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This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made; Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad . . .

This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made; Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad . . . This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made; Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad . . . J. Randolph Osborne Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 1995, pp. 12-15 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0112 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437283/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:19 GMT from JHU Libraries This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made; Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad ... J. Randolph Osborne About the year 125 AD/CE a Greek by the name ofAristides wrote to one of his friends about the new religion, Christianity. He was trying to ex- plain the reasons for its extraordinary success. Here is an excerpt from one of the Letters of Aristides: If any righteous person among the Christians passes from tliis world, they rejoice and offer thanks to God, and they escort the body with songs and thanksgiving, as if the per- son were setting out from one place to another nearby. Quite a description of the Christian faith—and by an observer, not a participant. Today we gather as we do because of this Christian faith. A righteous person has passed from this world; we celebrate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made; Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad . . .

Osborne, J. Randolph.
Appalachian Review , Volume 23 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made; Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad . . . J. Randolph Osborne Appalachian Heritage, Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 1995, pp. 12-15 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1995.0112 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437283/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:19 GMT from JHU Libraries This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made; Let Us Rejoice and Be Glad ... J. Randolph Osborne About the year 125 AD/CE a Greek by the name ofAristides wrote to one of his friends about the new religion, Christianity. He was trying to ex- plain the reasons for its extraordinary success. Here is an excerpt from one of the Letters of Aristides: If any righteous person among the Christians passes from tliis world, they rejoice and offer thanks to God, and they escort the body with songs and thanksgiving, as if the per- son were setting out from one place to another nearby. Quite a description of the Christian faith—and by an observer, not a participant. Today we gather as we do because of this Christian faith. A righteous person has passed from this world; we celebrate

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