American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-04-20

al for Christians to put a new significance upon the day,
for to the hope of the spring and the harvest was added
the hope of life beyond life-the breaking of the chains OF
the grave, the touching and warming to life the palor on
the cheek of the dead, the starting to life of the pulses
that had ceased to beat. Before, there had been vague
dreams of a possible immortal life to men, but they were
founded on little evidence except the natural recoll from
the thought that a merciful Creator had given life to
men and drawn around it wonderful joys and often had
crowned it with ineffable glories, only after a brief season,
it should crlmble back to dust.
But when in immortal radiance the angel had said to
the heart-wrung woman: Him whom you seek is not
here; He is risen" then earth and heaven alike were thrill
led; then mortals thought they saw it was possible for
"this mortal to put on immortality" and realized that the
death of winter and resurrection of spring had, through
the centuries, been but typical of mans life and death
and his awakening from the dead with all life's infirmities
left in the deserted grave.
So with a new solemn joy they turned to celebrate the
day the coming of which was now more than ever the
symbol of a life to be after the chill and the darkness had
been passed.
So they went about the streets exclaiming, "The Lord
is risen." So there were loving greetings among friends;
so enmities were forgotten for that day; so they dressed
their affairs with spring blooms, and with joyous hearts
spread their feasts and pledged their happiness and hopes
in trimming cups.
For centuries the day has been increasing in signif
canoe; with every year the mystery of an after life seems
less and less profound, for science and invention and in
creasing wisdom but accentuate the hope that took on
real substance nearly two thousand years ago.
The miracle of the steam and electric engines; the mar.
vel of printing and the perfecting press; the Selling of a
great river, wrestling from it its power and transmitting
that power for hundreds of miles; the putting of a girdle
around about the earth in forty minutes; the transmitting
of a human voice for hundreds of miles along a wire, so
that above the roar of raging winds and beating storms
it can be heard with absolute distinctness, like the "stil
small voice" which followed the earthquake and the hurri-
cane that swept and rocked the mountain; the latest mir
acle through which a disabled ship far out to sea can on
the viewless air alone send the story of it's distster; the
wonder of the anesthetic that can suspend brain and
nerves, and make a PROSTATE form insensible to pain
all these things make the possibility of an awakening from
that phenomenon which we call death seem less and less
improbable.
cities of the human mind Tat men feel as they never did
before that they are in the very anteroom of that palace
r of light where light is brewed; that light which our cleo
trio light is but a particle stolen from it's high source, and
which reflects the greater glory even as the sun is reflect
ed where one of his beams turns to gold a drop of dew.
: That imam is but a little lower than angels is becoming
a fixed belief, and that our life here is but a link in a
. chain of endless progression which gathers in splendor as
it advances; that its furthest terminal is amid the stars.
= is crystallizing more and more.
2 Then for the memories it awakenS, for the hope it en-
$ genders and emphasizes, Easter should be the most well
come of sacred days; a day to be hailed with JOY, on which
all that is beautiful in song should be spoken, all that de
icious in music should be rendered; organ and choir
should respond to it and the hearts of men should be glad
And If on such a day, in such a spot as this, one material
thought crosses our minds, it should be that the more
+, beautiful men can make this earth, the fairer thew can
make their cities and their habitations, the more accep-
table will be their work to that great Architect who fran
. ed the universe, and from whose hand satellites and plan
ties and suns fall perfect in the rhythm of the universe
and all lighted with His glory.-C. c. Goodwin, Goodwin's
Weekly.