Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-12
archangelic. 'lHallelujahl Amenp'
o garden of Q ives, thou dear honored spot,
The fame of thy glory shall ne'er be forgot

hundreq years the churches have, forty
days after Eas Ter, kept Ascension day; foI
the lessons are most inspiring and glorious,
1t takes much of the uncertainty out Of the
idea of HEAVIER, when from Olivet we see
human naturi ascending. The same body
that rose fro m Josephs tomb assembled
from Mount t)livet. Our human nature is
in heaven today. Just as they had seen
Christ for forty days, he assembled, head,
face, shoulde $, hands, feet and the entire
human orga nism. Humanity assembled
All, how clos ,ly that keeps Christ in sym
pathy with t lose who are still in the strug-
glel Ascend ID scars, face scars, hand scars,
feetscars, SD builder scarsl That will keep
him in accor with all the suffering, with
all the weary, with all the imposed upon.
No more is be a spirit now than body, no
more of hea rem than earth Those of the
celestial inh abitants who never saw our
world now walk around him and learn
from his physical contour something of
what our ra g will be when, in the resur-
rection, hea zen will have uncounted bodies
as well as u lcounted spirits. On Ascension
day he liftet himself through the atmos-
phere of Palestine until, amid the inn
mensities, ne disappeared He was the
only being he world ever saw who could
lift himself surely if he could lift himself
he can do the lesser deed of lifting us.
No star ,es down but climbs another sky,
No sun Sc is here except to rise on high
Christ les DIS us all the way: through the
birth hour, for he was born in Bethlehem;
through boyhood, for he passed it in Naza-
reth; through injustices, for he endured the
Outrages OF Pilates court room; through
death, forl suffered it on Calvary; through
the sepulclier, for he lay three days within
its dar1ent d walls; through resurrection,
for the solid masonry gave way ON the first
Easter mrning; through ascension, for
Mount Oil yet watched him as he climbed
The skies; through the shining gates for he
entered ii EN- amid magnificent acclaim
And here $ a gratifying consideration that
you never thought of: We will see our
Lord just as he looked on earth. As he
rose from he tomb he assembled from Mount
Olivet. We shall see him as he looked on
the road to Emmaus as he appeared in the
upper roo in Jerusalem, as he was that
day of valedictory on the ridge from which
he slgunl; into the skies. How much we
will want to see himl
SHOW ME THE DOCTOR"
was n aiding of man born blind. He
was married to one who took care of him
all those years of darkness. A surgeon
said to him, 81 can remove that blindness"
and so he did. His sight given him, a rose
was hant ed to the man who never before
had seen rose and he was in admiration
of it, and his family whom he had never
seen beft re now appeared to him, and he
was in tt ars of rapture, when he suddenly
cried out: Il ought first to have asked to
see the one who cured me; show RE the
doctor" When from our eyes the scales of
earth sh al fall, and we have our first vision
of heaven, our first cry ought not to be,
Where are my loved onesY" Our first cry
ought Il be, "Where is Christ, who made
all this possible? Show me the doctorl"
Glory b. to God for assembled humanity
Could we realize it, and that it is all in
sympathy for us, we would have as cool
a coura &c in the conflict of this life as had
Charles the Twelfth when he was dictat-
ing disl atches to his secretary, and bomb
shell fe into the room, and the secretary
dropped his pen and attempted fight.
Charles said to him: "Go on with your
writinG1 What has the bombshell to do
with t he letter | am dictating?" If the
ascend ID Christ be on our side, nothing
should disturb us.
Dur fellow sufferer yet retains
fellow feeling in our palms,
And still remembers, In the skies,
dis tears, his agonies, and cries
GOD SUPERIOR TO ALL LAWS.
am SO glad that Christ broke the natur.
al law of grayitation when he shook off
from bis feet the clutch of Mount Olivet.
People talk as though cold, iron, unsympa-
thetic. natural law controlled everything.
The reign of law is a majestic thing but
the God who ode it has right to break it,
aud again and again has broken 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
a rigl { to dose. A law is not strong enough
to slackle the Almighty. Christ broke
Botanical law whcn one Monday morning
in Mgrch, on the way from Bethany to Jeru-
salcn by IA few words he turned full leaved
fig tree into lifcless stick. lie broke ich-
theological law when, without any natural
indu, ement, he swung great school of fish
into u part of Lake Tiberias, where the fish
ermen had cast their nets for eight or ten
hours without the capture of a miunow;
and by making fish help pay the tax by
yielding from its mouth a Roman slater.
Christ broke the law of storms by compell-
ing, with word, the angered sea to hush
its envy, and the winds to quit their bel
lowing, lie 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 ordinar.
lily Lave been enough for ten of the hungry.
lie lrolle intellectual law when, by a word,
he silenced a maniac into placidity. He
bro &c physiological law when, by a touch,
he straightcued Il woman who for eighteen
yeats had been MISUNDERSTANDING and when
he put spring into the foot of inhumated
LAZARUS and when, without medicine he
gave the dying girl back in health to the
SyIO-Phmnician mother, and when he made
the palatial homo of the nobleman resound
again with the laughter of his restored boy,
amt when, without knife or battery, he set
cat iracted eyes to seeing again, and the
dram of deaf ears to vibrating again, aud
thu nerves Of paralyzed arms to thrilling
az ain, and then when in leaving the earth
he deiied all atmospheric law and physio-
logical law, and that law which has in it
withcs and cables and girders enough to
ho ID the universe the law Of grayitation.
CHRIST STILL LIVES.
fCho Christ who proved himself on 80
mlny occasions, and especially the last,
81 poror to law, still lives; and every day,
in answer to prayer for the good of the
W lrld, he is overriding the law. Blessed
bc God that we are not the subjects of blind
fp tality, but Of sympathizing divinity
Have you never seen n typhoid fever break,
q, storm suddenly quiet, or ship
Q beam send right itself, or n fog lift, or
p rched SKY rcak in showers, or a perplex-
Il diseutangled, or the inconsolable take
sulacc, or the wayward reform at the call
O prayer have seen It, multtudes have
: en- Il. You have, II You have been willing