Sewickley Herald

              The Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
Vol. 34.   No. 18.
SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1937
Price 5 Cents
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oj c^ilies . . .
f\H, rare as the splendor of lilies,
^"^ And sweet as the violet's breath,
Comes the jubilant morning of Easter,
The triumph of Life over Death;
And fresh from the earth's quickened* bosom
Full baskets of flowers we bring,
And scatter their satin soft petals
To carpet a path for our King.
In the countless green blades of the meadow,
The sheen of the daffodil's gold,
In the tremulous blue on the mountains,
The opaline mist on the wold,
In the tinkle of brooks through the pasture,
The river's strong sweep to the sea,
Are signs of the day that is hasting
In gladness to you and to me!
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Oh, dawn in thy splendor of lilies,
Thy fluttering violet breath,
Oh, jubilant morning of Easter,
Thou triumph of Life over Death!
Then fresh from the earth's quickened boson-
Full baskets of flowers we bring,
And scatter their satin soft petals
To carpet a path for our King!
—Margaret E. Songster
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"Ih Stew Installment ofTlife"
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WHAT better Easter message could there.be than tliis, the
subject chosen by Dr. Rufus M. Jones for the first of
his series of Passion "Week lectures in the Presbyterian Church
liouse? Easter and the dawning springtime with its rc-birth
of all living things is the perfect symbol of the spiritual
re-birth which tlie Easter resurrection brought and still brings
to the world; and never more than now have we all needed,
individually and nationally, just such a re-birth, reawakening
and the new encouragement of a revived hope and striving for
better things than in these baffling, uncertain, unpredictable
clays.
In many ways we are searching for this ucaV hope and new
endeavor. President Roosevelt seeks it through unprecedented
legislation and administration; the industrial workers strive to
accomplish it through organization and strikes; business economists try to realize it through increased production and faster
turnover. But all of us, amid these "practical" efforts, deeply
realize that the greatest need of our whole economic structure
is a new strengthening of tho principles of right, of trustworthy honor, of the Ten Commandments and that higher
principle, "Live and let live" whieh is but another expression
of the injunction "Love thy neighbor as thyself." For on
these principles was our civilization built, and without the
mutual trust they engender our modern business dealings
Avould be impossible. Only in nations acknowledging these
Christian principles, however imperfectly they have been
lived up to, has any such civilization ever been possible. Also,
no non-Christian nation ever undertook to care for the poor
and afflicted and oppressed as we now accept it as part of a
government's business to do.
So Easter comes at a time in which to renew our allegiance
to the Gospel of love and righteousness He taught, and to
Him who taught them and who affords the only hope of
bringing the world in tune with that Kingdom of Heaven of
which he spoke, _ "We need, all of us, this renewal of allegiance, this faith in a Divine guidance that leads us forward
to a, worthy end, that gives us a "new installment of life."
There is no other solid ground for hope and courage—Dr.
Jones significantly entitles the closing lecture he will give
tonight "What is the alternative to Christ?"—and it would
be hard to find a satisfactory answer. So we may Avell observe
Easter as a day of new life for every one of us and for our
country.