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There are three ways Of fixing Easter:
% Wet towels and calculations as 20
which is the first Sunday after the first
full moon on or after March 81; % con-
1uring with such things as Dominica
letters. to be found in the Prayer Book
and Whitaker" CD waiting to see what
other people make IT, The last, always
the easiest. is particularly desirable this
year. because the local moon Is full at
1902 a. m. Sunday, April Is wherefore
April p should be Easter day, whereas
April Is Is to be-
The reason Is that the moon. which
counts, is not the actual or mean
one, but fictitious" or ecclesiastical
rull moon; you may argue that there Is
nothing mean or nothing actual about &C.
cleSiasticism, according TO your tastes
Practically, the point IS that actual
moons would give different Casters this
time. not only In different countries. but
In different parts Of this kingdom. which
would derange Bank holiday and every
thing else. Sir Richard Webster quotes:
The church cares much more for peace
and concord than for the equinox or the
moon Which is much like being dis
respectful to the equator. but the church
Is Is secure as the man in the pulpit
the equinox cannot hit back
From the proceedings in parliament:
Mr.. Richardson asked the attorney gen
eral whether he was aware that. under
section and relative schedule OF "a
George IL, chapter %. Easter day was
the first Sunday after the full moon
Which happened upon or next after the
list day OF March. and II the full moon
happened upon a Sunday Easter day was
the Sunday after. and that the first full
moon which happened next after the Dist
day OF March this year was on Sunday,
the 18th OF April. at 1:02 a. m. and that
Easter day should therefore apparently
fall on April %. and not on April Is. as
given In the calendar, and whether. hav-
ing regard to the possibility of doubt
arising as to when bills falling due on
a day dependent on the date of Easter
were legally payable, he would Introduce
| short bill to make the 18th of April
Easter day this year In law as well as in
the calendar
The Attorney General-The third sec
ton of the statute referred to enacts that
Easter shall be observed according to the
tables and rules annexed to the statute.
One or these provides that the paschaI
tull moon in the year 1900 falls on the
| l4th of April, and that the Fast of Eas-
! ter falls on the 18th. The fact Is the full
moon referred to in the statute Is not
! the actual full moon nor the mean full
| moon, but fictitious and statutory full
! moon, sometimes called the ecclesiastical
full moon. As there Is no possibility OF
doubt on the question, It is not proposed
/ TO introduce any legislation such as the
! honorable member suggests. 1t may in
| terest the house to learn that attention
was called to similar occurrence in the
years 1918 and 1915. and some learned
papers were written on the subject, to
which l shall be happy to refer my hon
| orable friend. Some fictitious full moon
was necessary, or otherwise Easter might
! have to be kept on different Sundays I'm
dinerent parts Of the United Kingdom
AS one Of the learned writer's said: The
church cared much more for peace and
concord than for the equinox or the
| moon"