Article April 11, 1903 Issue

The Awakening

M. V. P.

A stone rolled away,—a tomb that is empty,—and weeping friends who do not understand.

This is apparently hopeless background of the picture of the first Easter Morning. Love had they—and despair; but hope, even on that, one of the greatest of days, was yet to come. But there came from the tomb, an illumination, an earnest of the resurrection, and then—as truth is always followed by larger truth—they saw the Christ, and believed.

Oh! the grandeur of the moment when, from the ashes of some divine despair, the fire begins again to glow and glow until a new hope supplants in transcendent beauty, the old weaker love that could yield itself to depression and defeat.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Article

"The Battle of San Jacinto"