The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-05-28

into sky bluer than the lake that could
not sink Him. lie disappears into sea
Of glory whose billowing splendors hide
Him. The fishermen watch and watch,
wondering II the law Of nature will not
reassert itself, and He shall in few
moments 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 may 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 welcomed
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 especial
anthem, and the palaces especial ban
quet, and the streets especial throngs,
and all along the line to the foot of the
throne, for years vacated but now again
to he taken, there are arches lifted, and
banners waved, and trumpets sounded,
and doxologies chanted and coronets
cast down.
The angels throng'd His chariot wheels,
And bore Him to His throne;
Then swept their golden harps and sung
1.-THE glorious work is DONE
1t was the greatest day in Heaven
As He goes up the steps of the throne
that thirty-three years before lie abdi-
Gated for our advantage, there rises from
all the host OF Heaven shout, sanity,
cherubic, seraphic, archangelio, Halle
lujah! Amen.'
o Garden Of olives, thou dear honored spot
The fame OF thy glory shall naer be forgot.
No wonder that for the last 1, 400 years
the churches have, forty days after
Easter, kept Ascension Day; for the les
sons are most inspiring and glorious. 1t
takes much of the uncertainty out of
the idea of Heaven, when from Olivet
we see human nature ascending. The
same body that rose from Josephs tomb
assembled from Mt. 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 organiza-
ton. Humanity assembled! All, how
closely that keeps Christ in sympathy
with those who are still in the struggle.
Assembled scars, face scars, hand scars, feet
scars, shoulder sears! That will keep Vim
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 celestial inhabitants who never
saw our world, now walk around Him
and learn from His physical contour
something of what our race WILDE when,
in the resurrection, Heaven will have
uncounted bodies as we'll as uncounted
spirits. On Ascension Day 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 star goes down but climbs another sky,
No sun sets here except to rise on high"
Christ leads us all the way; through
the birth hour, for lie was born in Beth
lehem: through boyhood, for he passed
it in Nazareth: through injustices. for
lie endured the Outrages of Pilates
court room; through death, for He suf-
fered it on Calvary; through the sepul.
cher, for He lay three days within its
darkened walls; through resurrection,
for the solid masonry gave way on the
first Easter morning: through ascension,
for Mount Olivet watched Him as He
climbed the skies; through the shining
gates, for He entered them amid mag
nifcent acclaim. And here is crafty
ing consideration that you never thought
of: We will see our Lord just as He
looked on earth. As lie rose from the
tomb He assembled from Mount Olivet.
We shall see Him as He looked on the
road to En.maus, as He appeared in the
upper room in Jerusalem, as He was
that day of valedictory on the ridge
from which He was swung into the
skies. How much we will want to see
Him.
was reading of man born blind.
lie was married to one who took care Of
him all those years of darkness. A sur
geOn said to him. II can remove that
blindness" and he did. His sight was
given 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,
N ta h;,,, nd hn tn
tears of rapture, when he suddenly
cried out: Il ought first to have asked
to see the one who cured me- show me
the Doctor" When from our eyes the
scales of earth shall fall. and we shall
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 DO to God for ascending
humanity. Could we realize it, and that
it is all in sympathy for us, we would
have as cool courage in the conflict OF
this life as had Charles XII. when he
was debating dispatches to his secre-
tary, and a bombshell fell into the room,
and the secretary dropped his pen and
attempted fight. Charles said to him:
'Go on with your writing. What has
the bombshell to do with the letter l am
dictating?" II the ascending Christ be
on our side, nothing should disturb us.
'Our fellow-sufiercr yet retains
A fellow-feelng in our pains
And still remembers, in the skies,
His tears, His agonies, and cries. --.
am so glad that Christ broke the
natural law of gravitation when he
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