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II 84,350 tl 36,920
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WIIBW OUT OB Toy
. SaaserlWra lea-vlaa; ae city teas
aararlly eaoalia Tae Bee
Mailed ta these. Addreee will be
chaagjeel as aftea aa ra.awteaU
"Wo are going to elect Bryan or
k&ow the reason why," says a Nash
ville paper. Well, what is the reason
why?
- '.'A good rhinoceros coats $4,000,"
Bays the Houston Tost. It's a akin
ganie to sell a rhinoceros for that
amount of money.
Mr. Harrlman may or may not take
the hint, but President Roosevelt ia
Bald, to be again making plana for a
hunt for big game.
1
' Moro outlaws have broken loose
again In the Philippines, but they are
not so numerous or dangerous as the
Kentucky night riders.
"What an anarchist needs Is a doc
tor," says a New York scientist. Move
to amend by sending a policeman
along with the doctor.
"What would Thomas Jefferson do
If he were here?" asks the New York
Sun. He would engage a front seat
In tho Taft bandwagon.
' General Gourko has been pardoned
by! the ctar. He stole $250,000 sent
by other nations to the Russian famlte
sufferers. Stoessel is still in prison.
Mayor Becker of Milwaukee pro
poses to use a balloon In making a
campaign for governor. The use of
gas bags in political campaigns la no
novelty.
At a recent election 325 Barnard
college girls succeeded In casting 385
ballots. Still some mere men con
tend that women do not understand
politics.
. Schmlti and Ruef are not on the
committee to welcome the fleet at San
Francisco, although they have always
been exceedingly popular with the
floaters.
Lloyd C Griscom gives a number of
reasons why he will not go to Berlin
as American ambassador. The first is
that neither the president nor the
kaiser has Invited him.
The American press humorists are
going to hold their next convention in
Denver in August The funniest
meeting of the year, however, will be
held in Denver in July.
A London dispatch says that the
sport of throwing the boomerang Is
becoming popular in Europe. It will
become more popular in this country
as the political campaign warms up.
The Japanese are giving special at
tention to physical culture in the hope
of growing taller. They ought to be
a' little taller, to keep pace with their
development in head and chest meas
urements. .
Governor Hughes persists in paying
more attention to horse racing than to
presidential racing. Ho has decided
to call an extra session of the legisla
ture to put the rac track betters out
of business.
An Indiana man, who earns $1$ a
week, has been arrested for bigamy
and leading a double life. A man
who can support two families on $16
a Veek must think himself entitled to
reward instead of punishment.
The sultan of Turkey has sent a lot
of fine rugs to President Roosevelt and
District Attorney Jerome of New York
declares the president should not ac
cent 'them. The sultan should lend
Mr. Jaroiua some Turkish clgaretis.
master 'aw xttr lite. -.- -
Never was tho true significance of
Easter Sunday more Impressively
borne in upon the American people
than today. All that It means la the
way of new life seems to be more fully
realised than ever. Through all the
stretch of centuries man has associated
the vernal equinox with some more or
less; vague conception of providential
beneficence. The influence of the
season is felt through all the sentient
world, and even the insensible seems
to partake of the revivifying effects
of spring's return.
During the winter months the Amer
ican people have been more or less
under the Influence of an untoward
business situation. Industry and com
merce have lagged, and enterprise and
ambition have halted because of dis
turbed conditions. Now the elements
of uncertainty are passing away, and
the Easter day cornea opportunely with
its promise of better times for all.
Industrial undertakings are feeling the
stimulus of the new life that Is appar
ent on all hands, and commerce Is 're
newing ita activity in all directions.
Men of affairs are not seeking the
living among the dead, but with ambi
tion to achieve more than ever, are
setting their faces toward the future,
and building more and more on the
solid foundation of accumulated experi
ence.
All the world of the church rejoices
this Easter tide in a renewal of faith.
So does the world of commerce and
industry rejoice in a renewal of teal
and energy, and the glad spring festi
val of Easter really means more than
it ever did In its fullest senso, for it
brings new life, national as well aa
spiritual.
THE PROGRESSIVE FILIPINOS.
