Second Lesson Sermons For Lent/Easter
On May 20, l927, Charles A. Lindbergh left New York on his solo flight to cross the Atlantic in his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis. The whole world waited with bated breath to hear if this brave young man could accomplish the feat that would introduce the infant airplane industry to a new era of world travel. The humorist Will Rogers wrote in his daily newspaper column that there would be no jokes that day. He noted it was a day when the young flier would be prayed for to every kind of supreme being who had a following.