Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-05-15

s.Ao nss, anu All along the line TO the foot
OF the throne, for years vacated but now
again to be 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
The glorious work is done"
1t was the greatest day in heaveni As be
goes up the steps of the throne that thirty
three years before he abdicated for our ad-
vantage, there rises from all the hosts Of
heaven shout, sanity, cherubic, seraphic,
archangelic. "Hallelujahl Amenv'
Q garden of olives, thou dear honored spot
the tame OF thy glory shall meier be forgot.
CHRIST LEADS US.
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 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 today. just as they had seen
Christ for forty days he assembled, head,
face, shoulders, hands, feet and the entire
human organism. Humanity assembled
All, how closely that keeps Christ in sym
pathy with those who are still in the strug-
glel Assembled scars, face scars, hand scars,
feet scars, shoulder scarsl That will keep
him in accord with all the suffering, with
all the weary, with all the imposed upon.
No more is he spirit now than a 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 amounted bodies
as well as uncounted spirits. On Ascension
day he lifted himself through the atmos-
phere of Palestine until, amid the inn
mensities, 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 it 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 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 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 Emmaus, 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.
''sHow ME THE DOCTOR"
was reading of man born blind. He
was married to one who took care of him
all those years of darkness. A surgeon
said to him, Il can remove that blindness"
and so he did His sight given him, a rose
was handed TO the man who never before
had seen rose and he was in admiration
of it, and his falnily whom he had never
seen before now appeared to him, and he
was in tears OF rapture, when he suddenly
cried out: II 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 my loved oness" Our first cry
ought to be, Where is Christ, who made
all this possibles Show me the doctorl''
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
a courage in the conflict of this life as had
Charles the Twelfth when he was dictat-
ing dispatches to his secretary, and bomb
shell fell into the room, and the secretary
dropped his pen and attempted flight.
Charles said to him; go on with your
writingl What has the bombshell to do
with the letter | am dictatingy" If the
assembled Christ be on our side, nothing
should disturb us.
Our fellow sufferer yet retains
fellow feeling in our palms,
And still remembers, in the Skies
His tears, his agonies and cries
GOD SUPERIOR TO ALL LAWS.
am so glad thut Christ broke the natur-
al law of gravitation when he shook off
from his feet the clutch of Mount Olivet
People talk as though cold. iron, unsympa-
thetic, natural law controlled everything
The reign of law is majestic thing, but
the God who made it has 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 dos 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 to Jeru-
salem, by few words he turned full leaved
fig tree into lifeless stick. He broke ich-
theological law when, without any natural
inducement, he swung great school of fish
into part of Lake Tiberias, where the fish
ermen had cast their nets for eight or ten
hours without the capture of minnow;
and by making fish help pay the tax by
yielding from its mouth Roman slater.
Christ broke the law of storms by compell-
ing, with a word, the angered sea to hush
its frenzy, and the winds to quit their bel
lowing. 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,