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Easter impact

Darkness never has consumed a beam of light. Death has never really blotted out a single ray of Life.

In the middle of the night

God is in this room (though not less elsewhere). I reach my hand to Him (never mind what direction— He is everywhere).

No dragons left

Once upon a time when imagination's dragons roamed, crusaders shivered in their fight with evil. But "once upon a time" is not Spirit's eternal frame, where evil becomes a name for nothing.

Church challenge?

Who me? But I never .

I ask myself

Those healing passages each day are faithfully perused. Then— Are they closed up in my books or taken out and used ? Jane A.

Scarecrow man—a sham!

Listen, you scarecrow, you mortal, you! You may scare a crow or two, or three or four .

Considering the lilies

There was a time when perfection meant that all the threaded details of my tiny sphere would neatly fit, in all their woven tightness and minuscule importance, within some large fabricated sense of things, so that my daily garment would appear, and I would be clothed! What vanity! Clothed indeed! Since when did the creator ask for my narrow sphere as pattern for His vastness and possibilities? Those details and those plans were nothing more than busy knots and snarls of self-importance! Oh, unwind! Reweave! Expand into the freedom of knowing that there are no loose threads of isolation too busy or too tight to break for the possibility of expanding into that SEAMLESS GARMENT—the pattern He has fashioned in His wisdom —the pattern that custom-fits each one of us —the pattern snug enough for comfort, loose enough for freedom, and so beautiful that we are, indeed (considering the lilies) gloriously arrayed in His majesty! BARBARA BURROWS.

Angels

"The chariots of God .

Victory

Jesus did not pray that God should set aside a law of death for the mourning widow's son, the daughter of Jairus, or his good friend Lazarus. Jesus invoked the law of God's omnipotence, and this dispelled belief in any other law.

Being blest . . .

Away from home? Fear not! Alone? Love's cared- for still remain with joy at hand yes, peace of Mind intact. Love's presence? Love's course? Never lost! That way of Life the Master came to take— yes, guaranteed to bless Love's follower today as then with good— now! for good! Jane R.