Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-12
ASCENSION GL0RIES
ELOQUENT TABERNACLE SERMON BY DR.
TALMAGE.
The Lessons Of the Ascension from Mt 0liyei- -Tht
Law Of GrayitatiOn Broken-All Laws
Break Before the Saving
Christ.
Special Telegram to The Register.

Special Telegram 10 The Register.
BRoOKLYN, May ll.-After reading
appropriate passages of Scripture, and
the usual prayers and musical exercises
DIR. Talmage preached the following
sermon in the Academy of Music, this
morning. from the words, Lift up your
heads, o We gates; and be ye lifted up,
ye everlasting doors; and the King Of
glory shall come it," PSa. 94; :.
In olden times when a great conquer
or 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 rs TO say:
This city needs no more gates To de-
| fend il since this cOnquerOr has got
home. OF from the hinges with thu
/ gates" David, who was the poet Z;
| poets, fOretellS in his own way the tn
umphal entrance OF Christ in heav IN,
after His victory over sin and death and
/ hell. 1t was as If the celestial inhabi-
tantS had said: "Here He comes, Make
way for Him. Push back the bolts of
diamond, Make hold Of the doors of
pearl and hoist them from their hinges
of gold. Liftup your heads, Oye gates;
and be- ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors:
and the King of Glory shall come in
ON MOUNT oLIvET
Jesus stands in group of Galilee fish
ermen. They had been together in
many scenes of sadness and persecution
and had been the more endeared by
that brotherhood of suffering. They
had expected Him To stay until the
day of coronation when he would take
the earthly throne and wave a Sceptre
mightier and rule a dominion wider,
than any Pharaoh. than any David,
than any Cesar. But now all these an
ticipatiOnS collapse. Christ has given
His last advice. He has offered His
last sympathy. lie has spoken
His last word His hands are spread
apart aS one IS apt To do when
he pronounceS bcnediction, when sud
denly the strongest and most StupcndOuS
law OF all worlds is shattered. II is the
law which. since the worlds were ere
atcd, holds them together. 1t is the
law which holds everything in the earth
or. temporarily hurled from earth, re-
turns il: the law which keeps the plan
cts whirling around our sun, and our
solar system whirling around other SyS-
tens, and all the systems whirling
around the throne of GOd-the law OF
gravitation' That law is suspended. or
ralaNed, or broken, To let the body
of Jesus go. That law laid hold
of him thirty-thrce years before
when lie descended. 1t had relaxed its
grip of Him but once. and that when it
declined to sink Him from the top of
the waves ON Lake Galilec, ON which he
walked. TO the bottom Of the lake. That
law of gravitatiOn must now give way To
Him who made the law. Ii may hold
the other stars. but it cannot longer
held the M9Tni1g lT h9 Stsr & 9{ tAe RGdhcB
II cannot hold the Sun of Righteousness.
The fingers of that law are about To
opcn To let 90 the most illuStrious Being
the world had ever seen, and whom II
had worst maltreated. The strong
est law of nature which phil
oSopherS ever weighed or meas
ured must at last give way. 1t will
break between the rock of Olivct and
the heel of ChriSt's foot. Watch it, all
We disciples, Watch il, all the earth.
Watch il. all the heavens, Christ about
10 leave this planet. How? His friends
will not consent to have Him 90. His
enemies catching Him would only at
tempt by another Calvary. to put Him
into some other tomb. will tell you
how. The chain of the most Stupen-
douS natual law is unli6ed.
TIE SACRED FOOT OF OUR LORD
and the limestone rock part, and part for
ever. The fishermen watch and watch,
wondering if the law of nature will not
rcasScrt itself. and He shall in few mo-
mentS come back again, and they shall
see Him descending; first His SCARED
feet coming in sight, then the Scared
side. then the Scared brow, and they
NAV take again His Scared hand. But
the moments pass by, and the hours,
and no temperance. Gone out OF sight
of earth. but come within sight
of heaven. And rising still. not vel
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 eSpec-
ial anthem. and the palaces especial ban
ouet, and the streets especial thrOngS;
and all along the line To the foot OF the
throne. for years vacated but now again
10 be taken. there are arches lifted, and
banners waved. and trumpetS sounded,
and doXologieS chanted, and coronetS
cast down.
The angels throngd His chariot wheels
And bore Him 20 His throne;
Then swept their goldenharp> ana sung
The glorious work j. done
II was the greatest day in heaven.
lie goeS up the steps OF the throne
that thirty-thrcc years before He abdl-
Gated for our advantage, there rises from
AN the hosts Of heaven shout, sanity
cberubic. Scraphic. archangelic, 'Hduc-
Itjdh! linen
o,,-l,u M olives thou dear. honored spot.
Tbe fame of thy glory shall ne'er be forgot.
No wonder that for at least fourteen
hundred wears the churches have, forty
dayS after Easter, kept AScenSl0n-Da!;
for the lessons are most inspiring ana
glorious. II takes much of the uncer-
taintv out OF the idea of heaven when
from Olivet we see human nature as
rondiur. The same body that rose
from .IoSeph'S tomb aScended from
Mount Olivct. Our human nature Is III
heaven to-day. Just as they had seen
Christ for forty days, He ascend
ed head. face, shoulders, hands, feet
and the entire human organism. ltu-
manitv ascended. All. how closely that
keeps Christ in sympathy with those
who are still i'm the struggle AScended
sears. face scars, hand sears, feet scars
shoulder sears, That will keep HIM IN
accord with all the suffering, with All
the weary, with all the impoScd-upon'
No more is He spirit now than body
no more of heaven than earth. lhoSe
of the celestial inhabitants who never
saw our world
NOW WALK AROUND HIM
and learn from His physical contour
something of what our race VIII De
when. in the resurrection, heaven VIII
have uncounted bodies rs well as un-
counted spirits. On AScenSion-Day lie
lifted Himself through the atmosphere
of Palestine until, amid the immenSi-
ties. He disappeared. He was the only
being the world ever saw who could hit
Himself. Surely, if He could lift Him
self. He can do the lesser deed OF mt
ing Us.
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