Show the comfort comfor of easter D dau a lesson of oi season smon that brought peace to afflicted little heart HB HE child was sobbing bit 1 fv terly tho the sweet young mother whom ho he loved bad had been burled buried la in tho the earth ho lie thought that aha she 60 1 17 r had gano forever A loving aunt bad had come to ark e care of him and sue aho tried to comfort t him your mother la Is living still dear she bald said you vill BO see her gain she Is matching at ching you a this minute sho she loves you just tto same as ever no no wept vio ho child she Is dead the doctor said so and I 1 know it Is true because I 1 kissed her and she did not kiss me back again it sho had known she would hae have kissed tao ina back again for she always did and oh oh my mother Is dead 1 I know it seems so darling a sighed it h ed the aunt whose own heart was sore and heavy but under that still fac face there ethere was as yet life christ showed us that when he rose from the dead lie did not answer when bis his mother and bla disciples called him but one day ho he rose from this seeming death to show us that no one really zeally dies that was the first easter day men alen had always hoped but they had never surely known before then that tle dip deij d could rise again Is it not beautiful tl al dear the child for a little seemed comforted then he looked over to tie tte fa familiar zillar chair where V 10 1 o sweet mother had been wont to hold him and pet him and again he be broke into sobs he was only five and his little mind could not grasp tho great sweet truth which his aunt had been telling him at last ehe rhe said 1 I will III show it to you some soma time so that you will under stand it vv was in a the early springtime that the young mother bad had been laid away from bis his sight the cold winds were blaw blowing flig the trees looked bare and gaunt and dead out among the leafless woods the aunt led the grieving child see these poor treed trees she said to him does it 1 not look to you as though they were quite dead he lie felt carefully of the branch which she held out to him yes he answered it Is only an old dead stick SUCIE just good to burn in th the a 5 fire re it seems so she admitted but wait a m while bile and we will come back here again one warm sunny day a few weeks later she took him to the same name spot and allowed showed him the same bough agala agail it wan waa covered with sott fuzzy fuzzi leaf buds and little clusters of tender green leaves were bursting from them and it Is to so with our dear ones who die ho she se minded him gently they ther seem dead but they really live and somewhere they are happy aid beau beautiful tiNI more beautiful than they were here lust just sa na the leaves are ard more beautiful than the ure are tree the child gazed after them then he looked back at the once deadlock dead look ins log bare trees he remembered well be queer brown sticks how wonder iol a it was I 1 aber se med dew defte cho oded him again gently but you BOO see that they were not no h he a rejoined thoughtfully ully thoy they boroo w not n 0 V it Is so 30 with our dear onis once sho she repeated they may seem to bo be doad dead but they are not one ono day sho she took some poppy seed and showed to him ie Is it popper pop por ho lie asked ased or ie in it tho the powder that my father uses in his eun cun V no eho she told him it ie Is not pepper popper nor powder but it seems just an dead doorne it 1 yes yen he u answered again vel ty it la is juat just aa dead as it can bo be 1 I am going to drop it into the earth here she said gravely and suo took up a trowel and dug into the rich earth then she sho scattered the dead powder in tho the hole that she had made and covered it carefully A fortnight later she took the ch child lid to see it you remember ren omber that dead black powder 0 wo o bowed sowed here sho she reminded him yep ho he answered quickly it afie ag a just here thia this Is the little board ya put in so that we might know and yet these pretty little plants came from those dead black seeds she told him right out of them he asked breathlessly yes they seemed so small and black you know yet there wat the germ of a little plant in each one of them and soon they will be covered with bright flowers we could cover nover believe anything so strange if wo we did not see it right before our eyes and nd so it Is with the loved ones that we think are dead they are not dead and in some other world we e do not know where be the they bloom from their cold lifeless bodies just ashe leaves broke from tho the tree and these little plants from the dead seeds yes es I 1 see breathed tho the child through starting tears but men acre dull went ent on the loving aunt trying to mako inako it very plain to him for hundreds of years men had seen tho the dead trees leave out and the plants spring from dead seed and still they could not really iellene that it if a man died ho lie would live again so god sent christ to show us all these things he lie taught us how to live and then he seemed to die but he rose from the dead on the third day and talked with his friends to show us that as ho he lived after death so we should live also and tho the great apostil faul raul made it plainer still he lie said that we were nere sown boan a natural body and we should bo be raised a spiritual body we do not understand it any more than wo we understand this marvelous change of the seed into the flower floer but we must believe that it is true p yes breathed tho the child 1 I see and I 1 must belle believe e that my mother Is up yonder he waved his little hand with a beautiful new body not sick any more and happy and that I 1 will sye see her again when I 1 go up there too you see she explained to him men were ere so glad so glad when the great hope came to them that they would live after death that every year they rejoice on tho the day christ rose for two thousand years they have kept ef out awong the leaner wood woods she led him that day just think v what hat joy it brought into the world I 1 Is it the happiest day in the year he asked her she thought of the day of christs birth and spoke of it but I 1 think he said at last thoughtfully that it was more beautiful to have him hini come back buck from froni the dead even aln to have him born so I 1 am going tu ille the easter day best beat of all sho she did not and any fault with wit h his choice she knew that just then to that afflicted little heart the thought ot the easter day waa was tho the sweetest thing in the world christian hereid |