The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-05-14

HIN. heulsappearS INTO q sea Oh Blory |
whose billowing splendors hide Him.
The fishermen watch and watch, won
dering II the law OF nature will notre-
assert itself, and He shall in few mo-
ments come back again, and they shall
see Him descending; first His Scared feet
coming In sight then the Scared brow,
and they may take again His Scared
hand. But the moments pass by, and
the hours, and no temperance. Gone
out OF sight Of earth, but come within
sight Of heaven And rising still, not
welcomed by one angelic choir like those
who one Christmas night escorted Him
down, but all Heaven turns out to greet
Him home, and the temples have espe-
cia1 anthem, and the palaces especial
banquet, and the streets especial
throngs; and all along the line to the
foot of the throne, for years vacated but
now again to be taken, there are arches
lifted, and banners waved, and trumpets
sounded, and doxologies chanted, and
coronets cast down. Nk N
The angels throng'd His chariot wheels,
And bore Him to His throne;
Then swept their golden harps and sung
The glorious work is done t
II was the greatest day in Heaven. AS
He goes up the steps Of the throne that
thirty-three years He abdicated for our
advantage, there rises from all the hosts
OF Heaven shout, sanity, cherubic, Sc
raphic, archangelic, "Halleluj Amen"
| 10 garden OF olives thou dear honored spot
The fame Of thy glory shall ne'er be forgot"
No wonder that for at least fourteen
hundred years the churches have, forty
days after Easter, kept Ascension day;
for the lessons are most inspiring and
glorious. 1t takes much Of the uncer-
tainty out OF the idea of Heaven, when
from 0livet we see human nature as
cending. The same body that rose from
Joseph's tomb ascending from Mount
olivet. Our human nature is in heaven
to-day. Just as they had seen Christ for
forty days, He assembled, head, face,
shoulders, hands, feet, and the entire
human organism. Humanity ascendedl
All, how closely that keeps Christ in
sympathy with those who are still in
the struggle! Assembled scars, face scars,
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 q
spirit now than a body, no more Of
Heaven than earth. Those Of the celes-
tial 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 resur-
rection, Heaven will have uncounted
bodies as we'll as uncounted spirits. On
Ascension Day He lifted Himself
through the atmosphere Of Palestine
until, amid the immensities, he disap-
peared. He was the only being the
world ever saw who could lift Himself.
Surely, II He could lit Himself, he can
do the lesser deed Of lifting us.
mo star goes down but climbs another sky,
No sun sets here except to rise on high"
Christ leads all the way; through the
birth hour, for He was born in Bethle
hem; through boyhood, for He passed Il
in Nazareth. through injustices, for He
,, endured the outrages Of Pilates court
room; through death, for He suffered Il
! IL on Calvary; through the sepulcher
for He lay three days within Its dark
, ened walls; through resurrection, for the
solid masonry gave way on the frs
Easter morning; through ascensions, fol
Mount 0livet watched Him as HI
climbed the skies; through the shining
, gates, for He entered them amid mag
nificent acclaim. And here is a crafty
: ing consideration that you never though
Q Of. We win see our Lord just as HI
u looked on earth. As He rose from tn
Q tomb He ascended from Mount 0livet
!, We shall see Him as He looked on tn
q road 10 Emmaus, as He appeared In tn
upper room In Jerusalem; as He wa
y that day Of valediotory on the ridg
" from which He swung into the skies
y How much we will want to see Himl
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u He was married TO one who took care Q
q him all those years Of darkness. A sui
, geon said TO him, ~ can remove tha
y blindness" and 80 he did. His sigh
" given him, rose was handed 10 the ma
" who never before had seen rose and b
l. was In admiration OF II, and his famil
W whom he had never seen before now al
:, peared To him, and he was In tears {
u rapture, when he suddenly cried out,
v ought first to have asked 10 %
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D the doctor" When from our eye
10 the scales OF earth shall fal
u and we have our hrst visions Of Hea
or en-, our FIRST cry ought not 70 be, ''Whel
o. are my loved ones. Our first cry ougl
y to be, "Where is Christ, who made a
d. this possible? Show me tho doctor
o, Glory be to God for assembled humanit
m Could we realize II, and that 1t Is all
IL sympathy for us, we would have as co
m Q courage In tho conflict Of this life
On had Charles the Twelfth when he W
DO debating dispatches 70 his secretar
ut and bombshell fell into the room, 81
ar the secretary dropped his pen and
n tempted flight Charles said TO hit
OF sGo on with your writingl what has n
re bombshell 10 do with the letter q
US dictatingP" II the assembled Christ
nd on our side, nothing should disturb U
he "Our fellow. Sufferer yet retains
3o- A fellow feeling IN our pains, 81. e.e
rot And still remembers, in the skies,
ny His tears his agonIes and cries. "a
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a. natural laws OF gravitation when ]
"a =. shook of from His feet the clutch
w ~ Mount olivet. People talk as thou
,ot M cold, iron, unsympathetic, natural Ia
lac controlled every thing. The reign
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