Despite all efforts to make a poli
tical issue of the Philippine problem,
the people of the archipelago have been
making such progress in the last few
years that the "problem," if it may be
bo called, la making tor its own solu
tion. Somehow the Filipinos have not
been materially influenced by the anti
ImperlallBt literature or by the ful
mlnatlons of certain of our statesmen
demanding for them immediate in
dependence and self-government. They
have been going along in their own
way, taking advantage of the oppor
tunities afforded for their education
and advancement in every line of
activity until they are showing marked
improvement in their ability to handle
their own affairs.
The Army and Navy Journal re
cently contained an elaborate article
setting out the facta of Filipino prog
ress. It shows that less than 10 per
cent of the government and municipal
employes of the Islands are Americans,
while 98 percent of the police and
constabulary are Filipinos. There are
982 Filipino mayors and nearly all of
rtie municipal officers of the islands
are natives. Last year 8,687 schools
were maintained and the Filipino as
sembly haa made provisions for largely
increasing this number. A postal sys
tem has been inaugurated throughout
the archipelago and practically all of
the employes are Filipinos. Returns
show that the government of the prov
inces and towns is being administered
economically. The Filipinos have much
to do yet to develop capacity for com
plete self-government, but they are
rapidly justifying the confidence and
hopes of the president and his ad
visers whoavo set out to instruct
them in the first steps.
A STEADILY OROWI1TQ MED.
All the recent decisions of the
United States supreme court with
reference to railway rate regulation
add Importance to the duties, devolv
ing on the Interstate Commerce com
mission And emphasize the steadily
growing need of a reorganization of
that body to bring it in closer touch
with the people with whose Interests
it is charged. Every time additional
power la lodged in tho Interstate com
mission and every time the exercise
of concurrent power is denied the
states, the more necessary does it be
come that the commission be kept
equally and fully accessible to the,
shippers, to the railroads, and the.rall
way employes and to the railway stock
holders. Every enlargement of the business of
the commission increases the physical
impossibility for seven men to give
adequate personal attention-to the vast
and varied questions demanding their
decision, and every delay and obstacle
put in the way of prompt remedy for
just grievances makes it more and
more like a denial of justice. If legis
lation recofo mended, by President
Roosevelt ahd now pending Is enacted,
at it eventually will be, permitting
traffic agreements when duly author
ized by the commission, this condition
of affairs growing out of the multlr
pllcity of duties imposed on the Inter
state Commerce commission will be
come still more obstructive to satisfac
tory results.
The Bee has several times pointed
what In Its Judgment is the most feas
ible way to give the desired relief. It
is by reorganizing the Interstate com
mission bo as to make it an appellate
and supervisory tribunal with subordi
nate commisslous corresponding to
geographical traffic divisions somewhat
almllar In arrangement to the judicial
circuits from which appeal lies to the
supreme court. When the powers
now lodged with the Interstate Com
merce commission may 'be invoked
near at home without undue expense
and with assurance of epeedy response,
no matter where the individual com
plaint may happen to be. many of the
objections to federal regulation which
now s'eem serious will disappear and
co-operation with state authorities will
be far 'more practicable, because the
chances of conflict will be fewer.
Immense gains have been made by
the people through their struggle of
the last few years for government con
trol of railroads and reasonable rate
regulation. What baa been gained will
appear much more substantial when
the machinery of control and regula
tion ia readjusted by being brought to
our doors rather than kept at a dis
tance at the national capital.
THE irer FOB TATT.
It Is now assured that . William
Howard Taft will have the practically
unanimous support of all the delegates
from the west to the Chicago conven
tion. Every state west of the Mississippi
that has spoken bo far has spoken with
emphasis for the big war Becretary
and, with the exception of two districts
in Missouri, which are contested, not
a single delegate has been commis
sioned by the republicans from any
transmisslsslppl territory for any other
candidate. Mr. Taft already has, with
the exception noted, the Bolld support
of Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas,
Nebraska and South Dakota six
states which constitute the core of the
party In the middle west. Reports
from other further, western states in
dicate that their delegations, too, will
voice the same sentiment, making cer
tain a united west behind their pre
ferred candidate as against a divided
east In which Taft will have the large
preponderance.
