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ESTABLISHED 1858 
Beginning Wednesday, April 2Ist 
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Almy, Bigelow & Washburn 
SALEM, MASS. 
ESTABLISHED 1858 
ESSEX @COUNTY’S SPRING EVENT 
and Gontinuing THURSDAY, FRIDAY 
and SATURDAY 
This BIG STORE has made extensive preparations to welcome Essex County shoppers during the grand 
celebration of the Salem Merchants:—Magnificent Stocks of new Merchandise, Handsome Window and Interior 
Decorations, Large Corps of Salespeople who will consider it a pleasure to “show you,” and last, but not least, 
Plentiful Bargains of Extraordinary Value Offered in Every Department. 
Make up your shopping parties 
now and plan to come to this 
grand spring celebration of the 
Salem Merchants. 
FREE RETURN CAR FARES 
A 5c ticket with a 50c purchase or more; 
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-- SALEM MERCHANTS’ WEEK — -:- 
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if you 
require more than one ticket, purchases must increase 
in proportion. 
ping headquarters. Have your 
dinner or lunch with Billie Bond, 
our famous chef, in our balcony 
cafe. 
| Make the Big Store your shop- 
YOUR ATTENDANCE 1S URGED. MAKE NO MISTAKE; VISIT SALEM MERCHANTS’ WEEK 
AN EASTER SERMON 
Continued from page 3 
veals the glory of God. ‘There isa re- 
velation of his glorified body to the two 
disciples on the way to Emmaus. Saul 
on the way to Damascus had an apo- 
calypse as well as John on Patmos. 
‘“But I have an apocalypse of Jesus 
Christ; you too may have it. He un- 
veils to me the matchless philosophy of a 
patient mind under tortures at the hands 
of relentless foes. 
me the abnegation of self that stands for- 
ever unrivaled. His life isan apocalypse 
in mora.s, not only in moral intuition, 
but in the unfolding of the moral intui- 
tions and bringing them to perfection, 
until he stands as the only perfect test of 
manhood. You say it is all idealistic? 
True, and yet the truth he taught and 
embodied is practically fundamental in 
the making of perfect manhood today. 
“‘We havean apocalypse in his immor- 
tality. “Iwo of the disciples on the way 
to Emmaus are favored with a demon- 
stration of man’s immortality. The 
country along the way Is beautiful. The 
landscape is dotted with fruitful vineyards 
and gardens. ‘The birds sing their 
sweetest songs. The sunshine temper- 
ed by balmy breezes falls upon their faces, 
but they are sad. The way is historic 
in associations of the rise and fall of Is- 
rael. The tombs of the patriarchs and 
His life reveals to- 
prophets.look down upon them. ‘Their 
faith is shattered, their hopes are dead, 
their dreams are gone. Their tragic 
cry: ‘We trusted that it was he that 
should redeem Israel’ rings along the 
Appian way of a dying nation and it 
comes back to them in a moaning echo 
of despair. 
“Could anything short of a demonstra- 
tion of their Lord’s immortality have 
satished them? Can their crucified and 
dead [Leader demonstrate over death? 
And this is the only thing after all that 
counts, the only thing that signifies. You 
may say that for you this brief life is suffi- 
cient in itself, but for me the greatest 
happiness, the highest achievement is 
nothing if there is no life beyond the 
grave. Immortality is the epic cry of 
the ages, nothing else counts beside it. 
‘‘When the risen Christ joined these 
two disciples their eyes were holden. So 
are ours. ‘The veil is not over the face 
of nature after all. It is not over God’s 
face it is over ours. We are pilgrims of 
darkness walking in the light. Withthe 
hope of Israel’s Redeemer in_ their 
hearts, with the testimony of the dis- 
ciples theirs that the Lord was risen, 
with the very risen Christ unveiling the 
mysteries of the scriptures to them they 
are still blind. And do we hope that 
men today shall see what these men 
failed to see? 
‘“Then he vanishes. Soa fact is de- 
monstrated today and doubted tomorrow. 
The truth comes and goes. We have a 
consciousness of it now but for how long 
atime? Do not let the ability of the 
Lord’s glorified body to appear and dis- 
appear at will, a mere incident, assume 
too large a place in the reason. Scien- 
tists can do that almost now with an un- 
glorified body, a body still in the bond- 
age of corruption. Who knows the 
powers still to unfold inthe body and 
mind when it may be made transparent 
and transluscent now, and it is even held 
that it may be made invisible soon. 
“The Lord did not stay long after his 
resurrection. He vanished completely. 
He might as well from an unseeing 
world. So doweall vanish. We ap- 
pear and disappear. ‘Today we see a 
man walk the streets. We talk to him, 
we touch him. “Tomorrow he is gone. 
Shall we see him again, shall we talk to 
him, shall we touch him again? Is he 
the only thing a creator destroys in the 
universe? Shall the song stop half sung 
in the throat of the singer?—Shall the 
harmony in a harp of gold be half played 
and all the strings snap at once?—Shall 
the whirling planet disappear mid-way in 
its orbit? Shall the sun be blotted out at 
noonday? Not until the reason of God 
rocks on its throne. 
“*There is a great apocalypse in nature 
still coming. It will be a revelation in 
glorified human nature, doubt it not. 
