The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-04-02
LOOK UP, IT'S EASTER

Sacrificing ones life for a cause i:
not confined to today's appalling dis
play of savage passion, internationa
violence and fraud. This present
world bears a similarity to a world
of over 1900 years ago when a life
was freely offered that man might
forever after live in brotherhood by
love and understanding This Man
chose to die that we might live, who
had suffered racial dhatreds, social
and regious bigotry the same as is
being suffered today, saw tyranny
and Christianity rejected. Teach
ing kindness and gentleness in this
world of 1912, were He to walk
abroad, would probably find him re-
buked as those centuries ago. And so
you ask, what has He gained, did
His death upon the cross achieve
nothing, fail TO prove there is a
resurrectio and trump of life after
death, denial that "if a man die
shall he live again?
The underlying power of Easter is
in its spirituality, and this force has
ripened and borne fruit through the
years, offering freedom for mans
mind and his soul. The promise of
life everlasting or Immortality, is
signified in the death of our gar
denis flowers in the autumntime and
their revival to bloom in the spring.
This is your Easter spirit in spite
of the skeptics. Christ died. He lives
again so as the syn1bo1ical lily at
Eastertide. Are not the fruit trees
of Kennewick breaking into blossom
Our soWn seeds terminating in To-
cal earth, the brown grass turning
green and does not all this give man
himself renewed hope in life? Mans
life is made up of his yesterdays,
his today and tomorrows. He lives
in memory of yesterday, reasonably
and safely today and joyful and
hopeful for tomorrow. That is tri-
umph in life and such faith is to be
found in most men. They have this
faith in themselves, in nature and
in their God. He signs as he looks
down upon the homeless and suf-
fering, hears shots, sights graves,
armies marching, flying and sail
ing, little men gnawing at the very
vitals of that which He died to save
humanity luStful for power, self
ish and pagan. Shortsighted they
have lost the vision of Easter-but
we must not-an men borne of love
and hope and faith.
Religions teach us to believe in the
triumph of life, of good in thots and
service. If a man has no religion,
which comforts him in his fear and
his sorrow during hate and conflict
and strife he still sees the vision in
the spring OF the return to living of
things he thought were dead. He
too believes in the resurrection. Mo
war can halt the passage of Christ
who for 1000 years has seen the rise
and fall Of civilization, the building
and destruction of cities, of men
ruling and men erlslaved. The light
of His candle burns steadily though
the earth is wrapped in a blackout
that ties man to man and to war.
The path He treads is there and the
CLEAN which lights it continues to
shine through the years to come and
no matter how hard man tries to
dim the ray it guides and steadies
him in spite OF himself. We repeat
the Easter pledge, peace be unto
you" in the conviction that so as the
lily lifts its head, so as the light
from the candle glows, so we can
rise above dispair and hand in
hand with faith, attain victory
over the baser self and build that
man shall live again.