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i know tho gallant dead still live!
1 know the faith for which they died
flu now, and evermore will be,
The world’s one law of life:
That Truth and Righteousness
Are strong as God—
Are God Himself!
These canont die, nor perish from the
earth.
This is my Easter Creed.
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
ASTER Sunday this year
falls on April 20, as you
*^ r3 , may or may not know. If
you have been keeping Lent,
you know, of course. If you
are a milliner, naturally
your Easter hats were ready
on time. If you are a llor
ist, you have had the date
In your mind for months. If your
business is hatching baby chickens in
bicnbntors, statement of the date is
entirely superfluous In your case. If
you are interested commercially In
eggs, Easter means your busy time.
And so on. In this complex modern
civilization Easter day means a lot
•tore to the everyday world than the
Festival of the Resurrection.
But to the nonreligious man In the
street, to whom the recurrence of tills
great religious festival means nothing
fnuncinlly, Easter comes sometime In
the spring. Ills general impression Is
that It falls either in March or April,
owtlines In one and sometimes In
the other. And that’s all he knows
about It until something occurs to
4>reo April 20 upon Ills attention.
This variability of Easter was a
source of much trouble In the world
for many centuries. Thus In A. D.
387 they had Easter In Gaul on March
21. In Italy on April 18 and in Egypt
iin April 25.
The festival now known ns Easter
was celebrated by the Jews ns the
Passover, ninny centuries before the
llrtli of Jesus. It was unknown In
fle early Christian centuries. Then n
difference as to the time of celebration
arose between Christians of Hebrew
and of Gentile descent. Under the
■reckoning of the former, Easter might
fall on any day of the week. The lat
ter wished it to fall on Sunday. Thus
arose a dispute—one of the most
aoted In the history of mankind.
The cause of it was the irregulari
ties of the time of full moon in refer
ence to the year. Finally the coin
lined wisdom of the churchmen and
astronomers and calendar-makers
settled upon tills rule:
Easter shall he the first Sunday
after the 14th day of the moon which
Inppens on or next after March 21.
Some day this will likely he changed
and Raster made a fixed day. A com
mittee of the League of Nations Is
at work on a calendar for a year of
thirteen months. This will fix Easter
and make the Fourth of July, Memo
rial day and other fixed holidays fall
always on the same day of the week.
In the mean time Easter tables have
already been computed for more than
a century In the future. Under the
ante given Easter cannot fall before
March 22 or after April 25. Its eur-
Jcst date In recent times was March
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22, 1818. It will fall on April 25 In
1943.
While an astronomical calculation
may he necessary to fix the exact date
of Easter, spring has its own calendar
and everybody knows it and keeps
track ol’ it, In lands of frost and snow,
from the first rains until the day we
fall victims to the well-known and
Justly celebrated tired feeling which
sets us to fussing over the fishing
tackle. The wild geese flying north,
the first robin, the first bluebird, the
first violet —all mark red-letter days
on the calendar. Some of us, of
course, may he so unfortunate that It
takes a hand organ or a street piano
to awake us to the fact that spring is
here. As Berton Bruley puts it —
My figures grow hazy, I gaze with n
lazy
And Indolent languor at nothing at
all
In happy enslavement, while up from
the pavement
The magical melodies summon and
call.
They build me a vision of meadows
Elysian,
Of brooklets that babble and breezes
that croon,
And wistful and tender young Spring
in her splendor
Comes danging to me on the wings
of a tune.
These things, material in themselves,
are dominated by a spirituality that
Insensibly puts us in touch with the
religious lessons of the season. In
the egg we see the symbol of poten
tial life—hence tiie Easter egg, which
Is so old that it goes back to time im
! memorial. In the Baby Chick we see
! the promise of the egg fulfilled —hence
the millions of fluffy little live halls
|of feathers that delight millions of
children from coast to coast at Easter
tide. In the budding flower we see
a symbol of the triumph of life over
death. So the pealing bells of Easter
find us in receptive mood —
In every trembling bud and bloom
That cleaves the earth, a flowery
sword,
I see Thee come from out the tomb.
Thou risen Lord.
Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole
Of life that quickens In the sod;
Green April Is Thy very soul.
Thou Great Lord God!
In this springtime resurrection man
sees a symbol of a future life —of Im
mortal life. It matters not that there
is no scientific proof of a future life.
: He has the longing for it In his heart —
and the Ivelief that it is true. Immor
j tality seems to him a moral and spir
! itual necessity of the scheme of salva
tion. Why else, he asks, should God
.give us aspirations after Immortality?
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
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In thoughts sublime that pie roe the
night like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge
man's search
To vaster issues.
Flowers in*untold millions adorn
Christianity’s altars at Eastertide and
brighten American homes. Lilies
doubtless hold first place—“pure lilies
of eternal peace.” But many say: '
Not lilies, cold and passionless and pure.
But gay. grave daffodils,
And deep-blue violets,
And hyacinths, whose sweet, exquisite
bells
Shake forth an unheard melody
To brighten saddened souls.
And arbutus, oh, arbutus!
In Washington thousands will gaze
with a thrill on tho Crown of Thorns
plant in the Smithsonian institution.
It is a cactus and thirty years of care
have gone into its forming.
Jerusalem, to which thoughts natu
rally turn at Eastertide, will see many
thousands of Christian pilgrims this
year, for the first time since the World
war put the Holy City in Christian
hands. They will find Jerusalem prac
tically unchanged. It is to he pre
served from modern Improvements.