This situation in the west is sig
nificant of the firm adherence of west
ern republicanism to the distinctive
Roosevelt policies, coupled with a de
termination to insist upon the man,
as a successor to President Roosevelt,
who is most to be relied upon to con
tinue along the same lines. It indicates,
furthermore, a refusal to be turned
aside by any pretext however plausi
ble. The original plan of the antl
Roosevelt allies was to deprive Taft of
western support by encouraging La
Follette, who set up claim to a sub
stantial following in this section. Un
able to make headway with La Fol
lette, the next move was to revive the
third-term talk, which proved equally
delusive. With the Taft Instructions
by Minnesota last week, those back of
this maneuver seem to have reached
their final limit and the prospects are
that no further systematic opposition
to Taft will be met with in any trans
misslsslppl state."
With the solid west behind him at
Chicago nothing short of a complete
political upheaval can stop the nomi
nation of Mr. Taft v
MRS. ROOHEVELT8 MARKET BASKET.
Yt hile the society leaders at Wash
ington were discussing the report from
uerun taat tne objection to Dr. David
Jayne Hill as American ambassador
was based largely on the fact that
Mrs. Hill was "too domestic" to shine
in the society of the German capital
and wbb actually in the habit of going
to market and carrying her own basket,
Mrs. Roosevelt, unintentionally, no
aoupt, was furnishing a rebuke to
those superlatively fastidious folks
who blush at the thought of buying
poultry and greens from a vulgar
tradesman.
The president's wife has been enjoy
ing a vacation with her children on
board the Mayflower in southern
waters. According to dispatches from
New Orleans, Mrs. Roosevelt arose
early the other morning, slipped Into
a street costume and went ashore to
do the marketing. She carried a big
hamper basket and filled It with green
vegetables and fresh sea food bought
from the provision dealers in the
French quarters. She lugged the load
of eatables back to the vessel, without
giving observers a hint that the service
she had performed was degrading or
menial. As a matter of fact, she
seemed to take pleasure in the task
and, brought a sharp appetite to the
breakfast secured through her efforts.
without a thought of shoulder-shrugging
that might be caused in the
parlors at Berlin and Washington by
her plebeian conduct
Royalty and courtiers may never
learn the lesson, but it is well that
Americans should not forget that use
ful service is never menial. There
should be no surprise that Mrs. Roose
velt should do her own marketing.
Like other American housewives, she
doubtless knows that she can do her
marketing better than any one else
and finds pleasure and satisfaction in
the service.
CAPITAL A' RESERVE. .
The Wall Street Journal estimates
that fully $300,000,000 are locked up
in this country in the holdings of cot
ton, wheat and coffee alone, while the
value of other cereala In the hands of
farmers will increase that total by at
least another $100,000,000.
The figures illustrate again the re
sourcefulness of the American (arms.
Reports from London and other foreign
markets show that the visible supply
of wheat and food cereals is being
diminished rapidly. Argentina, which
has been cutting considerable figure
in the European markets, has disposed
of more than SO per cent of lta surplus
wheat and corn crops and the demands
of foreign nations for the next tew
months will have to be supplied by the
United States and Canada. It is esti
mated that this country has fully
$100,000,000 worth of wheat stiy
available for export and Canada about
half that much.
These reserve stocks furnish assur
ance that the Americas farmer with
wheat or corn in the bin will have no
difficulty aecurlng all , the money
needed to carry him through to the
harvest of the present year's crops.
The marketing of the reserve supply
win also furnish business for the rail
ways and should do much toward the
restoration of normal business and in
dustrial conditions.
THE f LOWERS Or EASTER.
One of the rules of the famous Grid
iron club is that flowers that decorate
the tables at the dinners of the club
are to be spared by the guests, to be
afterward sent to the child's hospital,
to brighten the lives of the little ones
in that institution. It has been sug
gested that the happiness among the
poor and sick might be materially In
creased by the exercise of a little of
the Gridiron brand of thoughtfulness
at Easter time.
Today the churches of the city will
be lavishly decorated with floral em
blems and thousands of homes will be
made brighter by the presence of
flowers that will have served their
purpose, but will still be fresh In their
beauty and capable of spreading Joy
and pleasure to those in the hospitals
for the sick, homes for aged, asylums
for the orphans and other institutions
for the Bhelter of the unfortunate.
No better disposition can be made
of the Easter flowers than to send
them, at the close of the Easter day,
to cheer and brighten the Uvea of the
poor and the sick.
, A NA TIOXA L BE ADA CUE.
