Easter Feeling

1917

It Begins With Simple Faith In Beautiful Story of the Day

Easter feeling begins with some faith in the great story of the resurrection or else in a beautiful, even reverential respect for all those who bare it. It continues with gratitude for the new life that is shown in field and tree, in a freshened heart for all earth, in a love that strives to forget self in all the little dealings at home and abroad. The disgruntled heart and sour countenance have no place with Easter joy any more than has a willful conduct that mocks scornfully at a neighbor's piety.

Granted we are sometimes denied faith, common sense, the mere fire of spring will tell us that we have much to rejoice for. The garment of the winter locked earth has been made over. Bud and leaf are near to tell us, too, that old fears may pass. And lovely music and resplendent flowers of the churches are telling us more — that there must be something in a story that loses no whit of its sublime beauty after 2,000 years.