The Winslow mail., 1923-03-30


fore He went to His death on Calvary. Later they
saw Him finching beneath the weight of the cross
as He went forth from Pilates judgment hall along
the Way of Sorrows Golgotha. Still later they
saw Him dying on that cross. And finally they
Him risen from the dead on Easter Day.
To Jesus disciples the symbozed the
power of imperial Rome those who offended
against her. Rome stood for material achievement
for oppression. Jesus stood for spiritual things
for love, for human freedom and brotherhood.
To the Christian of today Easter is a celehra-
ton of the belief that Rome was wrong and that
Jesus right. And he knows that he must car
ry the cross, well cling to the cross.
Man instinctivey yearns for life beyond the
grave. "'Iill death do part" reads the marriage
service. There are some who would have it so
that not even death part them Wrote Robert
Browning:
o. thou my soul. shall clasp thee again..
And with God be the rest!
Many feel that if there is to be no future life
for them then is this earthly life hdeous iniquity,
a prodgious failure Wrote Tennyson:
Thou wilt not leave in the dust;
Thou madest man, he knows not why,
He thinks he was not made to die;
And Thou hast made him Thou art just.
1t seems inconceivabe that man should toll up
ward with sweat and travail until Lincoln could
say, with malice toward none, with charity for
all" and then should come annihilation. Wrote
Darwin:
1t is intoerable thought that all other
sentient beings doomed to complete humiliation
after such long-continued and slow process
So the Christian of today sees in Easter the
swer to the agesold question eff die, shall
he live again"
This is old, old earth and man has lived long
upon it-so long that he celebrated Easter ages
before Jesus died upon the cross and rose from
the dead. The Easter that man celebrated before
Christianity came instructive expression
Z bis joy that winter was over and spring was on
Tie way. To him the sun, if not God himself,
light and warmth and springng life. So at or
hear the vernal equinox early man celebrated the
change in the that renewed his slender
lease on life and comfort.
Man instnctively turns to a god, If not to the
God. In the beginnings of the saw god
In light and darkness; heard god in the thunder
and the wind felt him in the manifold manifesto
tions of nature. Perhaps most of all early man
god in the that drew nearer in the spring
and gave light and heat and food So it is
wonder that modern man rejoices of old at the
coming of spring. He would sing, if he could. with
Bliss Carman:
Well I know
The will shine again and spring back
Her ancient, glorious golden -fowered way
And gladness visit the green earth once
For many city does Berton Braley speak
when he sings of the tunes of the first street
piano of the spring:
They build a vision of meadows Elysian,
OF brooklets that babble and breezes that Groom
And wistful tender young spring in her spendor
Comes dancing the wings of a tune
Russell Mott poet of long ago, spoke for all
nature lovers when he wrote:
Godde helpe good adventurous
Who love strange roads welle,
Whose prysonne VS. city street,
Whose counting g-house cee;
Send them a safe deliveraunce,
That each may lyte his tyre,
With only the starres for gaoers
lime the ande of hys desyre.
So it is that out-ofdoors on Easter morn offers
lure for many that church equal
Easter morn at sunrise, should you be in Los
Angeles and one Of those lured by the 0ut-ofdoors
hasten to Eagle Rock park. You will fnu many
others going your way and you will come to vast
crowd Eagle Rock, surmounted by cross and