Color this Easter basket, chicks and a girl in a bonnet...

Description of Coloring Page: a little girl in her Easter bonnet, chicks, decorated eggs, Easter basket

• Paste a little window box, full of flowers, together before you color it with cheerful colors!
  

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Color this boy in a bunny costume...

Description of Coloring Page: vintage Easter themes, carrots, boy meets Easter rabbit, outdoors, imagine meeting the Easter rabbit...

• Here is a primrose paper border to cut and color when your through...
  

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Color these fancy "egg heads" for Easter!

Fancy "egg heads"

Description of Coloring Page: Egg heads include a traditional Dutch girl in costume, a pirate, a mysterious magician and an egg decorated with springtime flowers. 

• Color people waving palms and shouting "Hosanna!"
  

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Christ Rose By His Own Power

       He rose in the night; no hand at the door, no voice in his ear, no rough touch awaking him. Other watchers than Pilate's soldiers stood by the sepulchre; but those angels whom it well became to keep guard at this dead man's chamber door, beyond opening it, beyond rolling away the stone, beyond looking on with wondering eyes, took no part in the scenes of that eventful morning. The hour sounds; the appointed time arrives. Having slept out his sleep, Jesus stirs; he awakes of his own accord he rises by his own power; and arranging, or leaving attending angels to arrange, the linen clothes, he walks out on the dewy ground, beneath the starry sky, to turn grief into the greatest joy, and hail the breaking of the brightest morn that ever rose on this guilty world. That open empty tomb assures us of a day when ours too shall be as empty. Having raised himself, he has power to raise his people, panic-stricken soldiers flying the scene, and Mary rising from his blessed feet to hasten to the city, to rush through the streets, to burst in among the disciples, and with a voice of joy to cry, He is risen, He is risen! prove this is no vain brag or boast, "I lay down my life that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have the power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." Rev. Dr. Guthrie.

Chris Tomlin "Jesus"

What Is Death?

"What is the soul? The seminal principle from the loins of destiny,

This world is the womb: the body, its enveloping membrane:

The bitterness of dissolution, dame Fortune's pangs of childbirth.

What is death? To be born again, an angel of eternity."

                                                                                Buzurgi. (The Persian Poet.)

Easter Games by Lina Beard, 1905

       In the game they play at Washington, on the hills sloping from the White House, the child whose egg reaches the foot of the hill in an unbroken condition takes the one worsted in the journey down. Another game for two is played by knocking the eggs together ; each child holds an egg firmly in his hand so that only the small end is visible, and then the two eggs are struck against each other until one is cracked, when the victorious player adds it to his stock, or devours it on the spot. I would not like to state the number of eggs eaten on these occasions, but there is a boy (not a girl) who once consumed fourteen and lived to tell the tale.

       Sometimes the egg which breaks another is called "the cock of one," and when it has broken two it is " cock of two," and so on. When an egg which is cock of one or more is broken, the number of trophies won by the victim is added to the score of the conquering egg and it becomes " cock of three " or more. Here is a game which comes from Germany, and al- though in that country it is played exclusively by boys, there is no reason why the girls should not participate in it as well. Two baskets are necessary for this game, one large and shallow filled with soft shavings, the other shallow also, but smaller, and filled with eggs. The plan of the game is that one player is to run a given distance, while another safely throws the eggs from one basket to the other, she who completes her task first being the winner. When the baskets are prepared, and the distance the eggs are to be thrown decided upon, the two contestants draw lots to determine who shall run and who shall throw. This settled, the player who throws takes the basket of eggs, and one after another quickly tosses them the length of the course and into the basket of shavings, which is placed on the ground at the end of the course opposite the thrower. In Germany this basket is held by an assistant, but anyone occupying that position might receive some severe blows from the hard eggs thrown by unpracticed hands, and it answers the purpose just as well to place the basket on the ground. Meantime the other player runs the distance (decided beforehand) to an appointed goal, marks it as a proof of having touched it, and should she succeed in returning before all the eggs are thrown, the victory and prize are her reward; otherwise they belong to the thrower.

