The Russellville Democrat., 1890-05-22

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As He goes up the stops OF the throne
that thirty three years before He abb
dictated for our advantage, there rises
from all tho hosts of Heaven shout,
sanity, cherubic, seraphic, archangelic,
'Hallelujahl Amenl'
o gmden Of olives, thou dear honored 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 Oliyet we sec human nature as
cending. The same body that rose
from Joseph's tomb assembled from
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
~ that keeps Christ in sympathy
with those who are still in the struggled
Assembled scars, face scars, hand scars,
feet scars, shoulder scarsl 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 amounted
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 u.s.
No star goes down but climbs another sky,
No sun sets here except to rise on high.
Christ leads us all tho way--through
the birth hour, for He was born in
Bethlehem; through boyhood, for He
passed it in Nazareth; through injus-
tees, for He endured the outrages of
Pilates courtroom; through death, for
He suffered it on Calvary; through the
sepulcher, for He lay three days within
its darkened walls; through resurrec-
ton, for the solid masonry gave way on
the first Easter morning; through as
cension, for Mount Olivet watched Him
as lie climbed the skies; through the
shining gates, for He entered them
amid magnificent acclaim. And here is
a gratifying consideration that you
never thought olive will see our Lord
just as He looked on earth. As He rose
from the tomb He assembled from Mount
Olivet. We shall see Him as He looked
on the road to Emmaus, as He appeared
in the upper room in Jerusalem, as He
was that day of valedictory on the
ridge from which He swung into the
skies. How much we will want to see
Himl
] was reading of man born blind
lie was married to one who took care OF
him all those years of darkness A sur
geon said to MIN: II can remove that
blindness" and so he did. His sight
given him, a 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 Doctorl" 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 flight Charles said to him:
$50 on with your writing. what has the
bombsheli to do with the letter am
dictating?" III 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 agonics. 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 shaclIle 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
lifeless stick. He broke archaeological
law when, without any natural induce
ment, He swung a great school of fish
into 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 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 economics 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
maniac into placiditY. He broke physi-
illogical law, when, by a touch, He
Strengthened a woman who, for eighteen
years, had been bent almost double, and
when He put spring into the foot OF in
humated Lazarus, and when, without
medicine, He gave the dying girl back
in health 20 the ro-Phmnician moth
err, and when He made the palatial home
of the Northumberland again with the
laughter of his restored boy, and when,
without knife or battery, He set cata-
racted eyes TO seeing again, and the
drum of deaf ears TO vibrating again,
and tho nerves Of paralyzed arms to
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