The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-26
(Official City, State and County
Newspaper
Foreign Representatives
SMALL, SPENCER. BREWER
uncorporated
CHICAGO NEW YORK BOSTOl

0AAASAsO ~>S''
Easter
The whole Christian world will rise
tomorrow morning with new spirit
TOR it will be Easter, most glorious Of
The religious feasts on Christendoms
calendar.
This nation, like most others COM
posed OF men of the white races, finds
It's greatest holiday celebrations GEN.
tered about events in the life of Him
who died that the world might live.
1 At Christmastime, greatest of all
occasions for family gatherings, We
celebrate His birth.
I But at Easter we celebrate the Gull
animation Of Christ's work on earth;
the triumph Of the spirit over the
flesh; the conquering of the forces of
darkness and evil by those Of light
and justice. To the man Of humble,
aquesting heart and mind there is no
event in all the year to compare with
1t.
I As time passed there grew up about
Easter other traditions. There have
been occasions when it seemed
doubtful II everyone appreciated the
sinward spiritual significances which
Easter brings. People have wondered
occasionally II, instead Of being a
celebration Of new life coming to the
world, 1t were not time for the dis
play Of new possessions.
/ But this year that spirit will hardly
dominate. People worry more now
about material things than they have
in some past years but this very con-
Germ gives them new insight into the
value OF those imperishable things
which are Of the spirit alone. There
is new appreciation of the fact that
no ravages of time, man or nature
can erase the benefit Of good deeds,
kindly thoughts and a clean heart to
those who possess them.
Nature. too, Is in tune with the
new spirit which Easter brings. In
this northern latitude the evidences
are not as apparent as in warmer
climes but everyone knows and un-
derstands that the breast Of mother
nature Is beginning to heave with
new life; that soon the leaves will
be budding on the trees and that the
meadow larks will be singing in the
fields.
II one wonders a bit at the mys-
terry Of it: at the impenetrable fast
nesses which shade the beginnings of
new life for the spirit and for the
world, 1t is good for him. None of us
suffer when we contemplate the in
finite. On the contrary, we draw
new strength from it because with
out contemplation there can be no
attunement.
There are lessons, too, which Eas-
ter brings. Yesterday, for the Son of
God. there was Calvary, the rough
rude cross, a crown of thorns and ig-
nominious death. Tomorrow there
will be glory and TRANSPORTATION. It
Is an example which all of us seek to
follow, for who has not felt the pangs
of defeat and sorrow and who does
not long for triumphant vindication
and release from care?
Many Of us will never know an,
other glory than that which is avail.
able to everyone who bears his cross
rs best he can and who follows ir
the Masters footsteps. Easter bring.
home again the knowledge that al
Of us have ample opportunity t
achieve this end and that, at the enc
Of LIES road. there still is something
left for us all.
We bow In reverence at Easter tim,
and we tell ourselves trustingly tn,
essence Of the message which H,
came to give: There Is no DEATH"