THE PUBLIC MIND: READER SAYS EASTER EDITORIAL HIT MARK ON TRUE MEANING

To the Editor:

The Easter editorial which appeared in the Southeast Missourian last Sunday was a gem. Your newspaper should be commended for printing an article of such quality. No generalities were paraded in colorful words and rounded phrases.

At an Easter sunrise setting in Forest Park, St. Louis, in the Twenties, a man of the cloth said words to this effect: "We are gathered in the early hour of this happy day to celebrate the resurrection of nature in spring." That was missing the boat.

Your editorial, in well chosen words, portrayed the real meaning of Easter. First things were put first. It was a message of hope, quite unusual in the news media of our sophisticated day.

The editorial rates an "A plus" in the scale of my opinion.

The Rev. Walter J. Keisker

Jackson