Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-12

which they had plucked the Irult; higher
than the olive trees that shaded the
mount; higher, until He is within sight
of the Bethlehem where He was born, and
the Jordan where He was baptized, and
the Golgotha where He was slain; higher,
until on stairs of fieecy cloud He steps;
higher, until, into sky bluer than the
lake which could not sink Him, He dis
appears into a sea of glory whose billow-
ing splendors hide Him. The fishermen
watch and watch, wondering if the law
of nature will not reassert itself, and
He shall in q few moments come
back again, and they shall see him de-
scending; first His SCARED feet coming in
sight, then the Scared side, then the
Scared brow, and they may take again
His SCARED hand. But the moments
pass by, and the hours, and no reap
pearance. Gone out of sight of earth,
but come within sight of heaven. And
rising STILL not welcomed by one angel
ic choir like those who one Christmas
night escorted Him home, and the tenn
pies have especial anthem, and the PAL
aces especial banquet, and the streets
especial throngs; and along the line to
the foot of the throne, for years vacated
but now again to be taken, there are
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
It was the greatest day in heaven! AS
He goes up the steps of the throne that
thirty three years before He abdicated
for our advantage, there rises from all
the hosts of heaven a shout, sanity,
oherubic, seraphio, archangelic, t'Hal-
lelujahi Amenl'
80 garden of olives, thou dear honored spot,
The fame of thy glory shall ne'er be forgot"
No wonder that for at least 400 years
the churches have, forty days after
Easter, kept ascension day; for the les
sons are most inspiring and glorI-
Gus. 1t takes much of the uncer-
tainty out of the idea of heaven, when
from Olivet we see human nature ascend
ing. 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 closely that keeps Christ in SYM
pathy with those who are still in the
struggled Assembled scars, face scars,
hand scars, feet scars, shoulder scars!
That will keep Him in accord with all the
suffering,
WITH ALL THE WEARY,
with all the imposed-upon. No more is
He spirit now than body, no more of
heaven than earth. Those of the celes-
tial inhabitants who never saw our
world, now walk around Him and
learn from His physical contour some
thing of what our race will be when, in
the resurrection, heaven will have I'M
counted bodies as well as uncounted
spirits. On ascension-Gay He lifted
Himself through the atmosphere of
Palestine until, amid the immensities,
He disappeared. He was the only being
the world ever saw who could lift Him
self. Surely, if He could lift Himself,
He can do the lesser deed of lifting US.
''No cloud goes down but climbs another sky,
N sun sets here except to rise on high.
Christ leads us all the way; through
the birth hour, for He was born in Beth
lehem; through boyhood, for He passed
it in Nazareth, through injustices, for He
endured the outrages of Plate IS court
room through death for He suffered it on
Calvary: through the sepulcher, for He
lay three days within its darkened walls;
through resurrection, for the solid ma
sorry gave way on the first Easter morn
ing; through ascension, for Mount OIivet
watched Him as He climbed the skies;
through the shining gates, for He en-
tered them amid magnificent acclaim.
And here is a gratifying consideration
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our Lord just as He looked on earth. AS
He arose 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 Jeru-
salem, as He was that day of valedictory
on the ridge from which He swung into
the skies. How much we will want to
see Hlml
was reading of man born blind. He
was married to one who took care of him
all those years of darkness. A surgeon
said to him, ''T can remove that blind
ness, =" and so he did His sight given to
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, appeared to
him, and he was in tears of rapture when
have asked to see the one who cured me;
show me .he 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 AsCENDED HUMAN
ITY!
Could we realize it, and that it is all in
sympathy for US, we would have as cool
a courage in the conflict of this life as
had Charles XII. when he was debating
dispatches to his secretary, and bomb
shell fell into the room, and the secre-
tarY dropped his pen and attempted
flight. Charles said to him: ''Go on
with your writing what has the bomb
shell to do with the letter 1 am dictat-
ing?" If the assembled Christ be on our
side nothing should disturb us.
''Our feIlow-sufferer yet retains
A fellow-fe feeling in our pains,
And still remembers, in the skies,
His tears, His agonies, and cries.
am so glad that Christ broke the nat
ural law of gravitation when He shook off
from His feet the clutch of Mount Olivet.
People talk as though cold, iron, unsym-
pathetic, natural law controlled every-
thino Tho rafop of Law ia q p,o;a.+;o