Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-16

and banners waved, and trumpets sounded,
and doXoogies chanted, and coronets cast
down.
The angels throng'd his chariot wheels,
And bore him TO his throne;
Then swept their golden halps and sung
"The glorious work is done"
IT was the greatest day in heavcn As he
goes mp the steps of the throne that thirty
three years before he abdicated for our adj
vantage, there rises from all the hosts OF
heaven a shout. saintlv chcrubic, seraphic
archangelic. "Hallclujah! Amenl'
O garden of olives, thou dear honored spot,
The fame Of thy glory shall ne'er be forgot
CHRIST LEADS Us.
No wonder that for at least fourteen
huudrod years the churches have, forty
days after Easter, kept Ascension day; FOL
the lessons are most inspiring and glorious.
Ii takes much of the uncertainty out of the
idea OF heaven, when from Olivet we see
human nature ascending. Tho same body
that rose from Joscph's tomb ascended
from Mount Oivet Our human nature is
in heaven today. just as they had seen
Christ Tor forty days, he assembled, head,
face, shoulders, hands, feet and the entire
human organism. humanity assembled
All, how closely that keeps Christ in sym
patty with those who are still in the Strug
Elel Assembled scars, face sears hand scars,
feet scars, shoulder scars. That will keep
him in accord with all the suffering, with
all the weary, with all the imposed upon
No more is he a spirit now than Il body, no
more of heaven than earth Those of the
celestial inhabitants who never saw our
world now walk around him and learn
from his physical contour something OF
what our race will be when, in the rcsur
;,, I,o,.-a,, loN-a r,r,,tp1 iiaa
as well as uncounted spirits. On Ascension
day he lifted himself through the atmos
phere of Palestine until, AMID the i'm
mcnSities he disappeared. lie was the
only being the world ever saw who could
lit himself; surely if ne could lis himself
he can do The lesser deed OF lifting US.
10 star goes down but climbs another sky
No sun sets h'e except to rise on high
Christ leads u all the way: through the
birth nour. for he YVES born in Bethlehem
through boyhood, for he passed it in Naza
reth through iuiustices, for he endured the
Cutrage3 OF Pilnta's court room: through
death, for he suffered it On Calvary: through
the sepuicher. for he llv three days within
IL, darhencd wall.: through resurrection,
for the solid masonry gave way on the first
Easter morning; through ascension, fot
Mount Oilvet watched hjla as he climbed
the skies: through the shining gates, for he
entered them amid magnificent acclaim.
And here is a gratifying consideration thHt
you never thought Of We will see ou1
Lord just as he looked on earth. As lie
ros, from the tomb he assembled from Mount
| OHvet We shall see him & he looked on
| the road to Emualts, a. ne appeared in the
upper room in Jerusalem. rs he was that
| day Of valedictory ON he ri .se from which
/ l : Io / 10, ~
| will want to see him.
"sUOV Me THE DOCTOR"
was reading Of a man born blind. He
was married to one who took care of him
| all those years of darkness \ surgeon
said to him, lean remove that blindness. -
! and so he did. His sight given him. a rose
was handed to the man who never before
! had seen rose and he was in admiration
of it, and his family whom he had never
| seen before now appeared to him. and he
was in tears Of rapture, when he suddenly
cried out: Il ought first to have asked tC
| see the one who cured me: show mo the
I doctor" When from cur eyes the scales Oh
| earth shall fall, and we have orr first vision
| Of heaven, our first cry ought not to be
Where are my loved ones2' Our first cry
ought to be, "Where is Christ, who made
all this possible? Show me the doctor
Glory be to God for assembled humanity
C,uId we rooIiyo il and th,t.it is oll r.
e,1,nothv for ne we v.onId bnvr ~ COO
!. coilr,,,c in tho conflict Of his life no Ia,
Cbar,.. the Twelfth when he was dicfat
i'm, disuotche, to his secretary. and y boDb
,bell rpu into the room mud the sroretor,
drnn-,ad HE non and ot+ernntod diobt
CharIe. eail 70 him. geo on with ,-ou,
writing, What has the bombslru 70 de
With The letter am dicta1irg>" If fin,
ascanlod Cb,i.t he an onr side nothiD,
shonld disturb ms
o,. f,.,l,.r ..,,., vat ro,oirs
A fellow feolino, in orr mir,
And still remembers in the skies,
His tears, his agouies, and cries.
GOD SUPERIOR TO ALL LAWS.
lam 50 glad that Christ broke the natur
al law of gravitatiou when he shook OF
from his feet the clutch of Mount Olivct
People talk as though cold, iron. unsylnpa
thctic, natural law controlled everything
The reign of law is a majestic thing, bu
the God who made il has ari Lllt to break il
and again and again has broken it, anc
again and again will break it. \ law j
only Gods way of doing things, and if h
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