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Show EASTER'S MEANING God's Wondrous Love for His Children, and the Greatest of All Miracles. "WES, it'o Easter. Don't you heartho 1 bolls chiming? Tho vory air Booms charged with enthusiasm. 1 Even tho birds scorn to chirrup a now song, for tho wholo world is full of I Joy. You smilo whether you fool liko it or not, for tho smilo on ovory faco you moot challenges you to it. Surely, Sure-ly, Easter must moan much to tho world. What does it moan to you? i A To somo Eastor moans an oxcuso to rival Cleopatra. That damo of notorious nnmo and unsavory reputation was an adopt in suggestlvo dressing. With a wizard's skllf buo catered to tho emotions of men, toyed with them a littlo and then abandoned them for a moro promls-ing promls-ing subject for excitement. Mnscu-lino Mnscu-lino conquest is dear to tho fomlnlno heart, and somo swoct maids scorn unconscious un-conscious of tho price thoy pay to win. Compromised modesty is intoxicating In its appeal, tho results aro not un-llko un-llko in any other intoxication. Evory puch occasion has its sobering timo, "usually it means consciousness of loss sand shamo. Oh, I know that you may not go tho limit. Yet you will not jdony that others will. Thoro will bo jgrand parados at fashionablo resorts kind every littlo hamlet will try to Ishow itsolf bb tho "best over." If this lis all Easter means to you you Buroly joro in need of a missionary. ' To many others tho day offers ac-toptablo ac-toptablo occasion for making gor-jnands gor-jnands of themselves. Easter eggs aro tho rulo. Many a husky lad will try to seo how many eggs ho can oat today so that ho can I brag about it tho rest of tho yoar. lioro and thoro tho physician will bo needed to relievo tho egg-pain that I results from tho abuse of naturo. That fellow Is Ies3 man and moro boast i wheso greatest glory lies, in tho quan-ji quan-ji tity of eggs ho can consumo. If an oc- casion for oxcused gluttony is tho meaning you attach to Easter you, too, aro in need of a missionary. Eastor comniemoratos tho greatest of tho world's miracles. It has been said to bo beyond rea- eon. Probably It is boyond tho rea- f sonlng callbor of mortal thinkers Just as it is not common to oxperlcuco. Yot tho samo argument would apply to many practical inventions that aro now ccinmon. Onco thoy wero thought impossible, and tholr advocntos wero scoffed at. Somo havo oven boon Blaln in nges past for daring to advo-cato advo-cato daring theorlos. Somo day, also, tho veil will bo lifted from tho, Rob-, Rob-, urrcctlon nnJ men will seo a ronson-jublenesa ronson-jublenesa whoro now thoy seo only por-VffPXy. por-VffPXy. Tho fact Is not less real bo-8auso bo-8auso I cannot explain it any moro ' thnn a complicated machiuo Is a 11c- f tlcn bocauso I cannot understand all ' ' about it. By applying mysolf I can ' learn about tho machiuo It I havo a i . mechanlcnl mind, by trusting tho I toachiugs of tho Master I can havo his s witness in my heart that what ho has 1 taught mo is truo. Pennsylvania m Gdt- |
