Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-05-17
He swung into the skies. How much we

first to have asked to see the ons who cured
me; show me the doctor" When from our
eyes the scales of earth shall fall, and we have
our first vision Of heaven, our first cry ought
not to be, "Where are my loved ones?" Our
first cry ought to be, Where is Christ, VINO
made all this possible? Show me- the doctor~
Glory bs to God for assembled humanity!
Could we realize it. and that it is all in SYM
pathy for us, We would have ascool q cour-
age in the conflict of this life as hal Carries
tho Twelfth when he was debating dispatches
to his secretary, AMI bonbshell fell into
the room, and the secretary ttroppsd his psn
and attempted flight. Charles said to him:
Go ON with your writing! What has tue
bombShell to do with the letter l am die
tatingg' II tina assembled Christ be OF or
side, nothing should disturb us.
Orr fellow sufferer yet retains
fellow feeling in orr pains.
Aud still remembers i'll the Skies
His tears His a3oalcs and cries.
lam 50 glad that c lrist broke the natural
law of grdvitatiou whsn Hs shook off from
His feet the clutch of Mount Olivet People
talk as though cold, iron. unsympatnetic,
natural law controlel everything. TIE reign
of law is majestic thing. but tbs Col who
made it has Il right to break 1t. AMI again
and again has broken it, an1 again and again
will break it. A law is only Gods way of
doing things. and il Hs chooses to do them
some other way He has a right to do So A
law is not strong enough to shackle tue AL
mighty Christ broke botanical law when,
one Monday morning in March. on the way
from Bethany to Jerusalem. by few words
He turned a full leaved fig tree into
lifeless stick He broke ichthyologi-
cal law when. without any natural
inducement He swun= great school OF fish
into part of Lake TibsriaS, where the fish
,lrD1o had St 1,pt al
hours without tbs capture of q minnow;
and by making fish help pay the tax by
Welding from its mouth Roman slater.
Christ broke the law Of storms by comps-
ing. with word. the augered sea to hush
its frenzy, and the winds to quit tter bel-
lowing He broke geological law when He
made the devils possess the swine of Gadara.
He broke the law of economies when He
made enough bread for five thousand people
put of five biscuits that would not ordinarily
have been enough for ten of the hungry.
He broke intellectual law when, by q word
He silencea Il maniac in placidity. Hs
broke phySio!o,i cal law when, by touch,
He Strengthened 4 woman who for eighteen
years had been bent almost double, and when
He put spring into the foot of Illuminated
Lazarus and when without medicine, He
gave the dying girl back in health to tbs
yro-Phoenician mother, and when He made
the palatal home of the nobleman resound
again With the laughter of his restored boy,
and when, without knife or battery, He set
casaractea eyes to seeing again, and the drum
Of deaf ears to vibrating again. and the
nerves of paralyzed arms to thrilling again,
and then when in leaving the earth Hedelied
Ill atmospheric law and physiological law,
and that law which has in it withes and
cables and giriers enough to hold the uni
verse. the law of gravitation.
The Christ who proved Himself many
occasions, and especially tue last, superior to
law. still lives: and every day, in answer to
prayer for tae good of the world, He is over
riding the law. Blessed be God that we are
not the subjects Of blind fatality, but of a
svmpathizing divinity. Have you never
denly quiet, or a ship beam's-end right it
self, or fog lift. or parched sky break III
showers. or perplexity disentangled,
OF the inconsolable take solace, or
the maynard reform at the call of prayer?
! have seen it: multitudes have seen
it. You hove, if YOU have been willing
to see it. Deride not the faith cure. Because
impostors attempt it is nothing against good
men whom God hath houorcd with marvel
Gus restorationS Pronounce nothing impos-
sible to prayer and trust. Because you and
I cannot effect it is no reason why others
may not. By the same Argument could
prove that Raphael never painted Madon-
ma. and that MendelsSohn never wrote an or
atorio and that Phidas never chiseled a
statue. Because We cannot accomplish it
ourselves, we are not to conclude that others
may not. There are in immensely great
ranges of nistS which have proved,
under closer telescope scrutiny. to be
the store house o. worlds, and do
james. which TO some of us is yet misty and
dian. there NAV roll out a new heaven and a
new earth: .srhe prayer of faith shall save
the SICK" Ths faith curists may, III TINS
war AGAINST disease, bs only skirmishing be-
fore a general engagement, i'll wnich all tine
maledies OF earth shall he routed. Surely
allopathy and homeopathy and hydropathy
and eclecticism need reinforcement from
somewhere. Why not from the faith and
PRAYER of the consecrated? The mlghtles5
school of medicine may yet be the school OF
Christ do not know but that diseases now
by all schools pronounced lncuraoie
may give way under GosPe! bonoard-
nlent do not know but that the day
NAV come when faith and prayer shall raise
the dead. Strauss and Woolston and SPIN
OLA and Hume and Schleiermacher rejected
the miracles of the far past. do not pro-
pose to be like them and reject The miracles
Of the far future This Knoxville Christ
OF Ascension Day is mightier than any nat
ural laws. for on the day OF which speak
He trs ur,ied down the strongest OF tnem all.
Law is mighty, but He who made 1t is
mshtier. Drive out fatalism from your
theology, and give grace the throne.
Standing to-day on ths Ascension peak o.
Mount Oll-et / am also gladdened at the
closing gesture the last gesture Christ ever
made i'He lifted up Ais hands and blessed
Them says the inspired account or our
Lords departure. I am SO glad He lifted
up His hands. Gestures are often more sig
niicant than words, attitudes than argu-
ments. Christ had made gesture OF con-
tempt when with His finger He wrote on me
ground; gesture CT repulsion when he SAID:
9cet tnes behind me, Satan" gesture of con-
demnation when He said: 'Woe unto you,
Pharsees and hypocrites. But His last
gesture, His i,!i~ctic ge.ture. IS gesture OF
6enediction. He lifted up His hands and
blessed them His arms are eStenlel, AMI
the palms of His hau1s turIs1 downward,
and so He dropped beaeiic5lon uool Ohvs5,
benediction upon Palestine, oanedlction upon
all the earth.
The cruel world took Hin in at the start
on a cradle Of straw, and at last tnru5e
Him out with the point of the spear: but
benediction, Ascending until, beneath, de
saw on one side the Bethlehem wnere 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 IN
tensified 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, tue DsIi-
ediction. And that is His attitude today,
His benediction upon the worlds climates,
aud they are changing, and will. keep on
changing until the atmosphere shall oe
commingling of October and June Bene-
diction upon the deserts till they wniten with
lily, and blush with rose and yellow WITH
cowslip, and emerald with grass Benedic.
ton upon governments till thay ba:ons
more Just and humane. Beneliction upon
nations till they kueel in prayer Bene1c-
ton upon the whole earth until every mount
ain is an Olive of conservation, and every
lake Galilee on whose mosaic OF crystal,
and opal, and sapphire divine splendors shall
walk.