Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-04-16
The EON.THEOLOGICAL
SIDE OF EASTER

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The EON.THEOLOGICAL
SIDE OF EASTER
Editor Democrat:
We are prone sometimes o ask
the question, what is there in human
nature that so sets it after symbols,
foreboding shadows, imaginary fulfill
ings Of prophecy, occurrence of things
that never do occur, and the like? The
answer is that it is the ebolitions of
poetry, the heat of mysticism and the
poetic fancies with which the human
Imagination seems prone to busy it.
SELF. Easter has been established as
2 church festival to occur in spring
time and it's charms are so great that
even those who believe such o~ccurances
ill-timed and out of place, in reli-
gious assembly. are captured by the
on-sweep. Easter has been given a
religious significance, by most all peo-
Iles e since the early fathers took
over this universal instinct, which
crept into the hearts of their follow
ors, and almost became part of their
spiritual life.
When we go back to the wandering
nomad, Abraham and his contemper-
aneous tribes, we see them trying to
interpret nature and natures God,
spiritually, and not only that, but we
find them doing the same thing in re-
gard to the stars, the seasons, the
storms, the sun, moon, the earthquake.
the famine. the rain storms and the dry
seasons. all were conceived to be SYM
bols or signs addressed to the soul of
man, rather than Just common factors
and occurrences in Gods creation.
Man has never refused to regard the
world and the universe as being estaI.
lished, fixed and governed by an II
changeable principle called law, but
be will have it, that it is SO run as TO
rect his fancies, his whims, his feel
irgs, his so called plans of the ages,
reEtorations, dawns, second comings,
and various other conceptions of IN
realities.
We are told by Herbert Spencer and
other great authors that everything m
motion is in mans conception, set to
rhymeS-that the wind so blows, and
the waves so beat, and in his fancies
maj turns his religion to the strains of
poetry. We older clodhoppers, tsot'
in u ways, must admit that this
world is for youth and not for age.
Mankind perpetuates itself not by the
cid fades living o II forever, but by
bright sweet, blooming youth COM
ing to take u places, and unless we
could live youthful forever, we should
Willingly pass on out and welcome in
the s~pringtime of youth, morning, and
Easter. Whatever that great Spirit
may be, that animates all nature, ali
the universe, all humanity, and es-
pecia.ly the young one of Gods cres-
ton, it continually renew its own
youth, with spring-time-leaves, flowers
and the joyous Easter.
Hope springs eternal in the breast
and it is but the inevitable Spring
and comes to the hearts of brave men,,
women, boys and girls as sure as come
the rounds of day and night, spring, |
summer, autumni and winter. The
world is just as young now in Easter,
spring-time as it was in the days of
Ninevah, or in the fictitious time of the
Garden of Eden. Boys and girls at
tack life now a hundred times moro
freshly than they could in ancient
ten thousand years before the
building of the Pyramids for they are
ROW in partnership with God himself.
He lends them his lightning to pull the
the flying cars; and motors them not
only W the face of the earth, but I
through the heavens and has
them to darken the seas with
moving palaces, together with ten
thousand other glories and wonders, to
keen aver hnf0rn him 10 c+or and