Life — April 2, 1898 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Easter. HERE are great meritsabout Easter asan annual feast-day. For one thing, it is and not overburdened with material observances. It has some of the joyousness of Christmas about it, without any dmuwbacks in the way of miscellaneous iving and laborious tics. = What says to us “Put on your best clothes, think your best thoughts, and provision of ter come out and be as good and us happy syoucan. The Lord of Christendom is risen; the spring is coming back; life begins again in the fields and parks and Let us be grateful Maker for life; let us rejoice in’ the present all we honestly can, and take as hopeful a view of the future as common sense permits.” These are pleasant thoughts that Easter offers to the hospitality of our minds. By all means let us harbor them. We ought to be pious-minded all the ycar round, but especially at Easter Now, as the buds begin to swell and the to our ass to be green again, we where work being done for us, in which, to be sure, we may have a hand, but of which by farthe greater part is independ- ent of our cfforts, We may cut the ‘ass and trim its borders, but we don't see every: really make it grow. We may trim the trees and dig about their roots, but the buds don’t swell because of us. They will swell, anyway, and the most our interposition may accomplish will be to make thi: progress a little more to our taste, and in somewhat better accord with our convenience. There is comfort for us in these con- When taken lit overmuch about the shortcom- of mankind, it is surely to remember that, after all, the things that are most indispensably important to human life are more or less independ- ent of the labor and management of human beings. The good Lord has not put upon us the whole responsibility of ating even the little corners of the universe that we dwell in. The earth revolves, the sun rises and sets, the seasons recur, things grow, fire burns, aud the rains fall upon the earth, without any care or planning on our part. Our dwelling-place is provided; all we have to do is to make oursel fit to live in it. Come! brethren, come! our hopes, and resolve afresh to live more fully up to our environment and our chances. It is a world of such deiight- ful possibilities! It is so fair to look at; siderations. have thou we ing a solace Let us renew it smells so sweet; its airs, as the spring gets into them, are so gentle and reas suring! L gain that man kind is growing fitter to adorn so ad mirable a setting; that gnice abounds somewhat more from year to year; that the nations progress in appreciation of the foolishness of wars; and that indi vidual humans, like more and more practical in our realiza tion that we must be good if we would hope to be happy, and that we are ail so interdependent that the goodness ani happiness of all is the personal concern of cach, We who are here—who don't know where w from; who who knows where to—what more do we know than that this is our chance at Earth; our chance to adorn creation our that we are in live here, ventually trans tus hope ou and m cam chance to measure fit, to suited, perhaps, to be c planted % Out, then, in our best gear, and in our best and gentlest spirits, in honor of the day of risen hopes; mindful that the world is good, and happy in adorning it but mindful, too, that no world can really be good except for good people--for met who are faithful, for women who arc kind, for true people who are fit to live B.S. M. prove some and comicbooks.com