Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23
heaven a snout sanity. cneruotc, seTApuic,
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No wonder taa5 FOR at least fourteen nun
dr-I var, the clur-aes nave, forty days al
ter : .,r.- Kept Ascension Day; for the les
sons are most inspiring and glorious. ID
takes much Of the uncertainty out OF th7
idea Of heaven when from OIVet we Sc
human nature ascending Inc same D5Iy
that rose from Joseph's tomb assembled
from Mount Olivet. Our human mature i
in heaven today. just as they had - -
Christ for forty days, Re assembled, hea /,
face. shoulders, hands. feet and the eAtiI .
human organism. Humanity ascended'
All how closely that keeps CHRIST IN sym
pathy with those who are still In the StFo2
gle. Assembled scars, face scars, hand scar
feet scars, shoulder scars, That will keep
Him in accord with all the suffering, with
all the weary, with all thu imposed UPON
No more is He a 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 wnen, IN the resurrection,
heaven will have uncOuntai bodies as well
as uncOunted spirits. On Ascension Day tie
lifted Himself through the atmosphere OF
Palestine, until, amid the i'm nensItles, he
disappeared He was the only being the
world ever saw who could lift HIMSELF surely
if He could lift Himself He can do the lesser
deed of lifting Us.
No star goes down bnt climbs another sky.
Christ leads us all the way; through the
birth hour, for He was born in Bethlehem;
through boyho11, for He passed it in Naza-
reth; through injustices for He endured the
OutrageS of Pilates court room; through
death, for He suffered it on Calvary; through
the sepulcnre, for BE lay three days within
its darGened walls; through resurrection,
for the solid masonry gave way on the hrSt
Easter morning: through ascension, Tor
Mount Olivet watched Him He climbed
the skies; through the shining gates, for He
entered them amid magnificent acclaim.
And here is a gratifying consideration that
you never thought of: We 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 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 Him.
| was reading of man born blind. He was
married to one VINO took care of him all those
years of darkness. A surgeon said to him,
Il can remove that Blindness" and 50 he
lid. His sight given him, a rose was handed
to the man who never before had seen a rose
and he was in admiration Oft, and his fam
ily whom he had never seen before now APP
peared to him, and he was in tears OF rap
ture, when he suddenly cried ont: Il ought
first to nave asked to see the one who 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 dOCtOrw
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 cOur-
age in the conflict of this life as had Charles
the Twelfth which he was debating dispatches
tn a hOmhShPi fell
the room, and the secretary dropped his pen
and attempted flight Charles said to him:
Go on with your writing! What has the
bOmbshell to do with the letter am die
tatingY If the assembled Christ be on our
side, nothing should disturb us.
Our fellow sufferer yet retains
A fellow feeling in pains,
And still remembers, in the Skies
His tears His agOnlesr and cries.
lam 50 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 everything. The reign
If law is a majestic thing. but the God who
made it has right to break it, and again
and again has broken it, ana again and agair
will break it. A law is only Gods way Of
1oing things. aud if He chooses to do them
some other way He has a right to do so. A
aw is not strong enough to shackle the AL
mighty. Christ broke botanical law when,
)ll6 hOuIdy Ill Mdfcu, Oh GHo way
from Bethany to Jerusalem, by a few words
He turned a full leaved fig tree into
ifeleSS stick. He broke ichthyOlOgi-
cal law when, without any natural
inducement, He swung great school of fish
into part of Lake Tiberias, where the fish
9rmen 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.a Roman slater.
Christ broke the law of storms by compel
Al
It's frenzy and the winds to quit their bel
lowing 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
)ut of five biscuits that would not ordinarily
nave been enough for ten of the hungry.
He broke intellectual law when, by word
tie sllenced maniac IN placldlty. He
broke physiological law when, by touch,
He Strengthened a woman who for eli hteen
years had been bent almost double, and when
He put spring into the foot of Infatuated,
lazarus, and when, without medicine, He
gave the dying girl back in health to the
Superintendent mother, and when He made
The palatlal home Of the nobleman resound
again with the laughter of his restored bov,
and when, without knife or battery, He sen
cataracted eyes to seeing again, and the drum
Of deaf ears to vibrating again, and the
nerves OF paralyzed arms to thrilling gain
and then when in leaving the earth Hedefed
all atmospheric law and physiological law,
and that law which has in it withes and
cables and girders enough to hold the uni
verse, the law Of gravitation.
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 over
riding the law. Blessed be God that we are
not the subjects of blind fatality, but of
symDathizing divinity. Have you never
seen a typhoid fever break, or a storm sud-
denly quiet, or ship beams-end right it