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Term Easter is of
German Origin.
Our term EaBtcr Ib of German ori
gin, but the nntno by which tho fcstl
vnl 1b designated from tho beginning
Ih tho 1'nnchal, a nnmo derived from
tho Hebrew: It commemorates tho do
llvernnco of tho Jowb from Egyptian
bondugo when tho deRtroylng angel
spnred tho first-born of tho Hebrew bo
cause their doora woro marked by tho
blood of tho PaBchnl lniiib. '
Tho Easter festival IB J tho greatest
In tho Christian calendar; It 1b tho
climax or tho events In tho llfo of
cur dlvlno Lord his blrii, his laborB,
his miracles, his betrnyil, tho blttor
noss of his ngony at (lotlscmano, and
Ilia cruel death on Cnlv.-B-y all culral
uatod In tho victory wo
on this glorloun day.
Tho church has alw
the nilrnculotiB ilollvcrni
brow pcoplo from Egyt
waB tho type nnd flgu
greater riollvernnce will
low when Clirltit, -om-
Pnul Bays, would bo Bac
his blood would save u
death.
t Th.o Christian Pasti'u
on that. night when ou
Christ, surrounded by
tho Last Supper whlcl
thorn, gave thorn und
bread and wluo his hod
to drink. Thcro Is noth"
gospels set forth in la
unequivocal than UiIb fac
has always taught, as hoKsolf do
clarcd, that our dlvlno Ld is truly
and really present, undotl tho forms
of bread and wlno, consecrated by tho
words uttered by himself, hnd spoken
by thoso authorized by him to uso
them.
It Is true that ho suffered and died
that all men might bo saved, yet wo
know, from his own words and tho
teachings of his npostles, that many
may not bo saved becauso they will
not make tho noccBsary effort and sac
rifice "Many aro called but fow cbo
son." Faith alono in tho redeoming
sacrifice will not bring salvation; tho
mero fact that wo bcllovo in tho divin
ity of Christ, in tho teaching of Christ,
In tho redemption purchased for us
by tho death of Christ will not bring
us salvation unless wo ourselves do
our part to ruako ourselves worthy
thereof. It Is not enough to havo
faith; wo must nlso labor. "I havo
fought tho good fight, I havo kept tho
faith," St. Taul says; ho did not con
Bldor It enough to havo tho faith only
It must bo accompanied by good
work.
Tho church, therefore, eclobrates this
day with moro of Joy nnd gladness and
coromony than any other In commem
oration of tho Institution of that Chris
tian Pasch which means bo much to
humanity! for millions of her chil
dren, undor her guidance and direc
tion, throuch pravor nnd ropentnnco,
and other penitential works aro mado
worthy to participate in this dlvlno
banquet. Thoy aro restored to tho
friendship of God and havo earned for
theniHolvoB eternal life, for our Savior
has said: "If any man eat of this
broad ho will live forover, and tho
bread that I will glvo Is my flesh for
tho llfo of tho world." (John vl.)
And Bho colebratos this day with
unusual Joy nnd gladness for the fur
ther reason: That it is tho anniver
sary or that day on which the Founder
by his own inherent powor raised him
self from tho dead, thus giving the
strongest possible proof of his divin
ity, and leaving to us, who boliovo in
him and love him, a reason for tho
lalth that is in us.
The Hook or UoiL
Highest of all la the book of God.
This book is tho story of earth's
noblest Bplrlts, In hours when thoy
woro filled with a passlonato hungor
for righteousness, and how thoy made
a record for these great spiritual ex
periences In their poems, psalms nnd
letters. No other book has such treas
ures of wisdom nnd culture It
teaches us tho path that leads to pros
perity and peaco. It is tho great
book, tho book of hope nnd life, be
causo It Is tho hook of God. Rov. N.
I). IIUIIs, Congregationalism Brooklyn.
