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f HAIL MIRACLE OF i DEATHLESS LIFE j i Throughout the Ages the Spirit t ^ . of Easter Has Voiced the \ Highest Aspirations of the Human Soul. < — t THE spirit of Easter had Its birth j In that dim past when mans t wondering eyes first vaguely sensed the promise of the swell- t lng seed, the mystery of bursting bud, > the miracle of resurrected life in leaf i and flower. Down through the count- < less ages have thundered the ho- i c s&nnas of vernal joy, peans of welcome « to the reborn earth pregnant with its j gift of Immortality. In every land. ] sayage and civilized. In every step of i man's uplift from barbarism to cul- < turf, from prehistoric to modern > times each passing year has wit- i nessed the passionate rhythm of wail- i lng, lamentation and agonized despair. < lng prayer for the dead god. until t at a mystic moment, penitential sacri- i flee and fasting, weeping and mourn- i lng give way to transports of Joy t which hall the resurrected deity w ho i has broken again the grim gates of i death. We Christians have no monopoly . of the undying Easter Idea of death, resurrection and immortality, erf a deity who dies to save the world and > who rises triumphant from the dead. That has been the radiant principle of humanity's instinctive religion from the early dawn of man's spiritual .life. The ancient temples ol a hundred different religions have re- j echoed to the lamentations for dead deities and their old altars have vl- | brated and thrilled with the joyous hymns In honor of resurrected gods. The germinal Idea is found in almost all the myths of savage peoples. It was the pervading idea in the faith of the old Hindus; it inspired the an j dent Egyptian belief In Immortality; in the pre-Christian religions of Babylon. Assyria and Asia Minor it was i

while around this Idea in Greece, Carthage and Rome cen- ! 1 tered the most sacred of rites and ; i mysteries. Strange and sometimes j i horrible in sacrifice were the cere- ; . monies which ushered in the reborn ! 'world, rituals of worship which I drenched altars with human blood in 1 Imitation of the god who died that the world might live. In other places ' the great spring festival took the form < of Joy transformed into the abandon i of license. But in all these perver- 1 sions the central idea remained as an < expression of man's attempt to fathom the secret of the universe and to ad- < just his little life to its awful mysteries. We moderns of today can have no adequate conception of what the adI vent ef spring meant in the child- : hood of mankind. In a way we have ' conquered the seasons and adapted i ourselves to their changing moods. But 1 * even a few centuries ago. hi an was al- ; most hopeless in the grip of a relent- | less, pitiless rhythm of superfluous plenty in summer and starvation and j death in winter. It was only the strong and vigorous who survived the j winter's fight with hunger. The ancient Lent was in very fact a period of wailing and lameniawon, i for at this time the gods seemed "TO have deserted mankind, and the earth itself, the great mother goddess ot fertility and fecundity, appeared to have j died beneath their feet. The coming of spring, the resurrection of fertility, meant that man's despairing pray- ! ers had been answered, that his sac- . riflcec had been.. accepted, and that his battle with hunger was over. In the sharp prod of biting hunger which j ancient man viewed as a punishment I inflicted by the gods presiding- over , I the various aspects of nature and the ; ] seasons, can be found the reason for : | much that seems strange and monstrous to us in the old religions, j Adonis was the god who represent ' ed the yearly decay and revival of | life, an annual death and resurrection | His worship spread from western Asia throughout the Mediterranean I littoral. He was pictured as bleed- i ; ing to death with the red leaves of I autumn and coming to life again with I I the fresh green of spring. Often Ado- ' nis was impersonated by a living man <

' who was sacrificed upon the harvest j field. In the great Phoenician sanctu- i _ ary of Astarte at Byblus the death of j ' Adonis w as mourned to the shrill wail- I notes of the flute, with weeping. ! lamentations and beatlqg of breasts, but tfce next day the dead god was believed to rise from the dead and ascend to heaven in the presence of his worshipers, amid hymns of Joy and glad shouts of "Adonis is risen from the dead!" It Is In the worship of Attis, however, that occurs the most striking resemblance to many of the observances of tbe Christian Easter. Attis was believed to have been miraculously born of a virgin mother and like Adonis to have died a violent death, rising from the dead at the time of the spring festival Hideous orgiastic rites marked the ritual of Attis worship in Rome. Days of blood and atonement preceded the I hilarious jbv of the great day of resurrection. While devout 'multitudes flocked to the sanctuary, the unsexed priests of Attis and Cybele, to the music of flutes, drums and cymbals, slashed themselves with knives, and in wild, frenzied dances splattered the altars with dripping blood. The effigy of Attis bound to a pine tree played an important part in the ceremony , 'The Day of Blood" witnessed the period of mourning over tbe effigy of j the god which was afterward buried in a sepulcher. The worshipers prayed and lasted in wailing and lament* tion in preparation for the sacra- \ mental meal. But when night fiad fallen the grief of the worshipers +" turned to ecstatic gladness in the Festival of Joy. Suddenly a light shone in the darkness. The tomb w-as opened j and the temple thrilled to shouts that { i told that Attis had risen from the ! dead. And as the priest touched the j | lips oi the mourners with balm he j ; softly whispered in their ears the j glad tidings oi salvation. The resur- j rection ol Attis was hailed by his | votaries as a divine promise that I they. too. would issue triumphant ! from the corruption of the grave. A blessed sacramental meal and a 1 baptism oi blood were among other j I ceremonies for the initiates, a ritual , which included a sacrifice of virility. , It meant to thein a new spiritual j birth and remission of sins. j

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