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The Easter message that counts
Throughout the Christian world, the Easter season brings headlines. And what lies behind the news telling of Christians gathering to commemorate this event? One of the most profound events history has ever recorded. The message of Christ Jesus' resurrection still rings and reverberates in human consciousness.
Yet, there are distractions to this unparalleled occasion. Certain traditions surrounding—but unable to obscure—the Easter season have their roots in paganism. The very word "Easter" comes from Eostre, the Teutonic goddess of spring. The hare and the egg are supposed to have been her symbols because of their association with fertility.

April 13, 1981 issue
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The Easter message that counts
WILLIAM WELSH HOLLAND
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"Open ye the gates"
MURIEL ROADMAN
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Invincible through trust in God
BARBARA JUERGENS FOX
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The road to Emmaus
JOYCE C. LEDDY
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Seize God-given opportunity
PATRICIA M. WHITE
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Holy war
DORINDA B. LE CLAIR
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Don't fence straddle!
FRANK H. CASE
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Creation is
MARY H. GILL
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Accept the risen Saviour!
DeWITT JOHN
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God, the only Life of man
BEULAH M. ROEGGE
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ANGEL POWER
Gail Griffith Murray
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I am grateful that I was reared in a moral and religious...
MABEL S. GUILBERT
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For more than half a century my life has been blessed by the...
HAROLD WILLIAM LESSNER