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Show PRejoicing onjg Jtvts Easter Sunday-1 'yl HE hpurl of Christendom re- M joiccs on Eiisler Sunday. Tlie entry Int" .lernsalom on Palm Sundny. the agony f Christ in the pardon, the cru cltixlon and burial on Uood Friday II these are past. Death is swallowed up In victory. Christ the Lord Is risen today I If, as has been stiKsested, the word Easter Is derived from Oster, which flgnlfles rising, then Is Easter Sunday, tioth In name and reality, the feast of the resurrection. It Is more probable, however, that Kaster gets Its name from Eostre, i finxon 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 afler the full moon which happens upon or next nfter the twenty-first of March, and. if the full moon happens upon a Sunday Kaster day Is the Sunday after." In earlier days Easter was culled the I'aschal feast, for it was kept at 1lu same time as the Pasclm. or Jew lsh I'assovcr. Si much for the origin of the name. ICasler Sunday today Is celebrated by youns and old alil;e For the children there are rabbits Had Easter epgs and the unrestrained Joy of egg hunts In back yards and in public parks. For the grown-ups there are new suits, new hats. Hut surely Easter holds more than (his for us. It Is not a day 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 if things physical, so we celebrate Easter and the victory of things spiritual The heart of man Is filled with the beautv of spring's flowers that have sprung from death to life. The soul of man is triumphant, for It Is tilled with u spirit which die'li not.. Christ the Lord Is risen I |
