Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-04-18
Baltimore, Md, Easter Morning,

, Win a pale green IiDUOh, OA "HlNN 'tA
word Easter" is painted III letters OF
gold. Just an Easter greeting from
that far-off South which l still can
my home. 1t was a great woman VINO
long ago said that places meant much
10 women. and to women who remem-
Der there is much in thinking or the
place where, ii you no longer nave
friend. your dead sleep. But my EAST
er lily brought with ii, as II should,
not along a memory Of the past, out
the hope for the future. Beside lne
great white flower were two unopened
buds: while the tenAer green or the
restless riband told its story OF hoP9
as that pale-green tint always whispers
of something. of some great fruit 10
ripen in the future. All the Easter
flowers are in spring. The faint yellow
! OF the primrose. the pale-biue OF the
forget-me-not, the light purple OF the
wood violet, the tender pink Oh the ny
! acinth and the clear white OF the lines
/ of the valley in their green frames
/ everyone of these flowers sing in their
/ colcrs a prediction OF beauty TO come.
! There is not a flower of the spring that
I is intense in its color. The brilliant
/ bues belong to the flowers Of the sum-
mer day: but. in the early spring time,
when the sun itself is only faint gold,
| the flowers that come TO YOU or 10 me,
or to my neighbor, tell as clearly as If
( they sang Ii:
HOPE ON. HOPE EVER"
And that always seems to me the
story as well as the sermon OF the
Easter Day.
1t saws 10 the other one who is griev-
ing for thai other one who is not; wait
and hone and the grave will give up
! its dead, and these who loved on earth
will be united in Heaven. And to
( that other one. whose life sees nothing
but drudgery ahead of her the message
| of the Easter flower ought to be:
Friend. be Of good cheer; for every
/ sorrow that you have suffered here on
earth there is a great JOY awaiting you
| hereafter. and the children OF your
| brain. which men could not recognize
| hccause of their blindness, will become
/ Gods children and be made perfect, ana
some day ali this dull stupid world VIII
marvel at them.
You laugh at me-you. who are
! mass of realism. and who find nothing
particularly good in this world, ana
nothing 10 be eager to obtain IN the
next. You laugh at me because you
think of all the great troubles OF the
world. of all the trials and trlbulatlons'
! especially those that come to women,
and YOU wonder-knowing that all TINS
is an old story to me-that | can be
what YOU call so foOlishly scntimen-
tai" What would life be without SEN
fiment: or. worse still, what would a
woman be without sentiment? she
would be a hard-hearted creature sex
less uglv and detestable. 1t is only the
sentiment that makes life worth lly-
ing for sentiment makes US willing 10
he charitable alike in deed and word.
And sentiment, best Of all, teaches us
70 hone and hope and hope unto the
very end. Take hope out of life ana
what would you have? Neither falth
nor charity, for they would certainly
go with it, Take hope out of life ana
what would you be? The most mis-
cradle wretch in The world. How could
YOU endure the grief of to-day if you
did not hope for better things to-mor-
row?
HOW COULD YOU LOVE ANY HUI
MAN BEING
if Won did not hope and believe that
in him whom you love the great VIZ
tues would make as nothing the small
faults, How could you love a woman
who lacked faith? | have heard or
men-great men they were called-who
denied the truths that you and ac-
cent. and who longed to find for their
ccmpanions women whose brains should
he like their own and who would agree
with them in their lack OF belief VI
course. the world does rot always near
the result of such marriages, but 90
not believe that any man, no matter
how lacking in faith he may be NM
self can love. until death do them part,
4 woman without hope for the future.
What is love without hope? What is
love worth, if il is to come 70 an end
when our bodies go the way Of all flesh?
Who would endure the sorrows OF love
if this earth were to see the last or II!
II would not be worth while suffering,
AS we women do, for dear loves sake, II
an eternal goodbye were to be SAID 70
love when the eyes closed in death.
Once love has entered the heart, there
must come faith. Not only faith in the
loved one. but faith in hereafter: II
would be a poor love that one when
claimed that the woman loved was
nothing but a body with petty, trliiing
brain ADAPTED TO last for lhetline'
If that were all that the woman you
love reDresented. she would not be
worth giving thought TO. But beng
v.ieo Won look for something more than
tbot IN her. You seek for her soul, and
- is rho soul that makes the body worth
anything. And you cannot XII tne soul.
Explain it? You can't with an your
philosophy and neither can WIN all
my belief.
You laugh at the special holiday, and
vot Won would show a certain Miniature
70 +ia women and children who bear
vour name did not recognize the day,
MAKE THE HOUSE GAY WITH
FLOWERS,
and have some pretty tribute suited to
the dav. as gift for You from those VINO
love Won. You call that woman's WORK.
Won think. in your bigness Of body and
of brain that such triiies are not worth
cor sideraticn. But wouldn't the house
boId seem bare and cold and hopeless II
Easter Day came and there was not
even a primrose to tell yen that He VINO
came TO save the world had arisen from
the dead? It may be that this is not
your belief but, oh, my friend. if you
have a belief. belief that teaches you
that there is hereafter, and that TO be
banD-- in that hereafter. YOU must be