Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-05-29

waved, and trumpcts sounded, and doxolo-
gies chanted, and coronets cast down.
s'Tne angels throng'd His char OF wheels,
And bore Him to His throne;
Then swept their golden harps and sung
The glorious wJrk is done.'"
1t 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 tho
hosts OF heaven a shout, sanity. cherubic,
seraphic, arch ngelic, 'Halletmjah Amen!''
10 garden OF olives thou dear honored spot
The fame of thy Tory shall ne er oe forgot"
No wonder that for at least fourteen
hundred years the churches have, forty
days after Easter, kept Ascension Day;
for the lessons are most inspiring and glo.
rious 1t takes much Of the uncertainty
out of the idea of heaven, when from Oil
vet we see humIn nature ascending. The
assembled from Mount Olivet. Our human
nature is in heaven to-day. Just as they
had seen Christ for forty days, He as
ccnded, head, face, shoulders, hands, feet,
and the entire human organism. Humanity
assembled All, how clos ly that Ike ps
Christ in sympathy with those who
ar, still in the struggle! Assembled
scars, face scars, hanl scars, icet
scars, shoulder scars! That will keep Him
in accord with all tn, suffering, with
all the weary with all the imposed upon.
No more is he spirit now than boiy, no
more OF heaven than earth. Those of the
celestial inh ,bitants who never saw our
world, now walk arounl Him and learn
from His physical contour something OF
what our race will be when, in the resur-
rcction, heaven will have uncounted bodies
as we'll as uncountcd spirits. On Ascen-
sion-Day He lif ed Himself through the
atmosphere of Palestine until, amid the i'm
mensilies, He dis ppeared He was the
only being the world ever saw who could
lift Himself. Surely, if He does lift Him
self, He Gun do the lesser deel OF lifting
u.s.
mo star goes down but climbs another sky,
Nosun sets here except to rise on high
Chr. st leads US all the way: Through
the birth hour, for he was born in Bethe.
hem through boyhood, for He passed it in
Nazareth Through injustices, for he endured
the outrages of Hates cOurt-room; through
death, for he suffered it on Calvary; through
the sepulchre, for He lay three da's with
in it's darkened walls; through resurrection
for the solid III sorry gave way on the first
Easter IN rning: through ascension, for
Mount Olivet watched him as he Climed
the skies: through the shining gates, for
lie entered them amid magnificent acclaim.
AuO ueT0 IS SEdItiI lux SOuoINCA ol'ou o""o
you never thought of: We will see 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 APP
peared 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.
Twas reading of q man born blind. He
was married to ono 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, rose
was handed to 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: ~ 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 have our first
vision of heaven, our first cry ought not to
be, "Where are our loved ones" Our first
cry ought to be, "Whcre is Christ who
made all this possibe! Show mo the
Doctor" Glory be to God for assembled
humanity! Could we realize it, and that
1t is all in sympathy for US, we would have
as cool courage in the conflict OF this life
as had Charles the Twelfth when he was
debating dispatches to his secretary, and
bombshell fell into the room, and the
secretary dropped his pen and attempted
flight Charles said to him: "Go ON with
your writing! what has the bombsheli Il
do with the letter am dictatin,F If the
assembled Christ be on our side, nothi1 g
should disturb US.
'Our fellow Sufferer yet retains
A fellow feeling in our pains,
| And still remembers in the skies,
His tears, His agonies, and cries."
am so glad that Christ broke thu
natural law of gravitation when He SHOOT
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 majestic
thing, but the Coo who made it has righ1
to break it, and again and again has broker
it, and again and again will break 1t. 4
law is only Gods way Of doing things, anc
IT He chooses to do them some other way
He has right to do 80. a law Is not stron:
} enough to shackle the Almighty. Chris
} broke botanical law when, one Monday
morning in March, on the way frou
} Bethany to Jerusalem, by few words H.
} turned full-leaved gtree into a lifeles.
stick. He broke archaeological law wnen
: without any natural inducement HI
swung great school OF fish into part o
Lake Tiberias, where the fishermen ha(
cast their nets for eight or ten hours with
, out the capture of a minnow; and b.
making q fish help pay the tax by yieldins
, from its mouth a Roman slater. Chris
broke the law OF storms By compelling
with q word the ungered sea to hush it
frenzy. and he winds to quit their below
ing. He broke geological law when II
made the devils possess the swine O
Gadara. He broke the law Of economic
. when He made enough bread for five thou
l sand people out OF five biscuits that woul
not ordinarily have been enough for ten o
the hungry. he broke intellectual la,
when, by word, He silica ced a maniac in
to placidity. He broke physiological la,
r when, by a touch, He Strengthened a WI
! man who, for eighteen years had been ben
almost double, AMI when he pu spring int
the foot OF inhumated Lazarus and wher
without medicine, He gave the dying gil
: back in health to the Syro- PhGnicia