The Mustang Mail. (Mustang, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1902 Page: 3 of 8
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Term Easter is of
German Origin.
Our term Easter is o." German ori-
gin, but the name by which the festi-
val is designated from the beginning
is the Paschal, a name derived from
the Hebrew: it commemorates the de-
liverance of the Jews from Egyptian
1 ondage when the destroying angel
spared the first-born of the Hebrew be-
cause their doors were marked by the
blood of the Paschal lamb.
The Haster festival is the greatest
in the Christian calendar; it is the
climax of the events in the life of
cur divine Lord—his birth, his labors,
his miracles, his betrayal, the bitter-
ness of his agony at Gethsemane, and
his cruel death on Calvary all culmi-
nated in the victory we commemorate
011 this glorious day.
The church has always held that
the miraculous deliverance of the He-
brew people from Egyptian bondage
was the type and figure of the far
greater deliverance which would fol-
low when Christ, our Pasch, as St.
Paul says, would be sacrificed and by
his blood would save us from eternal
death.
The Christian Pasili was instituted
on that night when our Savior, Jesus
Christ, surrounded by his disciples at
the l ust Supper which he held with
them, gave them under the form of
bread and wine his body and his blood
to drink. There is nothing in all the
gospels set forth in language more
unequivocal than this fact. The church
has always taught, as he himself de-
clared, that our divine Lord is truly
and really present, under the forms
of bread and wine, consecrated by the
words uttered by himself, and spoken
by those authorized by him to use
them.
It is true that he suffered and died
that all men might be saved, yet we
know, from his own words and the
teachings of his apostles, that many
may not be saved because they will
not make the necessary effort and sac-
rifice "Many are called but few cho-
sen." Faith alone in the redeeming
sacrifice will not bring salvation: thy
mere fact that we believe in the divin-
ity of Christ, in the teaching of Christ,
in the redemption purchased for us
by the death of Christ will not bring
us salvation unless we ourselves do
our part to make ourselves worthy
thereof. It is not enough to have
faith: we must also labor, "I have
fought the good fight. I have kept the
faith." St. Paul says; he did not con-
sider it enough to have the faith only
•—it must be accompanied by good
work.
The church, therefore, celebrates this
day with more of joy and gladness and
ceremony than any other in commem-
oration of the institution of that Chris-
tian Pasch which means so much to
humanity! for millions of her chil-
dren, under her guidance and direc-
tion. through praver and repentance,
and other penitential works are made
worthy to participate in this divine
banquet. They are restored to the
friendship of (Jod and have earned for
themselves eternal life, for our Savior
has said: "If any man eat of this
bread he will live forever, and the
bread that I will give is my flesh for
the life of the world." (John vi.)
And she celebrates this day with
unusual joy and gladness for the fur-
ther reason: That it is the anniver-
sary of that day on which the Founder
by his own inherent power raised him-
self from the dead, thus giving the
strongest possible proof of his divin-
ity, and leaving to us, who believe in
him and love him, a reason for the
laith that is in us.
The Hook of Ciod,
Highest of all is the book of God.
This book is the story of earth's
noblest spirits, m hours when they
were filled with a passionate hunger
for righteousness and how they made
a rev t l for these great spiritual ex-
periences in their poems, psalms and
lette rs. No other book has such treas-
ures of wisdom an >1 culture. It
perity and ]• it is the err it
book, the book of hope and life, be-
cati 9 11 Is the book of God. Rev X.
D. IHills, Congi gati \ i;i n Bro< : . n
Meat-hen Nations
Celebrate the Day
In the Christian churches of all na-
tions Easter is celebrated as the day
cn which the Great Teachei;, the Jesus
Christ, rose from the deed and thereby
consummated his divine plan of re-
deeming the human race. Sinre Eas-
ter is so indissolubly associated with
the lif of the Founder of the Christian
religion, one would naturally assume
lliat it is a purely Occidental festival,
having its origin in the west and be-
ing confined in observance to Cau-
casian countries. Yet. strangely
enough, in several of the countries of
the Orient, in India, in Japan, in Chi-
na, we find religious festivals bearing
a wonderful resemblance—festivals
that were observed by pious people
thousands of years before the begin-
ning of the Christian era laid the
I foundations of western civilization and
power.
