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a balloonatic party by emily rose burt jiist as the struggle with windy march melts into april foolishness you may appropriately think of a balloonatic party cut out kttie brown paper balloons with the invi tations inscribed on a small white baskptshaped card below in our balloon in our balloon well sail away up to the moon balloonatics well say we are and stop at every windy star decorate the rooms with toy bal loons of all colors to bob and bow cheerfully on long icks and strings from every chair back and window pole everybody should be greeted at the door with a request to wear a bal loonatic grin during the evening soon after folks have arrived an- innounce a balloonatic meet and in vite all adventurers to bo ready at the naval balloon station for the start this is the signsl for everybody to gather at a certain spot and receive one of the gay balloons unattached to rtrings or sticks the next announcement is the alti tude test all who enter it must stand in a row and strive to make their indi vidual balloons reach the ceiling by 4int of puffs and deep breaths the most successful are set down by the judges for future awards a speed test takes the contestants sown the length of the room chasing their balloons with their lungs pans tanbe provided for this if you prefer an endurance test to see how long the balloons can be kept in the air b a third exciting contest a balloon battle in which greens and yellows attempt to bang arid bust reds and blues is a thoroughly icebreaking occupation if the crowd heeds livening up thepromised trip to the moon may be carried out in the same way as stage coaoheach player is assign ed some portion of a balloons anat omy or the name of a star or planet a clever person must be selected to tell the story of the balloonatics trips to the moon in which the various trials and tribulations that real balloonists have been known to undergo may come in for exploitation each time the word assigned to any player is mentioned he must rise and blow his bahoon into the air catch it again and sit down on mention of the ari rival at the moon ensues the inter change of seats as if the company may not have acted sufficiently like lunatics the next amusement may be a luny one the company should be divided into two sides and the members are to vie with each other in doing individually or collectively something utterly ab surd one side may act a scene from main street the other side may put on a mock minstrel show or some vaudeville parodies when it is refreshment time the bakoonists are asked to come down out of the clouds to earth and food hot coffee is reviving in such a case and of course there should be sand wiches which to be entirely consist ent may have filling of air currents and moon memories currant jelly and cream cheese the stars may be represented by cookies or little cakes or by bg luscious layer cakes dusky as the night with dark chocolate frosting but lighted by small star candles big baskets filled with cracked hickory and butternuts may have real little balloons tethered to them as they are passed little paper parasols or windblown umbrellas will make delightful favors after supper play the oldfashioned game of elements the players sit in a circle and one begins by tossing a rolledup handkerchief to someone else crying air as soon as the player who catches the handkerchief i has mentioned some creature of the air gull eagle aeroplane swallow j or whatever it may be he orshe toss- est it to another player and calls earth the recipient must name some inhabitant of the earth mole bear girl hog etc when fire is called the player must keep silent until tossing it on again the prizes for the balloonatic races should also be awarded after supper if you care to introduce dancing put on your liveliest records- and let the balloonatics end the evening in their own way easter day the walk of emmaus st luke 24 1321 golden text- why seek ye the living among the dead he is not here but is risen st luke 24 5 6 lesson foreword the two who walked out to emmaus were suffering from an eclipse of faith it is true that before thcy left jerusalem the women had brought strange stories from the tomb of jesus but these stories the two could not credit they required stronger evidence than that of the women to convince them that jesus was still alive jesus appear ance to them is characteristic of his postresurrection appearances he came upon them suddenly and vanish ed just as suddenly by such appear ances jesus convinced the disciples served the right to carry out the sen tence thus the chief priests were ultimately responsible for the death of jesus v 21 we trusted etc not only had ths two recognized jesus as a prophet but they had had hopes that he would prove the messiah who would deliver israel from the yoke of foreign op pression up to this time no jew had thought that the messiah would have to suffer death to achieve his end and so the death of jesus shattered their hopes the third day they had dim recollections of jesus prediction that companions nearness to us many think that christ is mediated to us by a priest or sacrament or church but he is near to us as our breathing we have but to hear his voice and our hearts will burn within us it is a constant surprise to u3 this nearness of the great companion and his readiness to join in our wayside con versation and revive our sinking faith 2 the resurrection appearances meant the beginning of a new life for the early christians when they be came convinced that jesus was living their faith in him reasserted itself with overwhelming force now they understood that the way of the cros3 was the unexpected pathway that god had selected for the fulfilment of his plan these early christians were fimed with ecstatic joy and soon they set out to capture the world for christ the victorious risen christ who would complete his messianic task so they felt sure by a speedy return to earth it was a sunrise of a new epoch both for