Show Easter s er I I ee 2 I See the land her Easter k keeping Riser Risen as her Master Ilter rose rose- Seeds so long In darkness sleeping Burst Durst at nt last from Crom winters winter's snows Earth with heaven above rejoices Fields and g gardens hall hail the spring spring- and woodlands ring with vo voices Ices While the wild birds build and sing You to wh whom m your Maker granted Powers to tho those e sweet birds unknown Uso the tho craft by God Implanted Use the reason renson not your own Here hero while heaven and earth rejoices Each his E raster ster tribute bring bring- Work of ot fingers angers chant of or vol voices es Like the birds who build and sing Charles Chartes G. G J. J I. I Io L' L Spin Spinsters Washed Effigy An exceedingly quaint old Good Friday Friday Fri Fri- Fri day was held up p to less than a century a ago o In the little church of Lincolnshire England Englan 1 Thither upon this red letter day duy of the tho year would seven spinsters then spinsters then termed In It the bluntly frank phraseology phraseology phrase phrase- of ot the time times times- old maids resort resort re re- sort each bearing her pitcher of or water water water wa wa- ter brought from Newell well their Joint task tusk being to wash a certain hUme e gy of ot a female placed within the church precincts for which they the were recompensed somewhat Ina Inadequately inadequately one wo would ld think by the dole of a shilling Whom the fl figure ure was supposed to represent or In whose memory It had hud h been en reared feared history does not record for fOl the passing passim years would seem to have e stolen her very name from frim this mute memorial of the past and only by thE unlovely ely title of II Molly Grime was she handed down downto to posterity and und the washing of or Molly Holly Grime w was s. s regarded by at least those thos seven old Lincolnshire spinsters ns as the tine great event If tf t not of or the thc year cor ut least of or one unforgettable day D 8 O EASTER RASTER ASTER marls marke the most I por 8 g 8 tant milestone in in mans maxis upward progress It signifies th the resuscitation tion lion of nature and the perpetuation of the spirit of man It opens to toman toman toman man a new heaven and it promises P to make for him a new earth The day appeals to the and the naturalist the scientist and the man who lives in n the realm of the spirit It rests upon the material universe i and it elevates man toward God |