The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-26
DAYS DATE FIXED.
NRGIVINGs or iBRITIsH DINNERS
AND OTHERS SIR Ir RESI-.

Owing 10 "a Little Ecccntricity ON the fhrt
Of IN, Moon the fInaDriers Feared
Troubls Might Result From setting Ann
10 as Bunk Holiday Atiorney-6"nerh
settles the Question The Mosquito
Aynin ns 70 Dissemination al hRIhfih
Lord saiisbury's Defence of llogI'nG.
LONDON. March ~. People had hardly lr't
or arguing for and against 1900 being the hfst
Ssar OF tho twentieth century when We were
threatened with another and somewha similar
discussion. When Is Faster Day this YEAR,
Until lately every one hal been content 10
trust 20 tho calendars. which all SAID sunday
April Is. Then some one emom bered that
tho prayerbook. the authority on snch Il mht-
ter. distinctly say, that Faster Day Is the sun
day following the first full moon after March
p: and that II the full moon Is on Il sunday.
then Easter Day Is tho Sunday IL
happens this year that tho moon IL
frat at It's full after March II Just
after l o'clock on Sunday morning April
ID. and consequently II was contended That
Easter Day would not be the 10Th but the
22d OF April. This discovery disturbed tho
bankers In the city. who began TO question
whether they had any legal right 10 haNo
assumed that April 16 would be the bank
holiday. which Is ordained by act Of rarlia-
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Easter wcro legally pnyable. he woull intro
duce a snort bin 10 make Auril L. Easter Das
this year in law M well AS 10 the calendar.
Sir Richard Webster made the mystery
rIear. He told the House that the
statute TO which rrfrronrs had bocn made
''enacts that Easter shall be observed ac.
cording 10 the tables and rules annexed to
the statute, One Of those provides that the pas
chal full moon I'm tho year 1900 falls on the 18th
Of April. and that the Feast Of Faster falls on tho
18th. The fact Is the full moon referred to in
the statute is not the actual full moon-nor the
mean full moon but a fictitious and statutory
full moon, sometimes called the ecclesiastical
full moon. As there is no possibility Of doubt
on the question. it is not propose 10 introduce
any legislation such as the honorable member
suggests. 1t may interest the House to learn
that attention was called 20 a similar occur-
renee in the years 1918 and lS45, and some
learned papers were written on the subject. to
which | shall be happy to refer my honorable
friend. Some fictitious full moon was
necessary, or otherwise Easter might have to
be kept on different Sundays in different parts
OF the United Kingdom. As one of the learned
writers said. The Church cared much more
for peace and concord than for tho equinox or
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