San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-05

!. OF nature in the lower creation
and in the higher. 1t is traceable
: and the divinest uses of thi
Easter season are to be found il
: this raising up of the passions
! the powers, the quickening OF al
; perception and the awakening
3 OF all slumbering forces. AS ma
: ture in the woods and the streams
throws off the deafness of winter
/, as spring approaches and prepares
} for new line, so does this same
mysterious impulse seize on the
human children of nature and stir
all their powers Of body and mind
to resurrection.
Mind as we'll as affectional
quality has its Easter. 1t has its
resurrection time. The nearer the
great heart of nature men Of mind
live and breathe, the nearer tolher
heart they keep their ear, the clos
er do they follow the more I'M
conscious life of plants and birds
and streams and all natural
things. To such men there Is .
new elasticity in their thought
under the brooding spring in
fiuence. Then comes OF all their
mentality richer promise of
truth to be born into speech, Of
idea to find expression in word,
OF wisdom to be embodied in
tangible form. Their gvandest
flights are in the spring, their di.
vinest aspirations. Under the
spring skies they breed In their
brains the wisdom that is to in
struct a generation and make after
years wiser. Ii is their Easter
time.
Opportunity has its Easter.
This is the divinest of all. To
seize upon the quickening of all
the forces of nature; all the brood
ing, breeding life of the animal
world; all the stimulating and
stimulated life OF the affectional
youth all the reviving and quick
ening movement of mindl under
the mystery of this Easter time,
to seize upon these for thesdivinest
ends, turning all the life and
thought OF the whole, in all it's
variety, to such suprem ministry
that it will raise you and all who
come within the sphere of your
personal influence higher and still
higher with every revolving round
Of the great globe of movement,
this is the diyinest Easter Of all.
This is an Easter movement that
draws in its ascension all the
forces OF earth and brings them
near the eternal good.
But wa rises no higher than
its soy No Easter movement
1fa you u 4ssZsh you rises higher
than the sources Siits supply. If
that movement is from TIE lower
levels of pride, greed, passf6ns.
envy, selfishness, personal ends
and aims and gains, then will you
rise no higher, nor will you draw
others up. But ifin the quickening
Of your being the motor of action
is in the higher levels of manhood,
in love of pure things and people,
desire for the betterment Of all,
ambition for the general ascension
of all men in your sphere, pro-
found sympathy with the strug-
giles Of humanity to rise, deep
reverence for whatsoever things
are pure and true and lovely and
Of good report, real hunger for a
power of ascension in yourself
then will your Easter rising be
towards the hills Of gladness and
sunshine.
Beloved, This is your Easter day.
To what heights Of ascension is it
leading you? No other Easter that
you will ever come to in the flight
of time will face you so we'll for
rising as that which you face to-
day. Look around you in the
earth, through the waters, under
the shadow of the great trees
study the springing step of ma
ture infts ascension and catch the
movement of that glad progress
into Jew life and being, new power
ana fresh development. Let the