The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-05-23

| 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.
"The angels thronged His chariot wheels,
And bore Him to His throne;
Then swept their golden harps and sung
The glorious work is DONE"
1t was the greatest day in Heaven! AS
He goes up the steps of the throne that
thirty-three years before He ahdicated
for our advantage, there rises from all
the hosts of Heaven a shout, sanity,
cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. Halle
luiah! Amenr' .A kf
o, garden of olives, thou dear honored spot,
The fame of thy glory shall ne'er be forgot.
No wonder that for at least 1, 400 years
the churches have, forty days after
Easter, kept Ascension day; for the les
sons are most inspiring and glorious. 1t
takes much of the uncertainty out of the
idea of Heaven when from Olivet
we see human nature ascending. The
same body that rose from Joseph's tomb
assembled from Mount Olivet. Our hu-
man 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 organ
ism. Humanity assembled! 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 suffer-
ing, with all the weary, with all the i'm
posed upon. No more is He spirit now
than body. no more of Heaven than
earth. Those of the celestial inhabit-
ants who never saw our world, now walk
around Him and learn from His physi-
cal contour something of what our race
will be when, in the resurrection, Heaven
will have uncounted bodies as well as
uncounted spirits. On Ascension day
He lifted himself through the atmos-
phere of Palestine until, amid the i'm
mensities, He disappeared. He was the
only being the world ever saw who
could lift Himself. Surely, if He does
lift Himself, He can do the lesser deed
of lifting us.
"No star goes down but climbs another sky,
No sun sets here except to rise on high
Christ leads us all the way; Through
the birth hour, for He was born in Beth
lehem; through boyhood, for He passed
it in Nazareth; through iniustices, for
He endured the outrages of Pilates court
room; through death, for He suffered it
ON o1 hn oh co.
He lay three days within its darkened
walls; through resurrection, for the
solid masonry gave way on the first
Easter morning; through ascension, for
Mount 0livet watched Him as He
the skies; through the shining
gates, for He entered them amid mag
nifcent acclaim. And here is crafty
ing consideration that you never thought
Of We will see the Lord just as He
looked on earth. AS He arose from the
tomb He assembled from Mount Olivet.
We shall see Him as He looked on the
road to Emmaus, as He appeared in the
upper room in Jerusalem, as He was that
day of valedictory on the ridge from
which He swung into the skies. How
was reading of man born blind.
He was MARI. ed to one who took care of
him all those years of darkness. A
surgeon said to him: Il can remove that
blindness" and so he did. His sight
given him. rose was handed to the
man who never before had seen a 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: 81 ought first to have asked to see
the one who cured me; show me the
DOCTOR" When from our eyes the
scales of earth shall fall, and we have
our first vision of Heaven, our first cry
ought not to be: "Where are our loved
ones?" Our first cry ought to be:
''Where is Christ. who made all this pos
sible? Show me the Doctor!" Glory be
to God for assembled humanity! Could
we realize it, and that it is all in SYM
pathy for US, we would have as cool
courage in the conflict of this life as
had Charles XII. when he was debating
dispatches to his secretary, and bomb
she'll fell into the room, and the secre-
tary dropped his pen and attempted
fight, Charles said to him: go on with
your writing! what has the bombshell
to do with the letter 1 am dictating?"
If the assembled Christ be on our side,
nothing should disturb us.
''our fellow sufferer yet retains
A fellow feeling in our pains,
And still remembers, in the Skies
HiS lie
/ am so glad that Christ broke the
law of gravitation when He
shook off from his feet the clutch of
Mount Olivet. People talk as though
cold, iron, unsympathet.c, natural law
controlled every thing. The reign of
law is majestic thing, but the God
who made it has right to break it and
again and again has broken it, and |
again and again will break it. A law is |
only Gods way of doing things, and if
He chooses to do them some other way |
He has right to do so. A law is not |
strong enough to shackle the Almighty. |
Christ broke the botanical law when one |
Monday morning in March, on the way |
from Bethany to Jerusalem, by a few |
words he turned full leayed fig tree |
into lifeless stick. He broke ichthyo-
logical law when, without any natural |
he swung great school of |
fish into part of Lake Tiberias, where
the fishermen had cast their nets for
eight or ten hours without the capture |
Of minnow, and by making a fish help
pay the tax by yielding from its mouth
) Roman. slater. Christ broke the |
aw OF storms by compelling,
With a word, the angered sea to hush its
frenzy, and the winds to quit their bel
owing. He broke geological law when
BE made the devils possess the swine