Senator Guggenheim of Colorado
takes a view of the recent industrial
depressl6n and the prospect for the
future that sounds good, even if it
may not be convincing. In an inter
view in the New York Times, the
senator declares that we have "awak
ened with a national headache, but
are ready as a nation to take the
pledge and lead hereafter a more
healthy and saner life." He further
voices belief that the country is re
turning to normal business conditions
and the improvement is not spasmodic,
but steady, hopeful and progressive.
Many of the big interests with
which the Colorado senator Is identi
fied suffered heavily In the recent
financial depression, but he does not
look" upon the panic as an altogether
unmixed evil. He declares that it re
sulted in a checking of extravagance,
in which Americans have indebted to
excess and that it has opened the eyes
of the public to the folly of specula
tive Investment in stocks and securi
ties that have not stood the test of In
vestigation. It has stopped the pro
motion of wildcat schemes and forced
the test of merit to be applied to all
Investments offered to the public. The
senator also contends that an abrupt
return to prosperity in all its former
dimensions would lead to the, same
old extravagances and abuses, the eli
mination . of wblchw&B ne of, sthe
chief benefactions of the recent strin
gency.' "
. Reports from . industrial centers
tend to confirm Senator Guggenheim's
opinion. Manufacturing establishments
are resuming operations and the de
mand is growing, not rapidly, but nor
mally, for all classes' of goods. . The
banking institutions are beginning to
extend credits for the legitimate ex
pansion of business and industrial en
terprises. On such a basis, when
prosperity returns it will be booked
for a long stay, but It is doubtful if
the country will endorse Senator Gug
genheim's prediction that the public
will forever hereafter be less extrava
gant, because that would be contrary
to all past experience. The American
people are naturally extravagant and
no industrial setback ,has ever ef
fected complete cure of the habit
THE DIVORCE LAW.TASOLE.
The appellate division of the su
preme court of New York has Just ren
dered. a decision which the Judges of
the court frankly declare to be good
law, but very bad justice, but which
serves to emphasize the need of reform
In legislation relating to divorces.
It appears that the wife of a New
York man left him five years ago and
removed to Virginia, where she se
cured a divorce, on grounds recognized
by the Virginia statutes. Service on
her husband was by publication, while
the New , York law requires personal
service. After a lapse of three years
the woman remarried in Virginia and
bore a child by the seconomarrlage.
Then the first husband applied for a
divorce in New York, setting up his
former wife's relations under her sec
ond marriage as a cause, and the New
York court waa compelled to grant the
husband a decree of divorce. No con
tention is made that the woman's resi
dence in Virginia was not proper and
legal, nor that her divorce was not
granted on grounds recognized by the
Virginia laws. At the same time she
Is placed in the position, in New York,
of having been the wife of two men
at the same time. The New York
court went out of its way to declare
that no blame rested on the woman,
although the judges were compelled
to declare her to be legally a bigamist.
Such cases, which are by no means
rare, emphasize the demand for some
thing approaching uniformity of di
vorce procedure in the various states.
The conflicting state statutes on the
subject make for an uncertain condi
tion of society by which the blood of
children is tainted, the titles to prop
erty clouded and increase the dangers
of the divorce evil. Some progress
has been made by the American Bar
association In securing certain uni
form legislation on the question of di
vorce in the different states, but the
process is slow. The difficulty of se
curing such state co-operation has di
rected new attention to the advleabil
ity of a national divorce law. The
Washington Post, dlscusslug the condi
tion from a layman's standpoint be
lieves congress has the power under
the constitution to regulate this sub
ject. The first section of article iv of
the constitution reads:
Full faith and credit shall be given In
each state to the public acta, records and
Judicial proceedings of every other state.
And the congress may by general laws
prescribe the manner In which such acts,
records and proceedings shall be prove,
and the effect thereof.
The Post contends that this section
gives sufficient authority to congress
to Insist by legislation that a judicial
decree for divorce in one state must be
accepted as valid and binding in the
courts of every other. state. Whether
such action by congress would solve
the problem may be questioned, but
public decency and the public morals
demand some action to prevent a law
ful marriage in one state from becom
ing unlawful concubinage in another.
Flowers have their seasons of popu
larlty. The calla lily, which a few
years ago was found in every florist's
window and in most homes, has been
out of fashion for some time, but has
come back into renewed favor. Eas
ter marks the opening of the season
for the calla, one of the most serene
and stately In the floral sisterhood.
