The Clayton news. (Clayton, N.M.) 19??-1954, 1915-04-03
THE MESSAGE OF EASTER

spring, answering the resurrection
call of the great Sun Godl
Standing in the midst Of Gods
great laboratory, after the awaken
ing breath of spring has swept
through it, dull indeed must be the
soul that is not moved by the won
der, the miracle, the beauty of it
all. Cold and dead must be the
heart that has never thrilled in re-
sponse to the great diapasOn Of ma
ture, when in the awakening year,
THE woods were filled so full
with song
There seemed no room for
sense of wrong"
There is nothing quite so delight
full as the spirit of springtime. 1t
is the resurrection of hope, of life.
All creation rejoices in the glad new
morning when nature, after her
long sleep, awakrs and decks her
self with most enhancing robes
Spring is the angel that rolls
away the stone from the tomb in
which all life has been sleeping in
the grip of death II is the call to
the buried root in the earth, to the
tree, to the plant, to burst their
grave clothes, to cast off the winter
death shroud, and come forth to new
life, to blossom forth to new
beauty.
How fitting it is that Easter, the
great festival of the resurrec-
ton, should be celebrated in the
spring.
There is a marvel of significance
for all humanity in Easter day. 1t
rminds us that death is not the
end, that life has triumphed over
death.
Easter tells us to lay aside our
clothes of doubt, Of despair, of
gloom and bids us look up and out.
II brings us new promise, new hope,
nov life, new beauty, new joys to
replace our SORROWS, our losses.
Awake thou that sleepestN
The slumbrring seeds which
have been held in winters grip are
not the only things that hear this
mighty resurrection call We hu-
mans hear it, and feel its inspira-
ton. 1t stirs us to our depths. A
new lifn pusates in our veins, and
thrills our very being. There is a
uaickcninC Of our vitality, resur-
rtction cf our ideals, a moral re-
tirth. our hopes, our prospects are
ranewed, terminated. We feel the
warming presence of new life, new
cheer, of higher and nObler i'm
pulses.
The Easter resurrection, the
warming w Of all nature, a sugges-
tion to ils t. warm up toward orA
another. It calls us to open car
hearts and let in new life. 1t buds
us warm up toward every living
thing. 1t is the call to a new life.
It's message is that I'VE rise on
Il pping stones of our dead selves
to higher things
The rebirth of nature, the strug-
Cling toward the light, the vigorous
,iIorts for self expression of the
niyriads of seeds which have been
buried in the earth for months, is
symbol of our ascending life.
If we could look into the growing
fiber Of young tree after each sue
cessivc apparent winter death, We
would find a new ring clear around
the tree representing new growth.
We find at every spring resurrec-
ton enlarged limbs, stronger bran
ches and stronger roots, and the
tree more and more firmly en-
Lrenched against its enemies, better
able to face and Withstand the fury
of the elements.
If we look upward like the tree,
if we live the life of faith, every
Easter will be a rebirth. If we face
life in the right attitude, with faith,
instead of doubt, optimism instead
of pessimism, those things which,
in our night of sorrow, we thought
would shut out the sun of peace and
Joy forever, will prove precious ex-
periments from which we would
not part for any consideration. All
of our strength, our stability, our
power 10 overcome in future diff
culties, has grown out of our strug-
giles, our apparent defeats.