The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-12
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chanted, and coronets cast down.
''rhe angels throng'd his chariot wheels.
And bore him to his throne;
Then swept their golden harps and sung

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chanted, and coronets cast down.
''rhe angels throng'd his chariot wheels,
And bore him to his throne;
Then swept their golden harps and sung
The glorious wook is DONE"
IL 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 q shout, sanity, cherubic,
seraphic, archangelic, "Hallelujahl AmenP
| o garden of olives, thou dear honored spot,
The fame Of thy glory shall ne'er be forgot.
No wonder that for at least fourteen hun
dred years the churches have, forty days
after Easter, kept ascension day; for the
lessons are most inspiring and glorious. II
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 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 ascendedl An, how
closely that keeps Christ in sympathy with
those who are still in the struggled
Ascended scars, face scars, hand scars,
feet scars, shoulder scarsl That
will keep him in accord with all the suffer-
ing, with all the weary, with all the inn
posed-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 when, in the resur-
rection, heaven will have uncounted bodies
as well as uncounted spirits. On Ascension
day he lifted himself through the atmos-
phere of Palestine until, amid the immen-
stiles, 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 but climbs another sky.
No sun sets here except to rise on high
Christ leads us all the way through the
birth hour, for he was born in Bethlehem;
through boyhood, for he passed 1t in Naza-
reth; through injustices, for he endured the
outrages of Pilates court room; through
death, for he suffered it on Calvary;
through the sepulcher, for he lay three days
within its darkened walls; through resur-
rection, for the solid masonry gave way ON
the first Easter morning; through as
cension, for Mount Olivet watched
him as he climbed the skies;
through the shining gates, for he entered
them amid magnificent acclaim. And here
is 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 EN-
maus. as 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 a man born blind. He
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, a rose was
handed to the man who never before had
seen a rose, and he was in admiration of it,
and bis family, whom he had never seen
before, now appeared to him, and he was in
tears Of rapture. when he suddenly cried
out: 81 ought first to have asked to SEQ 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 onesp
Our first cry ought to be, "Where is
me the Doctorr Glory be to God for
assembled 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
secretary and a bombshell fell into the
room, and the secretary dropped his pen
and attempted fight. Charles said to him:
go ON with your writingl what has the
tatingp II the assembled Christ be on our
side nothing should disturb us.
Our fellow-sufferer yet retains
A felow-reeling 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 shook off from
his feet the clutch of Mount Olivet. People
talk as though cold, iron, unsympathetic,
natural law controlled everything. The
reign of law is a majestic thing; but the
God who made it has a right to break it,
and 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 right to do SO. A law is not strong enough
to shackle the Almighty. Christ broke
botanical law when, one Monday morning
in March, on the way from Bethany
he turned a fuIl-leaved fig tree into a
lifeless stick. He broke archaeological law
when, without any natural inducement, he
swung great school of fish into part of
Lake Tiberias, where the fishermen had
cast their nets for eight Or ten hours with
out the capture Of a minnow; and by MAX
ing fish help pay the tax by yielding
from its mouth Roman slater. Christ
broke the law of storms by compelling,
with word, the angered sea to hush its
frenzy, and the winds to quit their below
ing 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
out of five biscuits that would not ordinar-
lily have been enough for ten of the hungry.
He broke intellectual law when, by
word, he silenced a maniac into placidity.
He broke physiological law when, by
touch, he Strengthened a woman who for
eighteen years had been bent almost double,
and when he put spring into the foot Of in
humated Lazarus, and when, without med
icine, he gave the dying girl back in health
to the Syro-Pbpnician mother, and when
he made the palatial home of the nobleman
rssound again with the laughter of his re-
stored boy, and when, without knife or bat
terry, he set cataracted eyes to seeing again,
and the drum of deaf ears to vibrating
again, and the nerves of paralyzed arms 70
thrilling again, and then, when In leaving
the earth, he defied all atmospheric law and
physiological law, and that law which has
in it witnes and cables and girders enough
to hold the universe, the law of gravitation.
The Christ who proved himself on SO
many occasions, and especially the last, su-
perior to law, still lives; and every day in
answer to prayer for the good of the world.
he is overriding the law Blessed be God
that we are not the subjects of blind fatal
ity, but Of sympathizing divinity. Have
you never seen typhoid fever break, or a
storm suddenlv uIIiQt or a shin a-baarl;e.