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All the world over Easter is a season
of great rejoicing. as everything begins
to cast of the dinginess of winter and
nature herself exhibits the spirit of res
direction.
The Easter festival Of our foreiathers
covers period of fifteen DAYS. The
week beginning with Easter Sunday was
almost entirely given over to sports and
games and general merry making.
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Easter is a movable festival. It is
always the first Sunday after the full
moon which happens upon or next after
the twenty-drSt day Of March; and if the
full moon happens upon Sunday,
Easter day is the Sunday following
The sacred festival of Easter has been
appropriately named the queen of festi-
walls" 1t has been observed from the
foundation of the Christian religion, and
is celebrated in every part of the Chris
tan world with great solemnity and de-
voton.
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There are many SuperStitions con-
neCted with Easter Sunday which are
| significant of the season, and are almost
as imperative as our laws One
of these is the necessity of having some
thing new to wear On this dav in order
to insure happiness for the coming year.
Hence the Easter bonnet.
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Palestine. the spot where the resur-
reCtion that we commemorate tool,
| place, is supremacy emblematic OF the
season. because there the spring sud-
denly bursts forth and all of the verdure
and the flowers spring up as though
magic wand had been waved over the
land for the excessive drearineSs of the
winter is broken in the Orient when it is
still winter in all OF the western lands.
OF all of the holidays of the year,
Christmas and Easter stand out more
prominently on the pages of history than
any others. Throughout all of the irrita-
tons and vicissitudes that have entered
into the worlds history during the past
two thousand years, the two festivals
that commemorate respectively the birth
and the resurrection of the Man of MAJ.
areth still shine with luSter that remains
unfaded after a lapse of more than
twenty centuries.
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While Easter reminds us of the resur-
reCtion, it may benefit us to call fresh to
memory few facts regarding the burial
OF the Son of God. Joseph. was that
day. mourner, sexton, and livery man.
He had entire charge of the whole oc-
cason. Only four people attended the
burial of the King of the Universe. Let
this be ConSolatory to those who through
small means or lack of large acquaint-
ance, have but little demonstration of
grief at the grave of their dead 1t is
not necessary. A long line of glittering
equipages, two rows of silver handles,
casket of costly wood, pail bearers, all
scarfed and sloved, are unnecessary.
EASTER IN ATHENS.
The Story Of the resurrection is told at
Athens amid a blaze of silver and gold.
For time before Easter, Athens wears
picturesque aspect This is due in
great part to the number of Shepherds
who with their flocks, have come down
from the mountains and are camped in
every available open space, and engaged
in sellius their lambs There is no
family so poor as not to break the long
Lenten fast with an Easter lamb, the
value of which is about dollar, and a
veritable massacre of the innocents is
going on. Ii is late on Saturday night
that the real Easter celebration takes
place.
An immense crowd fills all OF the APP
proaches to the cathedral and such parts
OF the church as are not kept clear
Without, a raised platform has been
erected and decorated with evergreens.
In the cathedral the royal princess,
the ministers of State, ard the high
functionaries Of the Kingdom assemble to
attend the midnight services. AS the
hour of midnight approaches, the metro
polltan with his assistants, preceded by
the cross and banners, advance with
lighted banners. The various NOTABLE |
tiles light their tapers from that of the |
Archbishop, and SO the sacred fire is |
communicated to the crowd.
AS the midnight hour sounds and |
Easter succeeds the last day of Lent,
the metropolitan, blaze of silver and
gold, with his tiara. the silver gospel,
and the Episcopal crozier, ascends the |
platform outside of the church and pro-
claims to the assembled people the It'd
ings, Christ Has Risen"
EASTER PLANT LEGENDS.