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Show sionaries persuaded the Saxons to accept ac-cept the feast of the paschal lamb and simply change the name to that of the feast of Ostara, which later was anglicized angli-cized to Easter. The Easter egg also had its origin among non-Christians. The people of northern Europe hunted eggs in the springtime, believing that it was good luck to find them and eat them. Of course wild birds laid eggs only in the spring of the year. The Christian missionaries to our ancestors saw an opportunity to win men to a belief in Christianity by adopting the egg-hunting day and combining it with Easter. The egg was shown to typify life. As the chick lies imprisoned in the egg only to burst forth, so will our bodies lie in the tomb only to be resurrected at the call of God. The hunting and eating of eggs is observed today in Persia and in other Asiatic lands where there is no Christianity, Chris-tianity, showing that the custom does not come with Christianity. OBSERVANCE OF EASTER SUNDAY THE observance of Easter Sunday Sun-day dates back to the founding of the early Christian church, in commemoration of the resurrection resur-rection of Jesus. It is generally believed' be-lieved' by all Christians that Jesus was crucified on Friday and buried. The following Sunday certain women of Judea went to the tomb early in the morning to anoint his body. Saturday was the Sabbath day of the Jews. That accounts for the delayed visit to the tomb. Jesus was buried so late Friday the women did not have time to anoint his body. As soon as day dawned that Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, and, according accord-ing to sacred accounts, found Christ .had gone. The stone which sealed the mouth of the tomb was rolled away. At first they were filled with grief, believing his body was stolen. Then they remembered re-membered the words of their Master, that he would rise from the tomb the third day. His reappearance and assurance as-surance that all could conquer the grave was the cause of great rejoicing. From the time of the flight of the children of Israel from Egypt, the Jews had observed the Passover to commemorate the night when the angel an-gel of det:th passed over the houses of the Hebrews and slew the first-born In the houses of the Egyptians. The feast of the Passover was being observed ob-served by the citizens of Jerusalem at the time of the crucifixion. The followers fol-lowers of Christ continued to observe the feast of the Passover, but the observance ob-servance took on a new meaning. The exact time of the feast was not settled until the council of Nice, called .by Emperor Constantine of Rome in the year 325. It was then decided that the feast should be observed the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. The only great astronomical observatory in the world ' at that time was at Alexandria, Egypt. It was left to the astronomers there to determine when Easter should come. The early Christians did not know the feast by the name of Easter. The name is of Saxon origin and came from the feast of the paschal lamb of the early Christian church with the feast of the coming of spring of the Saxons. OatAra, the goddess of spring of the Saxons, was worshiped in England and Oarmany before the first missionaries to the north of Europe brought the atory of Christ. The Saxons, in accepting ac-cepting Christianity, continued to observe ob-serve their old feasts just as the Jew-i.jfjh Jew-i.jfjh Christians continued to observe i the i. feast of the Passover. The mis- |