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The Meaning of Easter

... meaning of this great festival. Easter means rising, opening, renewal — three glorious words. One reason for the use of the word Easter at this season of the year is that, as I told you last week, the earth opens her bosom and lets the greenery come forth ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1895
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1850 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

COLUMN FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. ! i

... the N. B. is informed, Easter Day is spoken of as the Great Day. The word Easter is thought to be derived from Eostrc, the name of a Saxon deity whose festival was kept in the spring. Others think it comas from Outer, rising, Easter being the festival of ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1891
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2160 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

FOR EASTER DAY

... for&aok nty Father's side, Toiled and wept, and bled, and died. Child of doubt, does fear surprise, Vexing thoughts within thee rise i Wondering, murmuring, dost thou gaze On evil men and evil days? Oli! if darknesa round thee lower, Darker far my dying hour ...

THE EASTER VESTRYS

... THE EASTER VESTRYS. It is not always that Easter Vestry meetings in Cardiff pass so smoothly as they have done this year. We believe that no serious dis- sentions arose in any instance, and that acerbity of feeling has been noticeable absent. ALDERMAN ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1881
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 333 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE FESTIVAL OF EASTER

... THE FESTIVAL OF EASTER. (By MioERTE.) It miay not be uninteresting to give here a short 'umary of the ancient observances of Easter - ciong various nations. In German. the word for laster es astern; in French paque; in Scotch ,aesch, from the Greek pascha-the ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1877
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 785 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

AN EASTER TAPER

... upon for this was Easter Eve. From the surrounding villages came the chimes of the church bells across the Marshes. They sound weird and dree, when one has an attack of The night which is approaching is the of the Resurrection. Easter Eve. The 8ht pn which ...

Published: Saturday 13 May 1899
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4032 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE EASTER MANOEUVRES

... Treasury bench. SOMETHING TO SAY WITH A POINT. There was another collapse after Mr Chamberlain had spoken, but Mr Tim Healy's rising was the signal for a revivifica- tion. He had sat attentively listening to the debate since two o'clock, and was ap- parently ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1891
Newspaper: South Wales Daily News
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1122 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

EASTER VESTRIES

... EASTER VESTRIES. inoS° Sr. Manv's.-'rhe annual Easter Ves~try for the flow parish of St. Mlan- was held in the vesti.r th ftechurch on Tuesday morning, under Sba thepresidency of the vicar (the Rev. -. A. Jones nit~y The Vicar, in opening the proceedings ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1882
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2327 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

EASTER VESTRIES

... EASTER V jESTRIES. ST. MARY'S, t The Rev. Gl. Arthur Jones presided at the in E asier vestry meetings of St. Mary's parish, Zo 'Cardiff, on Tuesday morning. The accotunts i showed a, balance of £594 los, lid, in ?? 0le Vicar re-appoinited Mr. Dobbin as ...

Published: Wednesday 18 April 1900
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1428 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

- (The Rise -of the CabinBoy, :

... (The Rise of the CabinBoy, I Some Early Experiences. [BY AH OLD SKIPPER.] On the 12th of December, 1866, 1 shipped before the mast in the barque Stadt Zirikzee at Sunder- land. She had been originally a Dutch East Indiaman, but, like many sublunary things ...

Published: Thursday 07 July 1887
Newspaper: South Wales Echo
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 2444 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

EASTER VESTRIES

... that the sum received by the vicar as Easter offerings from his parishioners exceeded the usual amount, and the Rector re- turned his best thanks to the donors through the wardens. ST. ANDREWS, At the Easter vestry meeting, at St. Andrew's Church, ...

Published: Saturday 27 April 1878
Newspaper: Cardiff Times
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 6302 | Page: 3 | Tags: News