Show REJOICING ON EASTER SUNDAY the heart of christendom rejoices on ehster easter sunday the entry into jerusalem on palm sunday the agony of christ in the garden the crucifixion and burial on good friday all these are past death is swallowed up in victory christ the lord is risen today I 1 if as has been suggested the word easter is derived from oster which signifies rising then is faster easter sunday both in name and reality the feast of the resurrection it is more probable however that faster easter gets it from a saxon deity whose feast was celebrated every spring about the time of the christian festival A compromise was thus effected christians accepting the pagan name and pagans accepting the christian significance of the day easter is a movable feast it falls on the first sunda sunday y after the full moon which bich happens upon or next after the twenty first of march and if the full moon happens spona upon a sunday easter day is the sunday after jn in earlier days easter was called the ho paschal feast for it was waa kept it at the ea same 1 mo time as the pascha or jewish passover so bo much for the origin of the name easter sunday tollay is celebrated by young and old for the children there are rabbits and easter eggs and the unrestrained joy of egg hunts in back yards ards and lb in public parks for the grownups grown ups un there e are new aults new hate but surely s easter holds more than this for us it is not a day of happiness alone nor of outward show alone it is a day of victory just as our saxon forefathers celebrated and tho 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 springs flowers that have sprung from death to life the soul of man is triumph triumphant arit jor for it is ia filled with a spirit which dieth WL christ the lord is ia risen |