       The game finished, a prize is presented to the successful contestant. Should any of the eggs pitched by the thrower fail to light in the basket, they must be gathered up and thrown again before the runner returns, as the eggs must all be in the basket before the thrower wins the game.

       "Bunching eggs " comes from Ireland, and is played in very much the same manner as the game played with a slate and pencil, and known to all children as " tit, tat, toe, three in a row." A pan or large dish filled with sand or sawdust is set upon a table, around which the children stand, each supplied with eggs; the eggs of each player must be all of one color, and unlike those of any other player. The object of the game is for each player to so place her eggs, standing them upright in the sand, or sawdust, as to bring five in a row touching each other.

       In turn each player puts down an egg, sometimes filling out a row for herself, at others cutting off the line of an opponent; and the one who first succeeds in obtaining the desired row sings out--

"The raven, chough, and crow,

Say five in a row."

       Another pretty game from Ireland called " Touch " is played in the following manner:

       Six eggs of the different colors green, red, black, blue, white, and gold are placed in a row in the sand used for the other game. One of the players is blindfolded and given alight wand or stick, with which she must touch one of the eggs, while at the same time she recites these lines:

Peggy, Patrick, Mike, and Meg,

See me touch my Easter egg ;

Green, and red, and black, and blue,

Count for six, five, four, and two.

If I touch an egg of white,

A forfeit then will be your right ;

If I touch an egg of gold,

It is mine to have and hold.

       As is told in the rhyme, the eggs each have a different value. Green counts six ; red, five ; black, four; and blue, two ; and the gold egg is worth more than all put together, for when a player touches that, she wins the game and a forfeit of. an egg from each of the other players. The white egg is worth less than nothing, since it not only has no value but whoever touches it with the wand must pay a forfeit.

       Each player is in turn blindfolded and makes her trial, keeping account of the value of the eggs she has touched. When the sum of twenty has been reached by anyone the game is ended, without the aid of the gold egg. The position of the eggs are changed after each trial, that the person about to touch them may not know where it is best to place her wand.

The Mountain Top

The Mountain Top

by Lilian Leveridge

The summer sun lay golden on the 

mountain,

And soft about us blew

The elfin winds, the wild, free winds, that 

morning 

I wandered there with you.

As us and up to higher levels tending

We slowly passed along,

Upon the slippery steeps I did not waver--

Your hand was firm and strong.

We gained the heights. The all-encircling

vastness

Our quickening pulses thrilled.

With all the glory, all the wordless wonder,

Our kindred souls were filled.

Above us and around us stretched the heav-

ens,

And far and far away,

In misty, opalescent shadows melting,

The dim horizon lay.

Up from the town, to mellow music softened,

There rose a murmurous din,

As o'er the waves, wind-kissed and sunbeam-

silvered,

We watched the boats come in.

But longer than the fair and pleasant pic-

ture,

In sunlight round us spread,

Within my heart will live the vibrant music

Of gracious words you said:

"We may not reach the goal of our en-

deavor

Before the sun goes down;

Yet you and I will upward press, and ever

Be worthy of our crown.

"No toil is lost no energy is wasted,

Our striving is not vain,

E'en though we win no shining wreath of lau-

rel,

No proud, far heights attain.

"Thy are not dead, the seeds of hope we

scattered

Along the barren years,

Though yet there springs no blossom of re-

joicing, 

No golden fruit appears.

"Not in the prize, though lovely and allur-

ing, 

Our best reward must be.

Is not the strength that comes alone from

struggle

Enough for you and me?

"Enough to have uplifted by our message

One life for one brief hour;

Out of one heart a weed to have uprooted,

And planted there a flower;

"Enough if we a helping hand have given,

Have strengthened faltering feet,

Have shed about us ever the aroma

Of kindness rare and sweet."

Enough! and yet the distant beacons beckon,

The shining steeps allure.

We long to breath--the impulse is of

Heaven--

Those airs serene and pure;

To stand beside the noble souls who con-

quered,

Who would not be downcast,

Who, after all the heartache and the failures,

Have won success at last.

Some day--who knows?--after the toil and 

patience,

The conflict long and tense,

There yet may come to us life's crowning

glory

Of richest recompense.