these christians and for the world 3 we can still walk with christ henry drummond gives the confession of a man of outstanding intellectual strength in the high noon of his suc cess he said i want to speak to night only a kttte but that little i de sire to speak of the sacred name of christ who is my life my inspiration my hope and my surety in looking back upon my experience that part of my life which stands out and which i remember most vividly is just that part that has had some conscious as sociation with christ after all is not this the best sort of religion just walking with christ and sharing his high friendship 4 the lesson reveals jesus as con quering death and all its terrors paul phrased it thus jesus christ hath abolished death t b glover has a splendid passage to show how christ conquered the pagan world he jputlived him he outdied him and he outthought bim how did the early christian out- die the pagan that is our concern just now why did he face martyr dom with dauntless courage glover is speaking of tertullian a famous scholar and saint i stay here he said what does it cost a man to do that people asked what was the magic of it the magic of it was just this on the other side of the fire was the same friend if he wants me to be burnt alive i am here jesus christ was the secret of it easter lillies majestic stately lovely as a dream the easter lilies bow their heads in prayer before the shrine and offer incense there like flowers of pearl the shining blossoms seem each golden calyx seems to catch a gleam of light from him the altogether fair each bly breathes a message on the air the words of christ form for each one the theme i am the resurrection and thelife he who believes in me though he were dead yet shall he live and he wfto lives in me shall never die and lo have i not said i am the way the truth that frees from strife behold death swallowed up in victory elizabeth scollard l vta tmv if you roll your own ask fir fdcflu that though unseen he was still- near on the third day he would rise again at hand and could still hold fellowship with them the barrier between the seen and the unseen is only the thin nest shell which ho can break through at any time t the stranger 1316 v 13 two of them two of the christian community in jerusalem not two of the disciples one of them v 7 but it was now the third day and he had not yet appeared to them v 22 their hopes however were stirred by the favorable report of the women although they did not regard this report as merely idle gossip they were not in a position to establish it as entirely trustworthy v 25 fools and slow of heart etc was- cleonas fv 18 1 arid accordine p two had shjwn a s lack of sts ofelflnnownn fs sffi f the others think that it was luke himself t w j went that same day their master fe hnsstff having been taken from them the dis- gffiif jwifkltfi k is ciples were scattering to their own hws ot here je re- homes among others the two dis- fisfesffi imfh ciples who lived at emmaus went back th f 9r irfe t to that town emmaus a most difnlj wifsf i st rait place to identify but near enough f t jews had looked for a to jerusalem 60 furlongs or 7 v not a suffering mos- miles for the two to have their evert j tlrtjtst krsf ing meal there and to return to jer- at isa 5 referred to usalem the same evening and find the t r dcnt disciples stt1 assembled wth the suffering servant of v 14 these things the crucifixion p a to the dc- and perhaps the reported resurrection ee respecting the messiah as ex- of jesus wore the topic of their con- j i pphccy precisely jo versation things which the two had allowed to v 15 jesus drew near while j guss iz1 confirma they were absorbed in thought and th conversation jesus came upon them j- j sti hfiw unnoticed from behind i the three divisions of the old testa- v 16 various conjectures havo mnt were known to the jews as the been oftcred for their failure to recog- 1 f w book mo j pr nizo jesusthat they were emotion- and p writings thus jesus gave ally unstrung that his appearance had ssgsns25ssif been disfigured by the sufferings on the references in tht- old testament to the cross or that he appeared in a messiah spring the spring is here rejoice 0 heart bowed down with grief and care lift up your head and look above the skies are blue and fair spring spread her mantle oer the earth and banished winters snows the birds are singing loud with mirth v and gone are winters woes from their long sleep the flowers awako to greet the new born spring and from the air fresh fragrance take and live and laugh and sing so take fresh courage look above 0 heart bowed down with care for all is fair and all is love and spring is everywhere he who serves his country well has no need of ancestors voltaire transformed body the evangelist evidently believed that this was the work of god himself upon their eyes ii the conversation 1727 v 18 to cleopas it was incredible than an inhabitant of jerusalem or a pilgrim to the passover thero should be unacquainted with tho stirring events of the crucifixion it was the talk of the day in jerusalem v 19 a prophet this much at least was certain concerning jesus that he was a prophet his teachings and hh works attested that tho spirit of god was in him in a unique way v 20 tho chief priests according t a concession of the romans the jewish sanhcdrin had to right to de clare according to their own religious laws upon whom the death sentence thould be passed but tho romans re in the disclosure 2831 v 28 tho stranger gave the im pression that had they not invited him to their home he would have journey ed on v 30 although he was tho guest jesus assumed tho role of host and this unusual procedure helped the two to recognize him took bread etc in palestine bread is torn apart by tho hand and sometimes the host tears it off himself and then offers it to the guests it has been commonly thought that jesus had a way peculiar to him self of breaking and blessing the bread 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