The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-05-22

A>' =" ILL., to on With your VIII
ting! what has the bombshell to do
with the letter am dictating?" If the
assembled Christ be on our side, moth
ing should disturb us.
'Our fellow-Su;lerer yet retains
Acknowledging a in our pains,
And Still Remembers. T. 'ro skies,
Ills tears, Ills aEonicS a.t,: ,.r,.y"
| am SO glad that Christ broke Tx,
j natural law of gravitation when He
shook off from His feet the clutch of
Mount OliVct. People talk as though
cold iron, unsympathetic natural law
controlled everything. The reign of
law IS a majestic thing, but the God
whotmadc it has right to break it,
and again and again has broken if,
and again and again will break it. A
law IS only Gods way of doing things.
and II lie chooses to do them somo
other way, lie has right to do SO. A
law IL not strong enough to shacklc
the Almighty. Christ broke botani
cal law when, on Monday morning
III March, on the way from Bethany
to Jerusalem, by few words he
turned full-lcavcd fig tree INTO q
llfclcss stick. He broke ichthyoloui-
cal law when, without anynatural in.
ducemcnt, He swung a great school
OF fish INTO Il part of Lake Tibcrias,
Where the fishermen had cast their
nets Tor eight OF ten hours without
the capture OF Il minnow; and bymak
ing a 1ish help pay the tax by yield
ing from its mouth Roman stater
Christ broke the law of storms by
compelling, with u word, the angercd
sea to hush itSfrenzy, and the winds
to quit their blowing. He broke
geological law when lie made the
devils possess the swine Of Gadara.
lie broke the law of economies when
He made enough bread for five thous-
and people out Of five biscuits that
would not ordinarily have been
enough for ten of the hungry. He
broke intellectual law when, by Il
word, Hc silcnccd u maniac into pla-
cidity. He broke physiological law
wi,"n. ny Il touch, He straightcncd Il
woman who, for eighteen years, had
been bent almost double, and when
f|c put spring into the foot of inhu-
matted Lazarus, and when, without
mcdlcinc, He gave the dying girl back
i'll health to the yro-Phmnician
mother, and when He made tho pala-
tial home Of the noblcman resound
again with the laughter Of4liS restor-
ed boy, and when, without knife or
bAttcry, lie set catnEpctcd eyes to
seeing again, and the drum Of deaf
ears TO vibrating again, and the nerves
OF paralNHcd arms to thrilling again,
and then when in leaving the ~curth
He dciied all the atmospheric law and
physiological law, and that law which
has in it withcs and cables and cir
dcrS enough to hold the universe
the law of gravitution
The Christ who proved himself on
SO many occasions, and especially
the last, superior TO law, still lives;
nnd every day, III answer TO prayer
for the good OF the world, He is
overriding The law.
Standing today on the Ascension
peak Of Mount Olivct am gladden.
cd at tho closing gesture, tho last
gesture Christ ever made. "Hc
lifted up his hands and blessed
them, says the inspired account of
our Lords departure. / an SO glad
He lifted up His hands, Gestures
arc often more significant than words.
attitude than arguments. Christ had
, made Il gesture Of contempt when
with His finger He wrote on the
ground; gesture of rcpulsion when
He said, "Gct thee be hind me Satan;"
gesture Of condemnation when He
: said, "W Oc unto you PhariSccs and
hypoclltcs." But His last gesture,
His Ollvctic gesture, is gesture Of
b2ncdiction. He lifted up His
hands and blessed them. His ans
are extended, and the palms Of lis
hands turned downward, and so He
| dropped bcncdiction upon Olivct,
, bencdiction upon Palestine, ,bencdic-
ton upon all the earth.
The cruel world took Him in at
, the start on cradle of straw, and at
last thrust Him out with the point of
) Il spear; but bcnedictiOn! Ascending
until beneath He saw on one side
the Bethlehem where they put Him
among the cattle, and Calvary on the
other side, where they put Him
: among the thieves. As far as the
+ excited and intensified vision of the
t group on OliVct could see Him, and
: "f'cr He was so far up they could no
t longer hear His words, they saw the
gesture OF the outSprcad hands, the
1 bcncdictiOn. And that is His att
t tudc today. His bcnediction upon
= the worlds climates, and they are
. changing, and will keep on changing
- until the atmosphere shall be com
e mingllng Of OGtObcrand June. Ben
G cdiction upon the deserts till they
Q whitcn with lily, and blush with rose,
and yellow with cowslip and emerald
. with grass. BcncdictiOn upon GOV
= ernmcmtS till they become more lugt
\ and humane. Bcncdicti0n upon ma
g tions until they kmccl in prayer.
$ lirnrdictiom upon the wolc earth I'M
| til every mountain is an Olvct of
/ cOnsccration, and every lake O. Gal
lice on whose mosaic of crystal, and
+ opal, and sapphire divine splcndors
1 shall walk. Oh, take the bcncdiction
e OF his pardon, sinners young, sinners
, Did, sinners moderate and sinners
| abandoned. Tak Ike the bcncdictiOn of
! His comfort, all ye brokcn-hoartcd
! under bereavement, and privation,
! and myriad woes. Take His bcnc-
, diction, all yc sick beds, whether I'M
l. IpT nrlItp SOoclnG of min o,. i'm lo,,,.