Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1903-04-16
EASTER JOYS.
That Linger In Hearts That Are
True the Year Round and

Always.
Daily Argus of Saturday.
"I am the Resurrection and the
Life"
On the morrow-the glorious Eas-
ter MON, will this promise sound
anew in Christian hearts the world
over, and it's verification be realized
in every faithful soul that believes on
Him, that He is the Christ the Son
of God: and so the forty days OF fast
ing, the anguish of Gethsemane, the
sorrow of Calvary, the gloom of the
sepulchre, the nameless dread of the
waiting-all are forgotten now in the
Easter joys. But all these were need
full in the setting Of the great plan of
mans redemption. And, indeed,
the light of joy would grow dim of
It's own shining if the shadow of sor-
row did not sometimes fall.
The mostperfect sunlight of spring
time would partake of gloom if we
should have it last through the three
hundred and five and sixty days of
the year.
The best of wine would be cheap
and commonplace if we had it all
through every feast, and feasts would
grow unpalatable if we feasted all
the while.
Love itself would become tiresome
# it attended IS in song and prayer
through every hour of waking and
in dreams through every moment of
slumber.
Life would take on nameIess ter
r if it did not offer us, as balm for
its fever, the all-heal of soothing, rest
full, slumberous death.
That quality men call life, how
ever beautiful any one life NAV be. |
would possess power of terror beyond
human reason and patience, as now
understood to endure, if there was not
the sweet assurance OF a blessed end
that is but the beginning of the indie
scribable glory Of the heavenly after
whites. Sanity would fly it's seat in
the happiest soul under the stars i'll
that soul were taught there should be
no passing from the earth: no resur-
rection; no life eternal; no reuniting
with loved ones gone before.
The gladdest, the most joyous hu-
man that revels in the good and
beautiful Of mortality would fall into
a slckly melancholy if there we're
not the promise that there shall be
ending of it all sounded in tho
knocking OF loving death, the sum-
mons to answer elsewhither for all
.eeds done in human weakness and
human strength.
AND as none can or would eyadei
last earthly penalty, so it is writx
the Most High Omnipotence tbat 1
zone shall seek it. Life is not ourI
to take or keep or relinouish. =,
?eace-glvIng death none shall seek. y
'ut It Is commanded of every n to A
o live that when the end como IL
nall be the beginning Of joy for ever.
II IS without the reach of any oneI
1ortal to create and sustain the full u,
leasure of another's happiness, for
applness must come primarily from Fl
not from without the spirit.
man within the breast, the VOL
IAN within herself: these set the No Nc
!easure of their own rejoicing. In
liners are essential to swelling. to Ca
'r1ectlng the volume; but the workA .
building happiness must begin at n
'me, that is, within ourselves. b
Virtue comes from within, but it =
oWs and is gladdened from With
t. 1t is made brighter and strong-
by lights that shined before is.
hts OF others virtues, such as faith
q gladness and generous-hearted- Los
s., fidelity and charity and ioy. Une
mere is joy for every n that Al IL,
ks it OF that asks for it, r.
y be found at every step up tbeI
l OF Lie and down the sunset wav Cap
around o1,or,, - Surf
IS journey, ready to fall upon and :
the Weary-laden and the heayv- BUS
erted. 1t rides upon every breeze. Fire
GERS upon every wind, hovers Los.
we every human heart. 1t is for Pr
Try breast willing to embrace # Sc
n responding fervor. a.
t will thrill in the morning air of Gold
morrow, when the Easter bells Blu