The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-22
lie swung into the skies How much We

II can ramoye that bindnesS" aud so no
did, His sight given him. ross was handed
to the man WHO never before had seen rosa
aud he was in admiration OF IT, and his ia IL
ily whom n, had never seen before nov ap-
peared to him, and he was In tears of rap
lure, when he suddenly crlel ont: II ought
first 10 have asked to SEQ the Qua who curat
me; show me the DOCTOR When from our
ewes the scales of earth shall fall, aud wa have
our first vision of heaven, our first cry ought
not to be "Where are my loved onesp Our
first cry ought to be, "Where is Christ, who
made all thispossibleg Show me- the doc5orp
Glory be to God for assembled humanity
Could we realize it and that it is all in syn,-
pa.n, lur az no Wound u,ye asco5l cOlr-
aye IN the conflict OF this lilo as hal Ciarles
the Twelfth whea he was debating dis2atclaS
TO his secretary, and n bomoShsll fell into
the room, AMI thu secretary dropped his paa
and attempted flight. Carries said u him;
go on with your writingl What has tia
bombshcll TO no with ths letter l AN die
tatingy' II the asceaiei Christ I've Oh oar
side, nothing should disturb US.
Our fellow suJsrsr ye; realms
n fellow feeling In orr paine,
Aud SIN remembers, IN the skies
His tears, His asonles, and cries.
lam 50 glad that Christ broke tia natural
law OF gravtatioa when He shooS or from
His feet the clutch OF Mount Olivst. People
ta!Sas though cold iron, unsympathetic,
natural law controlled everything. The reign
of law i majestic thing, bat tho Col wac
made it has light to brelk 1T al again
and again has broken ii, AMI again and again
will break it. A law is only Cots way of
doing things, ami il He chooses to do them
some otter way He has risat to do so. A
law is not sti ong enough to shacl,le tae Al
mighty. Christ bro:e botanical law when,
,gl.,y u, tua Nv
from Bethany to Jerusalem, by a few words
He turned full leaved fig tree into
lifeless stick, He broke ichthyolog,-
cal Law vixen, without any natural
inducement, Ho swung great schoo, OF fish
into part OF Lake Tibsrias. where the fish
ermen had cast their nets Tor eight or ten
hours without the capture of mnnow;
and by making fish help pay the tax by
yielding from its mouth Roman slater.
Christ broke the law Of storms by compel
ing, with a word the auCerel sea to hush
its frenzy, and the winds to quit tEeir bsl-
lowing He broke geological law when He
made the devils possess the swine of Gadara.
Ee broke the Law OF economies when He
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 intellectual law when, by word
He sileucei a maniac in placidity. He
y
Re Strengthened a 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 the
Syro-Phcanician mother, and when He made
the palatial home of the nobleman resound
again with the laughter of his restored boy,
aud when, without knife or battery He set
cataracted eyes 10 seeing again, and the drum
OF deaf ears to vibrating again, and the
nerves of paralyzei arms to thrilling ag ain,
and then when in leaving the earth Hededed
all atmospheric law and physiological law,
and that law which has in it withes and
cables and Orders enough to hold the uni
verse, the law of gravitation.
The Christ who proved II uSelf on so many
occasions, and especially the last, superior to
law, still lives; and every day, in answer to
prayer for the 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
syinpathizin- divinity. Have you never
seen typhoid fever break, or storm sud-
denly quiet, or a ship a bsam's-and right it
self, or fog lift, or parcaed SKY break in
showers, or a pc ,,,oxtty disantanglej,
or the inconsolabls tais solace, or
the hayward reform at the call of prayer?
