Show The Easter Story That Never Grows Old In the nearly two thousand years since the first Easter the celebration has fallen in times of peace and LC L of war and famine and Yet despite the many changes in man's the Easter message 7 gp has remained the same a message of buoyant hope amid grave trouble a message that the spiritual yearnings and needs of man are paramount despite material bless- The first Easter dawned after a night of black 1 Only three days Christ had died upon the His disciples were His chief t N disciple had denied His great work seemed ed before It had even Then came the miracle of the empty The resurrection had taken T Death had been Today throughout a happy land the worshipers flock K to They in a gay decked out in new eager and proud to see and be y in And there is nothing wrong with for this is the season of a time for Nature has lw awakened and or the promise of is in the Yet how gravely is the meaning of Easter be- V i if only the the the colorful receive 13 Jt The message of Easter is both old and Old as it mK Christianity as the hyacinth which has just f burst into has roots in the distant f for long before there was a a groping X mankind had though it may not have tW the meaning of the renewal of The very name of tr Easter derives from Anglo-Saxon Some of Wl the symbols can be traced to even more ancient v But it was not until the first Easter that the sun of resurrection burst forth in its true very early in the the first day of the they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun when they looked they saw that the stone was rolled for it was very entering into the sepulchre they saw a young man sitting on the right clothed in a long white and they were he said unto Be not Ye seek the Jesus of Nazareth which was He is He is not The Easter story never grows It inspires us even as it inspired pur forefathers and as it will inspire generations to be It is the story of hope made reality by the greatest sacrifice of all There is no age which has needed that story more than Fear and fatalism bred of war and the rumors of war fear and fatalism which are twin signs of communism walk the world But since Christ could conquer mighty how can these lesser evils Let make this a a true Salt Lake Tribune |