SPRING time renews the structures of the soul, the tissues of the body, and gives new vigor to the Spirit.

Through this reawakening, each spring time, life quickens and gives strength to all that they may endure the days that follow.

Glory to God in the highest, Christ the Lord is risen. Sing Hosannahs, shout for joy; for through Him of Galilee shall man live on forever.

What means it to you, Oh sons of men, that He whom they called Jesus of Nazareth walked the earth in humble garb, worked with His hands at homely tasks, went about from one hamlet to another preaching a doctrine that was so simple, so free from embellishments and the outer accoutrements of priestcraft that most men deemed Him mad?

What means it to you that this man who lived among shepherds, who convened with vagabonds and lepers and thieves, was at last convicted of plotting against the priesthood, and was sentenced to die the death of a felon upon a cross?

What means it to you that this Man fulfilled the penalty, that He died upon His cross; that His body was removed from it and was sealed away in a tomb, around which were placed guards who might repulse any attack from marauders, as it was rumored that the followers of this Man meant to steal His body and carry it away.

What means it to you that the hosts of Heaven came down to earth, in a blaze of glory, placed a heavy sleep upon the eyes of the guards and rolled away the huge stone that sealed the door to the Christ’s sepulchre, and when this was done the Man arose from His crypt and walked away with the angels, leaving one of them to guard the place where He had rested.

And then the word went about, “He is risen! He is risen!” What eternal promise lies in those words; what balm to the aching heart?

Through the miracle of Resurrection is man given the gift of Eternal Life.

What matter if your earthly goods are few; what matter if your days are filled with trouble and sorrow?

What matter that we die the death of a felon upon a cross, if on the morrow we rise in a blaze of glory and walk away with the angels?

Have faith, my brethren, each one of you is of equal importance to the Father Who created you.

As He created you out of love, so does He watch over you out of love; and so He gave you the perfected image of Himself, the Christ, to live among you, to die, and to be resurrected, that each one of you would know that you too shall be resurrected.

For even as He loved His Son, so He loves you, for you too are His children; and through the Christ, God gave you His promise that none of you shall die!—M. D.

WE REGRET to announce that the new Catalogue has developed to such proportions that when given to the Printer for estimate of cost, we found it totalled 336 pages, which made it much too large for practical use. So we find it necessary to reduce the number of titles and the size of our contents to bring it under 200 pages, which is more than twice the size of our old catalogue.

This will mean that it will be some months before the type will be set, proofs read, everything properly checked, and then printed. We count on having it ready by September.

But it will still be the largest, finest, and most complete catalogue of its kind printed in English. We regret the delay, but our desire to make it complete led us to include many foreign, as well as scientific, philosophic and psychological titles, that over-reached the space available.