News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-15

throngs; and 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 throug'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 heaven
As he goes up the steps of the throne
that thirty three years before he abdi-
Gated for our advantage, there rises
from all the hosts of heaven a shout,
sanity, cherubic, seraphic, archangel-
ic, "Hallelujahl Amenw
o garden of olives, thou dear honored spot,
The fame of thy glory shall ne'er be forgot.
HE CAN LIFT Us.
No wonder that for at least fourteen
hundred years the churches have,
forty days after Easter kept Assem-
sion day; for the lessons are most in
spring and glorious. 1t takes much
of the uncertainty out of the idea of
heaven, when from Olivet we see hu-
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, Shout
ders, hands, feet and the entire hui
man organism Humanity assembled!
All, how closely that keeps Christ in
sympathy with those who are still in
the struggle! Assembled scars, face
scars, head scars, feet scars, shoulder
scars!
That will keep him in accord with
all the suffering, with all the weary,
with all the imposed upon. No more
is he a spirit now than 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 resurrection, heaven will
have uncounted bodies as well as I'M
counted spirits. On Ascension day he
lifted himself through the atmosphere
of Palestine until, amid the immensi-
ties, 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
ln inf no
Bethlehem; through boyhood, for he
passed it in Nazareth; through inius-
tees, 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
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 en-
tered them amid magnificent acclaim.
And here is a gratifying situation 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 vale
dictory on the ridge from which he
swung into the skies. How much we
will want to see him!
WE SHOULD LOOK FOR CHRIST.
l 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 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 |
cried out: II ought first to
have asked to see the one who cured |
mo; 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 ones2" Our
first cry ought to be, where is
Christ, who made all this possible?
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 courage in the conflict of this
life as had Charles the Twelfth when
le was debating dispatches to his sec
'etary, and a bombshell fell into the
'oom, and the secretary dropped his
pen and attempted flight Charles
,aid to him: go on with your writ
ngl what has the bombshell to do
With the letter l am dictating?" If the
lscended Christ be on our side, moth
ny should disturb us.
OurfeIlow sufferer yet retains
fellow feeling in our pains,
And still remembers, in the skies,
His tears, his agonies and cries.
OMNISCIENT POWER.
l am so glad that Christ broke the
natural law of gravitation when he
hook off from his feet the clutch of
Mount Olivet People talk as though
Il 1, I,