The Green Blade: A Unitarian Easter Message: An Easter Address Delivered Sunday, March 29, 1959 by the Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles

Please note: this sermon is *not* reprinted in the Rev. Fritchman's posthumous collection of sermons and addresses entitled "For the Sake of Clarity." Offered is "The Green Blade: A Unitarian Easter Message," the text of a sermon given on Sunday, March 29, 1959 by the Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles and published in mimeographed print form by the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. Consisting of a single sheet measuring 8-1/2" by 14" and containing two pages of text (front and rear). A few brief excerpts from the Rev. Fritchman's Sermon: "There is a very grave danger for Unitarians today that in their rebellion against orthodoxy they burn all bridges of understanding between them" - "It would be well, for example, for us to express to our Catholic friends our pleasure at learning that Pope John XXIII ordered out of the ancient Latin text of the Good Friday prayers at the Vatican the offensive words, 'Let us pray for the unbelieving Jews'" - "Robed choirs will sing majestic music about Christ who died to redeem mankind from sin and shame to fulfill an ancient scheme of salvation, but few will be the words of simple explanation that a carpenter's son who cared for people and loved justice died on a cross for urging the capture of the capitol and the establishment of a new earthly power based on love." The REVEREND STEPHEN H. [HOLE] FRITCHMAN (1902-1981), author, liberal humanist, and social and antiwar activist, was the minister of the progressive First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, California, from 1948 to 1969. …