Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-23

tain Worid--SOme Thoughts in Ads
vance of the Great and Glorious
Feast.
10 Lent-observing people this IS
known as Passion Sunday, leading
up to Palm Sanday-which COM
nemorates the triumphal entery Of
our blessed Saviour into Jerusalem
amid the bozannahs Of the multi
tude who strewed his approach
the city with palms: so soon to be
followed, within the ensuing week,
with the Agony in the Garden of
Gethsemane, the denial by Peter,
the Scourging at the Pillar, the
Crowning with Thorns, the rejec-
ton by the rabble, who cried for
Barabbss, the Way of the Cross to
Calvary, the Crucifixion, the three
days rest in the Tomb-and then
the Glory of the Resurrection
on Easter morn, the Light Of the
World Il at will rever fade away.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead (the consummation
of miracles) OH the first day of the
week, and on that day which we now
call Easter, was a grander creation
than that of light itself. Darkness
then covered humanity, ,and,as in the
beginning, the spirit of God brooded
over the depths of the soul. Chaos
ard darkness were but pictures Of
the hopeless condition of mankind
when the life came that was to be
the Light of the World.
Whoever it was, heather or Chris
tain, that gave the name of Sunday
to the first day of the week, was dos
ing great deal more than he was
probably aware of. On that day
light was created, so the day bears
the name Of the source of light,
and proclaims what was to US the
manifestation Of tie power of the
Great Creator. On that day God
said "Let there be light" and there
was light. On that same first day
of the week. when darkness covered
the earth and gross dark :
ness the people, a prophetic
order was fulfilled: "Let God
arise, and let his enemies be
scattered" and the darkness of death
was overcome.
You may reason as you please
about life; you may PHILOSOPHERS to
the EXTREMIST limit of materialism
or intellect; you may allow science
under whatever shape or name its
greatest achievements; socialism or
legitimate government may reach its
highest perfection; all capabilities
and possibilities of manhood may
at length be attained; man may be
elevated to his highest throne.
crowned with all the honors of this
estate, and at last, within his hollow
crown, "Death holds his court
mocking his state and grinning at
his pomp." The order was given to
the race in the person of their first
father "Dust thou art, and unto
dust shalt thou return" No fact is
so familiar to us all as death, nor
any route as that which leads to the
cemetery. The grim-visaged mon
ster holds our mortality in absolute
sway and knows no distinctions.
The warrior and emperor slowly
waste away at the touch of his fin
ger. The millionaire bows his head
in the showroom of his palace and
lets 90 all his wealth; the magnate
vainly bestows all his power on the
physician, himself struggling in the
fatal clutches, and the lovely and
the beautiful, the innocent
and the revered, have no plea
to touch the "dull, cold ear of
DEATH" The direful spectre visits
all abodes and threatens 8 | condi-
tions. Its shadow chills and dark>
ems all that men cherish, hope for
or delight in. His reign is the
hour and power OF darkness, the
bleak winter of mankind.
But God said let there be light,
and so the historic, sacred Easter
day commentaries the life that
first appeared beyond the grave;
the victory over death; life and
Immortality brought to light by the
Gospe'. The Resurrection day in
the misdst of spring looks like a
l., of