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LABOR WORLD. >
A project to organize a labor pro
feetlvo league is on foot In Boston,
Mass.
A general strike of carmen and mo
tor drivers has been declared in Bud
apest, Hungary.
The National Federation of Post
office Clerks is planning to erect a
home for its aged and worn-out mem
bers.
There are now eleven railroad or
ganizations affiliated with the railway
department of the American Federa
tion of Labor.
Unemployed benefits to the amount
of $60,000 were paid by the Cigar
makers’ International Union in the
last fiscal year.
The proposed consolidation of the
Central Labor Union and the Federa
tion of Labor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has
the appearance of an accomplished
fact.
A great victory is recorded in fa
vor of industrial peace in England by
the constitution of a conciliation
board for iron founders throughout
Lancashire.
A general strike of postal and tele
graph employes in Paris, France, was
called. A number of telephone em
ployes and railway mail clerks voted
to support the movement.
Twenty-three legislative proposi
tions indorsed by the Workmen’s
Federation of the State of New York
will be embodied in a bill to be in
troduced in the Legislature.
Following the formation of the
conciliation board the - Manchester
(England) Employers’ Federation of
Engineers sought a reduction in the
wages of the iron and brass founders.
The cotton dispute cost, the Gen
eral Federation of British Trade
Unions $350,000, and left a balance
of $300,000, to which has been added
the last quarter’s contribution,
amounting to about $50,000.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
The Shah of Persia is in financial
straits.
Ex-President Roosevelt will he his
own barber on his African trip.
Captain Baldwin and H. H. Clayton
will attempt to cross the continent in
a balloon. '
Bishop Greer presided at a meeting
In Trinity Chapel, New.York City, ip
interest qf the child.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise in a speech
placed the blame for child labor in
the South on Northern capitalists.
Forced to abandon his concert tour
by an attack of rheumatism, Pader
ew’ski, the pianist, went to New York
City.
John Mitchell addressed the con
gregation of the Free Synagogue,
New York City, on “The Industrial
Unrest.”
Myron T. Herrick, of Ohio, declined
for business reasons the post of Am
bassador offered to him by President
elect Taft.
The Duke of the Abruzzi left
Genoa, Italy, for Marseilles, prepara
tory to starting on his expedition to
the Himalayas.
Cipriano Castro informed President
Gomez of Venezuela of his desire to
return and live as a private citizen,
but has not received a reply to the
letter.
President Taft, Chief Justice
Fuller, Governor Hughes, Mayor Mc-
Clellan and others took part in exer
cises at Carnegie Hall, New York
City, in memory of the late Grover
Cleveland.
President Taft, in an address at
memorial exercises in New York in
honor of former President Cleveland’s
memory, compared his Democratic
predecessor with Lincoln in devotion
to public trust.
The Monthly Examination.
Students at Walter H. Page's Col
lege of Poetry are required to answer
correctly any five of the following six
questions at. the end of the first
month’s instruction:
1. Should auld acquaintance be for
gol ?
2. Where are the snows of yester
day?
3. Tell me, where is Fancy bred?
4. Oh, why should the spirit of mor
tal be proud?
5. The boy, where was he? (b) And
when the sun set, where were they?
(1. Breathes there a man with soul
so dead? —Puck.
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I nuked a little boy at play,
When Winter’s chill had passed away,
What made the <ky so soft and blue—
Why all things seemed so changed and
new?
“This day,” he said, ‘‘is Easter morn,
And I upon thiH day was born;
80, where the Easter blossoms grow.
Through fragrant fields for them 1 go.”
He knew the story, broad and free,
From Bethlehem and Galilee;
And felt his life, in some fair guise.
Was linked to their long-hullowed skies.
jppte Death a Qoldco (fciWj
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Text: “For we know not what we shall
be. But we know that when He shall ap
pear (when death comes), we shall be like
Him.”
All the critical hours of life are
full of pathos and mystery. No
strong man can look upon the youth
starting out to make his fortune, upon
the girl going toward her bridal al
tar, upon an old man holding a little
babe upon his knees, like spring sit
ting In the lap of winter, without
tears and a catch in the throat. But
full also of pathos and mystery and
hope Is that hour when an old man
forecasts the end and prepares for
the great adventure.
