Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1869 — Easter. [ARTICLE]

Easter.

Easter is a movable feast, being the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March (the vernal equinox). - The period during which it can occur extends from March 22d .to April 25th—-thirty-five days. From this feast, the Christian passover, are calculated all the other movable feasts, as well as fasts, observed by Christians. Easter is so called from the Saxon “Oster,” to rite , being the day commemorative of Christ's resurrection; or, as some think, from the Teutonic goddess Ostora, whoso leasts were celebrated early Iff Spring. The egg at-Easter is an emblem of the rising up out of the grave, in the same manner as the chick, entombed as it were vggirttrm Iliac brought to life-. As an emblem of the universe, the •work of the Supreme Divinity, the egg had a place in the theology and philosophy of the Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks, and Romans.