The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-05-15

au thsHearN, WIN All t1f lmpDsst upon
No mce Is He spirit now tnau a BODY N
more Of heaven than earth Tnose of tn
/. celestial inhabitants VINO never saw on
worl now walk around Him and learn from
His hysical contour something of wnat on
raci will be when, in the resurr sction
hes en- will have uncountei bodies as wei
as fncounted spirits. On Ascension Day III
lifh Himself through the atmosphere %
y Psestine until. amid the imm susitiss, n,
disappeared. He was the only being tn,
wrld ever saw who could lift Himself: surel,
i'He could lift Himself He can do the less 5I
'sed of lifting US.
No star goes down but climb. smother sky.
No srn sets here eIeep, TO rise on hgh.
Christ leads us all the way: through tn
birth hour, for He was born in Bethlehem
through boyhood for He passed IL in NaZa
reth; through iniustic -. for He endured IN.
outrages OF Pilates court room; throu "a
death, for He suif Tered IL on Calvary: tnrousi
tds sepulchre tor He lay tirss days within
it, darkoned walls through resurrection
for the solid masonry gave way on this first
Easter morning; through ascension. for
Mount Olivct watched Him as He climbed
the skies through the shining gates. for Hs
entered them amid magnificent acclaim
Aud here is gratifying consideration that
you never thought VI: We will see ou-
Lord just As He looked on earth. As He
rose from the tomb Fl assembled from Mount
phffLs We NNtAl - nun is Tie iODkcl
the road 10 Emmau, a. He appeared in the
upper room in Jerusalem, as He was that
day ot Naledictory On the ridge from which
lie swung into TIM skies. How much We
Will want To see HIM.
was reading ot a man born blind. Hewa.
married u one w1o took care Of him all those
year, of darkns,. A surgeon said to him
II can remove that blindness and 50 h.
did. His sight -iven him. a rose was handed
o. the man wa never before had seen ros,
ani he was IN admiration Of IL, and his fam
ilv wnom he had never seen before nov ap.
pesred to him, and he was in tears of rap.
tura when h' suddenly cried ont. II ought
first To have asked - scs the one who cured
mo, show me the doctor" When from our
eyes the scale. Of earth shall fall and we have
our first vision Of heaven, our first cry ought
not 20 he Where are my loved onesy Our
first cry ought To be- "Whers is Christ who
made all this possible Show me the doctor 90
Glory be Ia God tor ascendei humanity
Could ~ renlz, It. aud that IL is all in SYM
psthy or rs, We would have as cool cour-
age IN the conflict of this life as hal Charles
the Twelfth wh,h he was debating dispatches
To hi seer atary, and bombshell fell into
the room, and the secretary dropped his pen
and attempted flight Charles said u him
go on with your writing What has the
bombshell to do with tn, letter am die.
tatlng| Ii the ascendel Christ bc on our
our fellow suif ,rer vet rsta'ns
fellow feeling In Onr piin-.
And still rcm,mbrrs, In the skies,
His tears, His asonies aud cries.
fam 50 glal that Christ broke the natural
law of grsvItatipn when H. shpp; off from
His feet the clutch II Mount Ohvct. People
talk as though cold iron. un,ymp1thetic
natural law "pntr)lsi everything The reign
Of law j. "A ma irstic thing but the God who
Itula II lu. IA rlf IN h-a.ly q ul "a,
and again hl, broken u, am again and again
will break II. \ law j. only Coils way of
doing thiny,. and If He chooses t. do them
some other way He has a right to d, -. \
law l. not strong enough to shackle IN" Al
mighty. Christ broke botanical law when,
one Monday morning In March. on the way
from Bethany 10 Jeru salem, by a few words
He turned full loavei Tx tree into
u lifeie,, stick He broke ichthyologi.
cal Law when, without any natural
lnlucsmhn hnt He swung great school Of fish
into "A part of Lake Tiberias. where the fish.
ermen had cast their nets for eight or ton
hours without tho capture OF minnow.
and by making fish help pay the tax 10y
yielding from its mouth Roman slater.
Christ broke the law OF storms Dy compel
ing, with word, the angered sea 10 hush
its frenzy. and the winds u quit their bel
lowing He broke geological law when He
made the devils possess the -. ''"dara
made enough bread for five thousand people
out Of five biscuits that would not ordinarily
have been enough for ten of the hungry.
He broke intellectual law when bv word
He siencei maniac IN placidity. He
broke physioo yical law when, by "A touch
He Strengthened woman who tor eighteen
years had been bent almost double, AMI when
He put spring into the foot of inhumated
Lazarus, and when without medicine, He
gave the dying girl back in health to III"
Syro-Phpnician mother, AMI when He made
the palatial home OF the nobleman re,ound
again with the laughter ot hi, restored boy,
and when, without knife or battery, He set
eyes 10 seeing again and the drum
OF deaf ears 10 vibrating again. ant the
nerves OF paralyza1 arms u thrilling again,
and then when in leaving the earth He detiei
all atmospheric law and physiological law
and that law which has IN It wtheS and
cables and grders enough 10 hold the un-
verse, the law OF gravitation.
The Christ who proved Himself on so many
occasions, and especially the last superior to
law, still lives and every day, in answer 10
prayer for the good of the world He Is over
riding the law. Blessed be- God that we are
not the subjects Of blind fatality hut OF
sympathizing divinity. Have you never
seen typhoid fever break, or a storm sud
ienly quiet, or snip IA beam send right it
self, or "A fog lift, or parched sky break in
-
or ths inconsoable take solacc, or
the wayward reform at the call of prayer,
/ have seen 1t; multitules have zen
1t. You have, II you have been Wiling
TO see It. Derde not the faith cure. Because
impostors attempt 1t Is nothing against good
men whom God hath hOnorei with marvel
Gus restorationS Pronounce nothing impOs-
sble TO prayer and trust, Because you and
| cannot effect 1t is no reason why Others
may not BY the same argument could
prove that Raphael never painted Madon-
ma, aud that MendelSSohn never wrote an or
atorio, and that Phidlss never chiselel
statue. Because we cannot accomplish it
ourselves We are not 70 conclude that others
may not. There are in immensity great
ranges of mists which have proved
under closer telescope scrutiny, to he
the store house o. worlds, and do
not know but from that passage in
James, which 10 some of Us is vet misty and
dim, there may roll out a new heaven and
new earth: The prayer of faith shall save
the sick The faith cugists may, in this
war against disease, be only skirmshng be-
fore general engagement, in which all the
maladies of earth shall be routed. Surely
and homeopathy and hydropathy
and eclecticism need reinforcement from
Why not from the faith and
PRAYER Of the consecrsted. The mightiest
school OF medicine NAV yet be the school of
Christ. do not know but that diseases now
by all schools pronounced incurable
may give way under Gospel lombard
ment | do not know but that the day
may come when faith and PRAYER shall raise
the dead. Strauss and WOplston and Suiu-