he Clime to OI worship hip the thing which was greal greater r than llian h he hI he should turn to the lie last East whence date which hI he greater and higher tiring tiling recognized ed ns as being the lie Ilfe life giving III I power powe So each diy day was to him a n cycle of or u whole hole lifetime In III the us IS II sun came rame up uJ life canto Cilino a me into 1010 As the sun un mounted In the heavens elJ life grew In lu Its lurty luy t lu-t youth and In III Increased Increased creased In po n power r AI At Its Us life Its lis highest est point pint As the too w aS at sun declined so life d declined lInell Inlo old ne age Into weakness s there came darkness s the non iii III for death d AftEr n a period of s life und and There was us a n re resurrection life of oC a the circle cule once more compressed M cd Into 21 I limns hours there wits was life stripped d of all nil the And thaI lint custom u m and soc Ill myth th legend itself to t hat int IIII has lins El laster ter Is the lie spirit of f Easier 1 nil all word MII n one In III the lie has lins a 8 So Sn II Ea taster Easter ter no other red letter red letter II Oil on Ott lIr ir ll has liat ln Is- Is 11 the significance of one of the fundamental funda mental and md inevitable IlIe facts of exist cure It is com that all other red letter I flays days 1 may IJ bo be abolished nb is cd from our our calendars hut Ine IGe calendar calendar It- It Itself It Itself self unity be done d done nc a away with Put nut no mutter what mommy may happen so long as human life Ilfe exists on ou this earth till th t of Easter III sill III survive sUI When It ends then theu ends cads till nil hope for fur man man- mankind mankind kind all reason for fOl mankind's struggle gle Ie to exist If resurrection Is the he spirit and the messa message e of Eit Eu Easter then the impost essence essene of ot spirit can b be In the one onn word Ul Ott If man ratan can call timid rind nn nut answer to the old old question that has hns troubled him tiu the lie ages aes the question Does death lenth end nil lie he cnn can find It In Ih the message sage if of Easter It II is reassurance that the the lie st struggle to live e la is worth worthwhile worthwhile worthwhile while timid imd hal he lie does docs oes not nOI face II a hopeless bask ask E liven E en if he lie did not nol nolhac hate ha tile the comfort of or his Ills religion rell Iun to help him arrive at that belief lie he finds It In III the mere fact of living ln Each I day each each year lar arid and each lifetime he sees secs the lie c cycle cle repeated The sun lIlIes nl up tip In the morning and goe goes down Into lulo darkness at night lul he hc knows that It Each will come up again th he next morning Each Cach 2 24 t hours he sees Sll I tile the miracle miracle of resurrection rC I New life I Is manifest t In III th the animal and ond vege vege e able tohle kingdoms with each recurring spring It Jt ripens In the Uie heat of sum stun summertime find and mellows Into maturity 1 In inthe tile the Intile autumn only to die de In III the cold old of w winter Inter But Put nut lie I knows ws Ilfe will begin again next nest spring Elch Ech 1 12 mouths months he lie sees ses the th of res Ies resurrection A h Is I baby s horn born passes lusses childhood grows s glO Into reaches mans man's estate and theu lieu declines Into lulo old a abe age e If the darkness of I Is only a matter of a II few Cew years Jears awa away lie has hns seen sen the site recurring mir tale of re resurrection el e every 21 I hours mind every 1 12 months Wh Why should not nOI notman man reasoning logically from thIs e evidence of which he Is aware every ery da everyday of If his lils life believe day that hat the cycle i of a II lifetime Includes H It re resurrection just juH ns docs hoes tile lie daily dally c cycle cle and the the lie em early I cycle lie Ue dues lues so believe belle and front frum belief comes his belief In 10 Inthe the life e In Immortality 1 Perhaps It would be he more accurate to say sw he lie chooses chouses to belle e bellese e For few men If any base ha ever solved sol the rid rid rid- die riddie of life to their utter They constantly grope for the truth huth s 's othe seeking the thc lie answer er to o the unsolved problems of lIfe Ilfe The They have han the ne lonin longing In their tI heists fo for f e crl till life they d they e to in 1 believe fake from the belief th that t the they shall have ha It So 80 whether he lie be primitive e man or ormo mo modern lern civilized man whether he be Ulu or 01 heathen the essential I spit spit-it of Ia Easter Laster the message of of East Enst Easter I er 11 Is the hc same same-It tanie lt Is n a me message sa e ot of hope n a of JO joy and a 0 prom prom- promie prom prom-li-e i-e i and a fulfillment In III one That message e Is to nun man In 10 many forms It comes to him In the riot of bird songs which greet the slue sun or every eQ In spring It comes to lu hint him in III the greenness of the grass In III Inthe the Ille swelling bulls buds on the lie trees In the thel flowers l which push ush their heir way up through tile the lie earth carth wien the warm warm- Ing log Ill touch louch of the sun Is laid upon It It emus emu's t to Fin in the softness of the blue bIlle sky In the fleecy clouds floating above c him and In iii the gentle caress of the that touch i 1 his lils fate fale fatena fa II na lie he goes forth to start each days day's WOI w k It Jt comes omes to hint him too as hf Ii young animal life about him him- lambs fives calves and colts about uns at nt first amid then as ns thy they ahn strength i th running around In those th tunny awkward stiff legged legged little jumps which h are arc always I so fascinatIng fascinating fascinating ing to watch It c S J times to him every minute of at the day di dius us liS Nature In ID nil all her tier forms has lias come comet I cries nut cut L t exultingly Spring III hug has come Even Enn If she slie did nut tell him him in those hose words he lie would know Inow It I In IC himself in the lie surge of neW h in lit n his hi- hion 0 own o n body In the quick quick- quickening his blood after its winter ening of If sluggishness lu As he hears the cull call ot of lie he spring and tie the lie message of Easter the me message feels I the ilie he desire to pass along lie passes pases It along niong In Imi as many him imi In the happy ways 15 ts 8 s It comes to note In his lils as 89 he greets his ft In tt the tto c little snatches of son song Which lie is hinds li himself elf singing and In Intile inthe tile the effort wIh wh h he lie males makes constantly to put lint message Into words So In ID addition to the visible tan tangible Able gible symbols of Easter It also has lias its ILS You rou can caD cannot cannot 10 e Intangible s symbols touch happiness but not see sec or you know there Is such a n tiling thing and In III the year Eater is II tie e one time Inherent In when that happiness Is all 11 of us liS Christmas of course Is also alson alson n 1 title time of s but our participation thou tion In Its Joys Jos Is dependent upon of giving hiving the joys jors others othel's are Its joys joyt TIA Jo joy of The lint and the joys JIS f or Enster Is t more pcr personal Ite of ot others we n-e can caD within us liS lie know Its jr je j vs s for they and amid the of living Iring they arE the lie Joys jos e 1 t- t life Is Hint hunt J S of lri lr For that list kno ele too Is the of f 1 Easter aster |