N. Y.
Heathen Nations
Celebrate the Day
In tho Christian churches of nil nn
Hoiih Eastor 1b celebrated as tho day
pn which tho Great Teacher, tho Jcbub
Christ, rose from tho dead and thereby
consummated his dlvlno plan of re
deeming tho human race. Slnco Eas
tor Ib so lndlssolubly associated with
tho llfo of tho Founder of tho Christian
roltglon, ono would naturally nssumo
that It Ib a purely Occidental festival,
having its origin In tho west und be
ing confined in observance to Cau
casian countries. Yet, strangely
enough, In several' of tho countries of
tho Orient, In India, In Japan, In Chi
na, wo find religious ifeBtlvaltt-bcarllig
a "niiilriifniM null mill
is pcoplo
ho begin-
laid tho
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pan It is
on," while
at spring-
strnl Wor
havo deep
I all havo
thankful-
rover man
o death of
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aro man's
spontaneous outpouring of gratitude
The Chorister.
Yo choirs of new Jerusalem,
Your sweetest notes employ,
Tho Paschal victory to hymn
In Htralna of holy Joy.
to nature, alike beneficent mother of
both Occident and Orient.
A deep roligious sentiment governs
tho Christian observance of Easter,
and In that particular tho Chinese an
cestral worship is similar to it. Tho
fifth commandment of tho Christian
decalogue is their first, "Thou shalt
honor thy father nnd mother, and no
sin in the eyes of tho pious Chinese
1b so heinous as' that of disobedience
or disrespect to parents.
This filial piety is tho fundamental
vlrtuo or their social lire, and tho re
spect which a son shows his father
dons not end with life, but Is still
shown to hlB memory long after his
death. Nor Ib tho deforenco merely an
Individual custom. Time has hallowed
It into a great national festival.
It Is cnllcd T'slng Ming, and occurs
In tho spring of the year. The Chi
ncso do not make much ado about the
death of a child or a young person,
but when a father or a mother dies,
especially if thoy havo grown old,
great ceremony attends the burial,
from which proceeds ono of their great
common proverbs, "As much troublo
as a funornl."
Thoro Ib nothing in tho lore of east
ornVrollglons to conflict with tho hopo
or a Nlfo hereafter. Almost every faith
of tlU! Orlont had for Its foundation
tho tjieory of a, risen Uodcemer. And
yot who can bake answer to thcBO
ruomontous questions?
Easter Festival
of Great Age.
Tho festival of Easter is much older
thnn tho Resurrection of Jesus. Chris
tianity not only .converted tho magnifi
cent pagan temples, which It could not
pull down, into churches, but it also
adopted and adapted aa many of tho
rites and ceremonies of heathen an
tiquity ns woro too deeply rooted in
the hnhlts and affections of the pcoplo
to bo eradicated. From tho Greeks and
the Romans the early. Christians bor
rowed their emblems of resurrection
nnd Immortality thn Pnnenek nnd thn
"Wiocnlx. Tho Eaotor egg, too, as n
religious symbol Is as old as the pyra
mids of Egypt and tho primer of Ori
ental philosophy, which taught that
tho world was hatched from an egg
about the time of tho vernal equinox.
We read uIbo that tho Romans In early
spring rnn races In an oval an egg
shaped arenn, when tho wlnnor was
presented with eggs accompanied with
wishes that his noblo family may In
crenso and multiply. Christianity col
ored tho egg red to remind tho peoplo
of tho blood shed for their redemp
tion. That ceremonial Christianity Is in n
largo mcasuro paganism transformed
or rejuvenated is admitted by the best
scholars In the church as well as out
or It by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman
and Daronlus, as well as by Max-M til
ler and Rcnan. "Tho church haB bor
rowed many customs from the religion
or the Romans and other pagans,"
says an ecclesiastical authority, "but
It has meliorated them." Anothor
writes that "tho pagan festivals laden
with superstition wero changod Into
tho pralsoworthy festivals of the mar
tyrs." Still another defends tho prac
tice by saying: "It was permitted tho
church to transfer to ious uses thoso
ceremonies which the pagans hnd
wickedly applied in a superstitious
worship."
