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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1928)
THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 1, 1928 Pageant of the First v Easter Morn By EdM Garfield "Jerusalem a City is Com pact! j boilt together; Unto this place the tribes go u The tribes of God go !iitl.:r." Outstanding among the Easter window-displays, and which easily would do credit to any metropoli tan city, is that of Renska Ladd Swart at 244 North High Street, where a pageant representing the first morn la riridly depicted in minature. - Probably o city In the world Is 9f greater historic interest than the capital of that land of three great faith JERUSALEM, "the aiecca of the Moslems; to Jews, the City of Cities; and to Chris tians, the first city of which they hear at their mother's knee." Here,- paradoxical though It "Crown of Thorns Plant." now In blossom, -beneath which, and Tlvldfy suggestive of the tragic event which has influenced all history, is a picture of the "Man of Sorrows, "5" wearing the crown of thorns. Again looking toward the back ground, at tne left and "not far from the Damascus Gate," are seen distinctly outlined against the horizon, three crosses upon the crest of Golgotha, or "Skull Hill," the reputed Calvary the most sacred site on the entire world. Almost startlingly realis ic. because of their intimate as .ociation with the history of the Cruclfiction, are the inscriptions written (by courtesy Dr. Keefer) tn Hebrew. Greek and Latin, which appear above the central cross, reading: "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews' which we are told, at the instance of Pontlas mar seem, during the ceremonies of Easter companies of; soldiers! PIlat. (the then R"wan Governor ' m f . A 1 J aVfWA tne cross upon wnicn me son 01 places, and surround the various patriarchs daring their devotions. The celebrations begin . with Palm Sunday, when the patriarchs bless the palms, which are dis turbed to scores of thousands of people of every nationality and creed, who move in. an unceasing stream toward that shrine where the religiua of aftChristendom ' bow, after seven hundred years ofj Moslem supremacy, which ended when during the World War, General A Hen by and his troops, guarded by airplanes from Turk ish attack, marched into Jerusa lem on Christmas day, officially taking the city without bloodshed; upon which occasion there actually arose the cry-from the Inhabitants, "The day of deliverance is come!" and Christians now rule the land of Palestine. The entire setting of the pageant reproduced according to the ac counts given in Biblical history reflects the atmosphere of this historic spot. In the background rUei the rugged wall of Jerusalem, disclosing the picturesque Damas cus (both designed in facsimilie from authentic photographs), from which leads a winding be sanded roadway, bringing one to the foreground, where is colorful ly portrayed the representative Palestinian life of that period shepherds with their sheep; soft footed camele moving along with ease; a water-carrier bearing a leathern water or wine-bag; a picturesquely-clad Bedouin chieftain; Bethlehem women; a figure at the well; and nanniered donkeys de murely plodding along. Embellishing the scene by way of foliage fire date palms; two small olive trees in bud; cypress, such as grows on the slopes of the Mount of Olives; and branches of cedars of Lebanon (Palestine). Of gripping Interest is the live Man was crucified; which inscrip tion, it will be remembered, the enraged Jews clamored for Pilate to change so as to read He claimed to be King of the Jews, but which Pilate, a secret sympathizer with the prisoner, refused to do. saying: "What I have written, I have writ ten." By reason of the historic se quence of events of this period. one's mind Instinctively shifts from Calvary to the Holy Sepul cher: "Now near the place where He was crucified was a garden, and in the garden a new eepalcher where in was never man yet laid;" "Which," says a prominent author ity, "is believed by those best qual ified to Judge, to be the 'Garden Tomb,' (as located by General Gordon) situated at the foot of the western slope of 'Skull Hill' ;" to preserve which site from desecra tion, a group of Christian subscrib ers purchased t from the Turks, and protected It by an enclosure. The highest authorities believe this to be the actual site of the sepul cher of the Savior of the world. and which Biblical history tells us was voluntarily furnished for the Lord's burial by Joseph of Aramathea, a wealthy Jew. We now return to the fore ground of Miss Swart's artistic epic in miniature, where, exquisite by way of contrast with the tragic gloom and sorrow occasioned by the view of Golgotha, we behold a striking representations of a bril liantly illuminated tomb, from which the stone has been rolled away; the proverbial linen body- wrappings and head-piece are ly ing within; and, "sitting one at the head and one at the feet of where the body of Jesus had lain." are two angelic figures, "in shin- ins: raiment." kneeling before whom, and peering fearfully Into the tomb, are two of the Marys, with their, jara of precfou spices and ointments, "which they had prepared for the body of their Lord;" and wLom history tells us were the first to arrive at the tomb; of which Heusser so graphi cally says: "On that first Easter morning. through such a garden, dim and dewy, must the two Marys have crept tn terror of the Jews or the Roman . guards coming to the mouth of. the Sepulcher Just as the rising sun shot Its golden rays over the summit of Olivet." The local pageant includes a lovely dawn-scene with a cloud filled sky tinted by the rays of the rising sun the work of Miss Swart's sister Wikje. Adding Intimate Interest to the Incidents connected with the Cruci fixion are the picture "Gethsem ane;" a small vessel of vlnegai and gall; and a sponge upon a reed. Of particular interest also are the facsimile coins of the his tory-famed thirty pieces of silver" (worth about 664 cents, each amounting to $16.96). the price for which Jndas Iscariot betrayed his Lord with a kiss; after his repentance for which he Is said to have thrust the money at one of the high priests, who refused to accept it because, under the Jewish law, "blood-money" could not be used for the treasury. Whereupon, tradition tells us, "Jndas went ont and hanged him- lop sided. t iK'tll The atx-on elufc team rod to victory on finct place la both dashes and la the double yard and mile ran while Hugo LeUtner. hurdling ace, captured both bar rier events to net an additional 10 point. Phil Barber lad the field In the hundred with time of S.S second while Snuil Sweet broke the tape tn the 220 yard dash in :21 flat. Jimmy Charterer! turned In a time of 4:27:0 for the mile with Fuller loping home In the halt mile In 1:50:7. Six Students from Salem On University Honor Roll UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene. Mar. tU (Special) Six Salem student have been list- Saflemra Acrmrai?y PHIL BAYES Salem VS WILLIE GORDON Portland 10 3-MINUTE ROUNDS 4 OTHER BOUTS Tickets Now on Sale at Adolph's Cigar Store (Continaad on pl 4.) im track n SHOWS FIST STUFF BERKELEY. Cal.. March 31 (AP). 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Bill Erlckson. holder of the American record of 30 hours, set in July last year, paced her In the early hours. She expected to swim 32 hour until 3:923 p. m. to morrow. Miami Beach life guards will swim with her tonight. ed on the University of Oregon honor roll for winter term which hast Just been made public by Earl M. Pallett, ergtatrar. Nlne-ty-nln students of the university were placed on the honor roll for high scholarship In last term's work, - " Among those from Salem. Ron ello B. Lewi received no grades below I, Maude Helen Bngstrom and J. Fred Johnson none below II. Malcolm Medler and Lester O. Oehler received grade of II but incomplete, and Dorothj M. Del- sell received grade of II with one unreported by the professor. Tho Island of Sumatra belong to Holland, an answered uestloa point out in Liberty Magailne. PUBLIC INTEREST BASEBALL GROWS LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 31 (AP). 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