EASTER 



1908 



EASTER 



New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Bal- 

 timore & Ohio, the Wabash, the Pere Mar- 

 quette and the Chicago, Lake Shore & South 

 Bend railroads. Three belt roads connect with 

 every railroad entering Chicago. Three elec- 

 tric lines extend to Chicago. The Indiana 

 Harbor ship canal, crossed by a number of 

 bascule bridges, extends from a harbor 300 feet 

 wide and twenty-two feet deep, protected by 

 a modern rubble breakwater, south from Lake 

 Michigan to the Calumet River. 



The unsurpassed shipping and transporta- 

 tion facilities of East Chicago have made it a 

 center of iron and steel manufactories, which 

 produce almost every kind of article from a 

 bolt to a locomotive. Other important manu- 

 factures are foundry products, cement, lum- 

 ber, boilers, chemicals, fire brick, soap, liquid 

 air, conduits, hay and cotton presses and auto- 

 mobile trucks, the total annual value of man- 

 ufactured products being over $41,000,000. The 

 city has a city hall erected in 1907 at a cost of 

 $58,500, two Carnegie libraries and six banks. 

 In 1917 a movement was inaugurated to join 

 the city with Gary and Indiana Harbor into 

 one great city, under the commission form of 

 government. E.C.MC c. 



EASTER, ees'ter. When life is slowly burst- 

 ing forth anew in springtime in woods, in 

 parks, in gardens when, as George Macdon- 

 ald says, in his Songs of the Spring Days, 



The holy spirit of the Spring 

 Is working silently, 



then comes the holy festival called Easter, 

 observed in many branches of the Christian 

 Church to commemorate the resurrection of 

 Christ. 



Many customs, beautiful and quaint, have 

 been and still are observed in churches and in 

 homes as an expression of joy because Christ 

 rose from the dead. Churches have special 

 services for this closing of the forty days of 

 Lent (which see), and flowers of white, espe- 

 cially Easter lilies, decorate the altars as a 

 sign of purity and light. The sending of 

 Easter eggs is a custom thought to have origi- 

 nated with the Persians, the eggs being sym- 

 bols of new life. Coloring them red symbolizes 

 the blood of redemption; other colors have no 

 special significance. 



The name Easter comes from the Anglo- 

 Saxon Eostre, a goddess of light or spring 

 whose festival was celebrated in April. The 

 name of the festival in Greek, French, Italian 

 and most other languages is taken from the 

 Hebrew pesach, meaning passover, as by the 



Suggestive Programs for 

 Easter 



I think of the garden after the rain ; 

 And hope to my heart comes singing, 

 "At morn the cherry blooms will be white, 

 And the Easter bells be ringing." 



Procter 



Song, "Come, ye saints" Kelly 



Reading, The First Easter, Luke XXIV 



The Easter Flower Phillips Brooks 



Essay, What the Name "Easter" Means 



Nature's Easter Music Lucy Larcom 



Essay, The Easter Lily 

 The Song of the Lilies. . .Lucy Wheelock 

 Essay, Signs of New Life in Nature 

 How the Date for Easter Is Determined 



The Voice of Spring Hemans 



Essay, How the Butterfly Symbolizes 

 the Easter Lesson 



The Spring Is Here Bryant 



The Year's at the Spring Browning 



II 



Song, Christ the Lord Is Risen To-day 



Wesley 



Essay, The True Significance of Easter 

 The Lily of the Resurrection 



Lucy Larcom 



The First Easter, John XX, 1-18 



At Easter Time Lucy Wheelock 



Essay, The Easter Lesson as Shown by 



a 'Bulb 



Spring Longfellow 



Essay, How We Observe Easter 

 Essay, How the Ancients Accounted 



for the New Life in Nature the 



Story of Proserpina 

 Essay, The Return of the Birds 

 April Whittier 



