Rafters shake with the old time song of praise but theres a new hymn that may truly be one for the ages. I would think right now were into 2015 in christ alone is the greatest hymn written. Ahead on sunday morning, hymns and the stories behind them. Feel free to hum along. C. E. O. Back in time is story of one mans devotion to symbol of faith and easter is the perfect sunday for bill geist. If you were convinced that god had really important job for you, one that would require for you to spend all of your money would you do it . I once met a man who did. Wants you to put up crosses. I am a country boy unknown to nobody chosen to head a major operation. He is Bernard Coffindaffers crosses. Later on sunday morning. Osgood not so long ago candiceer with men was murphy brown one of the most popular correspondents she talks about those years ant plenty more with jane pauley. Hi, everybody. If you remember murphy brown you know the beautiful woman can be both smart and funny. She had it all. Or so it seemed. Anything painful . No. Pretend im mike wallace. Later on sunday morning, Candice Bergen. Osgood dont always consist of gold and jewels. Some are love and memory of loyal friends as lee cowan will be showing. When it comes to our fourlegged companions just doesnt seem fair. Their lives are so short compared to ours but every moment is worth it. The fact that they bring us so much joy and that maybe you have to weigh the two maybe the joy that they bring outweighs the sadness at the end. Their loyal devotion can never be repaid but can be celebrated. Ahead on sunday morning, one place, a pet owners paradise. Osgood mo rocco tells us ever the game of lacrosse. Scott simon questions the governments top disease fighter. And living history and more. First, here headlines of this Easter Sunday morning the 5th of april. Pope francis delivered his traditional easter address today in a rainy st. Peters square. He prayed for christian students shot to death in kenya in thursdays massacre. He called for an end to such persecution. In Kenya Police Say one of the gunman in that attack was the son of a government minister. Easter services were held there this morning under tight security. At least 103 people died in that. Saw their first pictures of 8yearold fidel castro in more than a year. As for his brother who will be at the summit of the americas in panama this week and president obama is scheduled to attend. Final four are down to two. Kentuckys quest for a perfect season ended last night with a stunning upset at the hands of wisconsin. Badgers won 7164. Duke defeated Michigan State in earlier game. It will be wisconsin versus cook in the National ChampionshipGame Tomorrow Night right here on cbs. In case you missed it yesterday was International Pillow fight day. Enthusiasts from the world over really got into the swing of things. Here is the weather. Easter sunday brings chance of rain across the plains, rain is also possible in the northwest. Chilly across the mid section and the northeast. In the week ahead rain is still possibility in the northwest and northeast. But moderating in the plains. Next voices raised in song. Later. Dearly departed pets. Osgood easter morning getting in the spirit of the day. Prayer and song, especially song. Our cover story from tracy smith. If angels somehow descended on midtown manhattan it might sound a little like this. At fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church they can make any hymn orion them sound new. Even if some are a few centuries old. If you think hymn writings a lost art. Youve never met the gettys. This isnt christian rock its a modern day hymn. That is, a song that meant to be sung by a congregation in church. Keither gettys a composer, more accurately a hymn nest. Did you always know that you wanted to write hymns. I wanted to play soccer. Then i realized i wasnt that good. The joke on my preacher sermon. It doesnt matter what they say. All about the hymn. Thats exactly right. Quite simply what makes a good hymn . He may not have a quick answer but he knows a good hymn when he hears one or when he writes one. In christ the lord. Getty cowrote this hymn in christ alone in 2001. And as church songs go its become something of a hit. Chances are if you have actually been to church in the past decade youve heard it or sung it yourself. In fact in the 2013 survey of the best loved hymns in the u. K. In christ alone was the second most popular imof all time. Just behind how great thou art. Hold on a second your f sirs hymn was i was 25 at the time. Thinking i got to make a statement about the importance of our faith. The importance of singing our faith. When you were writing it. Yeah. Did you have any idea . Are you kidding me. I had not a query. Of course his isnt the only hymn with a great story behind it. Remember the words rock of ages cleft for me . They are said to be inspired by this actual rock south of bristol, england. The ledge send that Augustus Montague was walking through the hill and the storm came up. Professor of Pepperdine University in california has spent a lifetime studying hymns and the stories behind them including one written by a former slave strayed trader. John newton was a slave ship captain who nearly drowned one night in a storm. Years rater after he became a minister he wrote about the experience. 25 years after he almost died he remember that night when the man right next to him was swept overboard to his death. He was so close to death yelled out, o god saved us. He never called out toe god. He writes these words Amazing Grace that saved a wretch like me. Of course its used in all our National Funerals now. When america is grieving we sing Amazing Grace. And some hymns are themselves something of a miracle. In 1741 the great composer georgr Frederic Handel wrote all 260 pages of the messiah in just 24 days. And half way through it all he had a vision that shook him to the depths of his soul. And his servant who brought him in a tray of food tells us the story that he came into the room and handel was looking the other way. And he turned with this lioness mane of hair all disheveled and his eyes wide. He uttered the great line i did think i did see all heaven before he and the great god himself. Ive often thought what did the servant think . I just brought you some food. What happened in here . Handel had just written the hallelujah chorus. Thats what just happened. At his home base in nashville keith getty has a few inspirations of his own. Maybe less dramatic but every bit as powerful. For starters kristyn, his lead singer and fellow composer is also his wife of 11 years. We actually have never had a night apart we have been together. Youve never had a night apart . Never. The couple who are both from Northern Ireland have two daughters with number three not far behind. You have been pregnant a lot. I have been pregnant for years. Weve had three kids in five years, its been wonderful were so grateful. But its been pretty exhausting. This fall after the baby comes, they will head out on tour. They take it one night at a time. Do you get nervous before these things . Never get nervous. I get nervous. The ladies and gentlemen, the talent of keith and kristyn getty. [ applause ] its not easy to make it as a hymn writer when the competition is 200 plus years old. But the gettys team to be on the right track. Do you think that the gettys music has the potential to last for ken trees as these hymns we love so well have . I really do. I think that right now were into swift in christ alone is the greatest hymn written in this century so far. And i dont think many people have it has ism mortality. They write things that just seem eternal. 