Sharp County record., 1890-06-19

higher, until He is within sight OF the
Bethlehem where lie was born, and the
Jordan where lie was baptized, and the
Golgotha where He was slain; higher,
until on stairs OF foccy cloud lie steps;
higher, until into sky bluer than the
lake that could not sink Him He disap-
pears into sea of glory whose billow-
ing splendors hide Him. The fisher
men watch and watch, wondering II the
law of nature will not reassert itself,
and lie shall in few moments come
back again, and they shall see
Him descending; first His SCARED
feet coming in sight, then the
SCARED side, then the SCARED brow, and
they may take again His Scared hand.
But the moments pass by, and the
hours, and no reappearance. Gone out
of sight of earth, but come within sight
of Heaven. And rising still, not well
coined by one angelic choir like those
who one Christmas night escorted Him
down, but all Heaven turns out to greet
Him home, and the temples have espe-
cial anthem, and the palaces have espe-
cial banquet, and the streets especial
throngs; and all along the limo to the
foot of the throne, for years vacated
but now again to be taken, there are
arches lifted, and banners waved, and
trumpots sounded, and doXologies chant
ed and coronets cast down,
The angels throng'd 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 abb
dcated for our advantage, there rises
from all the hosts of Heaven a shout,
sanity, cherubic, seraphic, archangelic,
"IIallelujah! Amen"
o garden of olives, thou dear honored spot,
The fame of Thy glory shall neer be forgot.
No wonder that for at least fourteen
hundred years the churches have, forty
days after Easter, kept Ascension Day,
for the lessons are most inspiring and
glorious. 1t takes much of the uncer-
tainty out of the idea of Heaven, when
from Olivct we see human nature as
cending, The same body that rose
from Joseph's tomb ascended from
Mount Olivet Our human nature is in
Heaven to-day. just as they had seen
Christ for forty days, He ascended,
head, face, shoulders, hands, feet
and the entire human organism.
Humanity assembled! All, how close
" that keeps Christ in sympathy
with those who are still in the struggle!
Assembled scars, face sears hand scars,
feet scars, shoulder scars! That will
keep Him in accord with the suffering,
with all the imposed upon. No more is
He spirit now than body, no more Of
Heaven than earth. Those Of the
inhabitants who never saw our
world, now walk around Him and learn
from His physical contour something of
what our race will be when, in the res
Heaven will have uncounted
spirits. On Ascension Day lie lifted
Himself through the Atmosphere of
Palestine until, amid the immensities,
lie disappeared. He was the only be-
ing the world ever saw who could lift
Surely, if He could lift Him.
self, He can do the lesser deed Of lift
ing u.s.
NO star goes down but climbs another sky,
No sun sets here except to rise on high.
Christ broke botanical law when, one
Monday in March, on the way from
Bethany to Jerusalem, by few words
lie turned full-leaved fig tree into a
lifeless stick. He broke ARCHAEOLOGICAL
law when, without any natural induce
ment, He swung great school of fish
into n part of Lake Tiberias, where
the fishermen hal cast their nets for
eight or ten hours without the capture
of a minnow; and by making fish help
pay the tax by yielding from It's mouth
u Roman slater. Christ broke tho law
of storms by compelling, with n word,
the angcred sea hush its frenzy, and tho
winds to quit their believing. He
broke geological law when lie made the
devils possess tho swine Of Gadara. lie
broke tho law of economies when lie
made enough bread for five thousand
people out Of five biscuits that would
not ordinarily have been enough for
ten of the hungry He broke intellect
ual law when, by word, He silenced u
maniac into placidity. lie broke physi-
illogical law, whom, by touch, lie
woman who, for eighteen
years, had been bent almost double, and
when He put spring into the foot OF in
humOtod Lazarus, and when, without
lie gavo tho dying girl back
in health to the Syro-phmnician moth.
or, and when llomado the palatial homo
OF the nobleman resound again with the
laughter of his restored boy and when,
without knife or battery, lie set cata.
rOctcd oyos to seeing again, and tho
drum of deaf cars to vibrating again,
and the nerves Of pOraly2cd arms 20
again, and then, when in leov-
Ing the earth, lie dchod all atmospheric
law and physiological law and that
law that has in II wthcs and cables
and girdors enough to hold the universe,
tho law Of gravitNtion,
Tho Christ who proved Himself on 30
many occasions, and especially the last,