The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-04-01
The MESSAGE or EASTER.

Walter Williams, In Pueblo Chieftain.
Easter Is a promise that weeping
may endure for q night. but Joy
cometh In the morning. There are no
cemeteries In the New Jerusalem.
There is no sorrow there, nor tears.
Il L. always Easter morning in heaven.
So Easter means q shutting up OF
the fountains of grief. an enclosing Of
the sources Of smiles. 1t brings back.
In the bloom OF health, the stricken
form we laid away but yesterday, out
worn with LIES battles, In the vault Of
Earth. In it's glorius nge we see, tod
ding up from the tomb, the dear little
figure, SO dear to use that we listen for,
Its pattering feet with every passing
hour, SO dear that we can never close
pur eye to the memory Of its face on
pur ears to the echo of It's long silent
voice-the little child comes back to
pwell with use forever. There shall
pc no night there" and no tired chill
nren be called away from use at eve
ningtide to rest. .-/
Dearer dead than child OF friend or
brother somtise are hopes and aspira-
lions. No mourners go about the
btreets when We lay therese away. We
wear no GRAPE, we show no outward
bigns Of GRIEF, saw a certain grimness
about the mouth or downward droop
- NAS CyCo. Olly "hCh VIC w diOlC
IN III chamber or when we unbare our
hearts holy Of HOLES to our closest
friend do we ever admit the death and
burial. Yet when q great hope Is put
in crement forever, when an aspira-
tion is stricken unto death, the soul Is
bowed In sorrow deeper than that for
which we wear the worlds sack cloth.
Easter comes to bring comfort even
here. There Is resurrection ever for
the graces Of buried hopes. No right
eou cause Is ever lost. No hope has
come In to mans heart to uplift and
inspire that will not bless him again In
the days to come beyond. Buried as
pirations have their Easter mornings.
No great thought, no great desire, no
large and loving ambition. has ever
vet or will exist in vain.
Defeat Is sometimes success. The
largest disappointment often means
The greatest victory. The hymn Of the
conquered Is to be desired, many times,
more than the paeans of triumph. The
failures OF history are. In the Easter
lime OF the present, the worlds great
est successes. a was executed. Lati-
mer beheaded. Savonorola burned at
the stake. Ignatius Loyola was misin-
kerpreted and misunderstood, Roger
Williams was driven from Boston,
John Wesley was made q social out
past and John Knox an exile. The
E NLOa eRSA aShO w
Raster came.
The happiest of all funerals Is that
where we bury ourselves. There is this
lesson In Easter also. We amount to
little In this world as long as we are
hnburied. We must lose this snarling
thing WI call self before we can be of
service. He who would save his life
must lose it This is the glorious par
adox that comes as .corollary to the
treat truths OF Eastertime. When we
ping self we find service and tranquil
lty. With service and peace comes
happiness. The death OF self must
precede the Easter Of the soul. We
must be crucified before we can rise
From the dead. When self learns this
lesson there will be Easter all the
year. 1t will no longer be q yearly
miracle. but a daily fact. 1t will bring
bunshine to every soul and peace to
livery heart. We shall all dwell con-
tent. for having lost our lives We shall
bave found them our own forever.
And when the world learns this para
hox and lives it. there will be no more
poverty and war n bloodshed. The
Master will lie no longer in the tomb,
nor any OF His children suffer.
The Easter lily mods at the altar. II
In prophecy Of purity to come when
the w~hiteness of soul shall never more
DO stained with seeking Of self. 1t Is
yet dark. but the stone has been rolled
AWAY from the sepulcher and Dawn is
St hand.