Reflecting on this day eighty-five years ago, former President Calvin Coolidge wrote:

“So far reaching has been this event, so wide has become the realm of Christendom, that it would be difficult to find anywhere on earth a human being whose life has not been modified in some degree by the influence of the Christian religion. Outside the teachings of religion there is no answer to the problems of life. Our international and social relations cannot be solved by material forces. Armaments, wages, profits are not mere questions of quantity. They are questions of quality. Changing and fixing their amount will afford no final solution. What is needed is a change of mind, a change of attitude toward the use of these material things and toward each othert. The real problems of the world are not material, but spiritual.

“Easter teaches us the reality of the things that are unseen and the power of the spirit. A risen Saviour established a new faith in the world that showed the reason and authority of service and sacrifice.”

Quid quaeritis viventem cum mortuis? Non est hic; sed surrexit (‘Why seek you the living with the dead? He is not here, but is risen,’ from Luke 24.5-6, Vulgate)