Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-12

TO ON WIN your WTlllhS. Nhdt HAS
the bombshcll to do with the letter 1 am
If the assembled Christ be,
ON our side, nothing should disturb MS.
Our fcllow-SuGerer yet retains
4 fclow-fccling in our pains.
Aud still remembers. in the skies.
His tears. His agonies and cries.
lam so glad that Christ broke the
natural law of gravitation when He
shook of from His feet the clutch of
Mount Olivet. People talk as though
cold. iron, unSympathetic, natural law
controlled everything. The reign of
law is a majestic thing, but the God
who made it has right to break il. \
law is only Gods way of doing things,
and if He chooses to do them some other
way. He has right to do
50. \ law is not strong enough
to Shackle the Almighty. Christ
broke botanical law when, one Monday
morning i'm March, on the way from Be
thany 10 Jerusalem, by few words He
turned a full-lcaved iig-tree into life
less stick. He broke ichthyOlOgical law
when, without any natural inducement,
lie swung a great school of fish into a
part of Lake TibefiaS, where the fisher
men had east their nets for eight or ten
hours without the capture of minnOw;
and by making a fish help pay the tax
by yielding from its mouth Roman
slater. Christ broke the law Of storms by
compelling. with word. the angered sea
TO hush its frenzy, and the winds 10
quit their believing. lie broke zoologi-
cal 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 out of
five biscuits that would not ordinarily
have been enough for ten Of the hungry.
lie broke intellectual law when, by
word. He Silcnccd u maniac into placid
ity. lie broke physiological law when.
by touch, He Strengthened woman
who. for eighteen years, had been bent
almost double, and when he put spring
into the foot of inhumated Lazarus, and
when. without medicine,
HE GAVE TIE DYING GIRL EACK
ln health 20 the Syro-PhTnician mother.
and when He made the palatial home of
tho noblonann ro.,c,,t,.i o-..i.. -.;sl. es.,
laughter of his restored boy. and when.
without knife or battery. He set cata-
ractcd eyes 10 seeing again, and the
drum of deaf ears 10 vibrating again,
and the nerves of paralyzed arms To
thrilling again. and then when in leaving
the earth He defed all atmospheric law
and physiological law, and that law
which has i'm il witheS and cables and
girderS enough to hold the universe, the
law of grayitGtion.
The Christ who proved Himself 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 overriding the law.
Blessed be God that we are not the sub
iectS of blind fatality, but of Sympa-
thizing divinity. Have you never seen
"A typhoid fever break. or storm sud
denly quiet. or a ship a-beam' send right
itself, or a fog lift, or a parched sky
break in showers, or perpleXity olsen
tangled. or the incOnSOlable take
solacc. or the hayward reform At the
call of PRAYER? have seen it; multi
tudeS have seen il. You have, ii you
have been willing to see it. Derldc not
the faith-cure. Because impoSterS at
tempt it. il is nothing against good men
men whom God hath honOred with mar
vellous rcStorations. Pronounce moth
ing impossible to prayer and trust. Be
cause Won and cannot effect it, il Is no
reason why others may not. BY the
same argument l could prove
that Raphael never painted a Ma
donna. and that MendelSSohn
never wrote an oratoriO, and that Phld-
las never chiSelled a statute. Because
we cannot accomplish il ourselves. we
are not TO conclude that others may not.
There is in immensely great ranges OF
mistS which have proved. under closer
telcScropic scrutiny, to be the store
house of worlds, and l do not know but
that passage i'm James. which. to some
of MS vet misty and dim, there may roll
ont new heaven and new earth,
The prayer of faith shall save the
sick"
TIE ASCENSION BLESSING.
Standing to-day on the Ascension
peak of Mount Oliyet | am also glad
deucd at the closing gesture, the last
gesture Christ ever made. lie lifted
mn His hands and blessed them" says
the inspired account of our Lord de-
parturc. am so glad lie lifted
mn His hands. Gestures are
often more significant than words,
attitudes than arguments. Christ
has made q gesture of contempt
when with His finger He wrote on the
grounds; gesture OF repulsion when He
said. Get thee behind me, SATAN
gesture of condemnation when lie SAID,
Woe unto you, PhariSees and hypo-
critics" But His last gesture, HIS Oil-
vetic gesture, is gesture OF 0enedic-
ton. He lifted up His hands and bless
ed them. His arms are extended, ana
the palms of His hands turned down
ward. and So lie dropped benediction
upon Oliyet, benediction upon PaleS-
tine. bcncdiction upon all the earth.
The cruel world took Him in at the
start on a cradle Of straw, and at last
thrust Him out with the point OF the
smear: but benedictiOn. Ascending
until beneath, He saw on one side the
Bethlehem where they put Him among
the cattle, and Calvary on the other
side. where they put Him among the
thieves. As far rs the excited and in
tensitied vision Of the group on Oliyet
could see Him, and after He was so far
ND they could no longer hear His words,
they saw the gesture OF the
outSprcad hands. the bencdictlon,
And that is His attitude
today. His benediction upon the world 5
climates. and they are changing, and
will keep on changing until the atmos'
phcre shall be 4 commingllng ofOctober
and June. BcnedlctiOn upon the deserts
hin they whiten within lily, and blush
with rose, and yellow with cowSlip, and
emerald with grass. Benediction upon
until they become,more just
and humane. Benediction upon nations
hin they kneel in prayer. Benedlction
mon the whole earth until every noun
TAIN is an Olivet of conservation, ana
every lake a Galilee on whose mosaic oil
crystal. and opal. and sapphire divine
splendors shall walk. Oh, take
THE BENEDICTION OF HIS PARDON
sinners young, and sinners old, sinners
moderate. and sinners abandoned. Take