Telegram-herald., 1890-05-12
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O poets, toFsteik Ia his own way The tn
uua2h2l eCtrz1se oT Christ into bsSYen
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/ them from their hinges u goldl Lit uP
/ your Lss1s. o ye gates, Snd be ys htted W,
+ y everlasting doors; and tie King OF Glory
+ shall come in
/ Among ths mountains OF Palestine 10
I ene Is Eac-s uplifting than Mount Olvet.
/ Il Was the YerOsatiOn cf cur Lords minis
/ t.y On the roof or houss Ia Jerusalem
7 ssksi, which Is Olvetg" ard tie 1rst
I glanoe tr&nsfxc4 Eae. But how shall l
dsscribe nay ezaotlols. when, near the close
I OF a journey, ia which We had for two
I nights eaoamped s1nid the shattered ma
son-y Of old Jericho, and sasted Of the
/ scr.d waters Of the Dead sea that crystal
! saroe yhaerus ef The buried cities OF the
/ plain, &nd wsdsd down into the deep and
! swift Jordan % bsrtiIo man. and visited
/ tho ruins Of TIE house Of Mary and Martha
| aud LzzaSus. We found ourselves in stir
rurs md on horse, lathered with the long
ard difficult way. ascending Gount Olivet
/ Oh that solemn and suggestive ridge IL
| is Limestone hill, mile IN length, and
| 3o0 fee. high, and :. 100 feet above the level
OF the scr. Over il King David ned with q
| broken heart. Over 1t fompey led his de-
| vaststing hosts Here the famous Tenth
| Legion built their batteries il bc.iegcment.
/ The Garden Of Gethsemans weeps a. tho
/ foot OF il. Along the base OF this hill
| flashed the lanterns and torches OF those
7 who came TO arrest Jesus. From the trees
| on this hill the boughs were torn of and
\ thrown into the path Of Christ's triumphal
| procession. Up and down that road Jesus
/ had walked twice a day from Bethany TO
| Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem 70 Beth
/ any. There, again and again, he had
taught his disciples. Half way up this
/ mount he uttered his lamentatiOn, 90
/ Jerusalem, Jerusalemw From its height
/ Jesus took flight homeward when he had
/ finished his earthly mission. There is
nothing more for him TO do. A sacrifice
was needed to make peace between the rec
reant earth and the outraged heaven, and
/ be had offered it. Death needed to be con-
! quered, and he had put his resurrection
/ foot upon it. The thirty-three years Of
/ voluntary exile had ended. The grandest,
/ tenGercst, mightiast good-by ever heard
Was now to be uttered.
| or MOUNT oLIvZT.
/ On Mount Oivct Jesus stands II group
| OF Cal.ice fishermen. They had been to-
/ gether in many scenes Of sadness and per
secuti0l ana had been the more endeared
/ by that brotherhood Of suffering. They
had expected him 10 stay until the day Of
| coronation when he would take the ear p "
/ throne and wave scepter mightier, I
! rule dominion wider than any Pharaoh,
/ than any David, than any Cesar. But now
al thesa anticipations collapse. Christ has
| given his last advice He has offered his
last sympathy. he has spoken his last
word His hands are spread apart as one
| is apt to do when he pronounces a benedic-
ton, when suddenly the strongest end most
stupondous law Of all worlds is shattered
IL Is the law which, since the worlds were
created, holds thsm together. It is the law
which holds everything 70 the earth or,
temporarily hurled from earth, returns
| II; the law which keeps the planets
| whirlng around our sun, and cur solar
| system whiriiRg around other systems, and
! all the systems vhirling around the throne
/ OF Got-the law Of gTavitati0n. That law
Is suspended or relaxed, or broken. 70 let
/ the body Of Jesus go That law had laid
/ hold Of him thirty-three years before, when
/ he descended. II had relaxed its grip Of
\ him but once, and that when it declined 10
/ siEk him from the top OF the waves on
/ Lake Galilee, on which be walked, 10 the
1 bottom OF the lake That lew OF gravita-
/ tion must now give way 20 him who made
/ the Law. II may hold the other stars. bat
/ II caacot longer hold the Morning Scar Of
\ the Redemption. II may hold the noon
/ dAy sun, but it cannot hold the sun of
/ Righteousness. The fingers OF that law
/ are about 20 open 10 let go the most illus
| triOus Being the wcrid has ever seen. and
4 whom II had worst -naItgeated. The strong
/ est law Of nature which philosophers ever
weighed OF ueGsuusd must at last give way.
| II viii bTeak between the rock of Olivet
/ and the heel Of Christ's foot Wstch Il.
! all Sc disciples Watch II, all the earth,
1 Watch il. all the heavens. Christ about 70
/ leave this planet. How His friends Nil
/ not consent 20 have him g.. HIS enemies
/ catching him would only attempt ~ an
other Calvnry 70 put HIN into some other
tomb. I viii tell you how. The chain OF
7 the most tremendous natural law IS un-
I linked The secred foot u our Lord and
/ the limestone rock part, and part forever.
TIE ACCESSION
I Leaning back, and with pallid cheek and
uplifted eyes. the disciples see their Lord
T rising from the solid earth Then. rlashiag e
forward. they would gra-p bis feet TO hold
F him fsst. but they sre ont of reach and 10
+ Is too late % detain him. Higher than the
+ tops n the tx trees from which they bad
piacked the fruit Higher than the olive
+ trees that shaded the mount Higher, m
I'll be i within sight of the Bethlehem
+ where he was born. and the Jordan where
he was bsptized. and the Golgotha where
be was slain. Higher. until on stair ~
feecT cloud be steps. Higher. until into a
skY bluer than the lake that could not sink
hin. he disappears into sas of glory
f whose oilowlns sPlendors hide him. The
fshermsa watch ard vstch. wondering Z
The Az of nature viii not reasssrt itse Z,
and be shall in A few moments come back
again. ard hey shall zee him descending.