To Our Boys in Service

Grand Rapids April 3, 1944 Dear Fellows: In a few days from the date of this writing it will be Easter. Of all the names that are given to the Christian holidays, I like Easter least of all. Christmas, Good Friday, Ascension Day, Pentecost—they all express some Christian meaning. And among them all the name Easter sounds strange, incongruous, absurd, heathenish. No wonder one can speak of “Easter eggs” just as well as of “Easter joy”. . . . Don’t tell me that the name occurs in the Bible,...