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Show jSTER, OLD STAND BY i J)F LADIES AID, GIVEN HONORABLE OUSTER erchurch World Movement Will Aut Church on Business Basis H Where Won't Need to Beg. T 'lie liule ovsler, once such n es ial money-making factor In church 'les, is henceforth to be taboo. It be regarded by the Ladles' Aid A(ery as a thin;? to he shunned. Its F to jiiiy the preacher's salary or to ; the hole in the church roof or to A I a missionary to India or Africa-Ft Africa-Ft no longer he needed. The Inter . 'ch World Movement Is to put the Fcslian Church on n business man"? ret basis. jj course the oyster will get an hon- le discharge from the service, for d not desert, but was the standby Ladies' Aid Society until the en found n better way of flnanc- ctheir obligations for promoting Fcph work. That better whv is now (Ct ' : studied In practically all the n's church societies in Ihe United fti-s, according to Miss Laura J WM, superintendent of the worn division of the Stewardship De- CMiient of the Interchurch World "meiit. ere will no longer be any need for Ca'.omen of our churches 1o resort sorts of services for raising r for church purposes when the.v It seems as if the Eastertide East-ertide was a particularly appropriate time for the caroling out of our joy. The spring has come, the birds are singing again af- loi tho inner winter nf Icq and snow, and we mortals wake to joy again with them. Let us see how the people of ancient times observed Easter. "Carol," the word which we use in speaking of Easter musie, means a song of praise, between a hymn and a ballad, a song which was used first to accompany a dance. One of the most beautiful of these old carols had its origin in the southwestern southwest-ern part of France, and Is called "The Carol of the Flowers." It runs thus : Come with us, sweet flowers, and worship wor-ship Christ the Lord; Let your perfume hover round the Babe adored. ; Modest violet, hiding in the grassy shade, Yliou canst say how humble He ia made. Lily fair, low bending In the sun's warm light, Thou dost tell that He is pure as thou are white. Aa thou, pansy, shinest forth in bright array, St doth He his majesty display. As thou, rose, wide opening, do thy scent impart, So His love expanding, draws each sinful sin-ful heart. Easter time seemed especially the season that the ancient people were moved to compose folk songs, which were not written down as music is -if .0 n) i ' ) 1 .,, i , 1 1 ' 1 written now, but which were sung, from generation to generation of people. peo-ple. In this way they were kept alive, . as surely as if they had been printed, or written on parchment, according to the custom in ancient days. These folk songs depicted scenes in the garden gar-den of Gethsemane where the Saviour walked, or of the women who went to the tomb bearing precious spices, of their finding the empty tomb, of the white-robed angel, and of Mary, the virgin mother. One of the most beautiful of all the songs which have been written of this event Is Handel's "I Know That My Redeemer Llveth." This has been sung on Easter for many years, in churches. |
