Show Easter Really Beginning of Y eat V 7 M J 11 JI l V c. iiI tf i f 1 J 1 I l l II I F r a. a Easter Is generally looked louled upon as natures nature's spring opening day ay t Fresh towers flowers new hats light clothing art an Its weather accompaniments permit tang There Is an old custom ot of ul hi ways wearing something new Is responsible I suppose fot fOI the hou householders householder's holders holder's prIncipal expense the Easter hat for the lady who make o a ahome home of the house l I And If something new which will add to the charm of the day really has to be worn where could It be set to better advantage I Ithan than above miladys milady's s fair face fac 7 Once New Years Year's Day It t Is right e enough this Inclination toward newness on Easter day Be Be CRuse cause Easter so often came about March 25 lust just the vernal equinox England made that her hew r Years Year's day down own to 1751 William the Conqueror Con ConQueror made It n a law lav that January 1 1 his coronation day should begin the year But even that doughty warrior could not make English people change their custom The Observer writes In the Montreal Family Herald It Ii seemed so natural to follow natures nature clock and begin the year with her when spring went round with her res touch and told lowers flowers and herbage In their winter stillness that It was time to get up anti begin an another another other seasons season's blooming In fact It was n a distinct sign ot of the growth o of t true science scIence that takes n no o nr nile i h. h L. L dead as Ue tie bar barl promised thereby proving Himself to be as Ue had claimed hud the Ule Son was the main feature of the teaching ot of the church churchIn to In Its earliest most successful days Death Is such an appalling fact I Hu man nature Instinctively dreads and rebels against It R It Is something lm ported portell Into humanity which after all these years still comes as n a shock to It We IVe were we're not Intended not designed to meet that shock I None can escape lt It Death comes to every one n as a stoll to all worldly actIvities That That One Que had actually overcome death and proved that It was for the future to tobe tobe be a gate to another larger Compensating satIng Ute life and no longer a prIson gate swinging open only one way inwards In In- wards warda because ot of sin In was am amazing ni news to the world Only the Creator I of man and his Judge could have ac iC shed change like I TH The Theman man who accepted t the e well attested historIcal tact fact of the Easter on accepted with it It the b tJ the e fact that Jests of ot N Nazareth zare b bla was la laGod God as as well as man and professed to be a Christian Chr Easter Enster was In short the festival of the Al AI mighty Go head of Jesus Christ as Christmas ChrI was the ry of His lIIs' lIIs miraculous birth as' as Son SOD of Man It h was was a festival of the deepest joy The ThE earliest Christians made the Resurrection on the first day ay ot of the the week to be a weekly festival hy by transferring transfer ring their rest day from the ev nth which recalled the Creation and the exodus from Egypt pt to th the first da aa of every week under We the guidance ot of course cour of the Holy Ghost As As' As well Easter day was by far the greatest rea test festival of the year and So o It was eel cel In the first centuries en UtIe 01 OU era i Beginning New s r Is It correct I wonder to say tb that t there has bas been a strong tendency In our days to dwell w lI wore upon the humanity hu hu- manity than upon the divinity Qt the Savior You e how our our preachers emphasize the example the tl e h leader leadership r ship the sufferings of The Master Mastt r as as' as the perfect Guide Leader and Man of Sorrows how apt they are to lightly upon His eternal Godhead and add power I I 1 have bave the Idea that the ex exaltation of Christmas Is due to that tendency y Sometimes I wonder if If wet we have not lost something by magnifying magnify magnify- Ing the man rather than tile Uie God In Inthe n the blessed Savior M n has been kicking and at-and at and trying to o b the gate ot of death for centuries and never could open It Only the Master of death could do that It 11 was the GodIn Codin God Cod In Jesus that mattered and ud marIe made nil all I Ithe the difference Ancient E JI d. nd ip fact before Pope Gregorys Gregory's mission n arles arrived there had really ul Christmas New Years Year's day and lie gnu gan the year eur with the coming df f God Godt to the world But that changed Its opinion us as t I hare haFe said and derided decided rather that tile the worl of mens men's m n new lift hegan he nn when nature rutur hIj gab gan tier her year ear and so shifted their New I Year b beginning to Easter oriel and I the spring a Easters Easter's Glorious Promise It really makes no difference Intelligent world whether the cal calen calendar n nur dar ur year begins at Easter Eastel or in Jt nu ary Calendars do not the season or the weather though thou h nn an acquaintance ac t rather ruther given ghen to 10 follow follow-as- as stopped me tn In the street a afew 8 few days ago ngo to t tell E yf n wonder wondel wonderful ful almanac p d In In I country which foretold exactly r what the weather was to JJ I Iud did ud Mil know that there was n a single m b living outsIde of a lunatic asylum riS l u who belIeves In weather w uth r s these days though I fancY J can re remember member when n a good many believed ed In n theIr guesses But It it Is admirably befitting b that HUH E Easter r with Its certain hope of th the i tion life Ufe of man which came cameto to us out of the g grave e a In In Ina a a Jerusa em Jerusalem gar den en at the season when earth Is is showing show shuw Ing sIgns of renewed arisen n life fe should be celebrated just at this tm time of year It It-is It Is to be reminded b by the lovely 10 growths that come from wintering graves In gardens fields fields' and woods that we shall be ch changed ig d when the gleaming Easter Sun un ot of Righteousness shall t rIse and and nil all Ut b I 1 s will III open n Changed a as the he lily ts c from the dry bulb we we plant Into something so much more be beautiful so so- wonderfully more mMe enduring en en during th than we are to be so n I s so that nl all tears nil all sorrow sor 1 row shall be done away and all things mankind Included shall become t New 1 1 Wide Wid Popularity Po u arity of Easter Egg Rolling Egg Au An Easter sp h which Is still pup J II filar n north of England Is' Is the teS egg ling competition Ou On Easter l particularly In Preston there are many enthusiastic r players the people turn out to to th the hill hili where rc haul eggs dyed J In y ci ei e-ei y h are rolled down wn the slopes The name consists In each competitor h as y of oc his rivals its ergs f 3 as riS they roll down tho incline Je whiner Is he whose gg retrains un unbroken rAken to to- the last The The CP custom O ihas has iI pr ad to the the l tate 11 r Another curious custom of vb i O i e in in S some lle parts of S It lI n A h eggs are di- di I over ocr tt Ii le el plot of ground field n b so co ci wIth sand san that their whereabouts cannot be detected Then i men meu women of the dis 1 Hi q l t tr r the spot If If any c a rt i 1 kY enough to g get t r i d' d p ce t tr ad adon on 1 S the eggs t they ley consIder it it itI a I sign sign ot of betro t I. 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