Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1910 — An Easter Significance. [ARTICLE]

An Easter Significance.

This is one of the Easter significances oTHeath, that, through it, God is transferring our affections, our longings, our. hopes, our plans, from earth to heaven —from the tenting-place to the- dweti i»g- place, from the dark valley of preparation to the shining lights of eternal realizat on. iHe weans us over, as it were, from earth to ueaven, by taking our loved ones to himself, and leading after them our hearts’ desires and our sanctified imaginations and hopes. All the beauties and glories of the'apocalyptic vision mignt make no appeal to us, satisfied as wo are with this earth where our loved ones dwell, if God did not endear to uwthe city~whlch is to he~uur eternal home by calling some of ou. cherished ones to dwell there. Then immediately our longings to go out to it, we dream of it, we live so as to be more fit for it.