Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1911 — Rolling the Stone Away [ARTICLE]

Rolling the Stone Away

Thus the majestic event which Easter -commemorates is not only religious and spiritual In its true signification but mundane and commonplace and familiar and secular. It Is an Incessant event in every life. The hope of resurrection was,, planted deep in the heart of things. Why should it not be formally remembered and celebrated once a year, and at the season when nature herself Joins In the festival? Not In the profound and despairing pessimism to which Job gave utterance is the highest wisdom: “My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart They change the day into night. If I wait, the grave is mine house. I have made my bed in the darkness. I have said to corruption, Thou are my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister. And where is now my hope? They shall all go down to the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.”

The suggestion of the true philosophy is rather in the words of the young Galilean to Nicodemus: “Marvel not that I have said unto thee, Ye must be bom again.” Growth 1b not otherwise possible, and life without growth would be intolerable. Fortunately resurrection in its true sense is attainable by every one right here on this earth, and no life is so dead or so wrong that it cannot reach the light—Dudley.