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Show FESTIVAL IN EGYPT People Saw Pledge of Life Ever- lasthg In the Resurreotion of -Mythical Osiris. In tho resurrec- rtt- tlon of OslrlB tho VvO nnclcnt Egyptians VV Baw a plcdgo of J(lxW H'o ovcrlasting GaTW bcynd tll grayo. jyffSvi, Tho 'winter sol- flSSJr. Bt,co wn8 tho Ub 5rwT w uor,otl of mourn- TsTj agony of tno Bla,n I J 1 'III religion of tho V VJWi r EByptIana en mo A. Fft cartn and ro j 1 lijl claimed tho pco- I A. V pie from savage-'m savage-'m J ry Giving them laws, t o a c h 1 n g thorn tho worship of tho gods, giving hlB own body to feed his people, and dying that they might live. After tho days of mourning camo tho ceremony of tho finding of tho body of Osiris and tho resurrection of tho god, tho signal for tho beginning of tho spring festival of Joy throughout tho ancient land of tho Nile. Tho resurrection of OslrlB as symbolized in tho sprouting grain was for tho Egyptians an augury of man's Immortality. It 1b from tho rich mythology of our Teutonic ancestors that wo derive tho very name or Easter Itself, for tho spring festivalof Eostro, tho goddess of aprlng, was a period of rejoicing that mado tho dark forests of northern Europo ring with gladness. With tho conversion of the Germanic races to Christianity much of tho old ritual of tho Eostro worship was retained in tho Eastor ceremonies and customs of the peasants, whero it 1b found today. Tho Eastern customs of today had their beginnings so far back in tho history of tho world that it is Impossible Impos-sible to trace their origins. Tho egg and tho rabbit aro two spring symbols of reviving nature that aro universal and appear to bo as popular today as thousands of years ago in ancient India. In-dia. One of tho legends is that tho god Buddha finding tho peoplo starving, transformed himself Into a haro that the peoplo might bo fed. All of tho ogg legends, of which thero aro a hundred hun-dred variants, express tho Idea of regeneration re-generation that comes with tho beginning begin-ning of spring. Our own Indians had many spring customs and rituals similar in many respects to thoso of tho ancients of Asia Minor and Egypt. Tho old Peruvians Peru-vians and tho Aztecs had olaborato ' spring festivals preceded by fasting, penltenco and sacrifice followed by a day or days of Joy, and it is significant that in many parts of Europo today Easter is knpwn as tho "Day of Joy." In tho less civilized partB of Russia, In tho Dalknns and Asia Minor, and in Sicily tho old f pagan rites still vff aurvlvo. Tho heart fio) ' of humanity for yrT countless ages has M throbbed and "Wf thrilled to tho in- Jm eplrntlon of East- 7 &L er. Now, as in tho v v fflf , past, it voices tho """f Vj f&ck highest aspirations W of mankind. Now, vSSs an in tho dimming s jpv past, men lift their ". hymns of Joy to I ' heaven xx greeting A to tho surpassing J J V- mystery of tho re-fr- birth of tho earth fft and in praise of ) flOT tho lifo-giving Lz.JSrJ risen God. S-vx K Shipping Fever I t Vi J 1".' P.lnk eje' pIkkUo. dlHctnpar, tad all noee ua iBroataiieuw eara. H II Uj Fd " "tyy. ,no matter how "eipoird," kept from fcavtni "iSol thZs; H JKtl 2 .1S?X.7nll5?1'OMN'H.?',V,JIU iK'rKMi'KH "ours & iJrl?? 'Ay 55ri?..im,are.".,Ac.u. on "" blood. Wo and II a- bolt o. U and 110 .. B balS wiuoaiHTO." na brneM '""P"' wtrjbowrAkli. WnoX '' .,.,' , . ,8POIlNMKniOAr.CO H CbemlttaRndIJaeterloloKfatUoben,JUdvd's.A. 1 |