Ostora or Eostre, derived from
"Ost," meaning East, waa a Saxon
Goddess who presided over tho lumi
nous powers which revived tho earth
and resuscitated llfo out of the shadow
of darknoss and the mold of the grave.
Sho was the divinity whoso face shono
like tho glory of tho sunrise and the
brightness of tho dawn; her ambro
sial breath made hill and dale fra
grant, and her smile shed beauty ovor
evory breaking bud and blossom. Tho
people congregated In tho fields to
cheer her arrival in the skies, becauso
sho came to destroy tho gonll of winter-darkness,
sterility, storm, and
death, and to shako from her golden
urn blessings upon man and beast
alike. "Tho Sun is risen!" they shout
ed, as they greeted ono another nnd
kissed nnd danced on tho new grass.
Our Teutonic ancestors devoted eight
days of April, which thoy called tho
Ostormonat, to tho worship of this
beautiful goddess of life and lovo
perennial, whoso arrows, tlppod with
llamc, had shot fresh hopes Into their
hearts. When Christianity converted
the pagan Saxons, Instead of attempt
ing to abolish this joyous festival, it
christened it into an Institution of
tho church, preserving all Its poetry
and music tho flowers and tho eggs,
and only substituting Jesus, tho "Sun
of Righteousness,' for Ostera, tho God
dess of the East.
Easter, then, Is a day In which Chris
tian and heathen memories mingle,
and we regard that as its most pleas
ing fenture, because It lifts It from
being merely a sectarian symbol Into
a festival of humanity. It demon
strates that all festivals havo a com
mon ancient source tho needs of the
human heart, and that all religious,
Instead of being miraculously given
to any chosen peoplo, spring out of
tho eternal soli of humanity.
Let us rejoice to-day not that the
"Sun" has risen or that one man has
been raised from the dead, but that all
mankind has been steadily rising du
ring these many ages rising from tho
deep, dark grave of lgnoranco and
slavery to freedom and power. Let us
change thn Easter salutation, and In
stead of greeting one another with
"Christ is risen" and "He is rlson, in
deed," lot us say, "Humanity Is risen,"
and let tho refrain be, "Hall, risen
Humanity."
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ed, behold! an egg
drops Into tho nest ns
f laturally as If she was In
deed allvo. Thia Is tho most
Ingenious nnd interesting
contrlvnnco yot produced for
tho Easter souhoh. Tho
Chicken Is a little box whoso
head liftH off. In It nro placed
eggs about tho sizo of thoso
of a nlireon. mnrln of nnv
iwcot material tho buyer desires,
alio has tho great advantage over
a real nen inai sue win lay us
munv obcb and in as oulck succes
sion as may be desired.
THE EASTE.R EGG.
Tho Easter egg hns always been ono
of tho most pqpulr.r features of tho
Eastortldo. It ovjb Its origin, as
many of tho popular Easter observ
ances do, to pagan tradition. It was
held as symbolic of renewed lire, and
In tho Christian church is nn old em
blem or tho resurrection. In Germany,
instead of tho Easter egg, is presented
an emblematic print. In which threo
hens aro holding a baskot, wherein
aro threo ogga; whoreas In Vienna
the Easter egg Is composed of silver,
mother of pearl, or nronzo, and filled
with knlckknncks of somo kind.
Formerly in England tho Easter egg
was Bolomnly blossed by tho priest,
nnd, uolngiolaborately colored, was oft
en kept aajan amulet. Eastor eggs, or
pace or pnk oggB as thoy used to be
called, havg from tlmo Immemorial
been prepared much as thoy nro today,
bolng boiled hard In wator colored
with red, blue, or violot dyes, with
Inscriptions; devices, or landonpii
traced upoji them. Somo or tho do
signs are very beautirul.
OF NOVEL DESIGN.
Perhaps tho most curious Easter egg
ever mado was ono ordered by a South
Arrlcan mllllonalro for his bride. It
was mado In London, and was nine
feet long and eighteen feet In circum
ference at the widest part. Tho sholl
of this wonderful egg was mado of
chocolate, most claboratoly adorned.
