Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1896-04-03
1T IS THE DAY.
By STANLEY WATERLOO.

~ u JN", JS5NS, Niloii w
accept as the Son of God, cam
forth alive again from a cofi
made from a space heWed III
rock and blocked by a grea
stone.
That rising was III the Sc
quence Of events which mad
Christian the world of TO day
That rising was what is making
strong the course of the control
ling mass among the creature:
who fit about upon this parIicu
lar planetary crust, and who
have a belief in their own i'm.
mortality. Had the more potent
portion Of humanity not accept
ed Christ as risen, there would
have been some other belief,
some 9th r hope and graspiug
for aiter-death welfare among
the inhabitants of this one among
the millions and billions of plan
cts revolving in all space. The
rising completed the Christian
story. The Son had gone to the
Father as an emissary, forever
pleading i'll behalf Of the creature
we cali man, Himself man, He
went back to Heaven to be ever
our Ambassador. And so it is
that throughout the Christian
world it is the sweetest Of all
hopeful days, this anniversary of
that day when Christ assembled
to His own again.
What matters it that learned
skeptics say that Easter is but
the adaptation to Christian use
of all ancient holiday in glorifl-
cation over life and spring and
he birth of all things. 1t mat
-ers not what the beliefs or 1e~
seuds were before, since we &C
2ept the story Of the Child OF
bethlehem, and stake our future
lpon the promise of the man
grown who died for lis. The !
ltathen legends OF the early man
ire but as nothing, whether the
Son of the Ruler of the Universe
anne to us nearly 1000 years
lso or yesterday. We accept
he belief and we are happy in
caster day.
1t is wonderful and very sweet,
he Thought of that morning
When the gentle, murdered Man,
Who was both Man and God, felt
rom the Father the quitkening
Mise and knew that His awful
rial was over and that the world
ad been redeemed.
1t was Of all mornings the
lo5t beautiful, if we may Judge
rom the weak human story, or
We Judge from Our own con>
option cf what it must have
cen. The gloom Of night was
issipating, the lighter haze Of
lOrn was apparent upon the far
lstant Judean hills, though
1erc was darkness in the valley
ill.
But in an instant, just as the
loriling broke, all changed. $
here was :; rustline of wings,
K wings OF angels, i'll the semi
arkneSs; the huge stone which
He'd the entrance Of that cavern
'nb rolled awar as lightly as if ,
we're something 4 wind might t
T.. There was 4 sudden light {
hont the place aid, at the same
loment, above the far eastern
Ills. the sun, earth's light and
ne of Gods ownings, flung forth (
million brilliant banners. 1t {
as day. And, just as day came, {
ent from earth the Son who is
leading for us with the Father. :
1t is very sweet and wonderful, ,
lie story Of this Easter day, one
the greaest observed in our
,ligion. 1t is the day recog>
lied as full of all hope and
ronise. 1t is beautiful in the .
lanner of its observance, with ,
S flowers and its ringing an |
,e,ns and with its atmosphere i
the springtime and of faith '
I'D courage. It is blessed, this {
,aster day.
Gut of weakness comes strength
hen the blood has been purified, en-
ched and vitalized by Hoods Sarsa-