Show miracle of the easter blooms ms VER VERY flower floer that bloom SI asb le 18 aa an easter miracle there has been tha th 59 death of 0 a parent plant plaat basw to produce the seed or bulb the ye bu had to hide hido the seemingly dead thing which yot yet contained a hidden genn germ ot idt life A watering by tho the tears ot of the great nature mother the beams ct far away source of heat beat cro azes sary out of tho the very valley of the shadow of death that bravery of green and brilliancy has come we may not emell smell the mold above th rose but it has come forth from the blackness of tho the dirt into ite its fragrant beauty the easter time hales bales us back to the tho days the perfect man aa flower mower of our race was as cut down by the hands of nicked men and and slain it t would be an incomplete history judging iu gang by the analogy of nature it if it left him there the life history of your illy neither begins nor ends with the fading of the bloom it was because this thin was the first real exemplification of the raising life of the world to come that f it waa was heralded by the angel of tho resurrection the first flower of humanity to pass into its perfected stages of glorious glor lons fruition was as the man who came back from the dead in the mystery of a spiritual body on the tho first sunday that ever was as E ever e garden is a sacramental placer place now since jhc easter flowers first coved near 1000 1900 years ago it Is a sign of the inward inu ard grace which moves amid the dust of the ages preserving pree erving the germ lives of all who have gone down into the soil resting until the angel of or tho the great resurrection sets to his lips the golden trumpet and sounds the clarion call of the great springtime when the garden of paradise give back its souls and the black barta and the deep seas shall give ghe up their dead ond nd lives shall bloom again in new beauty beauly and the unfading majesty for which W h ich they th 0 y were waco created at tha thel first |