The festival of India analogous to
the Christian Faster is called the
"Feast of Buddha"; in Japan it is
named the "Feast of the Higon," while
in China they term tie great spring-
time celebration "The Ancestral Wor-
ship." All these holidays have deep
religious significance, for all have
their origin in the spirit of thankful-
ness and rejoicing; that wherevei man
lives he has ever greeted the death (if
winter and the dawn of spring. In
this sense Easter, the Higon, the An-
cestral Worship, are all more than
mere church days—they are man's
spontaneous outpouring of gratitude
The ( horlttcr
J 1 - I 'a? I,), il : tory to hymn
l n «trains of holy
to nature, alike beneficent mother of
; both Occident and Orient.
A deep religious sentiment governs
the Christian observance of Easter,
and in that particular the Chinese an-
| cestral worship is similar to it. The
tlfth commandment, of the Christian
decalogue is their first. "Thou shalt
honor thy father and mother, and no
j tin in the eyes of the pious Chinese
is so heinous as that of disobedience
or disrespect to parents.
This filial piety is the fundamental
virtue of their social life, and the re-
spe«'t which a son shows his father
does not end with life, but is still
shown to his memory long after his
death. Nor is the deference merely an
individual custom. Time has hallowed
it into a great national festival.
It is called T'sing Ming, and occurs
in the spring of the year. The Chi-
nese do not make much ado about the
death of a child oi a young p"son.
but when a father or a mother dies,
especially if they have grown old.
great ceremony attends the burial,
from which proceeds one oi their great
common proverbs, "As much tr<
as a funeral."
There is nothing in the lore of
311 bl«
ern l digions tc .
if a life hereafter.
>f the Orient has
the theory of n Hi
vet who an ma!
i t with t!
for its
m Rede
Easter Festival
of Great Age.
The festival of Easter is much older
than the Resurrection of Jesus. Chris-
tianity not only converted the magnifi-
cent pagan tem^'es, which it could not
1 pull down, into churches, but it also
adopted and adapted as many of the
j rites and ceremonies of heathen an-
j tiquity as were too d. eply rooted in
; the habits and affections of the people
to be eradicated. From the Creeks and
| (he Romans the early Christians bor-
rowed their emblems of resurrection
and immortality—the Peacock and the
I Phoenix. The Easter egg, too, as a
religious symbol is as old as the pyra-
mids of Egypt and the primer of Ori-
i ental philosophy, which taught that
' the world was hatched from an egg
j about the time of the vernal equinox.
I We read also that the Romans in early
, spring ran races in an oval—an egg-
shaped arena, when the winner was
I presented with eggs accompanied with
j wishes that his noble famih may in
I < rcase and multiply. Christianity col-
ored the egg red to remind the people
of the blood shed for their redemp-
t ion.
That ceremonial Christianity Is in a
large measure paganism transformed
i or rejuvenated is admitted by the best
| scholars in the church as well as out
of it by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman
and Baronius. as well as bv Max-Mul-
ler and Renan. "The church lias bor-
rowed many customs from the religion
of the Romans and other pagans,
says an ecclesiastical authority, "but
it has meliorated them." Another
writes that "the pagan festivals laden
with superstition were changed into
the praiseworthy festivals of the mar-
tyrs." Still another defends the prac-
tice by saying: "It was permitted the
church to transfer to pious uses those
ceremonies which the pagans hail
wickedly applied in a superstitious
worship."
Ostera or Eostre, derived from
"Ost." meaning East, was a Saxon
Goddess who presided over the lumi-
nous powers which revived the earth
and resuscitated life out of the shadow
of darkness and the mold of the grave.
