"EASTER'S PROMISE"
"This, I saw'when I was in Napier. I had gone to look at the church that has been built on the site of St; John's ■Cathedral, if is much smaller, of course, and it is interesting to stand and trace out the line of the foundations—they- show plainly nave and transepts and chancel. With, the picture in my mind of'the cathedral as it was, the living green of the creepers against the bricks, I saw, right at my feet, a little root of "Virginia creeper, growing at th 9 edge of the ■ foundationline. It was sending out fresh shoots bravely, wondering, no doubt, where the sturdy, wall- had gone that once, it climbed. And I thought—'Why,, there is immortality personified—out of the horror and destruction of that day, had remained the unquenchable bit of life that was-in the little plant.' It must have seemed as though even the source of life-were threatened. But there, in miniature, was the story of the Eesurreetion—an Easter story indeed." "LASSIE." Kelbura.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 5
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169"EASTER'S PROMISE" Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 5
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