17 APRIL 1959, Page 21

EASTER SIR,—I don't quite understand Mr. Hollis's letter, but in

so far as I do understand it, I don't think it quite worthy of him. I would not deny the 'historicity' of the resurrection, but I would certainly question whether the mode was that believed in by Mr. Hollis. He appears to advocate a crudely materialist inter- pretation, which is flatly at variance with everything we know about the cosmos. I agree with St. Paul that 'spiritual things are spiritually discerned.' If the Living Christ is not experienced in the present, then no amount of 'historical' data will bring Him to life.—Yours faithfully,

AUSTIN LEE Sedgebrook Rectory, Grantham, Lines