She was the divinity whose face shone
like the glory of the sunrise and the
brightness of the dawn; her ambro-
sial breath made hill and dale fra-
grant. and her smile shed beauty over
every breaking bud and blossom. The
people congregated in the fields to
cheer her arrival in the skies, because
she came to destroy the genii of win-
ter-darkness, sterility, storm, and
death, and to shake from her golden
urn blessings upon man and beast
alike. "The Sun is risen! " they shout-
ed, as they greeted one another and
kissed and danced on tli"? new grass.
Our Teutonic anct stors devoted eight
days of April, which they called the
Ostormonat. to the worship of this
beautiful goddess of lifp and love
perennial, whose arrows, tipped with
flame, had shot fresh hope., into their
hearts. When Christianity converted
the pagan Saxor.-. instead of attempt
ing to abolish tii*joyous f.-,-rival, it
christened it into an institution of
the church, preserving all its poetry
and mush the flowers and the og^s,
and only substituting Jesus, the "Sun
of Righteousness.' for Ostera, the 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 feature, because it lirts it from
being merely a sectarian symbol into
a festival of humanity. It demon-
strates that all festivals have a com-
mon ancient sou: e the needs oi th •
human heart, and that all r* I i *.. < mi -.
instead of being miraculously gjv a
to any chosen people, spring out of
the eternal soil 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 lia - been steadily rising du
ring these many ages -rising from I he
deep, dark grave of Ignorance and
slavery to freedom and powei. i.et us
(hitx- the Easter salutation, and in
st i of greeting one another with
"Christ is risen" and "Me is risen, in-
deed. ' let its say, "Humanity is risen,"
and let the refrain be, "Hail, risen
Humanity."
Hymn of
the plarP whnrr T
auuelic watehoi
Who once was shii:i
Why seek the living 'midst the il.adl
Ueniemher how th. K.ivlour said
That iI• would rls
joyful sound! O glorious hour
When bv His own almlght
and left the gri
w let our Kon*M Mis triumph tell
the bands of death and hoi
A : >1 evt li\ cs r.
First-begotten ot the d • ad.
us Ho ros« . our glorious Head
Immortal life to bring:
What though the saints like liini shall
ir Leader's vietoj
And nini.ioii
tremble at the ci
Jesus will their spirit
I rniso their slumli* titur dust:
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THE EASTER EGG.
Th:- Master h.*. always l:.>^n one
^1 the i;:nsl popular Irattires of Iho
man.' of the popular E;< tor ohsprv-
CF NOVEL DESIGN.
i t" Hip mo • ■ ions ICusli
TO BE HAND PAINTED.
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melon, one
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nine
The pi ttiesi Idea, and on
Lt sen feet
in < i
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be carried out easily, is to
id est part.
The
shell
( gg and paiut a 1 11!•• pr.
11 egg v. a
1 ma
de of
( on it. Th< e blossom - a
elaborated,
y adc
uned.
of the spring, and -,o <
ng pn
propriate N'oxt make a
mle of an
expo
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of paper violet« enditic •
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mar
before, in a bon-bon. TI
in it an
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are to Hi 1 the opening wh.
tlouei
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made to blow out th .
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aster
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leaves. This mak -s as 1
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of tlu
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of a pigeon, made of any been prepared much us \
,vect material the buyer dojlres i being boiled hard in
IkI he has the great adv ntaso over with red, blue, cr viol
f real hen that, she will lay a .n criptions, devi ■ .>, <
fr nany eggs and in as quick succcm- I ira <d upon them. So
alon as may be desired. ; i^ns ar very i> a ti 11 f 21
he
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of the lie
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t lor was
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of the present d iy ai
egg us th
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utlng the work a:
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...mel. and th tion can be mad* 1
"d ar111. Tit's instead of violets, m-j
11 drawn by for tht itoppei and ii;
1 M-irri'<ss. A <x*ndied rose leave
' 'I plen-v are shown iu the <«-i,■
ent did not mi of rtlP hll(
Hut the l>oyi at bon:« Lit a well
luxurious. (
Sonqs of Poets
o
lii Joyous Mood
Immoral Minds Have Recognizcd the
Signilicancc of the Dav.
| The solemn festival in honor of the
: resurrect ion has given inspiration to
| many poet.; to whom the joyfulness of
the occasion, the coming 01 the light
after darkness, of flowers springing
from dead earth. 01 the raising up of
buried hope into gladness, and of the
perfection of virtue Issuing out of sin
I has appealed powerfully by one form
of imagery if not by another.
