The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-08-01
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DTvNEs sun
DAY SERMON.
subieet: :. rho ascension Of ohrist. !"

Text: "Lift up your heads. o We gates;
md be ye lifted up, Ne everlasting doors;
and the King Of Glory shall come iH."-Ps.
xiv, 7.
IN oiden times when a great conquerer re-
turned from victorious war, the people IN
Wild transport would take hold of the gates
of the city and lift them from their hinges,
IS much as to say: This city needs no more
gates % defend it since this conqueror has
got home Of from the hinges with the gates p
David, who WAS the poet Of poets. fortells in
his own way the triumphal entrance OF
Christ into heaven after His victory over SIN
and death and he'll. II was as if the celestial
inhabitants had said Here He couesi Make
way for Him Push back the bolts of dia-
mond Take hold Of the doors Of pearl and
hoist them from their hinges Of goldi Lift
up your heads, o We gates; and be ye lifted
uil We everlasting doors; snd the King of
Glory shall come in
Among the mountains Of Palestine no ons
is more uplifting than Mount Olivet. 1t was
the peroration of our Lords ministry. On
the roof Of = house in Jerusalem l asked,
(Which is Olivetg' and the first glance trans
fixed me. But how shall describe
my emotions, when near the close OF
a journey, in which We had for two
nights encamped amid the shattered
masonry of old Jericho, and tasted Of
the acrid waters Of the Dead Sea, that crys-
tai sarccphagus OF the buried cities Of the
plain, AMI waded down into the deep and
swift Jordan to baptize man, and visited
the ruins Of the house OF Mary and Martha
and Lazarus, we found ourselves IN stirrups
and on horse, lathered with the long and
difficult way, ascending Mount Oiivet2 On,
that solemn and suggestive ridgei 1t is a
limestone hill a mile in length, and 300 feet
ish,-snd Zoo feet above the level OF the
sea. Over king David fled with brokei 4
heart. Over it Pompey led ms deVas-ss
ing hosts. Here the famous Tenth Legion
built their batteries in besiegement. The
Harden of Gethsemane weeps at the
loot of it. Along the base of this hill flashed
the lanterns and torches Of those who came
to arrest Jesus. From the trees on this hill
the boughs were torn off and thrown into
the path Of Christ's triumphal procession. Up
and down that Rad Jesus had walked twice
A day from Bethany 10 Jerusalem. and from
Jerusalem to Bethany. There, again and
again, He had taught His disciples Half
way up this mount He uttered His lamenta-
ton: 30 Jerusalem, Jerusalemw FRONTS
height Jesus took fight honeward when He
is-- finished His earthly mission. Tiers IS
nothing more for Him to do. a sacri6cs
vas needed to make peace between the
recreant earth and the outraged heaven, and
He had offered it. Death needed to be cen
quered, and BE had put His resurrection fpot
upon it. The thirty-three years Of voluntary
exile had ended. The grandest, tenderst,
mightiest good-by ever heard was now e be
uttered
On Mount Olivet Jesus stands in a gr,up
Of Galiies fish rmen. They had been to-
gether in many scenes of sadness and pese-
cution and had been the more endearefby
that brotherhood of suffering They mad
expected Him to stay until the day OF GRO
nation when De would take the esdhly
throne and wave q scepter mightier7 and
rule dominion wider tEan any PhiToah,
than any David. than any Cesar. Blu nov
all these anticipations collapse Chrl has
given His last advice. He has Offer HIS
last sympathy. Hehas spoken His last ford.
His hands are spread apart as one is Dt 10
DO when he prououces a benedlctlon when
suddenly the strongest and most stupadOus
aw of all worlds is shattered. 1t IS
the law which. since the worlds were c sated,
sold them together. It is the law which
lolds everything to the cal d, or
temporarily hurled from earth, ,eturns
It; the law which keeps the planets v4irling
around our sun, and orr solar syster dzFhirl-
ing around other systems, and al p sys-
TENS whirling around the throne oqGod-
the law OF grayitation- That law IS sus-
pended. or relaxed, or broken, to let 10 body
Of Jesus 20. That law had laid holfqf Him
thirty-three years before, when he dSfended.
It had relaxed its grip Of Him but c ie, and
that when it declined to sink Him Mn the
top of the waves on Lake Galilee, { which
He walked, to the bottom Of TIE lakIl That
law OF gravitation must now give Jay to
Him who made the law. It may "a tbs
)ther stars, but it cannot longer ID the
Morning Star of the Redemption. II may
hold thenoonday sun, but it canno5bld the
Sun of Righteousness. The fingers that
,s,x are q bout TO open to let 90 the loft Illus
n 1zsen.orld has ever h. and