In the summer seas, one of the things that mariners are guided by and that tourists look for, is the Southern Cross.  There it is, fashioned by the position of the stars in the clear skies of the tropics.

There are many men who wear a cross as a watch fob.  There are women who wear a cross as a pendant about the neck.  This is an outward sign of an inner devotion.  The important thing, my dear young Christians, is to have the cross, its power and meaning, stamped upon one’s heart.  Is that where you wear the Saviour’s cross?

MEMORY VERSE, I Corinthians 1:  18

    “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
    foolishness; but unto them which are saved it is the power of
    God.”

MEMORY HYMN [143]

    "In the cross of Christ I glory."

EASTER LIGHT

This glad morning, when the world is so bright and beautiful, I want to talk to you about Easter Light.

One of the most interesting men in our city is a man who goes about our streets with two long sticks.  He is the lamplighter.  Here he comes down the street!  See how he pauses at each lamp post.  With one stick he pulls the little chain that turns on the gas; with the other he sets the light going.  He walks into the dark, but he leaves behind him miles of lighted streets.  I hope we shall have always many streets lighted with gas, for I love to see the lamplighter dot his way along the streets and avenues with lighted periods.

In the center of our city is the tall Electric Light Building.  On the very tip of the tower is a high power electric light.  It is lighted every evening from eight to eleven o’clock.  Children, looking out of their windows as they go to bed, think that it is another star in the sky, it is so bright and steady.

More wonderful than any of these lights is the source of all light.  It is the light that God provides for all of his children.  The sun warms our fields, makes our gardens grow, and causes our harvests to prosper.  The sun never fails us.

Now there is another light, a light that is above even the sun.  That is the light of Easter day.  The tomb of death is no longer dark, for the resurrection light brightens every corner and shines in radiance through the open doorway.  The light of Easter also lights up the windows of our heavenly home.  When you are out of an evening it is not pleasant to return to a dark house.  There is a wondrous welcome in lighted windows.  That welcome God gives us in the light of Easter day.  Christ, and his resurrection, shine in the windows of heaven to greet us when we go home.

MEMORY VERSE, Matthew 28:  1

    “In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first
    day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the
    sepulchre.”

MEMORY HYMN [156]