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The Message of Easter
What is this mysterious, strange, joyous influence that seems to
permeate everything at this time of year. That lingers, like a
sweet perfume, delicate and clean, to touch us all with magic?
It is an intriguing thing, intangible, yet real. We feel it, sense it, thrill to it. There is more to it than bunny rabbits and colored eggs and gay, new clothes. Easter is more than a celebration because the sap is rising in the trees. And the bare branches are slipping bright green rings on bony fingers. And blossoms are turning wood and garden into fairyland.
Easter is more than a spring festival. So far as the church is
concerned, the message of Easter is contained in the declaration
" Christ is risen! "
PETER MARSHALL
Easter so longed for is gone in a day.
-- James Howell
The first Easter baskets were made to look like bird's nests.
