COFFIN GIVES EASTER SERMON TO CHAPEL CONGREGATION

"Why seek ye the living among the dead?" began the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, President of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, in his Easter Sunday sermon before a capacity congregation in a Memorial Church gaily decorated with lillies, tulips, and daffodils.

Expanding on this text he demonstrated that it was with Christ as a living, not an historical figure, that we are primarily concerned with today. "Only as we seek Christ alive today does he become our all-significant contemporary," he said.

Coffin also made clear that only those with an interest in Christianity could gain any great value from it. "It is the unique prerogative of Christ to open for us the door to eternal life," were his words on the point.

He concluded with a statement that the Easter Gospel proclaims Christ still alive among us today.