Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-05-12
THE LORD is RISEN!
A WONDERFUL SERMON ON THE
ASCENSION BY DR. TALMAGE.

Lessons Drawn from the Text, Ps. XIV,
An Is Possible to the Son of God.
The Power of Prayer-On Mount Olivet.
BROOKLYN, May 11-After Eead1ng
appropriate passages of Scripture, and
the usual prayers and musical eXer-
cises, DR. Talmage preached the fol-
lowing sermon in the Academy of
Music this morning, from the words,
Lift up your heads, o We gates; and
be We lifted up, We everlasting doors;
and the King of Glory shall come IN. "
Ps. XIV, Z.
In olden times when a great con-
uueror returned from victorious war,
the people in wild transport would
take hold of the gates of the city and
lift them from their hinges, as much
as to say: This city needs no more
gates to defend it since this conqueror
has got home Off from the hinges
with the gates" David, who was the
poet of poets, foretells in his own way
the triumphal entrance Of Christ into
heaven, after his victory over sin and
death and hell 1t was as if the celes-
tial inhabitants had said: ''Here he
comes! Make way for him! Push
back the bolts of diamondl Take hold
of the doors of pearl and hoist them
from their hinges of gold! Lift up
your heads, O ye gates; and be ye
lifted up, We everlasting doors; and
the King of Glory shall come in"
MOUNT OLIvET.
Among the mountains of Palestine
no one is more uplifting than Mount
Olivet. It was the peroration of our
Lords ministry. On the roof of a
house in Jerusalem | asked, (Which
is Olivet?" and the first glance trans
fixed me. But how shall ! describe
nv 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
crystal sarcophagus of the buried cities
IF the plain, and waded down into the
deep and swift Jordon to baptize a
nan. and visited the ruins of the
ouse Of Mary and Martha and Laza-
=, we found ourselves in stirrups
1 on horse, lathered with the long
/ difficult way. ascending Mount
iivet. Oh, that solemn and sugges-
i've ridge. 1t is a limestone hill, a
mile in length, and three hundred feet
high. and twenty-seven hundred feet
above the level OF the sea.
Over it King David fled with a
broken heart. Over it Pompey led his
devastating hosts. Here the famous
Tenth Legion built their batteries in
besieoement. The Garden of Gethse-
name weeps at the foot of it. Along
the base OF the hill flashed the lanterns
and torches OF those who came to ar
rest 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 road
Jesus had walked twice a day from
Bethany to Jerusalem, and from Jeru-
salem to Bethany. There, again and
again, he had taught his disciples.
Half way up this mount he uttered his
lamentatiOn, 80 Jerusalem, Jerusa-
lem!" From its heights Jesus took
flight homeward when he had finished
his earthly mission. There is nothing
more for him to do A sacrifice was
needed to make peace between the rec
reant earth and the outraged heaven,
and he had offered it. Death needed
to be conquered, and he had put his
resurrection foot upon it. The thirty
three years of voluntary exile had
ended The grandest, tenderest might
lest Good-by ever heard was now to