The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-04-15

BEGINNING APRIL II.
Easter Thoughts.
Matt. 20: Is; Heb. 6: 10, 20.
The day Matt. % ~. On Easter
Sunday the Christian church cele-
brates its greatest festival. because
on that day its pulpits declare its
most glorious doctrine. The pro.
priety of commemorating holy days,
other than the one weekly Sabbath
OF all Christendom, has long been a
matter of discussion between two
opposing schools of the church. A
happy medium would seem TO in
clude these three memorable DAYS
in the career of our blessed Lord:
Christmas, the day of his birth:
Good Friday, the Gav of his death;
and Easter Sunday, the day OF his
resurrection. These anniversaries
may be nothing in themselves. bat
the doctrines which they teach reach
from eternity to eternity. Easter
Day must be lips for the trumpet
call of the deserted tomb. Let us
take two looks into the place where
Jesus lay.
Awake, o earth! The winters icy fingers
Are fast relaxing their relentless no d,
The streams are pushing by the snow that
fingers
Along the mountain slopes; and flashing
gold,
In punches knotted by the greer. bank ed
rilIs,
Displays the glory of the danodils.
Awake, my souls Triumphant EASTER morn
ing
Brings its glad message to all ciouded
hearts:
The Lord is risen, and, herself adjoining,
The church awaits tue blessing he tmparts
o, hear the tidings with the utmost speed,
All voices sing, The Lord has risen indeed.
Re W. II. e. Temple.
Thank God for. the resurrection
thoughts which ID spring months
bring to us! We die to live again.
We die that we may live again.
Nothing is quickened. save it die.
Mortality is the condition of all i'm
mortality. The echoes We have
awakened of this truth. The open.
ing spring prints 1T off on every
hillside in Illuminated text of leaf
and flower. We find, as always
with these central facts of nature,
that the best and highest meaning
of the truth belongs to ourselves, so
completely is man a part of all, so
completely is all represented in man.
Our word. resurrection. seems
to concentrate the history of the
universe, to whisper the secret of
the life of God. w. C. Gannctt.
The resurrection of Christ meant
more than promise of continued
existence; there was a spiritual side
to 1t that could be grasped only by
those for whom deaths sting had
already been taken away, and so
the risen Saviour appeared only to
those who believed. They were in
after days to feel his presence when
his form was yelled from them: the
revelations made in the upper cham
Der were so to become Il reality of
daily life that they should know the
certainty of future life with Christ
by the CONSCIOUSNESS OF a present
life in Christ. The Triumph over
sin here was to be the earnest of the
future victory over SINS punish
ment.
We may imagine something of
the confidence with which the final
triumph of the Lords cause must
have been expected by those who
had seen his victory over the last
enemy; We may imagine something
of the eagerness with which they
looked for the glad reunion in the
future. Every one who has stood
repentant at the cross brings from
the empty sepulchre the same lively
hope and Astounding loY.--Arthur
W. Kelly.
While We VITA Tears bedyw ,hinc empty
tomb.
Thy face is shining through he gardens
Lo. the birds singing, AMI ttc riower, in
olooml
Alleluis. Christ T. risen.
Is IL our love that makes orr hear ~ blind:
With spice and balm thy form We may not
bind;
Thou art alive for Us and All mankind.
Aloluis! Chri-t IL riscn.
Lucy Lsrcom.
FOR ANSWER IN THE MEETING.
Why was It especially fitting that
women should DC the first visitors
to the tomb of the risen Lord: and
that Mary Magdalcne should be
among them:
What message are We to Ego
quickly and tell as soon ~ we hear
this joyful news, and to whom are
we to tell it:
Why wasfear mingled with the
JOY of the women:
What makes death the worlds
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