Governor Johnson says a political
party should boldly tell the world
what it believes. The trouble with
the political party to which Governor
Johnson belongs is that it cannot tell
the public what it believes until It
finds out for itself. What is a demo
crat? Chicago police have decided to place
a ban on "society slumming" and will
arrest parties found on night tours of
the tough districts. The Chicago po
lice are to be congratulated in making
war against a disgusting fad born of
curiosity and productive of no good.
It is hard to lose Congressman John
Dalzell on a tariff argument. He says
that steel rails that Bell in this coun
try for $28 artfsold in Europe for $23
because the Europeans cannot afford
to pay as much as Americans pay for
steel rails.
The Real Article.
Washington Post.'
The true "Merry Widow" is the one whose
husband left her so Well provided for that
she can afford to buy one of the hats
named after her.
A Transparent Game.
Indianapolis News.
The prospect of an adjournment of con
gress within four weeks must be of great
cheer to those earnest solnna who m mn.
sclentlously striving their beat to do
noimng in a manner that will look all
right - : ; .
Phantom Fleets Vanish.
. !.New York -World. .
The battle-shlo fleet haa arrived At fln
Diego and for the next three months the
Pacific coast should eel secure against
Invasion by Japan. Even, youag Mr.- Hob
son should be able to go to sleep without
seeing little brown men sitting on his bed
posts. ...
Amnesias; the Battlefleef.
St. Paul ' Pioneer Press.
' Now the people Of the Papifirr ena.t r
preparing to address a communication to
me secretary or. the navy requesting the
maintenance in the Pacific of a permanent
fleet of twelve first-clans htt!phin
eight armored cruisers. That's h,t nrn..
of letting them get Into the limelight
Punishing Corporate Lawbreakers.
New York World.
Within the last three days the Btonrns
Salt and Lumber company of Mlrhlgon has
been fined fX.nCO for accepting rebates from
the Pcre Marquette railroad, the Great
Northern railroad has been fined $3,000 for
rebating and the Santa Fe railroad i
hearing before the California State Rail
road commission has confessed to paying
138,000 in rebates to the Associated nil .nn,.
pany, a branch of the Standard Oil. last
summer, in violation of the state law. Hut
when Is some ono really responsible man
to be sent to Jail?
PERSONAL, AND OTHERWISE.
Dr. Torrey has started a revive! in that
section of Arkansas where Senator Jeff
Davis bled and gave up a 110 fine.
Though nature has been backward In
creating floral splendors suited to the sea
son, the milliners delivered the goods.
Recent raids of bank robbers in Okla
homa and Kansas ought to strengthen the
movc.neot for guaranteeing banks as well
as bank deposits.
A Michigan preacher of the Methodist
persuasion Is striving to regulate the head
pieces of fashionable women. . The enter
prise insures a life Job.
As one of the many means of restoring
confidence in the troubled east, the state
ment that Niagara Falls gorge is only 85,
600 years old ought to help some.
The estate of the lste Thomas B. Wana
maker, publisher of the Philadelphia North
American, is valued at from 110,000,000 to
$20,000,000.
There Is no accourting for tastes, par
ticularly bachelors' tastes. One Johnson,
mayor of the town of Enor O.. keeps In
his home the life slse figure of a woman
carved from a log. which he worships as
a symbol of the "Brighter Life." With
hocking nerve the unfeeling cuss declares
his Is not the only wooden woman in
town.
The St. Louis Times celebrated 11s first
anniversary last Wednesday by Issuing a
bundle of seventy boostirg pages. Illus
trated and decorated In attractive style.
The Times is a clean, bright,- carefully
edited newspaper, free from sensationalism,
a sane paper for sane people, and Its re
markable success is a splendid public
tribute to decent journalism.
The vanishing animosities of the civil
war Is agreeably evident in revised In
scriptions on war monuments In the south.
In Memphis the words,, "The Union Must
Be Preserved," erased from the Jackson
monument during the rebellion, were re
stored recently. An Omahan visit!!.- New
Orleans during the Mardl Oras season,
asked a native what General Ben Bulier
did to the Jackson statue which aroused
local Wrath. "There It ls, he exclaimed,
with some feeling, pointing to the inscrip
tion on the pedestal, "The L'nlon Must and
Shalt Be Preserved." "We did not object
to the sentiment so much as to the time and
manner of rubbing It in," The confederate
cavalry monument in Metalrie cemetery
lias two Inscriptions which sound notes of
lofty defiance. One reads: "We fought for
our country because we loved it. and acorn
to give other reason why." The other:
"Before government made us citizens God
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SERMONS BOILED DOW.V.