“Doubtless a modern Jerusalem will
grow up beside and around the ancient
city, for the Jews hope to make it
the center of a Jewish state. But,
says Gen. Ronald Storrs, British gov
ernor of the province of Judea:
There is an atmosphere in that city
that it takes years to appreciate, and
our struggle Is for the intangible and
the imperishable. That Is what should
|be reverenced. Jerusalem is a city of
a great soul; It has been in the past,
and it is our hope that Jerusalem, bat
tered forty times In its history, sur
rounded by the grand and austere hills,
will be able to create its own future
from the wrecks It contemplates.
These pilgrims will, however, find
pure water in plenty, instead of cis
tern water so foul that outbreaks of
malaria and typhoid were common.
The British engineers have cleaned
and reconstructed Solomon’s pools,
ancient reservoirs to the south of
Bethlehem, and have brought good wa
ter to Jerusalem. There should he no
conflict between religion and science—
and there probably is none. Of a cer
tainty pure water is good for both
hotly and soul.
On the resurrection morning
Soul and body meet again;
No more sorrow, no more weeping.
No more pain.
On that happy Easter morning
All the grav es their dead restore,
Father, sister, child and mother.
Meet once more.
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Why else should He
give us the comfort
of hope? Why
should we be. en
couraged to strive
for a better life, If
that life is to be
snuffed OHt like a
candle? The alter
native is this: This
life is but n colos
sal hoax, if this life
is all. Wrote George
Eliot:
0, may I join that
choir Invisible
Of those Immortal
dead who live again
In minds’ made bet
ter by their pres
ence, live
In pulses stirred to
generosity,
In deeds of daring
rectitude, in scorn
For miserable alms
that end with self.
Spanish Type of Home That
Is Gaining Wide Popularity
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By WILLIAM A. RADFORD
Mr. Willfcun A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject of building, for the readers of
this paper. On account of his wide
experience as Editor, Author and
Manufacturer, he is, without doubt,
the highest authority on all these sub
jects. Address all inquiries to William
A. Radford. No. 1527 Prairie avenue.
Chicago, 111., and only inclose two-cent
stamp for reply.
“Home keeping hearts are the hap
piest hearts,” someone has said with
great aptness, knowing well that the
statement is proved by the longing
for home-owning, which is embedded
in almost every human heart.
And particularly are home keeping
hearts happy when the home is de
signed with due consideration for the
wants of the family group which is
to occupy it. Now, as never before,
expert attention is being devoted to
the design and construction of homes
for families of moderate size, homes
sacrifice nothing in beauty and
convenience because they are meant
for the modest household.
Such a house is the one shown in
the accompanying illustration. With
the undoubted advantage, particularly
to the housewife, of having all of the
rooms on one floor, is combined a re
markably beautiful and studied sim
plicity of design. The well-worked
out balance of the predominating
straight lines is modified pleasingly
by the arches of the entrance and
porch. The Insertion of colored
plaques in the stucco adds a delightful
touch, while the roof'offers pleasing
possibilities in the way of colored
roofing material.
The design is of Spanish type,
which originated on the Pacific coast
and rapidly is growing in popularity in
all parts of the United States. Its
typical bungalow construction allows
It to he built with proper safeguards
to insure coolness in summer and
warmth in winter.
The front door opens directly Into
the living room of pleasant propor
tions, dominated by the fireplace at
one end, which forms a natural center
for the grouping of the furniture for
the room. The length and location of
the windows insure adequate lighting
for this room.
The dining room, with the wide
opening off the living room, opens at
.once to the guest entering the home
■ \ist.i which magnifies even the na'-
-ul spaciousness of the two com
,* .ned rooms. One of the most pleus
Floor Plan.
ing features of this room is that It
opens directly on the porch to the
side of the house, suggesting coo! sum
mer dinners. This porch is available ]
also from the living room.
The arrangement of the kitchen,
with its separated entryway and the
convenient arrangement of the table,
sink, built-in cabinet, range, and other
features, will appeal to the cook, par
ticularly to those who have struggled
in a kitchen either too large or too
small for comfort.
The sleeping room quarters are at
tractively arranged, with both bed
rooms having cross ventilation and so
planned that the bed may be placed
to insure ample ventilation of
rooms without placing the sleepers a
drafts. The convenience of the clos
ets shown in the floor plan tell their
own story. The bath room nW
readied readily from either o
rooms,
Tiie house is designed with a stucco
exterior which may be applied
satisfaction over several type®
base, frame construction w.tl:
lath or wood lath ns a basis or
stucco; hollow tile or concrete block
Cost of this home can be learned
best from your local architect, c
tractor or dealer in building nm e•
Cost of material, because ot t *
rates, and of labor vary so much
the United States that it is bap
cal to give an estimate wlilo.. ""
approximately accurate for a
tions of the country.
Method of Renewing
Colors of Rugs Given
Grass and fiber rugs that have Nj
come dull and color-worn ‘j
greatly improved by an appl ’><
of oil color. There is read, n
to the number of shades nQt
fee obtained and the results
many times for the small ex - ~and
Materials: Colors ronn I In
One-half pound for fig-A ;; t3
pound for deeper shades. T-vo qu
gasoline or turpentine M .
Method of treatment. T.
sin out of doors. Pour In,;
quarts gasoline or turpe j f
oil color sufficient lo ,
shade desired. Let It and. a
oughly. Apply the Be
scrub brush or whisk b. - (W
sure to use it outside, never --
house. Allow the rug to -
fure taking into the house.
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