Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-18
Gathered On The Battlefield Of Thought.

What Easter The wonderful truth
Stands For Of Immortality, im-
To All Men. pressed at Easter, gives
the highest possible
motive for faithful Christian life and
SCI vice. lmpelled by the fact OF i'm
mortality, wise men live as they ought
~ I've. for life goes on forever and
the future is the harvest OF the pres
eht. They realize that the eternal
years OF God belong to truth. justice,
ana Righteousness. The light OF i'm
mortality shines on and uuravcls all
the apparently hopeless entangle-
ments OF earth and time. II is worth
while 10 live, t. fight to labor. to
welt, and endure. for tho end Is sure.
Men can struggle, toll, and sacrifice in
nope and patience, for they realize
that life goes on forever, In new full
ness, with new earnestness and power.
II Is we'll that once a year the sym
bolisut of Easter brings home anew
the lesson that men, If they Will, may
o'erleap the barriers that their own
errors and weakness have created, and
emerge into r fuller and higher life.
crowned with the assurance of inn
mortality. Whether men believe or
disbelieve, whether the future be for
them dark or bright, whether they
hoid 10 religion or not, IL is. still true
that they desire TO see the good deed
deathless, the righteous man immor-
tai. aud the deep-hearted believe that
the life freely poured and given in hui
man service returns In new life and
lifc-siving power.--Leslie's Weekly.
Mysteries We all know in u gem
or the Life erJil way that what is
After This called psychical re-
search has occupied
itself for now many years with the
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haps few of us know the extent TO
which such studies have been carried.
or the Importance of the men who have
been engaged In them. Among these.
on both sides Of the sea, are strong
thinkers. honored scholars. not a few
of them persons already DISTINGUISHED
like Sir William Crookes-in the world
of physical science, and therefore
doubly entitled to attention and to con-
fidenee. Quietly. patiently courageous
~. these men have pursued course of
Investigation as thorough as that which
gave to Darwin the great discovery of
his life. The perplexities of telepathy,
the history of apparitions, the question
of a thinking and feeling world beyond
our own, the arguments for and against
the existence OF the conscious and COM
municating dead-these are no longer
left to tellers OF ghost stories at igno-
rant and shuddering fircsides. Such
speculations have become the business
of men, the occupation of scholars
and enthusiasts. Up To this point il
cannot perhaps be said that the contin-
uance of personality after death Is
demonstrated TO the satisfaction of the
pugnaciously sceptlcal-very likely 1t
could never be--but it Is not too much
to assert that this tremendous hypothe-
sis Is already scientifically recommend
ed to any mind that is not unwilling
to accept it.-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
in Harper's Bazaar.
Flowers On on Easter day, the
Easter Day flowers have II special
Fragrant radiance, perhaps be-
cause they are the first
floral decorations of the new year; the
music, too, is distinctive in character,
due doubtless to the three weeks eff
fort of the choir whose members hav-
ing been subsisting on u diet of sharps
and flats aud musical scores surely de
serves success. That is a toyousuess
about Easter expressed in the Gloria
in EXcelsis.' Concentrated IN this one
day is the joy of twelve months; 1t
is expressed In the music: in the dress
of the congregation; in the fact that
now appear at public worship the bat
TALON known among church goers as
christmas Day and Easter Christ
mas" and that now, too, the societies
como out in force Here are the knights
Templars in all the glory of their white
plumes. aiding in the exemplification of
tho joyous, hopeful, optimistic spirit
OF Easter There is a spirit of consid-
GRAFTON on Easter day. The sharp,
carping of other times Is not heard,
and IL there Is flaw In the music
there is no criticism on 1t, but rather
the suggestion that the Choir did its
best and an angel can do no more
That is the time when RossinPs Stabat
Mater is given, by special effort of the
choir: when the obligato Is carefully
practised, and the solo is taken by
the new singer fresh from the conser-
vatory." That was the time when 1t
was extremely difficult for one choir
to decide who should sing the solo. and
the only settlement that could be arr
rived at without making "a fuss" was
to have one soloist sing the verse first
and the other famous local singer t1ke
1t afterwards. This compromise OF re-
peating the solo had the double advan-
tage of preserving the harmony of the
choir in other ways than on "the
STAFF and OF permitting the congrega-
ton to hear the music of the famous
master rendered twice on the same day.
II was also important that the families
OF the two solost should be placated,
as both were pillars of the church. so
on Easter day Margaret's parents sat in
full view of the choir on the left and
Sarah's in an equally conspicuous posi-
ton on the right, TO listen to the dorsie
solo.-Joe Mitchell Chapel in The