“Of what are you thinking?” a
friend asked Edmund Burke just be
fore the statesman died.
"I was thinking of the first five
minutes after death.”
All eloquence through oration, or
psalm or song, means a full heart,
means emotion surging through the
soul with all the majesty of a sura
lner's storm. In his hour of vision
and of hope, therefore, Tennyson’s
spirit rose to unwonted heights. Then
he wrote his poem of immortality,
and expressed the deepest thing with
in him when he said: “I hope to meet
my pilot face to face when I have
crossed the bar.”
Man’s Greatest Hope.
It is the glory of Christ that He
wrought man’s “most joyful Sun
day”—Easter—out of earth’s black
est event—dyfrfg and’ death. ' Jesus
found death altogether terrible. For
His generation the grave was horror,
blackness and the uttermost of an
guish. Death flung a black shadow
over the sun itself. Death sent an
eclipse over every joy. But if He
found death a black cloud He left it
a golden gateway, behind which rose
the battlements of eternal sunshine
in the City of God. He found death
standing for a dirge—He left it a
paean of hope and victory. He found
death’s one color, black; He left the
grave covered with Easter lilies that
were white and gold. He found men
dying toward the worm and the rot
ting leaf; He left the soul in death
sailing away midst a perfumed sum
mer sea, calling back, “I sti!! live!”
to those who stood on the earthly
shores and signalled midst their tears
that soon they w'ould follow after.
What men had hoped, Jesus turned
to light and certainty. He taught
men that God’s latest and best gift
was the gift of death and dying.
Therefore, these disciples braved the
stones, the scourge, the stocks, the
martyr’s chariot of fire, because dy
ing meant home-going, and death
ushered men Into the Father’s house.
The old Roman views of the sepul
chre dripping with horrors and em
blems named the skull and the cross
bones, differ from the beauty of
Christ’s hope—the many mansions,
the eternal youth and beauty and the
Father’s house —as frozen clods dif
fer from the purple clusters of sum
mer, as white snowflakes are unlike
red roses in June, as the arctics are
separated from the warmth and fer-
'Him That Cometh Unto Me T Will in No
W ise Cast Out.”
Ije crossed the meadows wet with dew;
The violet’s ctioicest nooks he knew;
But did not miss the spell divine
That came to him from Palestine.
One little child, in springtime hours.
Came home with burdened arms and
flowers.
And said: “I've gathered these in play,
To celebrate this Easter day.”
Warm faith and hope are manifold—
The Master’s love is simply told—
And down the lengthening path of years,
More beautiful its reign appears.
—Christian Herald.
tility of the tropics. The immortal
hope of Christ alone justifies a thou
sand times the triumphant progress
of Christianity during the last nine
teen centuries.
The Meaning of Easter to the Nation.
No poet, no orator and no philoso
pher can ever fully set forth the im
portance of Easter for the people of
the Republic. Human life is a sol
emn and pathetic march. But that
golden gateway named birth and the
cradle Is not less wonderful than this
gateway of death, whose rich drap-
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ery conceals the beloved ones who
have gone.
How wonderful the procession that
has disappeared beyond the horizon
during the past few years! Gone our
soldiers and statesmen, and heroes
of the great war! Gone the N'ew
England poets! Gone the orators
and jurists! Gone our beloved par
ents and a great company of our little
children who went singing out of
sight. One by one the statesman
with his wisdom, the mothers with
their beauty, the friends who have
counselled, the hoy with his high
hopes, the girl with her sweet beauty,
disappear behind the heavy curtains.
They return no more. The voice is si
lent, and the step is still. But the
sun sinks only to rise again. Sinking
it goes down in light and leaves the
rich splendor lingering in the cloud.
And Christ, dying, flung back the
glorious radiance and left a golden
cloud enveloping the grave, and so
filled the heart with hope. Hence
forth it is given to the Christian hero
and patriot, the dying father and
mother and friend, to bid all loved
ones to turn their eyes away from the
grave and cemetery, and to look up
standing with rapt expectancy and
listening to the voice that falls over
the battlements: “Come up hither!
I am not dead, but risen into the
realms of eternal youth, eternal beau
ty, eternal work and happiness.” For
one hour in the soul’s summer-land,
where the air is never’ dark with tu
mult and storm, will repay us a thou
sand times for the temptations and
struggles and sickness and heart
break of this earthly life.
