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NOTES

The following beautiful Easter
Message" appears in the current issue
Of the Youths Companion:
Something happened 1900 years
ngo IN the gray light of the first Easter
morning which has Transformed and
TRANSPORTED the face OF the earth. Hts
tory began again. The worlds henri
reat with new and gladder thrill.
TIenccforth and forever beneath the
al-beholding sun, there is nothing
which is too good to be true. It has
rot entered into the heart of man to
conceive a good which Is better than
the reality of things But we are
afraid of Imagination. IL is a vain
:hing, and must be voked TO a servile
mass of matter lest II soar upward
and onward into the blue sky above
the mountain tops. toward the glori-
Gus sun, and lose itself in the eternal
light and eternal truth OF God
10 brother-man or sister-woman,
are YOU afraid of Your own prayers ?
He Is God. He is the Father God,
the Motherhood. the God of tho but
tercups and daisies, of sunshine and
spring, the God who cares for the
sparrows and clothes the lilies. who
spreads out the heavens as q curtain
and calls all the stars by name; who
longs for YOU us the child of His
heart, and loves you with an everlast-
ing love, so that sin and death cannot
separate you from the might of His
affection nor quench His hope In YOU.
Morning light shames our midnight
fears. And the shame is that in the
darkness YOU We're not sure of the
coming dawn. You ought to have
known that after midnight comes the
morning; in the blackest night OF the
year you ought to have kept Gods
sunshine in your souls. Angels have
rolled the stone away from the grave
Of your ascending Lord. Clouds turn
to solid rock beneath your feet And
Christ is risen, indeed.
May the Easter glory shine unon
Your soul and make YOU strong. The
disappointment, the darkness, the sor-
row, which NAV be waiting for Won
n the home today or at business to-
morrow, or In your wide or narrow
world--may you confront them all with
the calm and happy courage of ono
who knows that all things work to-
gether for good TO those who love God.
Sunshine and shadow, shadow and
sunshine. make up the "a hours Of
cur little life that Is rounded by a
sleep, And while ono Is rejoicing with
JOY unspeakable in the light which
hroadens more and more into the per-
feet day. another is cropping in the
t,Nliisht' wearing n smile only to cover
IDS tears. and dreading the shadow
which lengthens to the night.
20 tried and tempted heart. believe
IN the Easter message! Believe in
God. Believe In His love. Believe in
His care. Believe in His goodness.
Relieve that He knows. and that all Is
we'll with you while You are in His
hands. Believe that pain is not all
PAINFUL, that chaStisement may be
sweet, that bodily weakness, hard
ship. loss. the blight OF hope, and all
that seems most wrong, must i'm some
strange. sad splendid way work out
for you far more exceeding weight
Of glory. Call TO Him, then, for He
hears. and spirit with spirit can meet
Every night has worn AT last TO morn
ing soon your night of sorrow will
be over. HE is not here; He is
risen" And The light that we per-
ceive' 1t is the rosy dawn OF day"
The race suicide question In literature
has been given the shaIpest kind of
turn in the new novel by May Sinclair
which the Harpers have just published.
called THE Judgment of Eve" 1t is
doubtful whether Miss Sinclair could
have anticipated just this phase of her
story for an American public which has
been led into more or less agitation over
the subject, and II is certain that the
novel makes no attempt whatever to
start problem or even an argument.
The story is merely the story of q wom-
an who more than "fulhlls her destiny"
and pays. and pays, and pays" In
c1dentally, 1t reminds one OF Nora in
THE Dolls House" who, when Torvald
says, First of all you are my wife"
makes answer That / no longer be-
lleve, First of all am q human be-
ing"
The library board of the United States
navy recently ordered eight copies of
The South Americans" by DR.. Albert
Hale, thus placing its stamp of approx
al on book which has been generally
recognized as the only book OF exact,
nmpl" and up-to-date information on
the other Americans. The services OF
lr Hale have received further recogni-
ton In his appointment 10 position OF
Importance In the bureau OF American
republics
Considerable discussion has been
aroused by an incident I'm Katharine
Evans Blake's new story THE STUFF OF
= Man" Al the climax OF excitement
lamp, an old time negro, appears at
the gallows-tree and offers his life for
another OF his own race who Is about