CAPT. S. M. SHELTON, USN
Commanding Officer
CDR E. L. CRANCE, USN
Executive Officer
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EDITOR: H. T. DAVIS,'YN1 055-J or 365
Easter was yesterday. To the Christ
ian this has a double meaning.
One, and most important, Easter was
yesteday in the sense of what it means.
Easter does not mean Easter Bunnies,
jelly beans, and chocolate eggs. Easter
means that the Son of God died and has
risen again. It is ’’yesterday” in the
sense that it happened. It happened
once and that is enough.
Easter meant that He had ’’Suffered
for our transgression...” He died be
cause we are sinners. Easter ..made it
past tense, He had died. Easter is pres
ent tense-he is alive. For the
message of Easter is, He is Risen.
He is Risen. ”He was raised again
for our justification,” God has made
things right between Himself . and us.
Our striving tcould not do it. Our
feeble attempts to be ’’nice” could not
do it. God did it. Easter is the
evidence that He did, Christ being
raised again means He is the Son of God
that the penalty is paid, that when we
appeal to Him we are forgiven—things
are right between us and God.
Easter means that, ”So as Christ was
raised from the dead by the glory of
the Fateher,we too might walk in newness
of life.” Easter means we can be given
a new kind of life.
(Continued next column)
Second, to say Easter was yesterday
means that the day, one day ago was
Easter Sunday. It was a day for weary
ing finery, new clothes, new hats. It
was a day to go to church.
There is a sense in which it is the'
most important day in the year io go
to church. Without the first Easter
there would be no church, there would
be .no Christian Religion with its prom
ises of ’’newness of life” and Eternal
Life.
But, on the other hand,every Sunday
is just as important. For every Sunday
is a reminder that Christ rose, ”0n
'the first day of the week.”
Every Sunday is a reminder of that
first Easter and what it means.
Make every Sunday that important’*
Be reminded every day that we can have.
’’Newness of Life.”
Chaplain Vernon Stenberg
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'Eugene EASLEY, ENFN, USN of Woodville
Oklahoma has been selected as Public
Works "Man of the Month" as a result of
his performance of duties and conduct
while attached to the'Utilities Division
of the Public Works Department*
Presented with a Savings Bond for
this accomplishment at the CB’s Birth -
day Ball held on March 6th by Captain
SHELTON, Commanding Officer cf the
'Naval Station, EASLEY joins the ranks
of other Public Works personnel who
have been similarly honored for their
outstanding performance cf duty &
military bearing. . The men are chosen
by a board of officers..
EASLEY is married and his wife is
presently residing in Woodville. He
enlisted in the Navy in May of 1959 and
after recruit training attended Class
"A" Engi.neman School at Great Lakes. He
served a,bc& rd Service Craft at San Diego
California prior to receiving orders to
Adak.
Congratulations, Fireman EASIEY.
-usn