Show t i tt A SOWING 1 aw fo ir GLORY 1 oa 04 A t it t J 14 11 04 ifa io verily verily vertly I 1 ay say unto you except a corn of wheat tall fall into the round ground and die it arideth alone ion but if it it die it brin felli forth much fruit lorr was buly upon certain hills and 4 in the valleys between the ruins and debris of cen turlee nearly flit the valleys modern exploration 1 disco yva far below the eur face e the anund talons of 74 solomn a temple huge monoliths bearing the signatures of king hiram a vork mca lying upon the solid rock upon that rock faun datlo n rested therefore the golden temple and the later temples of azra ara and of herod the modern like the ancient tern pie af u god reet rests upon the foundations of the universe 1 religious thought and scientific research ork together to bring them to view it comes with in orating vig freshness freeh nesa to one who dia dis covers it in experience that the worda words of christ are based upon old tut new ly discovered foundations of tha the verae verse and are therefore in harmony with the newly discovered discover bd truth of 0 eath generation these thoughts are suggested by what our lord said a few days before ilia ills death deatle verily verily I 1 say unto you except a torn of wheat fall into the ground and die it alone but if it die it bri ngeth forth much fruit he ile took a truth of or nature and showed that it applied both to himself and to us true equally of the seed the savior and the sinner the seed preserved misses its dea des tiny and abides alone sown in the earth and dying it brings forth fruit ron consider sider the illimitable scope of this law the surface of the tle world had to perish age after ame are to produce a soil in which plant life could ho live plants had to perish as they do now that am ant mals might live in counted billions of creatures huge ald infinitesimal had to perish that man might appear whole races have to pass away that higher races may be developed old customs and ideas must die to give place to fuller truth the word easter illustrates this perfectly ostara the goddess of spring to our heathen ancestors the ishiara of the phoenicians Phoenicia ns the istar of babelonia Daby Baby lonia his perished from the minds of men only her name remain ing as tha th designation of the worlds world a new springtime hopa hope of immortality in the resurrection of jesus christ sunday itself Is such a testimonial the day of the god of the sun wor IS hipped shipped no looser longer baa has named th treat a t resurrection day ot of the aaa c an quedor r O 0 r 0 of all heathen rode god everything has to perish to lead to something better mosey aloney hoarded boarded Is money wasted scattered catt ered bout about in manufactures anil and com commare mere it in the abod d of prosperity our lord says that what ie is trae of the need Is to true of the savior saylor the son of man because he was a son ot of man could not be glorified except through death no son of man can be until be died christ was alone the only begotten son in his birth lonely in his life lonely in gethsemane at lone n before the herod and nd pilate he trod the winepress wine pros press alono alone and was laid in a lonely grato a lie wa was a seed of immortality his re resurrect tion was as natural aa as the coming up of green things in springtime he ile could not be holden of death over such a spirit as bis his death hath bath no mo power Is his resurrection wonderful far mar more wonderful avita calt beyond be ilef lief would be tho the passing of such a spirit into eternal silence and noth dingness he ile showed that what was true ot at the seed and of the savior la 13 tru also of the inner sinner N whoever hoever eaves saves life will lose it and only be he who loses his life for the highest things can eave save it save your body from wear and tear of labor and you destroy it save your brain from thinking and you become a mental weakling kling only an as we constantly conet antly destroy our bodies and braise brains by proper exer exercise cisa can they have hare higher life lifo life la in for each of us a handful of seeds we can eat them or va w can save them or we can sow them we must eat something to preserve life but bu if for pleasure we devour too ter much of our time talents labor love money or religion not bowing sowing it aa as seed to do good we destroy ourselves in russian and indian famines people sometimes eat the seed need intended for sowing some souls devour for present satisfaction that which they should sow in the troubled or borrowing sorrowing or despairing hearts of others and can have no harvest but for those of ua us who try even if we fall more or less what comfort rt easter faster hast bast our bright dreams and hopes of youth have darkened into sober commonplace life the best ef et forte forts of our young manhood or w wa manhood have resulted only in corn com para lve tive failure well we have bare bowed sowed some seed under the kind leading of the great instead of eating it all now our lost seeds not lost but sowed bowed will have hare resurrection la in great er glory our eyes will view with won der and delight the flowers and fruits we vo shall gather from the things we wept over as lost all that are in the grave shall arise that seed need of good sown gown in humble duty and self denial and with tears shall have its easter harvest joy rev ray III C ray D D it aa as about thirty years ago that the easter card came into being christmas cards were first given con sider atlon in 1871 and soon after ward Easter Easte cards rIcards were tried A large firm la in london landon and another in boston were among the first of such publish ers |