At the end of a week speaking to one group of boys after another about the cross, we located and fixed a 7 foot cross on the exterior wall of the new college chapel.  What a wonderful climax to a series of addresses.  Actually, we have had four weeks during which over a thousand students have repeatedly heard the message of the cross.  Now as staff and students make their way from one end of the site to the other they will have before them this reminder of the Lamb of God.

How relevantly Christ speaks to those who will hear Him:

•   When we are burdened with guilt and a conviction of sin, we hear the same voice that has spoken down the centuries: Father, forgive them…
• When we are wearied in well-doing and succumbing to the lure of the world and the temptation to ‘do something for yourself’, we see the compelling example of self sacrifice.
• When it feels as if everything is going wrong or the whole world is against us, Christ seems to say from the cross, “I know; I understand;  I have been there and done that.”

Here is an important observation: unlike what is pictured above, the way to the cross of Christ is not barred; it is open to all who will come to receive forgiveness and healing.