The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-03-29
EASTER.

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of its force and significance had gone. 1t
finds us this time with all that makes
life dear, jeopardized, and llfe's beauties
married and furnished by ruthlessness.
1t finds us in death grapple with the
forces of evil to retain the ideals SO long
typified by its ever joyous return.
Taken from the myths and mysticisms
of pagans, and grated onto a christian
stem, it has stood for centuries as SYM
boil of a risen Lord, Lord who has tri-
umphed over death and brought confus-
ion to his enemies 1t has been to human
kind a source of inspiration, assuring
them that though the forces of darkness
may triumph for season, there comes
time, when the deafness of winter shall
have passed when the good, the lovely,
the pure and the alive of earth shall rise
up and put to rout all enemies and claim
the sovereignty that Mother Nature has
conferred upon them.
And never did human conditions more
loudly call for an Easter of the heart,
the soul and the mind than in this year Of
our Lord 1918. Never was the human
race more in need of the regenerating in
fluences of divine springtime than now
With many of earth's teeming millions
wandering in spiritual darkness, freez-
ing IN the arctic regions Of selflshness
and greed, proving in the underworld
of deceit and avarice, there is much need
of an awakening.
Dare we hope, that this Easter season
will see such an awakening? Can we
hope to see during the year lying out be-
fore us, old passions and preJudices die
and new and purer groWths take their
place? May we hope to see earth's mil
lions Gained and soothed and Invested of
the fever of avarice and hate that seems
to dominate them, and brought under the
milder sway of a new and better life, a
life drawn from purer fount?
If we would thus hope, we must not
lose sight of the fact that before every
Easter there must be a Winter-a death
Resurrection does not signify the bring
ing to life of the old, but the substituting
for it new life Except grain of
wheat fall into the earth and die, it abid-
uttered by the great Apostle of the Truth
Easter of all creation, look to our own
hearts and lives and see if we have con-
signed to death all the vile and ignoble
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very complex habitation. Let us be sure
that our outlook upon life is such that we
may welcome the pure growth that a
spiritual spring shall unfold before our
vision. May the grain of wheat typical
OF the old man with all his passions, tru-
ly fall into the earth and die" then in
its place shall arise such flower of love
and beauty as shall dazzle our vision and
enrapture our souls.
The war is teaching the American
people anew the dignity of labor. We as
people had almost forgotten that there
was in labor for labors sake, dignity not
to be found in inherited greatness or in
herited millions. We had come to view
labor too much from the viewpoint of the
old biblical story of the curse pronounced
on the first man, that in the sweat of his
lace should he eat bread In short. we
had come to regard labor as a necessary
evil, instead of the unalloyed blessing
that It really is. All this the war condi-
lions have changed. People whose hands
have heretofore been guiltless of the
CRIME OF toll, now take a pardonable pride
IN the fruits Of their labor, and MANY
whose incomes range in six and seven fig
ures are in the thick of the industrial
tray, and there as genuine industrial
units. This is as it should be- We are
getting back to the point where we can
regard the true object of life as achieve
ment, rather than the sensual enjoyment
OF the fruits of others achievement. We
are told that the great Ruler of the uni
verse can and does bring good out of evil.
Certain it is that many items of gooG to