The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-05-22

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limestone rock part, and part forever
Leaning. back, aud with pallid
checks and llpliftod eyes, the disci,
pies see their Lord rising from the
solid earth. Then rushing forward
they would grasp His feet to hold
Him fast, but they are out of reach,
and tits too late to detain Him.
Higher than tops of the fgtrees from
which they had plucked the fruit.
Higher than the oivc-trees that
shaded the mount. Higher until he
is within sight of the Bethlehem
where He was born, and tho Jordan
whore he was baptized, and the Col
gotha, where he was slain. Higher
until on stairs of flcecy clouds He
| stops Higher, until into q sky bluer
than the lake that could not sink
Him. He disappears into q sea of
glory whose billowing splendors hide
Him. The fshermen watch and
watch, wondering if the law of ma
ture will not re-asselt itself, and He
shall i'll n few minutes come back
again, and they shall see Him de-
scending; first His SCARED feet COM
ing in sight, then the SCARED side,
then the SCARED brow, and they may
take again His SCARED hand, But
the moments pass by, and the hours,
and no appearance. Gone out of
sight Of earth, but como within sight
Of heaven, And rising still, not vel
coined by one angelic choir like those
who one Christmas night escorted
Jim down, bat all heaven turns out
to greet Him home, and the temples
have especial anthem, and the pala-
ceS especial banquet, and the streets
especial thrOngs; and all along the
! lnc to the foot OF the throne, for
years vacated but again to be taken,
| there are arches lifted, and banners
waved, and trumpets sounded, and
doXologies chanted, and coroncts
cast down.
"Thc aug Is throng'd His chariot w heels,
And bore Him ~ His thrcnc,
ThCn swept thCir golden harpS and sung
| The glorious WORK Is dolc."
1t WAS the greatest day in heaven.
AS he goes up the steps OF the throne
| that thlrty-thrcc years before He alb
di"ated for our advantage, there rises
from all the hosts of heaven II shout
sanity, chcrubic, scrlphic, archan-
Scllc, ''i1allQluJ0ll! Amen.
! OGardcn OF olives, thou dear honorcl Spo;
| The fame of thy glcry shall ne'cr be forgo:. -
No wonder for at least fourteen
hundred Years the churches have,
forty days after Easter, kept Asccn-
sion day; for the lessons are most III
spring and glorious 1t takes much
of the uncertainty out Of the idea Of
heaven, when from Olivct we see hu-
man nature ascending. The Same
body that roso from Joscph's tomb
| assembled from Mount Ollvct. Our
human nature is in heaven to day.
Just az they had seen Christ for forty
| days, He ascondcd, head, face, Shoul-
doris, hands, feet, and the entire hu.
| man organism. Humanity nsccndcd.
| All, how closely that keeps Christ in
! sympathy with those who ere still in
! the struggle! Assembled scars, face
sears, hama sears. feet scars, shoulder
scars. That will keep Him in accord!
! with all the suffering, with all the
weary, with all the imposcd.upon No
more IS lie Il spirit now than Il body,
no more of heaven than earth. Those
Of the celestial inhabitants whOncycr
saw our world, now walk around
Him and learn from His physical CON
tour something ofwhat our race will
be when, in the resurrection, heaven
will have uncounted bodies as well as
uncounted spirits. On Ascension
day He lifted Himself through the at
mosphcrc Of Palestine until, amid the
immensitics, He disappeared. He
was the only being tho world cvol
saw who could lift Himself Surely
if He could lift Himself, He can dc
the lesser deed of lifting us.
"No star goes dowL bat climbs another sky
No sun sets here except to rIlo on high"
Christ leads us all the way; through
the bright hour, for he was born il
Bethlehem; through boyhOod, for He
passed it i'll Nazareth; through inius
tees, for He endured the outragcs OF
Pilates court room; through death
for He Suffered it on Calvary;tmougl
the sepulchrc, for He LAZY three days
within it's darkcned walls; through
resurrection, for the solid masonry
gAvo way ON the first Easter mornin"
through ascension, for Mount Olivct
watched Him rs lie climbed the
skies; through the shining gates. fol
! flo entered them amid magniliccn
acclaim. And here IS II gratifying
consideration that you never though
Of: We will see our Lord just as lie
looked on earth. AS lie rose from
the tomb He asccnded from Noun
OlivQt We shall SEQ Himas ne look
ed on the road to Emmaus, as Ht
appeared III the upper room in Jeru
salem, IS He was that day OF valcdic