Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-04-14
Easter Here
 and Abroad
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Daybreak, Bethlehem. Not in Ju- dea but in Pennsylvania. Church and cemetery outside thronged with peo- pie, many of them there since the night before, all of them watching waiting, for the sudden glad burst of music from the marching choristers who will come to herald in the sunrise an- nouncing that Christ is Risen!"
 For two days these Moravians have kept celebration. On Friday at 10 80 they gathered for the beginning of services which progressed in dramatic intensity through the events of Black Friday, till at 8 o'clock, the hour of the cruciflXion, they knelt to the toll ing bell and the dirge-like chant, Christ is Dead" Later at vespers the Vigil of the Paschal Lamb was ob- served, and the Saturday services were eliminated by Love Feast dur ing which buns and coffee were served by black-robed priests and the night watch began, the end of which was to usher in the glad tidings which they now acclaim. Christ is Risen."
 Universal Celebration.
 At the same hour, in every civilized country in the world, some version of the great religious drama of the ages is being enacted with solemn music, lighted candles, the odor of lilies and prayer That is why it is almost shock at first to realize that the East CT celebration did not originate with the crucifixion of Christ, but antedates his birth by many centuries. Its origin is lost in the dim distance of remote antiquity and its name even Is that of Eastre, Ostare, the Anglo-Saxon god dess of Spring to whom the fourth month was dedicated and called East CT month." According to Canon Ve- nable of the Church of England. the keeping of Easter was made church custom only after popular usage had sanctioned and dignified 1t. The commemoration of the passion of Christ was later identified with it, as was the Jewish Feast of the Passover. The Persians at the same season ob- serve their Renewal of the Year" when the "Sun of Justice, the Savior of the World over Death is resurrect- ed." It was also the first month of the year with the Druids, and the worldwide custom of Easter fires dates back to the primitive worship of oS worldwide watching for the Easter Sunrise, when the golden orb leaps three times in joy" as even the canny Scots who watch Its reflection in a basin of water. will aver that it does.
 Easter Sunday in Russia.
 But the universal significance of the vicarious sacrifices and the emerging through a season of abnegation, into new being, deepens rather than takes from the religious holiday, which is never so devoutly kept as in Russia. Along deserted thoroughfares of little villages, or shoulder to shoulder with the throngs surging through city streets, in somber darkness go old and young, high and low at midnight on Easter "Yea, Christ Is risen," their challenge comes ringing back through empty space or rippling in a hundred echoes from the thick-packed masses of devotees. On Good Friday they have all followed the black coffin through the streets to the mournful music of the military bands and her aided by a crepe-draped crucifix. Now they press on, enter the church which Is dark as the outside-darker. They kneel, huddle together, they wait Presently down the center aisle 8 lighted lantern borne aloft on a pole comes, followed by the crucifix and white clad priests, peering right and left through the darkness. They are the Procession of Searchers for the Body" They reach the altar; they too, kneel. They wait.
 "Then comes the sound of shuffling feet nearer and nearer" an eye wit ness described 1t. Suddenly the doors are pounded from without rap Idly and incessantly-a profane sound that startles the stiffness into awaken Ing life. The kneeling figures at the altar listen, rise and hurry down the aisle. The doors are flung open and 6 long procession enters, each bearing ( lighted candle-followed by the choil chanting the glad news. From tho tapers as the priests pass, people near est In the heaving crowd light thell candles. Flame is passed up ant down from hand to hand. A trail O. Ire flowers springs forth from the dusl as though by magic until the gloom lightens to a rosy glow, the glow to sudden blaze of brilliance that gleam: on the jewel burdened ikons-on ses of faces"
 Bells Ring In Easter.
 In Moscow the bells of the Kremlir ring forth suddenly at midnight 1T