April 1962

“MAN IS GREATER.. . than anything that can happen to him”

an A A message from a New England Minister Rev. Mounir R. Sa’adah

HAT I wish to say this Easter W No man can escape tragedy. We can best be told in a story cannot control its coming. What we about a man who was building a can determine is whether we sucstone wall. A neighbor came by and cumb to its impact or we emerge asked the old farmer why he was with nobler stature. Easter affirms building an odd-shaped wall, wider that persons are not the mere creathan it was high. Without looking up tures of circumstance, sure to be from his work, the farmer said, “So foiled in the end. On the contrary, if it blows over, it will be higher than they can face their powers in all their it was before.” magnificence and admit that if they This is Easter. It is the story of a fail to fulfill them, they do not have small team of persons who were to acquiesce in their defeat, but they blown over by a tremendous tragedy. can turn it into victory. when we When they emerged from the soul- blow over, we can emerge greater searing experience, each one of them than before. towered higher than before. Out of We do not know what the future the broken and shattered pieces of has in store for us individually or coltheir lives they built a Way of Life lectively. There are prophets of doom that still shapes human destiny. as well as prophets of hope. There is no telling which ‘is right. Fundamentally it matters little. Because man is greater than anything that can’ happen to him. He is the host of the Indwelling Spirit whose mighty doings can be uttered by the actions of