Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-04-13

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ON 10 ter day II g. wise pam 10
draw water and wash ia b. as. $50
say the ancient chronicles one viii
avoid an the ~ effects ol inc Easter
wind for me remainder oi me yrai
On the continent of Europe tha p ass
ants Ia MccNcnhury draw water on
Easter morning To wash their clothes
In Ia prevent illness throughout the
wear. bat the wind must be IN he cas-
when drawn Rain falling on Easter
day me,ns u good DIAL OF rain through
out the year. while ~ esun shining
on Easter day means that u viii
shine Whit SUNDAY. and II 1t shines on
Easter day n li,tle. II will shine
throughout the wear while countless
other supprstiliun5 as TO the weather
may be found In all countr.as.
Easter as festival of che church
was not celebrated To any great oN.
tent during the early history OF he
United states. except IN The south,
whore in NifginiH the Carolinns ana
Louisiana Il was more or less a iea'
tire OF the church calendar, but in
New ENGLAND ana The northern part
of tho country II was not adOptod
until much later as the Puritan spirit
was opposed 20 he festival The
Dutch of New Amsterdam kept GER
tain amount OF tho ohscryances al
the time oi Easter and Pasch, a. %
was called. as have certain denomlna'
ti0ns, such as the Anglic6As and lu-
lherans, but iiiiy years ago these We're
neither popular nor very generally
observed aud the Easter OF todaN Is a
col. .iraff4n mill hmm ttsl
been heretofore IN this country
As before stated. IN the carlf his
tory OF me church Easter was idcn.
zeal with The Passover a. the two
are the same in root hui the opposl-
ton oi the christians 10 the jews let
to change Records of the Council OF
Nicga, held \ - 1926. show this &C.
have been an acute state OF iteliu-
ana The Christians were called Quar-
todcCimanianA. because they cclrbrat
cd their Easter on the fourteenth day
of Nizan. he first month OF the Jew
ish year This controversy which
RACED az This time was more Jealous
than intelligent ana the opposition OF
the Observation-Disclosures OF Asia led 10
some strange results, as the artificial
day chosen ior Easter fell occasion
ally. as IN 1905 and 1925. on the four
toonth day OF the Jewish Nizan and
the Christian fathers while bitterly
opposed go the Jews adopted The Jew
i-h mode of reckoning time by luna
lions or The lunar system. The result
is that Easter calculations are 80 ar
/ iiCult as 10 lead 10 an occasional mis-
take. as that ul the year 1878. when
Easter WIS kept on the wrong day
This peculiar method of calculation
| Us always pu2zling and little oNpia-
nation NAV not come amiss. for as
Wcl yersed as one might be- IN The
chWCh festivals " Is always diilicull
as some one had feelinely remarked
unless We give our whole mind "a u.
To calculate on.hand the precise dato
on which Easter viii fall, As u whs
first determined, Easter was 20 nll on
ne FIRST Sunday after the fourteenth
day Of The moon that happens To be-
reigning ai the time Of the vernai
/ equinox thon it WAS declared that the
| date Of the equinox be arbitrarily iix'
I od al March p though in reality the
| equinox sometimes comes n little
I earlier or later than this date For
/ Example. If The equinox moon is Just
! fourteen days old on March II and
! thls day fails on q Saturday, the FOL
! lowing day Sunday. would Oh the
! above condition and he celebrated AZ
} Easter. II on The other hand. March
~ De- SUNDAY ana also the day OF inc
fnll moon the next full moon would
| fan on sunday April rs. and the FIRST
| SUNDAY thereafter would he Easter
Thus he festival may take pace a.
/ eptly ar March %. or as late as April
I %. la 76i aud 1878 Easter fell an
| March -. but neither IN the Nine
teenth nor Twentieth centuries would
/ this bee the ease. In l9as, Easter VII
lall on March 90, as II did in lho years
! lNl5 and 1856 while the latest Eas.
| tiers IN the last and present centuries
were April %, 1856. and viii be- again
| In lat3.
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