The Encyclopædia Britannica comments: “There is no indication of the
observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the
writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an
idea absent from the minds of the first Christians.”—(1910), Vol. VIII,
p. 828.

The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us: “A great many pagan customs,
celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the
emblem of the germinating life of early spring. . . . The rabbit is a
pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.”—(1913), Vol.
V, p. 227.

Internet Daily Chapel
Saturday, March 22, 2008
The day before Easter Sunday - the seventh day of the Christian Holy
Week.
Online Christian Worship Service Daily

By Rev. Bill McGinnis, Pastor - InternetChurchOfChrist.org
Director - LoveAllPeople.org

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