The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1916 Page: 3 of 8
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THE LANCASTER HERALD
for the Holy Easter Day
By Jean Erfckaon
Nature voices all her gladness,
Lays aside her gloom and sadness*
All is peace and joy and gladness*
At Eastertide,
So let every heart of sorrow
Neither trouble £eep nor borrow;
All is peace upon the morrow,
At Eastertide.
Tell the resurrection story,
Tell of him, the King of Glory,
Every tongue repeat the story
At Eastertide, J
Ring, ye, Easter lilies, ringt
In the breezes gently swing;
Every heart for joy shall sing,
At Eastertide,
1T>W AYMONDE ROUSSEAU was a
LJ frail, pretty little French artist,
I \ who lived in a tiny studio in a
great building. She made her
living by painting wonderful water-
color dance orders, dinner cards, holi-
day greetings and fanciful conceits for
social entertainments of all sorts. Also,
she added to her income by singing in
the choir of a big church.
Until the European war had broken
out Raymonde’s "brother, Jacques, had
lived with her, but when his country
entered the conflict^ he was called to
join his colors. Raymonde cried for
days after her brother sailed for
France, but she knew she would have
been ashamed of Jacques had he been
unwilling to go.
The approach of Easter brought
much work to Raymonde, and the
lights in her studio burned late every
night as she sat over her desk making
water colors. She looked very much
like a French print herself in the
quaint qostumes she always designed
for her own wear. Her straight, black
for her overwrought nerves. “I've felt!
so—so different from you all,’’ she mann ,
aged to say. “So—so alone!”
Trenton leaned over her. “Dont! ’
say alone again, Raymonde—if—if yo«
love me.” ;> .>■'
“Oh,” she breathed, “I do—I do.” 1
“And you’ll marry me after Easter
and we’ll have the whole blessed choir , i
To ornament bis holy Easter Day.
■ MAI* Ar sionarles persuaded the Saxons to ac- It is not enough to explain it as an
IftlV |i |#y A Ml Is * |||s cept the feast of the paschal lamb and old tradition, handed down from gen
VWlaW VlUl vis VI simply change the name to that'of the eration to generation. If the expert
- feast of Ostara, which later was angli- ence of the apostles and the three
PI ATPA CIIUDAV <dzed to Easter. Marys and the five hundred brethren
LHu I Ml •. UftlNaiA T The Easter eS& also had its origin to whom he made himself known were
nrw sws among non-Christians. The people of theonlyreasonforkeepingEaster.il
.............. northern Europe hunted eggs in the is not probable that Easter would still
rrp nt springtime, believing that it was good be kept Faith that is. only handed
I in commemoration ofthe re.ur- w*™ °f “>f Tb« Christtan ‘on.
rection of Jesus. It is generally be- m*sskJOArie8 to our ancestors saw an The other reason is that there nevei
Hsved by all Christians that Jesus was °Pp°rtunity to win men to a belief in has been an age since the first Chris
crucified on Friday and buried. The Chrlstianity by adopting the egg-hunt- tian age until now when there were
following Sunday certain women of }** day and combining it with Easter, not apong the people of the earth
Judea went to the tomb early in the Tb® 6gg was 8bown to typify life. As those to whom Christ had become a liv-
morning to anoint his body. the chick 1Ies lmPri8°ned in the egg ing person. The healing of the seam
Batuntav the Sabbath dav of the only to burst forth, so will our bodies less dress has been by beds of pain
Jews ^t ^o^ for Jht dela^ed lie ln the tomb only to b® resurrected In the midst of the storm and the
visit to the tomb. Jesus was buried so at Jf® <"aI1 °f God; # , 8tre8S of life, despairing men and
late Friday the women did not have Tbe buntinS end eating of eggs Is women have reached out to touch him,
time to anoint his body. As soon as ob»erved today in Persia and in other and they have touched him and been
day dawned that Sunday morning the Asiatlc lands where there is no Chris- made whole again. Martyrs, stretched
women went to the tomb, and, accord- tiaillty> ®h°wing that the custom does on the agonizing rack, have heard him
in* to narrori Wound Christ not come wltb Christianity. Other martyrs, bound among the bum
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Tore It Open and Read the Words.
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here in your. studio to wish us jaf*
after we come back from the Little
Church Around the Corner, wont w*
dearr
And Raymonde nodded even whflg
she sobbed.
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dlcate.)
Easter Brought Much Work.
hair and per ivory skin and scarlet
Ups made her a conspicuous beauty
knywhere. Added to this, he.r unique
taste in dress made her more than at-
tractive. •
Perhaps it was her continental man-
ner, perhaps merely her natural diffi-
dence, that‘made her difficult of ap-
proach. But she was admired by ev-
eryone who came in contact with her,
and in the choir where she sang she
had many friends even though she did
not perhaps realize it.
* Choir rehearsals for Easter music
made her attendance necessary, and
she found herself hurrying from her
studio to the church without taking
proper time to eat nourishing meals.
Raymonde was very conscientious and
she did not want to neglect either her
painting or her choir work.
It was the week before Palm Sun-
day and Easter day that found the
little French girl nearly exhausted. A
boat bad arrived bringing her letters
and papers from her home In tbe sub-
urbs of Paris. She picked up her
mail and went to church for a rehear-
sal without so much as getting a bite
of dinner. She feared being late and
conspicuous in entering the choir
stalls.
Instead of being late, Raymonde
found herself there before any of the
others, and she was glad of a few quiet
moments In which to read her mall.
She looked at her home letters, and
then opened up a newspaper from the
suburb In which she lived. Her face
suddenly became as set as the face of
an ivory image—she had seen her
brother’s name among the list of sol-
diers who had failed to return with
their regiments.
“Jacques! Jacques!” she breathed,
just as a merry group of choristers
came upon her in the dimly lighted
church.
“Why—it’s little Miss Rousseau!”
“She’s fainted!"
One of the girls bent over her and,
as they laid her on the broad church
seat and administered restoratives, a
man, who had taken more than a pass-
Now Spring Is Here
EASTER IN HEARTS OF MEN
Chain of Witnesses to the Resurrec-
tion Has Been Added to Through-
out the Centuries.
Z'"'* HRIST Is risen.” The choirs sing
about it. The preachers proclaim
it The multitudes believe it Does it
seem strange that because a small
group of sad-eyed, discouraged men
and women, almost two thousand
years ago, suddenly came to believe
that a man they had loved had re-
turned to life after being executed on
the cross, people should still believe
it today? Nineteen centuries is a long
time, and Palestine is far away. How
is it that the belief of the first Chris-
tians has laid hold upon us?
er o o
GOT me flowers to strew thy way,
I got me boughs off many a tree;
But thou watt up by break of day,
And brought’st thy aweets along with thee.
Yet though my flowers be lost, they say
A heart can never come too late;
Teach it to sing thy praise this day,
And then this day my life shall date.
nr*HE •winter's ice and snow are gone,
Flowers bloom, soft breezes blow;
The waktng earth laughs in the sun
And all the world9 s asrlow.
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Tufts, Minnie Wetmore. The Lancaster Herald. (Lancaster, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1916, newspaper, April 21, 1916; Lancaster, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth542899/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lancaster Genealogical Society.