I have seen it; multitules have seen
it. You have, it you have been willing
to see it. Deride not the faith cure. Because
impostors attempt it is nothing against good
men whom Cod hath honorei with marvel
Gus reservations. Pronounce nothing impos-
sibl9 to prayer AMI trust. Because you and
I cannot effect it is no reason WAY Others
may not. By the same al gGmenb could
prove that Raphael never painted Madon-
m, and that Mendessohn never wrote an or.
ator;o, and that Phidles never caiss!e1 a
statue. Because we cannot a2oon ousl 1t
ourselves, we are not to conclude that others
may not There are in immensely great
ranges of mists which have proved,
under closer telescope scrutiny, to b'
the store house oc worlds, and dc
no5 know but from that passage il
James which to some of us is yet misty AMI
din, there may roll ont new heaven AMI a
new earth: ''rhe prayer Of faith SHALL save
the SICK" Thu faith curists may, in thi
war against disease, be only skirmlshing be
fore a general engagement, in which all tle
maladies of earth shall be routed. Surely
alopathy and homeopathy and hydropathy
aud eciecticism need reinforcement from
somewhere. Why not from the faith and
| PRAYER of the consecrated? The mightiest
| school Of medicine may yet be the school OF
| Christ. | do not know but that diseases now
| by all schools pronounced incurable
NAV give way under Gospel lombard
| ment. / do not know but that the day
! may come when faith and prayer shall ralst
| the dead. Strauss and Woolston and Spin
| OLA and Hume and Schleermacher rejected
| the miracles of the far past. do not pro
pose to be like them and reject the miracles
| Of the far future This l know-the Chris
| of Ascension Day is migntier taan any nat
| ural laws. for on the day OF waich spea (
| He trampled down the strongest OF them all
| Law is mighty, but He who made it il
mightier. Drive out fatalism from YOU
theology, and give grace the throne.
Standing to-day on the Ascension peak OF
Mount Olivet am also gladdened at thi
closing gesture, the last gesture Christ evel
made "Hs lifted up His hands and blessed
them" says the inspired account of oul
| Lords departure. / am so glad He liftet
| up His hands. Gestures are often more sig
nifcant than words, attitudes than argu
ments. Christ had made a gesture of con
tempt when with His finger He wrote on tn
ground; gesture of repulsion when He said
s'Get thee behind me, Satan" gesture of cor
demnation when He said: 'sIToe unto YOU
Pharsees and hypocrites. But His las
gesture His Olivetic gesture. is gesture {
| benediction He lifted up His hands an
blessed them. His arms ere EXTENDED, an
| the palms of His hands turned downward,
and so He dropped bene1iction upon Olivet,
benedicton upon Palestine, bene1iction upon
| all the earth
The cruel world took Him in at the star
on cradle Of straw, aud at last thrus
Him out with the point of the spear; bu
benedictionl Ascending until, beneath, ii
saw on one side the Bethlehem where they
put Him among, the cattle, and Calvary OF
the other side, where they put Him anon.
the thieves As far as the excited and in
telsified vision OF the group on Olivet coulc
see Him, and after He was so far up they
could no longer hear His words, they saw
tire gesture of thu outSprea1 hands, tae ben
ediction. And that is His attitude to-day
His beneiiction upon the worlds climates
and they are changing, and will keep OF
changing until the atmosphere shall be o
commingiing OF October and June. BeIe-
diction upon the deserts till they VIII vita
lily, aid blush with rose, and yellow with
cowslip. and emerald with grass. Benedic
ton upon governments till they becom'
more just and humane. Bsnadiction upo:
nations till they kneel in prayer. Bene1ic.
ton upon the whole earth until every mount
ain is an Olive of conservation, AMI every
lake a Gaiilee on whose mosaic of crystal
and opal, and sapphire divine splendors shall
walk.
Oh, take the benediction of His pardon, sin
ners young and sinners old, sinners molerat;
and sinners abandoned. Take the benedictior
of His comfort, all ye broken hearted under
bereavement and privatior and myriad woss
Take His benediction, all We sick beds
whether under acute sDasms OF pain or in
long protracts1 lnvaildlS1. for orpnanay