Directing his remarks especially to the young people the world over, Elder F. Melvin Hammond of the Seventy delivered an address about the resurrection, speaking in language that children could easily understand.

Speaking Saturday afternoon, he related an experience in family home evening many years ago when he attempted to explain in simple terms what the resurrection involved. He noticed his small children looking at him with puzzled expressions. He apologized and mumbled something about it being very difficult for them to understand.His daughter, then 5, said, "Don't feel badly, Daddy, I understand you." She proceeded to demonstrate her new gospel knowledge by lying down on the floor, straight and stiff with her arms outstretched. She slowly got up and said, "It's simple. You just sink up."

With Easter Sunday just a short time away, Elder Hammond said, all should know "the wonderful story of that remarkable event."

He described the scene of the first Easter morning, when Mary of Magdala entered the garden and discovered the body of Jesus was not in the tomb.

As she wept outside the tomb, someone asked, "Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?" Thinking it was the gardener, she said, " . . . if thou have bourne him hence, tell me where thou has laid him, and I will take him away." (John 20:15.)

Elder Hammond said, "In a voice tinctured with pure love and the sweetest tenderness, he simply uttered one word, `Mary.' There was no mistaking the voice; it was Jesus Christ. . . .

"There He stood - alive. Raised from the dead. Never to die again. His perfect body forever united with the spirit. The eternal Christ.

"To the credit of gentle loving women everywhere, our Redeemer chose as the first mortal witness of His resurrection from the dead, a woman, Mary Magdalene.

"As we contemplate the events leading to the death of Jesus Christ, we tend to grieve for the awful sufferings which He experienced at the hands of wicked men," continued Elder Hammond.

"But stop. He is not dead. He is risen. He is the first fruit of the resurrection. Without Him life for all men would end at death. All would be consigned to the grave, their bodies to molder in the dust forever. But because of Him . . . we, everyone of us, will live again - freed from the everlasting chains of death."

"To you sweet parents who have placed the mortal body of a dear son or a beautiful daughter in the grave, or to all who have lost a mother or father, husband or wife to the relentless hand of death, I say, `Have hope.' For if we ourselves are faithful to the end they will not be lost to us save for a moment, and then, oh the sweetness of that joyous reunion, for the tender mercy of the Lord will bring them forth triumphant from the grave."