The Red Cloud chief., 1890-05-16

OF f'cecy cloud He steps. Higher. until
into a sky blner than the lake tina,
could not sink Him. lie disappears into
. sea Of glory whose billowine splendors
hide Him. The fishermen watch and
watch. wondering II the law Of nature
will not rca sert itself, and lie shall in
q few moments come back again, and
they shall see Him descending; first Mis-
scared feet coming In sight. then the
Scared side. then the SCARED brow. ard
they may take again His SCARED hand
No wonder that for ~ least |, 400 ycars
the churches have. forty days after
Easter, KEEP, Ascension day; for the les.
sons ar. most inspiring and glorious, IL
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 JOscph's tomb
assembled from Mount Oiiyet Our hui
man nature Is In Heaven today. Just
~ they had seen Christ for forty days,
lie assembled. head. face. shoulders.
hands, feet and the entire human organ.
Ism. Humanity assembled. An. how
closely that keeps Chris, In sympathy
With those who are still in tho struggle!
Christ leads us all the way: Through
The birth hour. for lie was born IN Icth.
Ichem; through boyhood. for lie passed
IL In NAZARETH; through injus'ic~S, for
lie endured the outrageso OF Pilates court
room: through death, for He suffered II
~ Calvary: through the scpulcbrc, for
lie lay three days within IT, darkrncd
walls; through resurrection, Zoe the
solid masonry gave way on the first
Easter morning; through ascension, for
Mount Olivct watched Him az be
climbed the skies: through the shining
gates Tor He entered them amid mag
nificcnt acclaim. And hero IL "a crafty
Ing consideration that you never thought
We will see tho Lord just ~ lie
on earth. a. tie arose from tho
tomb lie assembled from Mount Oiivct-
We shall see Him az lie looked on the
road To Emmaus. ~ lie appeared In the
upper room In Jerusalem. a. iic was that
day of valedictory on the ridge from
which lie swung into the skies. How
much we will want to set Him.
was reading Of % man born blind.
lie was married To one who took rare OF
him all those years ~ darkness. A.
surgeon said to him: II can remove that
blindness" and 50 he did. Ills sight
given him. u rose was handed to the
who never before had seen n rose
and he vas In admiration Of IL. and his
family whom he bad never seen before
now appeared to him, and hc wa In
tears Of rapture. when he suddenly cried
out; ~ ought first to have asked To see
the n who cured me: show me the
When from our eyes the
scales Of earth shall fall. and W. have
first vision Of Heaven. our first cry
ought ~ to be: Where are our loved
ones" Our first cry ought 10 be:
where IL Christ. who made all this pos.
siblc? show mo the Doctor" Glory be
to God for assembled humanity,
"Our fellow sufferer yet retains
Af"li"~ feeling IN our pains.
And stiil rc'n" mb"rs. In the sklcs,
uistcSss. His axonies and cries"
] am so glad that Christ broke the
natural laS ~ gravitation when lie
shook of from his feet the clutch Of
Mount Olivct. People talk ~ though
cold. iron- unsympathetic, natural law
controlled every thing. The reign 81
law Is ~ majestic thing, but the God
who mad" II has u right to break 1t, and
again and again has broken 1t. and
again and again will break IL. 4 law il
only Gods way Of doing things. and IL
IL" chooses 20 do them some other way
lie has u right tn do so. 4 law il not
strong enough 10 shacklc the Almighty.
broke the botanical law when one
Monday morning in March. on the way
from bethany to Jerusalem. by u few
words he turned u full lcavcd fly tree
into - lifclcss stick. lie broke ichthyo-
logical law when, without any natural
.inducemcnt, hc swung q grea, school Of
fish into . part VI Lake Tibcrias. where
the fishermen had cast their nets for
eight or ten hours without the capture
OF . minnow. and by making q fish help
pay the tax by yielding from its mouth
u Roman slater. Christ broke the
law Of storms by compelling.
with u word. the angcrcd sea tn hush its
frenzy. and the winds Ia quit their bel.
lowing. lie broke geological Law when
lie made the devils possess the swine
of t;adara. lie broke the Law ~ eco
nomics when W." made enough bread for
5 200 people N ~ Ave biscuits that
would not ordinarily have been enough
foe ten III the hungry, lie broke In
tellcctual Law when, by q word. lie
silssc,d y maniac into placidity. n"
broke physiological law when. by q
tourh. lie Strengthened n woman who
FOR eighteen years had been bent almos,
double, and when II. put spring into. The
foot Of Illuminated Lazarus, and when.
~tshou, medicine, Tie gave the dying
girl back in health Ia the Syro.
rh.rnic,An mother, and when iio made
the paiatial home of the nohlenan re-
sound again with the laughter Of his
~rrs,orSl boy, and when. withous knife
~ battery, lie set ca~teractcd eycs Ia
seeing again. and the drum of deaf ears
- vibrating again, and the nerves of
paraly,cd arms tn thrilling agAiA and
then when. in leaving the earth. he do.
He'd all atmospheric Law and physio-
logical Law. and hat Law which has in
IL withcs and cables and glricrs enough
TO hold the universe, the Law of Gravi,a.
tinn.