Raster Hope 37 



Easter Hope 



THE day of the rising of Jesus, the sea 

 son of the rising of Nature, come into 

 the closest connection this late Easter ; 

 and the hope of humanity, the promise of earth, 

 are blent in one common springtide, as irresistible 

 as the sunlight and the south winds, that waken 

 the grass and swell the buds, cheer the birds, and 

 invite the peaceful forces of the spirit of all life to 

 renew the miracle of summer. How charming is 

 youth ! The very fact of youth is a prefigure- 

 ment of immortality. Energies that find their 

 way to the seed in the ground, to the germ in the 

 egg ; that fill the birds with joy and the air with 

 their happy melody ; that stir the pulses with 

 vigour and make strife more expectant and ideals 

 draw nearer, these are the same that thrill the 

 stars in their courses and bring the vital warmth 

 of our sun to all its little worlds, and so with all 

 the other suns and their attendant worlds. 



It is still the word of Jesus that throbs with 

 undiminished conviction this Easter : &quot; Because 



