Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1911 — Thine Easter Day [ARTICLE]

Thine Easter Day

Within thine heart is there an open tomb? Have God’s strong angels rolled the stone sway? Rises thy dfead self from its bonds of clay? Breaks heaven’s sweet delight across the dark and gloom? Then Is this day In truth thine Easter Day. If broken down are stony gates of pride. If shrouded bands of earth are torn •way.

If sin and wrath and scorn in thee have died. Mourn not the past. The folded shroud beside Angels will watch; it la thine Easter Day. Rise, new-born soul, and put thine armor on; Clasp round thy breast the garment Of the light; Gird up thy loins for battle. In the fight He leads who upward from oar sight has gone;

It is His day; there’s no more death nor night No dark, no hurt, no more sharp shams nor loss; All buried, hidden, ’neath the grave’s dark sod; All ways forgotten, save the road He trod; All burdens naught 'in sight of His—, the cross; All Joy. alive and safe with Christ and God! —Mary Lowe Dickinson.