Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-16
THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS: FRIDAY. MAY 16 1890


narched sky break in showers, or perplex-
ity tliseEtaiglcd, or the inconsolohe take
soluce, or the yayward reform at The call
of PRAYER? ! have seen It. lhu ,tituGes have
seen it. You have. if YOU h. sc lccn willing
to see it, Dcride not the faith cure. Be
cause impostors attempt il is nothing
against good men whom God hath hOnorCd
with marvellous restoratiOns Pronounce
nothing impossible to prayer and trust.
Becatxe you and | cannot effect it is 10
reasO4 why others may not BY the same
ARGUMENT could prove that Raphael never
painted Madonna, and that Mcndelssohn
never wrote an oratorio, and that Phidas
never chiselcd statue. Because we cannot
accomplish il ourselves, we are not TO con-
cludc that others may not. There are in
immensity great ranges of mists which
have proved under closer telescopic ScrII-
tinv. fo I've the store bouse of worlds onL |
do NOT know but from that uassnpo in
james. which to soma OF us is vet misty
and dir, tlora NAV roll ont II now boovc,
and new earth. "Tbe praver of faitb shall
save the sicl, " Tie faitG curists mov in
this war against disease be only sl;irnisb.
inp before a general eur1pcucnt in which
ali the maladics of earth shall he routed
S,,relv allonafI,v and botnponotlv and Nv
drouathv and cclncticis,n need RI cnforco
ment from somewhere. Whv not from he
fuith and urovcr uf rho conserrateds Tho
rliphtie.t school Of medicine may vet lo
the school of Christ. do not know but
thnt Diseases now nv all schools pronounced
incurablc may pive wavuuder GOSPEL bonn.
bardnent 10 not know but that thc dov
may come when faith and uravcr shall
mise fine dead Strauss and Wooiston and
Spiuoza and Hume and SchIeierrnncher re-
iccted the miracles of the far past. do
not propose to be like them and reject the
miracles OF the far f.t1rn This know
the Christ of Ascension day is miubticr
than any natural laws for on the day of
which [ sneak he trauDlpd down the
strongest of them ALL Law j. ,nirntv hut
he who made it is nliohtipr Drive ont fa-
talisvn from vollr THEOLOGY. and rive groce
the throne
c!IETST's GESTURES
Standing today on the Ascension peak of
Mount Olivct am also Rlaidencd at the
closing gesture, the last gesture Christ
ever made. He lifted mp his hands and
blessed them" says the inspired account of
our Lords departure. am SO glad lie
lifted up his hands. Gestures are often
more significant than vorGs, attitudes than
arguments Christ had made gesture Of
contempt when with his finger he wrote
on the ground; gesture Of rcpulsion when
he said, Get thee behind me, SATAN
gesture of condemnation when he said,
Woe unto you, Phari.ecs and hypocritcs.'
But his last gesture, his Olvetic gesture,
is a gesture OF bCneCiCtion. He lifted up
his hands and blessed them. His arms are
extended and the palms of his hands turn
ed downward, and - he dropped benc
diction upon Olivet, bane fiction upon Pal
estine, benedictiOn upon all the earth.
The cruel world took him in at the start
ON a cradle OF straw, and at last thrust
him cut with the point of the spear; but
DenediCtion Ascending until, beneath, ne
saw on one side the Eothlchem where they
put him among the cat1lc, and Calvary on
the other side, where they pat him among
the thieves. As far as the excited and in
tcnsified vision of the group on Olivet could
see him, and after he was so far up they
could no longer hear his words, they saw
the gesture of the Outspread hands, the
benediction And that is Iii, attitude today
His benedicton upon the world : climates,
and they are changing, and will keep on
changing until the atmo, Dhere shall be a
commingling of October and June. Bene-
dction upon the desert, ill they whiten
with lily, and blush with rose, and yellow
with coWslip. and emerald with grass.
Benedietjon upon governments till they
become more just and humane Bcnedic-
ton upon nations till they knecl in prayer.
bencdiction upon the whole earth until
every mouutpin is an Olivct of conservation,
and every lake a Galilee ON whose mosaic
of crystal, and opal, and sapphire divine
splcndors shall walk
Oh, take the bcnediction of his pardon,
sinners young and Sinner. old, sinners
moderate and sinners ut4uIoncI Take
the benediction OF his comfort, all We
broken hearted under bereavement and pri-
Walton and myriad woes Take his bcne-
dicGon, all We sick beds. whether under
acute spasms OF pain or in long prot7acted
invalidsm For orphanaCe. and childlcs s
ness, and widowhool a benediction Fol
cradles and tI1ludle beds and rocking chairs
Of octogenarians, bcuediction For life
and for death, for time and for eternity. for
earth and for heaven, benediction Sub
FINEST gesture ever made, the last gesture
of our ascending Lord and he lifted w
his hands and blessed them"
THE WORLD WANTS KINDNESS