The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-12
The SALT LAKE HERALD
Published Every Day in the Year By
THE HERALD COMPANY.
SOME ERsTER REFLEcToNsI

Now upon the first day Of the week very early in the
which they had prepared and certain others with them
And they found the stone rolled away from the sepu
and they entered and found not the body of the
aAnd ii came to pass as they were much perplexed
thereabout behold two men stood beside them In SHINING
And as they were afraid and bowed down their faces
to the earth they said unto Them Why seek ye the living
among the deadT
TODAY in every tongue every land. the story Of the
resurrection Is being told. Vested choirs viii sing IT,
dim old catnedrals halowed and sanetlhed by ages OF
pey modern houses worship rearing their lofty spires
in city Streets frame boxe churches set four-square
the prairie Winds log huts in the wilderness Win
only rude designate the object Of their being
an wiz reverbeate with paeans OF rejoicing for the risen
Lord.
AS travellers standing on the platform Of passen
ger train watch the roadbed until the rails seem to con-
verge point. we. more than nineteen centuries
Christ look down the long road Of time and see Ihe
rails converge In the point we see manger where was
born child whose influence the world will never cease
% grow We see him toll carpenters bench we see
grow young manhood working his work. living out
his life dying calvary. rising again the third day
Myth? No man who lives today say with positive
that the story Of Chrss BIRTH his e' death
and resurrection Me may believe or not believe it
all happened as we told it happened That is matter
the individual judgment but there can be no argument
about the extent Of the good TO the world that mas come
from the story sting been taken from death the
the Man Of Calvary, the risen Savior.
The Easter season the most convincing argument IN
the OF the resurrection. 4t is the season
when the dead world awakes Last fan saw the pass
ing OF the wonderful beauties Of the spring and summer
The grass turned and died the leaves whered and
fell from the Of the trees leaving them gaunt
and bare and skeleon-ke To all ntents and purposes
they dead.
so the winter came, with its chilling winds ana
its snow and world slept under its blanket OF
white comes the awakening. The green is showing
foothills; it climbs higher day by day. Flow
springng up where dead stalks lay last fair the
buds the trees are swelling they win burst into
leaf and blossom filling the air with fragrance and the
land rejoicing Everywhere the birds singing
they sing only the sprngme sweet chorsters Of the
risen land.
"yyhy seek We the living among the dead?" Does not
all nature that there such thing death
in the sense Of death without awakening? There is sem
DEATH but is only sleep before the awakening
better brighter things AS with the plants the flowers
the trees so with human endeavOr.
Too many Of prone TO seek the living among the
dead. wander amid gravestones filling the air with
lamentations wasting lives in bemoaning past mis-
fortunes Opportunity the ashes of extinct
fires The seeks waits for it there is the man
whose life is useless to himself and his fellow man.