The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-04-09

the first full moon happens
next after the One and Twentieth
(21sp day of March. and il the full
moon happens upon Il Sunday, Easter
Day is the Sunday after
Advent Sunday is always the near
est Sunday to the Feast of st. Andrew,
whether before or after Eogation
Sunday is five weeks after Easter
Ascension Day is forty days after
Easter. Whit Sunday is seven weeks
after Easter. Trinity Sunday is eight
weeks after Easter.
But Easter Sunday is the great Fes-
tival ef the anniversary commemora-
tioA Of our Saviour's Resurrection.
which for its antiquity and excellence
challenges precedence of all other fcs-
tivals.
The observation OF this festival is
az ancient rs the times Of the apostles,
SIS IS clear 10 those who are c0nycrsaNt
in the affairs of the primitive church
In those Purcr times. the only dis
pute being. not about the thing. hut
III particular time when the festival
WAS 70 Re Kept.
4 controversy between the different
churches aOout the keeping of Easter
Day was kent up for quite Il while:
the Asiatic churches kept their Easter
upon the same day that the Jews OBJ
served their Passover. viz, the four
teenth day of their first month. chiefly
answering our March: and this they
did upon whatever day of the week
it fell, and from thence they We're
STYLED -Decimaus-keeping Eas-
Ter upon the fourteenth day after the
appearance of the moon.
I9o other churches osnecially those
of Tie West. kept Easter upon the
Lords Day following the Jewish Pass
over. These latter churches pleaded
apostolic tradition: the Asiatics
claimed the practice of the apostles
themselves.
The great controversy was finally
Determined by the Ecumenical Council
OF Nice. assembled by the Emperor
Constantine. wherein ii was ordained
that Easter should be kept upon one
and the sane day throughout the
world: not according to the custom
of the Jews. but upon the Lords Day.
which decree was ratified and pub
lislcS by the Imperial Letters to all
the churches. therefore. 1t became the
imperative duty Of all Christians
Throughout the world at that time to
observe Easter on the day set apart
by the said Imperial Letters.
The time OF observance of the day
has not br"H changed since, and the
Christian world has for nearly six
teen centuries. without controversy.
observed TIE first Sunday after the
Jewish anniversary Of the Passover
as Easter S';uday. and continues to do
so up to t;le present day and time.
Easter Day being observed as the day
commemorative of the resurrection of
our Saviour. all Christians must be-
live that the eternal Son Of God. who
was crucif"d and died for our sins,
did not long continue in the state of
death, but on the third day, by His
infinite power, did revive and raise
Himself. by reuniting the same soul
to the same body which was buried
and so rose the same Man.
Hope is beautiful meteor. and like
the rainbow, it is not only lovely be-
cause Of its seven rich and radian,
stripes, but as the memorial Of cove
nant entered into between man and his
Maker, telling us we were born fol
Immortality, destined, unless we Sc
pulchre our greatness. to the highest
honor and noblest happiness.
Hope proves man deathless. 1t is