The Forrest City times., 1890-05-17


 sion Day He lifted Himself through tho atmosphere of Palestine until amid the im- l inensities, He dis ppeared He was the only being the world ever saw who could lift Himself. Surely, if He does lift Him. self, He can do the lesser deel of lifting us
 ''No star goes down but climbs another sky, Nosum sets here except to rise on high" Christ leads us all tho way Through the birth hour, for he was born in Bethc- hem through boyhood, for He passed it in Nazareth ;through injustices, for he endured the outrages of | ilato's court room; through death, for he suffered ton Calvary; through tho sepulchro, for He lay three da with in its darkened walls; through resurrection for tho solid masonry gave way on the first Easter morning. through ascension, for Mount Olivet watched Hum as He climed the skies through the shining gates, for He entered them amid magnificent acclaim And here IS gratifying consideration that yon never thought of We will see our Lord just as He looked on ca tn. As lie arose from tae tomb He ascended from Mount Olivet We shall see him as Ho looked on the road to Emmaus, as He ap- peared in the upper room in Jerusalem, as Flo was that day of vAl2dictory on the ridge from which He swung into the skies.
 
 was reading of man born blind. Flo was married to one who took care of him all those years of darkness A surgeon said to him, II can remove that blindness, and so he did. His sight given him, q rose was handed 10 the man who never before had seen a 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: 'I ought first to have asked to see the one who cured me, show mo the doctor" han from our es the scales of earth shall fall, and we have our first vision of. heaven, our first ery ought not to be, Where arc our loved onesa Our first cry ought to be- "Where is Christi who made all this possiblel Show mo the Doctorr Glory tc to God foe ascended humanityl Could we realize it, and that 1t is all in sympathy for us, we would have as cool courage in the conflict of this hfe as had Charles tha Twelfth when he was dictatiug dispatches to bis secretary and a bomhshell fell into the room, and the secretary dropped his pen and attempted flight Charles said to him: "So on with youe writing waat has the bombsheli to tlo with the iettsr am dielatin p' If the aseended Christ bo on our side, nothing should disturb us.
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 A fellow fcalius in our pains,
 And still remembers in the skies,
 His tears, His agonies, and cries. l am so glad that Christ broke the T tural law of arayitation when He shook CT from Iiis feet the clRtca of Mount OltveG People tai; as though cold iron, unsympathetic, natural law controlled everything. The reign law Is a majestic thing but tAe God WHO made it has right to break it, and agJin and again has broken ! it. and agaln and again will break it. A law is only Cots Way of doing things, and it He chooses to do them some other way He has right to do So. X Law is not strong enouea 10 shaclSle the Almighty. Christ broke botanical law when, cue Monday morning iu March. on the way from Bethany to Jerusalem, by few words Io turned ulllcaved fig-trea iato a liteless stick. He broae ichtAyolagi al law waen without any natural iaIucemenl Hc swung great shool of fish into a part of Lake Tlberias, where the fishermen had east their nets for eight or ten hours with out the capture of minuow and by making a fisa help pay the tux by yielding from it's mouth Il RomGn staier. Christ broke tho laN Of storms b. compelling with word. the snsered sea to hush its | frenzy, and De winds to quit their tollow ns. He heoAe geological law when te made the devils possess tho swino of Gadara. Eo broke the law of economics when lIe made enough bread for five tho F. sand people out Of i've bis aits that wonil not ordl3arily have bean enough for ten of the hungry. ] broise inielles tual law whcu, by wnrd Ae sileaee1 maniac ia. 10 plaeidity He broke physiolosi al law when, by n touch, lie s,rightenei a wn. man who, for eighteen years had been bent almost double, ani when he pu spring into the foot of inhumated Lazarus, and when without medicine, He gave the cying girl back in health to tho Syro PhUnieian mother, and when He made lhe palatIal i home of the nob.emea resound again with i the laughter of his res5arel boy, and whan, | without knife or battery, l8e set cataract ed eyes Co seeing again, and tho drum or deaf ears Co vibrating again, aud nerves of paraly 1ed arms ta thrilling again, and theu ! when ia leaving the earlh tie dofed all atmospheric law an, physiological law, and that law which has in t wilhes and cables and girders enough Go hold the uni verse, the law of gravltatlon.
 Tn C r.st yho proved Himself on SO many occasions, euI especially Ehe last superior 10 law, still lives. aud every day, In answer 10 prayer for the good Of the world He is overriding the law Blessed be God that we are aot gte subjects ot blind fatality, hut of q sympalh 1,Ug divinity. Have you uevcr seen aiypAod fever break, or a storm suddenly qa eb or a ship a beam send right iise f or fog lift or parched sky break n showers, or parplcx- ity dlsentaagl9d, or the inc usolahle salge solace. or the wayward reform at tho call 'ot prayerl have seen it; maltitudes have seen it. You have. 1T you have been wnl. iug to seo it. Derido nol the fsl{h-curo. Because impostors attempt it, Is nothing against good men whom God hath hoaored with marvellous rcstorations. Pronounce nothing impossible 10 prayer and trust Because yan and 1 cannot cifa it, is no reason why others may not. By the same argument l could provo that Raphael never painted a Madonna. and that Mendelsshon nevee wrote au orator a and that F6idias never thisellod stQtue iocaUke NC cAu- not accomplish t ourselves, We are rot 10 ! conclude that others may not There gvo | in mmcnsty great ranges oi usls whi h have pioy, d, unser closor telescoplc serutlnN to ba the store house of worlds, and do not 1 know but from ihui passage ia James, whic1, 10 seno of ps, is yet msiaty ard diin, there mMy rot cUl a new heaven and D new earth, ''l bo pryer ol ialh shah save the stick" ! he faith curisis may, in this war
 
 general engs cement, in N A ch all the ma sales cl c4Nih shall c routcd, Surely, pitopathy and toao patAy and hydropalhy and eclecliaism nced nloreemont from somewherG hy Hot from the faith and prayer Of inc eunsceFstcds Tha mlghtiast school of mCdisiue my yet 10 tho school Christ do not Gatw but that disc ascs, now ey 0il schools pronounced insurahle, n5ay give way Gndtr gospel lombard. meUt ] do uot know but that tho dav come when iata anu prayer shall gi se ll.o dead. StF4ass aud N oolston and ~r Aosa aud iume and schlelermacher re. .eetea Tho mlras les ol tRe far past l do eot froHose 70 ho iise taem and reject tho miracles oi tao far future. Tt,s l know. the Christ Of Ascension Lay is migAlar than any aatura iaws. for on ths dag of waieh l speak hn ;ramploG down the stronecs. oi them aii Law is mighty, but He who mate it is miehtier Drvo cut faialism from your theolgy and give grace