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The company had new varieties like iceberg lettuce in the 1890s. Atlee burpee died at the age of 57. His seed company, the largest in the world has lived on. Took on new importance during world war ii with many basic foods were rationed by the government, call went out to every day americans to plant socalled Victory Gardens to boost supplies. Time to begin planting. Osgood 1942 Agricultural Department film offered practical advice to back yard gardeners also stressing the importance of helping a war effort. No work, no flying forethreat no victory. Osgood it worked. Americans planted an estimated 20 million Victory Gardens producing as many tons of fresh vegetables as commercial growers did. Home gardening has never been so urgent since. Even so, some 35 of american households are into gardening according to report by the National Guardening association. Which wants all of us to celebrate april as National Guard enmonth. Coming up. In all creation. 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On the gold one is a plaque indicating the crosses are here in memory of a man named Bernard Coffindaffer. Theres a good reason his name is there. Just so happens i know who Bernard Coffindaffer was. Because in 1993 i watched him put up the same kind of crosses. But his our story never ran. Ill toll you why after we see it for the first time. There at the crest of the hill, and near the Railroad Tracks and at the edge of the hey crosses in clusters of three. If you drive long and far enough you come to realize there are thousands of them. This is the work of one man Bernard Coffindaffer. He calls them crosses of mercy. He chooses his sites with strategic precision. This is last mcdonalds for the next 50 miles. They all pour in here and hell. Drive and coffindaffers home state of West Virginia you realize the scope of his plan. Are those the standard sizes that you use everywhere . Coffindaffer has erected 1,842 clusters of crosses in 29 states. In all creation i have put up more crosses than any man. To his familys despair he spent his own money close to 3 million. To buy the wooden poles to, hire road crews to perform routine cross maintenance. I cashed in Life Insurance retirement plan, everything that i could. Coffindaffer made his millions in the oil business after almost ten years of cross building hes now clean out of money. I never equated myself to insanity. Did he have visions in 1982, while recovering from a heart bypass operation, coffindaffer says the wholely spirit came to him. We want you to put up crosses. I am a country boy unknown to anybody, chosen to head a major major operation. Thousands of americans have given coffindaffer to permission to use his land. Leslie gave cove a prized spot high atop their 442 acres in West Virginia. There it goes. Takes a little cheerleading. If any man let him deny himself to take up the cross and follow me. How do you think they look . Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. For his next crosses Bernard Coffindaffer is targeted what he considers some trouble spots. I want to enter into los angeles and new york and all of the other places where the tough people live. Just needs to raise some money. And then at the end of the year 1998 i will have covered the earth. Why do you think you were covered to do this . Because the lord loved me that much. Absolutely. I know thats true. I know who when say the lord works in miss tear use ways. Two days before our story aired he died unexpecteddedly from a heart tea tack. We decided it would be wrong to air our report. Turns out his story was just beginning. Sarah abraham is a mississippi mom and housewife. She never met coffindaffer coffindaffer but clipped his obituary from the newspaper. One day was doing a daily devotional it fell out of my bible as i reached down to pick it up the lord inspired me that i was to continue his crosses. So, created crosses across america. Nonprofit group that now has 1400 volunteers to maintain coffindaffers crosses and put up these. How is that . She has coffindaffers archives even uses the same colors. To continue his dream. There are 48,000 miles of interstate highway in america. We will have crosses every 25 miles all across america. And even though they will sit on private property like coffindaffers crosses she knows not everyone will appreciate these public displays of belief. A lot of controversial comments come out about the cross ministry. But at least it gets people talking. Also be talking because Sarah Abraham thinks big. This steel cross weighs 25 tons and its on the property of carroll and grecian berry who run a Seafood Restaurant in florence mississippi. Fright fish and whole lot more. They come here for food but getting fed in the gospel. He estimates the 11 story cross will be seen by 28 Million People a year. It reminds them, you know, theres my answer. Cost more than 170,000 to she donated nearly half the money. Im sure they thought he was crazy. He has millions spent down to his last dollar before he went on to be with the lord. People call me crazy. Thats fine. Thats fine. Osgood still to come. Best friends in eternal rest. But next honorary degree. Dont count how many. 38 or 39 Something Like that. Osgood questions for dr. Anthony fauci. Osgood from aids to ebola when Infectious Disease strikes. Dr. Anthony fauci of the National Institute of health. We paid him a visit with some questions and answers. This is your lab. This is my lab. In a time when washington politicians cant seem to agree on whom to put on a postage stamp. There is one person democrats and republicans respect. Dr. Anthony fauci. Show us what you have here. This is a typical open lab hes worked here at the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of health for 31 years. A serious disease. The man who rallies government when sickness becomes a Public Health crisis. Regardless of what your ideological bent is, people understand illness. People understand health. Everybody wants health. We have a devastating epidemic in west africa and were having epidemic of fear in the knight states. He tries to sound the alarm about Public Health without being alarming. Weve got to continue to try to educate people about what they need to or do not need to be afraid of. Back in 1988 george w. Bush was asked to name his heroes. I think of dr. Fauci. Probably never heard of him. You did. Very fine research, top doctor at National Institutes of health. Working hard doing something about research on this disease of aids. Dr. To you heebie began as aids was beginning to kill thousands of young men across the country. Disease research center. National institutes of health where an aids cure might be found. Activists compla