The phrase "while it was still dark," is greatly suggestive. The darkness was not only a description of the earliness of the morning, but it was a description of all people without firm belief in the Resurrection of Christ. Without that knowledge, as St. Paul has said, "we are a bunch of miserable human beings," because we have no understanding of the eternal and sacred character of human life, and for anyone trying to live it, it is a process of stumbling along in the darkness.

At the earlier Family Service when I asked the children what had happened to Jesus Christ that we celebrated today, one little boy popped up loudly enough for the entire congregation to hear: "HE RIZ!" I am surely sure that that was more acceptable to God than the response of the disciples when the women told them t…