The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-03-26
Mercy and Justice Take
Some Weird Forms AS
Time Flows On. Badge
Of Shame Discussed BY
the Tenderfoot.
VISIONS OF SOLID
TRAINS OF HARE
Preacher Quits the Church
and Sells Life Insurance.
Faith In the Church I'm
diminished, But M u t
Provide For Family First.

Next sabbath will be Easter, = day
VI deepest s~ignihcAnces u the Chris
tian AL over the world. IT, II one Of
the few festivals that has far deeper
h ~evclopsrdic significance, Tor u
typines the ascension OF the spirit, to
which the people OF all lands all times
cling with all their strength, IN their
hope that indeed aud IN truth the grave
does not eud Il all. that this life IL
but the beginning of a broader aud -
grander one. II IL no new thing, this
celebration OF Faster. We are told BY
the historians. Its observance goes
back 10 Ncry early times. In primitive
days a sprirg festival was associated
with various special deities, but II
passed In the Christian ritual prta
pally through the Jewish fea-s ut the
Passover. This, IN the early ga'ttIOns
OF the wandering Bedouii Semttes, vas
n s~hespsherttng festival, - whien The
HthcipAl feature was the sa,rL, 81 OF.
ferii x OF the pashai lamb , N"R"e 10
the month OF Nissan, go tue spripS
which marked the beginning Of the
oriental summer. la the agricultural
stage of Semitic evolution II under
went corresponding changes and unleav.
ehed b~read-the FIRST bread made OF
the early harvest grain winch begins
Ia ripen about the month OF April IN
Palestine and other semitic lands
was ADDED. These primitive agricul'
tural festivities were eventually CON.
htned with the beginning OF the Jew
ish national life that followed upon
the exodus OF the Israelites from Egypt
Similar spring festivals, associated
with special gods aud zoddesses and
Involving the sacrifice of lambs, sheet
OF cattle, were held Amoug other Sc
mites and even in Cyprus, where suca
sacrifices, about April 2, we're he's,
sacred to AstRrte. Certain ceremonies
were observed in honor OF the renewa
OF nature : fertility at this time; tA'
bonds OF kindship we're drawn close
by the meal which formed q part o
the festivities. and was accompanie,
with joyous songs and other manifesto
tiop Of an exuberant nature worship.
After the beginning Of our era th.
churches OF Asia Minor, among who's
members we're q great number Of Juds
lxing Christians, Kept their pashal les
tivsl on the same day a. tina. o. tn
Jewish PnssOver-that Is on the lat
OF Nissan. .he churches Of the veal
however, remembering that Chris
Akvue ITOm tue ucAN on a HuHuklt AcK
their anniversary on the sunday afte
the l4th of Nissan. This ven on gu
city for a time. Then controversies
arose about A. A. l5s, and G. itinue
on and on with considerable Ecrimon
during several centuries.
Constantine Mt the council OF Nc
"a. ID. 325) nad IL decreed that th
gay should be celebrated-not on III
day Of the jewish PAssover-5ut on III
Sunday following. At the same tim
the bishop Of Alexandria was app
Cd TO give notice Of the proper ds
to the pope and other patriarchs ''b
cause OF the Egyptians pre- eminen'
~ astrologers. TINS. however, al
not permanently settle the question, {
to be more accurate. other dispute
arose on the subject in the course Z
time.
However this may he, Easter BEGAN
one OF the three great Christian 10
tivals-the other tao being D.ristmI
and Whitsuntlde. From the early day
Of Christianity Easter has been a
counted, II anything, the greatest {
the three. On Easter morning the earl
Christians greete. one another reyeren
ly with the words; Christ is risen,
60 which the man addressed gravel
replied: Christ " risen indeed, - {
hath appeared unto simon. Tn
quaint custom has bsen preserved
the Greea church. In ~ east the oil
nsme was retained and the festival {
the resurrection was known As ''th