Connecticut western news., 1890-05-14
THE LORD IS RISEN!
WONDERFUL SERMON ON TIE
 ASCENSION BY DR. 4TALMAGE.

Lessons Drawn from the Text, Ps. xxiv, 7-An Is Possible to the Son of God.
 The Power of Prayer-On Mount Olivet.
 BROOKLYN, May 11-After reading appropriate passages of Scripture, and the usual prayers and musical exer- cises, Dr. Talmage preached the fol- lowing sermon in the Academy of Music this morning, from the words, Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in." Ps xxiv, 7.
 In olden times when great con queror returned from victorious war, the people in wild transport would take hold of the gates of the city and lift them from their hinges, as much as to say: "This city needs no more gates to defend it since this conqueror has got home. Of from the hinges with the gatesW David, who was the poet of poets, foretells in his own way the triumphal entrance of Christ into heaven, after his victory over sin and U01Lu d4O u01l u WdS dS II Illc Cc1cS- tial inhabitants had said: ''Here he comesl Make way for him Push back the bolts of diamondl Take hold of the doors of pearl and hoist them from their hinges of gold! Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.'
 MOUNT oLIvET. -
 Among the mountains of Palestine no one is more uplifting than Mount Olivet.- It was the peroration of our Lords ministry. On the roof of a house in Jerusalem asked, (Which is Oivet2" and the first glance trans fixed me. But how shall I describe my emotions, when, near the close of a journey, in which we had for two nights encamped amid the shattered masonry of old Jericho, and tasted of the acrid waters of the Dead Sea, that crystal sarcophagus of the buried cities of the plain, and waded down into the deep and swift Jordon to baptize a man, and visited the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha and Laza- rus, we found ourselves in stirrups and on horse, lathered with the long and difficult way. ascending Mount Olivet Oh, that solemn and sugges- tive ridge! It is limestone hill, a mile in length, and three hundred feet high, and twenty-seven hundred feet above the level of the sea.
 Over it King David fled with a broken heart. Over it Pompey led his devastating hosts. Here the famous Tenth Legion built their batteries in besiegement. The Garden of Gethse- mane weeps at the foot of it. Along the base of the hill flashed the lanterns and torches of those who came to ar rest Jesus. From the trees on this hill the boughs were torn off and thrown into the path of Christ's triumphal procession. Up and down that road Jesus had walked twice a day from Bethany to Jerusalem, and from Jeru salem to Bethany. There, again and again, he had taught his disciples. Half way up this mount he uttered his lamentation, 70 Jerusalem, Jerusa- lem!" From its heights Jesus took flight homeward when he had finished his earthly mission There is nothing more for him to do. A sacrifice was needed to make peace between the rec. reant earth and the outraged heaven, and he had offered it. Death needed to be conquered, and he had put his resurrection foot upon it. The thirty three years of voluntary exile had ended. The grandest, tenderest might fest Good-by ever heard was now to be uttered.
 NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.
 On Mount Olivet Jesus stands i'll group of Galilee fishermen. They had been together in many scenes of sad ness and persecution and had been the more endeared by that brotherhood of suffering. They had expected him to stay until the day of coronation when he would take the earthly throne and wave scepter mightier, and rule dominion wider, than any Pharaoh, than any David, than any Caesar. But now all these anticipations collapse. Christ has given his last advice. He has offered his last sympathy. He has spoken his last word His hands are spread apart as one is apt to do when he pronounces a benediction, when suddenly the strongest and most stu pendous law of all worlds is shattered.
 It is the law which, since the worlds were created, holds them together. It is the law which holds everything to the earth, or, temporarily hurled from earth, returns it; the law which keeps the planets whirling around our sun, and our solar system whirling around other systems, and all the systems whirling around the throne of God the law of gravitation. That law is suspended, or relaxed, or broken, to let the body of Jesus go. That law had laid hold of him thirty three years before, when he descended. It had re- faxed it's grip of him but once, and that when it declined to sink him from the top of the waves on Lake Galilee, on which he walked, to the bottom of the lake. That law of gravi- tation must now give way to him who made the law. It may hold the other stars, but it cannot longer hold the Morning Star of the Redemption. It may hold the monday sun, but it can not hold the Sun of Righteousness.
 The fingers of the law are about to open to let go the most illustrious Be- ing the world had ever seen, and whom it had worst maltreated. The strongest law of nature which philoso- phers ever weighed or measured must at last give way. It will break be- tween the rock of Olivet and the heel of Christ's foot. Watch it, all ye dis ciples! Watch it, all the earth! Watch