The Brookhaven leader., 1890-05-22

bub tuS HnOineHbS pass Dy, anu bne
hours, and no temperance. Gone out
OF sight of earth, but come within sight
of Heaven. And rising still, not well
coined by one angelic choir like those
who one Christmas night escorted Him
down, but all Heaven turns out to greet
Him home, and the temples have espe-
cial anthem, and the palaces have espe-
cial banquet, and the streets especial
throngs; and all along the line to the
foot of the throne, for years vacated
but now again to be taken, there arc
arches lifted, and banners waved, and
trumpets sounded, and doxologies chant
ed, and coronets cast down.
The angels throng'd His chariot wheels,
And bore Him to His throne;
Then swept their golden harps and sung,
"The glorious work Is done"
1t was the greatest day in Heaven!
As He goes up the steps of the throne
that thirty-three years before He alb
Dictated for our advantage, there rises
from all the hosts of Heaven a shout,
sanity, cherubic- seraphic, archangelic,
''Hallelujah! Amcnr'
o garden of olives, thou dear honorcd spot,
The fame of Thy glory shall ne'er be forgot.
No wonder that for at least fourteen
hundred years the churches have, forty
days after Easter, kept Ascension Day,
for the lessons are most inspiring and
glorious. 1t takes much of the uncer-
tainty out of the idea of Heaven, when
from Olivet we see human nature as
cending. The same body that rose
Ill
Mount Olivet Our human nature is in
Heaven to-day. just as they had seen
Christ for forty days, He assembled,
head, face, shoulders, hands, feet
and the entire human organism.
Humanity assembled! All, how close
ly that keeps Christ in sympathy
with those who are still in the struggle!
Assembled scars, face scars, hand scars,
feet scars, shoulder scars! That will
keep Him in accord with the suffering,
with all the imposed upon. No more is
He spirit now than body, no more of
Heaven than earth. Those of the
celestial inhabitants who never saw our
world, now walk around Him and learn
from His physical contour something of
what our race will be when, in the res
direction, Heaven will have uncounted
spirits. On Ascension Day He lifted
Himself through the atmosphere of
Palestine until, amid the immensities,
He disappeared. He was the only be-
ing the world ever saw who could lift
Himself. Surely, if He could lift Him
self, He can do the lesser deed of lift
ing us.
No star goes down but climbs another sky,
No sun sets here except TO rise on high.
was reading of man born blind.
He was married to one who took care of
him all those years of darkness. A sur
geon said to MIN: II can remove that
and so he did. His sight
given him, rose was handed to the
man who never before had seen rose
and he was in admiration of it, and his
family whom he had never seen before
now appeared to him, and he was in
tears of rapture, when he suddenly
cried out: Il ought first to have asked
to see the one that 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, who made all this
possible? Show me the Doctor" Glory
be to God for assembled humanity! Could
we realize it, and that it is all in SYM
pathy for us, we would have as cool a
courage in the conflict Of this life as
had Charles the Twelfth when he was
directing dispatches to his secretary,
and bombshell fell into the room, and
the secretary dropped his pen and at
tempted fight. Charles said to him:
go on with your writing! what has the
dictating?" If the assembled Christ be
on our side, nothing should disturb us.
Our fellow Sufferer yet retains
A fellow feeling in our pains,
And still remembers, in the skies
His tears, His agonies, and cries.
/ am so glad that Christ broke the
natural law of gravitation when He
shook off from His feet the clutch of
Mount Olivet. People talk as though
cold, iron, unsympathetic, natural law
controlled every thing. The reign of
law is a majestic thing, but the God
who made it has right to break it, and
again and again has broke it, and again
and again will break it. A law is only
Gods way of doing things, and if He
chooses to do them some other way, He
has right to dose. A law is not strong
enough to shackle the Almighty.
Christ broke botanical law when, one
Monday in March, on the way from
Bethany to Jerusalem, by few words
He turned full-leaved fig tree into a
lifeless stick. He broke archaeological
law when, without any natural induce
ment, He swung a great school of fish
into a part of Lake Tiberias, where
the fishermen had cast their nets for
eight or ten hours without the capture
of minnow; and by making fish help
pay the tax by yielding from its mouth
Roman slater. Christ broke the law
of storms by compelling, with a word,
the angered sea hush its frenzy, and the
winds to quit their believing. 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 out of five biscuits that would
not ordinarily have been enough for
ten of the hungry. He broke intellect
ual law when, by word, He silenced a
maniac into placidity. He broke physi-
illogical law, when, Ly touch, He
Strengthened a woman who, for eighteen
wears, had been bent almost double, and
when He put spring into the foot OF in
hnmated Lazarus and when. without