The Joy and Beauty of Death.
On Easter the one duty of the hour
Is to make death beautiful and bright
for all young hearts and for all aged
ones. Birth is the great mystery.
That man should be born at all, and
come singing, bounding, laughing,
working and loving into the scene,
stirs the note of wonder. That man
should continue to live is a little
thing, but that man should begin to
live Is a great thing. Nothing is eas
ier or more natural than the faith
that this marvelous being shall go on
living after death. God has too much
treasure invested in man to permit
him to die. That Infinite Power and
Love and Wisdom and Beauty named
God is surely as wise as we are. But
we do not build a splendid house sim
ply to lift a torch upon it as soon as
the house is completed. And think
you that God builds the soul only to
destroy It? —New York World.
The First Easter Day and the Blessed
Virgin's Address to Her Risen
Lord and Son.
Frorrl “From Heather to Golden Rod.”
“Lo, Thou art indeed my risen Lord!
And oh, sweet Christ, Thou art my very
son!
Thou art the babe once in mine arms was
laid,
And I beheld Thee die, beloved one;
I held Thy bleeding form in mine embrace.
When still and cold rained losses on that
face.
“0 Christ! O Lord! 0 Son of God on
high!
Thy maiden mother see low at Thy feet;
I scarce can gaze upon Thy majesty;
Bless, Lord, Thy creature, i do Thee
entreat!
Oh, ere 1 lose Thee once again, my Son,
Place on Thy mother’s soul Thy benison.
“Forgot for aye the sword that pierced my
heart,
The joy that comes from seeing Thee
once more
Dotli lift me from the lower earth apart;
1 gaze in rapture and in faith adore.
Mine eves are open to Th.v majesety!
O life divine, Thou life that saveth me!”
And speaking thus low at His feet she
knelt.
He placed His sacred hands upon her
head;
“My mother, he thou mother to Mine own;
Alone on eartii thou must be comforted;
And who so dear to them, so close to Me,
As thou, sweet mother! So 1 leave them
thee!”
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No Death.
I dropped a pansy on her brow:
“Pansies for thought, A .
And marvelled when they whispered low 1
That she I love was dead.
I placed a lily in her hand;
“An Easter hope, I said, >-y i
And turned to the invisible,
None there, or here, is dead.
I laid a rose upon her breast;
M; T he'.rtw.'.°Uain 5 I with pur. j*.
1 knew she was not dead.
For she was an embodied love.
And thought, and purpose .P
These, the unseen, eternal things,
Sarah' E.'hurton, in the Christum Reg
ister. ___
The Glorious Day.
Easter is the Emancipation Anni
versary of the Christian vor
one day of all the year, next to the
Advent, that is the most glorious and
worthy of signal remembrance It
brings with it anew inspiration of
faith in God and of perfect assurance
in His love for the children of mem
Every swelling bud and sprouting
leaf reminds us that the life w c
conquers death in nature’s realm has
its parallel in the Resur i;® c^P 1 n
that great central fact of Christten
ity—in which we have the assurance
of our own spiritual revivification.
Christ in us becomes the vitalizing
force which lifts us from the dark
ness of sin and death unto light-and
life everlasting.
This old world of ours needs mo
Easter cheer. It needs to realize that
the risen Christ and the empty tomb
have for the whole race a grander
and higher significance than any oth
er event since time began. It needs
to feel that the defeat of King Death
and the triumph of King Jesus over
the grave* have thrown open thfe
gates of life and happiness to all who
will enter therein. It needs to grasp
the imperishable truth that, when the
Son of God burst the bars of death
and the grave, He revealed the way
of life eternal to all who accept Him
and follow in His footsteps. His res
urrection was the divine pledge of
our own, and the soul that rests upon
Him has already risen from the dead
ness of sin and begun the life ever
lasting. For such, the grave is not
an abiding place, but the vestibule of
the greater and nobler life beyond.
Therefore, at this joyous Easter
time, when all nature is rejoicing, let
our own hearts join in the songs of
praise and gladness. Around us. we
see the woods adorning themselves
with living green, and the air is reso
nant with the song of birds. Over all
the earth, wherever the name of Jesus
is known, it is the glad emancipation
time:
Tis the festival of all creation:
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