It was Intended ns a wedding present,
nnd held tho whole of nn expensive
trousseau for the girl ho was to mar
ry. It also had in It an enormous
quantity of suDcrflno confectionery.
It is said that tho most costly Easter
egg over made In tho country was
ordered by a railway magnate for his
little son'. It was a miniature car
riage, most exquisitely appointed, In
tho Bhapo of an egg. The exterior was
of the finest whlto enamel, and tho
lntorlor of whlto, quilted satin. This
dainty llttlo vehicle was drawn by
two tiny ponies in gold harness. A
boy would bo hard Indeed to ploaso
ir such a beautiful present did not fill
his heart with gladness. Rut tho boys
of tho present day are luxurious.
TO BE HAND PAINTED.
Anybody who can use a brush at all
can make lovely and at tho camo tlmo
novel eggs by taking u little trouble.
The prettiest Idea, and ono which can
bo carried out easily, is to tako u goose
egg and paint a llttlo spray or violets
on it. These blossoms aro symbolic
of tho spring, and so especially ap
propriate. Noxt mako a llttlo bunch
of paper violets, ending as descrlbod
before, In a bon-bon. These, of course,
aro to fill tho opening which has boon
mado to blow out tho egg. Fill the
rest of tho egg with candled violot
leaves. This makes as beautiful a llt
tlo egg as tho heart could wish, and
especially denr to tho recipient as rep
resenting tho work and thought or tho
giver. A pretty variation or this no
tion can bo made by drawing rosea
Instead or violets, using a paper roso
for the stopper and filling tho egg with
candled roso leaves. Endless designs
aro shown In tho confectionery shops
ot the cities, but thoy can bo painted
at homo Just as well, and will be more
I valued. '
Hotv Delarejr Crushed
Lord Methuen9 Force
Tho dcreat and capture of Lord Me
tlmcn by the Boer Gencrnl Delarcy has
plunged England Into gloomy depres
sion. In a battle before daybreak on
March 7, a forco or 1,200 British sol
diers was stampeded; forty-ono men
woro killed, Bovcnty-sovon wounded,
over 200 captured, and Lord Mcthuen
himself mado a prisoner, after hlu leg
had been broken. The Doers were unl-'
formed In British uniforms or khaki.
Tho fight took plncc Just beroro
dawn, between Wlnburg nnd Llchten
burg, in tho western part or tho Or
ange River Colony. Tho Drltish forco
numbered 1,200 men and was on Its
way to Povlrnlnesfonteln, where it
wnts to meet Gen. Grenfcll with 1,300
mounted lnrnntry.
Tho attack seems to havo been a
complcto surprise. Tho horses and
mules wero stampeded, and although
tho Loyal North Ivincashlro Regiment
showed conspicuous courage In pro
tecting tho wagons, refusing to sur
render until rcslstnnco was usolcss.
Delnroy's forcca wero almost all
dressed In tho Hrltlsh uniform, which
made it imposBiblo tor tho intnntry iO
distinguish between their men and the
enemy when the mounted troops wero
driven In on them.
Tho Doers numbered 1.C00 men, with
a llftecn-pounder and a pompom. De
larcy, Celllors, Kemp Vcrmass, Tromp,
and other Doer commanders were pres
ent. In order tho better to cope with the
guerilla tactlcB or tho Boers tho Drltish
havo established a largo number of
blockhouses nnd nro still adding to tho
number. These blockhouses nro con
structed chiefly along tho lines or rail
way and In tho districts whoro thcr
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tho Drltish replied vigorously to tho
uoer fire their resistance was hopeless.
Tho Doors attacked first rrom tho rear
and' then tdmultancously on both
flanks.
Tho fighting continued until 10
o'clock a. m. by tho rcmnnnts or the
Drltish column before It surrendered,
Lord Mcthuen, wounded, being among
tho prisoners. Three Drltish officers
were killed, Including Lieutenants G.
