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...Easter will come & go without Easter eggs, and people will spend most of the summer dealing with new V-weapons and not going on holidays...
Shortly after the service, the Dean was dismissed for anti-quisling activity. Three weeks later the seven bishops of Norway resigned their offices. On Easter Sunday all but 64 of the Church's 861 pastors mounted their pulpits to announce their own resignations. With this magnificent declaration of independence, the pastors at one stroke set their church free, cut off their state-provided livelihoods, left themselves facing concentration camp or death. (One of them, Arne Thu. vicar of Vestby and veteran Indian missionary, died in a concentration camp at Grini last June after being forced to crawl hundreds...
...Should Easter fall on the same day every year, instead of shifting with the moon? Last week at the biennial meeting of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 300 delegates representing 26,000,000 Protestants of 25 denominations addressed themselves to the problem. Their recommendation: it should fall on the second Sunday in April, as nearest the historic date of the Resurrection...
...Council of Nicea (325 A.D.) decreed that Easter shall fall on the Sunday following the first full moon on or next after March 21. Best Biblical scholarship holds that the Crucifixion occurred on Friday, April 7, 30 A.D. *Universalists and Unitarians consider Jesus the Son of God only in the sense that all men are the sons...
...creating good will, Stettinius had been successful, too, in his whirlwind London trip in April, where he spent Easter with Churchill, took a fine Virginia ham to the Prime Minister's wife, conferred with General Eisenhower, had a fireside chat with the King, and shook hands with every top diplomat in sight. (In England he was even more tweedy than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this...