Show pr 0 ver a if 11 tj rott abar t the lib most startling episode P encounters on its jour ncy it came so palpably as a direct punishment for wrong done that it men with a distinct fear of perfect los 4 r enny things have their periods of 0 death deatle ang and af of camu K to life again N rs of plants lie dle anery year and corwe to alfe again c e cry spring fig some om change to death arid a gnp p igieln aln many plants plant eleand rile and 16 leae iz the seeds of fresh life bj behind lind ic n i id therefore wherefore have thought though il little bf death but for tile the fact that hat their being ks from it as ome thang thin now new unforeseen when nhen they were made mid arid set going a in this world Is it if not significant that of all the writings writing inspired by the great war the three grandest according to all agreements are poems with death for their subject when n you consider the glo ilous victory we won and think upon its possible results of ion long peace and a new i era of contentment you go a very short distance before you stand with choking voice and streaming eyes before the little crosses thick as butter cups and daisies ought to be on the battlefields what justice Is there in the management of life if the hundreds of thousands of our dead lying there have been snuffed out of lire and being for evermore while others who shirked their duty to loyalty live on in the enjoyment of being where is eternal balmes if those who wh 0 taie have hat no fi 5 pr prosperity 0 fy io fortune artune comfort and ease in the world lie down in death and cease forever to be just as do the unfortunate the beaten the poverty stricken the of life are arc there to be no compensations for the unhealthy the sufferers the ners the never comforted for whom life was nils one long unaltered misery are the unjust the extortionate the robbing crowd who live upon their fellows need who nho thrive foully but greatly in this world to fare as well nell at the end as those others easter the queen of festivals c omes comes with a certain answer to such questions founded upon the well pro proad ed historical fact of the resurrection of mans mails body as well as of his soul man is to come back again to life for the adjusting of accounts justice does docs rule in the affairs of men justice and loving kindness and mercy for the little babies who died before they bloomed for the gallant men who did nobly in battle but never reaped the fruits of victory for the weeping mothers wives children who saw the joy of others overjoyed ones returning from whence hence theirs could not return Is ie the promise of easter new growth fresh blooming continued life these are easter joys for as in adam nil all die even so in christ shall all be made alive 1 alleluia amen I 1 |