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Show tp s rKejoicing on;g .Easter Sunday -fA HE heart nf l"hriFriLHlom re- Jolces od E:ister Sunday. y The entry into Jerusalem on wUffi Palm Sunday. the asnny jf Christ In the Knrden. the crucifixion cru-cifixion aDd burial on liood Friday all these are past. Death is swallowed op In victory. Christ the Lord Is risen today ! If, as has bwn suggested, the word Easter Is derived from Oster, which Ignlfles rising, then is Easter Sunday, both In name and reality, the feast of the resurrection. It is more rrobnble, however, that ERSter gets Its name from Eostre, n Baxon deity, whose feast was celebrated cele-brated every spring about the time of the Christian festival. A compromise compro-mise was thus effected. Christians accepting ac-cepting the pagan name and pagans accepting the Christian significance of the day. Easter Is a movable feast It falls on "the first Sunday after the full rnonn which happens upon or next after the twenty-first of March, and. If the full moon happens upon a Sunday. Easier day is the Sunday after." 1 In earlier days Easter was called the Paschal feast, for it was kept at the same time as the Pascha, or Jewish Jew-ish Pnssovfr. Si much for the origin of the name. Euster Sunday today Is celebrated hy youn? and old alike. For the children there are rabbits and Easter ergs and I he unrestrained Joy of egg hunts In back yards and In public parks. For the grown-ups there are new suits, new hats. But surely Easter holds more than this for us. It Is not a (lay of happiness happi-ness alone, nor of outward show alone. It Is a day of victory. Just as our Saxon forefathers celebrated cele-brated Eostre and the victory of things physical, so we celebrate Easter and the victory of things spiritual. The heart of man Is filled with the beauty of spring's flowers that have sprung from death to life. The soul of man Is triumphant, for It Is filled with a spirit which die"h not. Cbrist the Lord 19 risen! |