R. Venning, and T. P. W. Nesham, of
tho Royal Artillery, who were both
struck down while serving their guns
with shot The Drltish lost four gunB.
According to tho latest reports of the
battle, tho Doers charged from threo
sides. FIvo hundred and fifty men
woro pursued by the Boers four miles
from tho scene of the action.
The Drltish column was moving In
two parties. Ono, with the ox wagons,
left Twe-Dosch at 3 a. m. Tho other,
with tho mule wagons, started an hour
later. Just before dawn the Doers at
tacked. Defore reinforcements could
reach them tho rear guard broke.
In the meantime a large number or
Boers galloped up on both flanks.
These at first were checked by the
flank parties, but the panic and stam
pede or the mules had begun, and all
the mula wagons, with a tcrrlblo mix
ture or mounted men, rushed past tho
ox wagons. All efforts to check them
wero unavailing.
Major Paris collected forty men and
occupied a position a mile in front
ot tho wagons, which wero then halt
ed. Atter a gallant but useless dc
fonso tho Doers rushed into tho ox
wagons, and Lord Mcthuen was
wounded in the thigh. Paris, being
surrounded, surrendered at 10 a. m.
Later reports sny tho Doers mado a
sudden flanking and enveloping at
tack from tho rear. Tho first disorder
waa occasioned by the native boys
with tho led horses galloping through
tho mule convoy as the latter was en
deavoring to comply with Gen. Me
tr.uen'a directions to close on tho ox
convoy. This disorder In the mule
convoy communicated Itself to the
mounted troops, and Doers dressed iu
khaki,, riding along tho wagons, frus
trated all attempts of the officers to
rally their men.
Great confusion-ensued among this
portion ot the mounted troops, and
they and the mule wagons, galloping
threo miles beyond the ox wagons,
were cut off in sections. Tho Fourth
and Thirty-eighth batteries fought
with great gallantry. Three hundred
of tho Northumberland lusllicrs nnd
nr.rr rFraorrr
Boers make their headquarters. They
stand some 2,000 yards apart and aro
constructed of corrugated Iron, the
outside generally being facod with
stono and tho whole surrounded with
barbed wire. Each blockhouse Is gar
risoned with ten men and Is connected
by telephone with the nearest military
camp. Tho blockhouses aro furnished
each with two searchlights and these
Illumine the surroundings at night,
thus guarding against surprises and
rcvenling any Boer movement that
may bo on foot.
Thero are 4,000 such blockhouses
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now In operation In South Africa and
1,000 moro aro projected.
Hot Dinner for the Hones.
The special correspondent of the Co
logne Gazette, who was sent to China
during tho boxer troubles and the oc
cupation by the allied troops, has mado
a trip through Korea, which country
ho describes In tho Gazette In a very
interesting manner. t
He hired a caravan of eighteen
horses at Seoul and went Into tho in
terior to tho German gold mine at
Jang Kogae. Ho says that of all the
eastern countries through which ho
traveled Korea was the only ono whero
tho horses got a "hot dinner."
It consists ot a kind of bean soup,
greased with tallow and mixed with
potatoes and various herbs. Tho whole
is cooked for about threo hours, and
Is served to tho horses very hot.
New Kind of Tobacco.
In Haiti a new species ot tobacco
has been produced by a cross-fertilization,
which grows from flvo to seven
foot in height, bearing a leaf twenty
flvo Inches long by fifteen in width.
Threo or even four cuttings can bo
made from ono plant betwen Novem
ber and March.
TUB BLOCKHOUSE SYSTEM IN SOUTH AFItlCA.
Theso small forts aro crcctod 2,000 yards apart and aro turnlshod with
searchlights, by which tho moveraonUi or the Boors are moro easily observed.
Our illustration shows ono ot tho lights playing pn a force of burghers who
wero attempting to cross the railroad. Upon the discovery of such a force
tho British open fire and if need be notify by telephone the nearest British
camp.
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