ABSTRACT

On Easter Day each year, people pay Jesus reverent homage for the great and supreme spirit that led Him to seek the salvation of mankind. On this day each year, people urge their own youth to draw inspiration from the martyrs and to strive hard so that the nation shall be assured of everlasting continuity. Easter Day is for the commemoration of Jesus, who - to save His own people and the world, to cleanse mankind of evil, and to attain His ideal of establishing on earth a heavenly kingdom - shed His blood unstintingly in a frontal conflict with wickedness. To carry out God's will, He struggled consistently, unflinchingly, and unbendingly to the very end when He was betrayed and put to death on the cross. His crucifixion symbolized for all time the inevitable struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, rectitude and obliquity, truth and falsehood.