Charity is simply love in Its workshop.
It Is easy to slip up on polished manners.
A high aim may fall short, but It never
falls.
fie who Is not afraid of sinning had bet
ter fear suffering.
It's hard .climbing to heaven with a load
of hatreU In the heart.
.Heaven measures our wealth by the love
we Invest in other lives.
The life that Is full of work gives the
weeds small chance to start.
Tou 'can do little for men when you think
of them as 'tne masses."
There are no great opportunities for
those who regard any as small.
Ifa slow, business carrying a crooked
yard stick on the straight road..
If you cannot trust your friends you can
not be trusted with friendship. ' ' 'i. '
. When heaven puts a smile on your face It
win take more than a shower to wipe it off.
Every rock we hurl at d good man 'is
torn from the foundation of" dur own impu
tation. ' '
There Is almost sure' to be someVln tug
ging at the heart strings when' the saln.t
uas a long lace. .
It'a a. good deal easier to write guide
books to heaven than it is to make good
roads there. Chicago Tribune.
DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. '
Jane So you have decided not to marry
the rich, old man?
Kuth l es. he's taken nn th ai. m.
fad and la going to live forever. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Miss Cunnlnir Whv Hnn't vn n
cr by telephone then?
Mr. Hoamley (tlmluji-Maybe she would t
know who I was.
Miss Cunnlntc Exartlv. that mlirht hii
your chance. Philadelphia Press.
"Papa, is there not urh m-mvt k'
in the marriage service?"
"Yes, but it's like the loker in a deck of
cards, no one uses It." Houston Post.
Spoonamore was counting them up.
"That's the eleventh eirl I'va n.
gaged to within the last sixteen years." he
leuei-ieu. ia oeuer stop rignt now, first
thing I know I'll Ket the habit." Phlruirn
Tribune.
Yes." said Miss Passev. "Mr. Fox ha
called upon me several . times lately, but
ne aiways orings some other young man
with him."
'I supposfl." remarked Mls Snletx. "he
realizes that he can't be too careful in
leap year.' Washington btar.
"You allege cruel and Inhuman treat
ment?" Inquiringly said the attorney. "Just
tell me please"
yes, sir. snapped the fe-minine and
sharp featured petitioner for a divorce.
Why, actually whenever I try to start an
argument with him he grins and agrees
wnn me. i-uck.
"What did she say when you proposed?"
"Why she had hr mouth full of hat pins
t the moment and then her mother cam
In." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Very well." he declared. "I'll never
darken your door again. I promise you
(hat . .
That doesn t worry me." the woman
sneered. "There are others " .
There were Indeed other painters In the
town. Beslds his hill was excenlve. and
besides he had made the door entirely Inn
dark. Philadelphia Press.
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Nothlrw expresses the Joy of Eastertide as dnes music, the heart
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EASTKA.
Alexander F. Chamberlatu
In every age the world has known
Some bard felt moved to sing
Earth's pean over winter gone,
Her welcome to the spring.
The mysteries of the Easter-thought
To ail mankind belong;
No timo the perfect liaht hath brought.
No race the final song.
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Tet art thou blessed, Palestine,
Among the lands of earth,
For thee a holy light did Bhlne,
A - glorious song and birth.
He is the world's, that martyr-soul.
Divine as herix-s are, '
A beacon when death's waves shall roll.
The Galilean's star.
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We deem not that ' the flesh o'ercsme
We trust the soul's Immortal flime
We trust the osul's Immortal llame
Hath touched on deity.
We will not hall the Christ alone,
The solitary way;
God doth a thousand prophets own
This happy Easter dsy.
We feel their sll-pervsdlng power
Around its and above;
We learn from springtime bird and flowet
The truths of life and lovf.
One with the Chrit-t who conquereth .
One In the hope they bring,
One In their victory over death.
The first wild flowers of spring.
One with the sermon on the mount
The blrdF' sweet melody.
Clear flowing from the eternal fount
Of God s own charity.
Then, sing we. fnr all nature sings,
Sing Christ, and bird, and flower.
Sing, for the world with gladness rings.
And life and love have power.
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