That greatest of latter-day poets,
| Robert Drowning, in "Waiter Day"
writes of the amazement that will coma
to doubters:
wai.in
-ta;t up, it list awak"
that It 11 dtearn w< take
b-eau . It seems.
Where is the Christian to whose
'Vinpatl ;. thoM- lines will not appeal
mi conjunction with others following
t hem :
<11 th. world ;i Wild
l"t nie K<> oil. KO
bophiK ever and ai
• art, on.- .mi.
• ii distress,
1 u-t t
Christina Hossetti. who has Justly
been c alled the poetess oT death, never
i to hymn her joys without ew
hanelng their value by a recollection
of ])ast sorrow y.«t her poem. "Resur-
rection Eve," is begun by the senti
I.iept
voice to the htrain of Easter melody
by the musical lines:
That Is the joy of life.
Joy bought by sacrifice.
Pleasure for hopel.-ss sighs.
And ro.^t for strife.
The e-irth is no more, as it was at lirat,
1 ly some -1 range spall accurst
A mystery lias parsed i mystery,
A tioundh hope ! as hid new h aven and
earth t"
I * i - e. happy ea rt h. arise.
Thy wintry darkness done
To greet the iiew-rlrten sun.
< h.
ill.
Hie lol
'I Mill pert. ' I lull,
[efore the I I e
't m^n and splrit%
t 1 iod In Ilea \ en.
he 1 • sting place *t •
hat he Inherits.
Ru sel 1 Lowell concludes
wing verse, a poem whi<
"(jodminstcr Chimes,"
aid of a chime of bell
h, Cambridge:
ii he
and
s for
The |. > which stirs the world let it waks
A symbol of thy risen life Is born.
Awake, arise! this is the very morn;
A mystery has been a mystery!
If Wadsworth. that poet so dearly
beloved by countless hearts, has failed
to record in any special poem his feel-
ings about the festival of Kaster, there
are lines in the "Excursion" conclu-
ding the fifth book of that work which
can scarcely be excelled as thoughts
with which to encourage meditation
upon the mysterm of tlie Resump-
tion :
Life. I repent. Is energy of love
Divine « r human; exercised In pain.
In trlfe and tribulation, and ordain* I.
is so approved and sanctified to pass
Through shade.* and silent rest to endies*
Joy.
FOR EASTER GIFTS.
Chocolate eggs are as much in de-
mand this Easter as ever. These are
made in all conceivable shapes, per
Iec11y plain or much ornamented with
white frosting. They are most attract-
ive a well as being good to eat, so
that when one gets tired of looking at
them they have the delightful pros
pec t of tasting them. Some of these
are made with comic fines with white
• aps above Others have little rab-
bits. chi«-k( us, or duc ks perched 011 top
of them.
Rabbits occur in every conceivable
rbape and attitude, from the most
elaborate and well-executed animal to
the most primitive corn-option of the
b ast. You can get a rabbit whose
head comes 01T. and which is intend
d to be tilled with candy of any size
iind for any price you want. Or you
111 have him made of pure chocolate
or clear candy It is simply a ques-
tion ot taste You can even buy him
made of silver if you so desire.
SOME WORKS OF ART.
A most c harming idea for a person
who desires to give an Easter gift is
to buy a papier niache, or preferably,
a natin box in the shape of an egg.
In this a present of some kind may
he placed a piece of jewelry or trln-
11 t of some kind, a pair of gloves, a
pretty handkerchief, a lace collar, a
bottle ol perfume or anything else
that ma- o« e'ir • the giver. Most
dainty little egg-shaped boxes are made
ot silver. The latter, tilled with bon-
pie
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