After the winter, the spring; after
the snow, the sun and (lowers; after
the sadness the gladness; after the
burial the resurrection; after the visit
to Hie tomh, that the Marys might
anoint their Ford, their return to an
nounee Him: "lie is not. here; He is
arisen. Heboid the plane where the
Ford lay!"
The earth is growing green. The
gardens are yelh w and purple and
while with the crocuses and hyacinths
and snowdrops. The woods are sweet
with arbutus, the meadows are starred
with cowslips, the rocks are white with
Idoodroot and saxifrage, the copses are
purple with anemones and liverworts,
and the spring beauties hide in the
swamps. The aspen willow buds are
dust) wit it golden meal. The maples
are all a-hrislling with their crimson
bloom. The magnolia and the tor
sytliia and the Judas tree, with their
wide-awake (lowers bedecking the
brown stems, shame the sluggard foli
age. Thi' earth is growing fair, the
robins and bluebirds have come home
again, and the swallows and orioles are
on their way. It is sweet to live, for
it is the season of the resurrection and
the life.
"The resurrection and the life.”
Those are the words of nature and its
Ford. The Fenten sorrow is over.
The wintry torpor ends. Fet us awake,
let us arise, let us be glad, let us be
strong that we may work! Christ
sleepeth no longer Resurrect ion and
life are lUs words of activity, and
words of joy in activity. What a work
Is tin re all waiting for the Christian
and the man! N V Independent.
\ I .TON'S CYC I .ONE.
