The Archivist » spring http://blog.newsok.com/archivist Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:13:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 “The meaning of Easter” http://blog.newsok.com/archivist/2010/04/02/the-meaning-of-easter/ http://blog.newsok.com/archivist/2010/04/02/the-meaning-of-easter/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:51:14 +0000 Mary Phillips http://blog.newsok.com/archivist/?p=667 This is a reprint of an article by Edith C. Johnson, an editorial writer for The Oklahoman, that was first published 95 years ago on Easter Sunday, April 4, 1915:

“Today is Easter — the most significant and appealing festival in the calendar of the year — with the single exception of Christmas.

]]> This is a reprint of an article by Edith C. Johnson, an editorial writer for The Oklahoman, that was first published 95 years ago on Easter Sunday, April 4, 1915:

“Today is Easter — the most significant and appealing festival in the calendar of the year — with the single exception of Christmas.

Easter is our most perfect symbol of hope renewed and our promise of life eternal. Rightly interpreted, it becomes the sign-manual of creative energy bursting the bonds of a thousand limitations. It is the token of new courage with which to face life’s struggle–strong in the belief of an ultimate supremacy. To contemplate the eternal verities for which it stands is to widen our horizon and broaden our purposes and hopes.

Science teaches us that one spring is like another–but science is forgotten in the message of inspiration the recurring springtime brings to a world that is weary with toil and endless disappointments, that is wasting its blood in futile warfare, that is struggling with iron oppressions and that is crushed to earth under the heel of selfishness and cold indifference.

Easter beckons on the human race. Symbolizing the renewal of man’s shining ideals, it revives human faith after the winter of our discontent, and spurs us on to the accomplishment of unbelievable tasks, through a courage that finds its source in the life-giving stream of our spiritual nature.

There is a sublime general in Easter, celebrated by the return of spring with its melting snows and streams, its budding leaves, and its bursting blossoms that once more turn their petals to the sun. Man may fall, but nature always stands proudly erect– for the seed drops to earth, only to blossom forth in greater glory. Man may transgress or evade the law. Inviolable nature keeps it. Man may sullenly turn away from light and truth. All nature turns her face towards the sun.

Thus do we read in the buds and blossoms and leaves of grass the victories of life. The beauties of nature heal and restore us. The incommunicable trees, flowers, the earth and the waters, all growing things and the heavens, bid us live with them and enter into the fullness of life. They proclaim that love shall overcome hate; that justice shall rise above injustice; that right will triumph over might and that dominion and power shall ultimately belong to the righteous and pure in heart.–E.C.J.”

May you find beauty in the Oklahoma spring landscape on this early Easter morning.

Mary Phillips

mphillips@opubco.com

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