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Show Life Motion Pictures Illustrated Songs and Specialties. Melba Theatre Mt. Pleasant Who is it for? The weary mother Asa place of rest and recreation. The business man, As a relief from the stress of the day's work. The young man and woman, As a place of refined entertainment. entertain-ment. The children, Where amusement is combined with instruction. Where lessont are learned by the universal language of pictures and music. If you area public spirited citizen make the picture plays a factor of good in your community. . Special provisions for baby carriages 'The Lora is risen:" "He is risen indeed!" with these words lo the Christians of the orient street each other on Easter norning. And such is the thought thou-ght in the heart of Christians in the West on arising on the morning of the joyous Christian festival of the vernal season,the i day commemorating the great Resurrection. The idea of it all is joy at the triumph over .death and of the spirit of peace and love among mankind, according to the example and teaching of the great Master. No ancient historical event is more firmly established than the resurrecion of Jesus. And "why should it be thought thou-ght a thing incredible that God should raisethe dead?" What a wo nderf ul resurrection does He work every year in the weeks that encircle the joyful Easter morn, The trees, apparently appar-ently dead, live again. The flowers come out in new glory. Does not every leaf, every flower testify to the possibility of a resurrection? During the Lenten season t the true keeper thereof while abstaining from luxuries does yet more. He clenses his heart from impurities ' and cultivates the spirit of devotion and good will to his fellow beings.lt is not enough merely to restrain the appitites. There must besides be-sides the negative be positive Christian virtues. The great poem of George Herbert, pointing point-ing out that material observance observ-ance is vain if the spiritual virtues are not also brought in to life and action, offers the right thought to the honest and true of heart. |
