The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-03-27
EASTER TIME.

EASTER TIME.
In the long record e events which
make up the sum and substance of the
world history as far as humanity has
travelled there is but ore which yindi-
Gates mans supreme hope for a higher
aud nobler existence and where be shall
find an everlasting sphere Of activity
and felicity Easter, which now dawns
reminds rs that life is lmitless, having
no ultimate. Its story is one Of triumph:
"Oh, death where is thy sting, Oh, grave
where is thy victory
Man. with his subtle creative and IN
'tuities faculties builds great empires
and republics he labors with hand and
brain fashioning the perishable thing
of time into fanciful shapes surround
ing himself with exquisite designs Of
-art: he plans for his own and his neigh
Dor. ease. uses the most marvellous Of
human agencies the mind TO penetrate
thp mysteries which environ him and
tn AZ hike the works Of his hands which
WTne defaces and decays the body which
his life has operated through lapscs in.
10 inep'itude and finally becomes cold
and mOtionle7s
j. life dead: Can life die? The body
Is Of the earth. earthly aud degencrates
ut the passage Of life to it's original
form but the body never lived, il was
and is the mere agent Of an impulse
that impulse If aud life is insolubIe
the mystery Of mysteries a spirit which
death has NJ power over And Easter
tide recurring year by year forciblY rs.
r7ure- u- Of this tremendous fact.
If the resurrection which Easter com
nemorates be but phautasmagoiya
purely picture Of the imagination, the
romance Of hope then why our being!
Are mans struggles for goodness but
vain efforts TO demonstrate his impotcn.
cyg Is the reward Of virtue but an il
customary vision Is that irresistible
yearuiug Of the heart to know what i.
hidden behind the grave but q feyored
passion which Gears extinction
The human intellect freed from dog
matte restraints. commuuiug with Ma
.ure responds 10 those ever repeated
questiouings that mans final destiny lies
athwart Of the mutablo and crumblng
evidences Of time that life here deter
IN nas life hereafter The tree sheds the
evidence Of its vitality in winter but
demonstrate it- power Of resurrection
in spring the flower iadeth but the
plant upon which it hloumed shall
smile again with reluycuated beauty
the waving fields Of grain are stricken
down by the sCythc but within the
golden ear ne.tlcs the seeds Of .nde
structiDle life Mature rather God
through Nature or a. Herbert Spencer
puts it an Eternal Energy working
through Nature, luefutablv proves that
life cannot be- destroyed If science i.
right that not a particle Of matter car
be annihilated how mucn greater tn,
truth that that invisible force known a.
life H. too beyond extinction
Easter stands for a .tupendous fac
outside Of temporalities but if it, effec
had never transcribed the limitation
of material things il has been bless
ing 81 humanity The corner stone o.
modern civilization is Christianity
Christianity il the visible proof Of on
continuing loyalty 10 the belief that IN,
historic events which immortalized Pal
estine were supernatural They hayl
forever made tender and sacre,
the hill OF Golotha which and a
this time turn the thoughts Of mil
lions Of human beings toward Jerusalem
and It's environments
The time at which Easter Genes /
very appropriate. In the spring Natur
begins her benign work Of decoratin
bush and tree with delicate verdur,
covering the broad fields with carpet
OF living green she gives flowers 10 TIA
pie and song 10 tine birds, aud GLAD
dens the eye Of humanity By beautifr
and symmetrical works and then give
inspiration u the heart by happy sur
shine Yes, the winter il past Ho,
revived sits enthroned upon an immOl
tai verify.
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