Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-05-22

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Him home, and the temples have espe-
cisl anthem, and the palaces especial
banquet, and the streets especial
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 lhronged His char OF 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 Heavenl As
He goes up the steps of the throne that
thirty-three years before He abdicated
for our advantage, there rises from all
the hosts of Heaven a shout. sanity,
cherubic, seraphic, archangelic, Halle
lujah! Amen!''
o, garden of olives, thou dear honored spot,
! The fame of thy glory shall neer be forgot.
No wonder that for at least /, 400 years
the churches have, forty days after
Easter, kept Ascension day; for the les
sons are most inspiring and glorious. 1t
takes much of the uncertainty out of the
idea of Heaven when from Olitet
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same body that rose from Joseph's tomb
assembled from Mount Olivet. Our hui
man nature is in Heaven to-day. Just
as they had seen Christ for forty days,
He assembled, head, face, shoulders,
hands, feet and the entire human organ
ism. Humanity assembled All, how
closely that keeps Christ in sympathy
with those who are still in the struggle!
Assembled scars, face scars, hand scars,
feet scars, shoulder scars! That will
keep him in accord with all the suffer
ing, with all the weary, with all the i'm
posed upon. No more is He spirit now
than a body. no more of Heaven than
earth. Those of the celestial inhabit-
ants who never saw our world, now walk
around Him and learn from His physi-
cal contour something of what our race
will be when, in the resurrection, Heaven
will have uncounted bodies as well as
uncounted spirits. On Ascension day
! lie lifted himself through the atmos-
phere of Palestine until, amid the i'm
mensities, He .sappeared. He was the
only being the world ever saw who
could lift Himself. Surely, if He does
| 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 Beth
lehem; through boyhood, for He passed
it in Nazareth; through injustices, for
He endured the outrages of Pilates court
room; through death, for He suffered it
on Calvary; through the sepulchre, 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 mag
nificent acclaim. And here is crafty
ing consideration that you never thought
Of We will see the Lord just as He
looked on earth. AS He arose 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.
| was reading of man born blind.
He was MARI ed to one who took care of
him all those years of darkness. A
surgeon said to him: II 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
family 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 our loved
oneS?" Our first cry ought to be:
''Where is Christ. who made all this pos
sible? Show me the Doctor!" Glory be
to God for assembled humanity! Could
we realize it, and that it is all in SYM
patty for us, we would have as cool a
courage in the conflict of this life as
had Charles MI. when he was debating
dispatches to his secretary, and a bomb
shell fell into the room, and the secre-
tary dropped his pen and attempted
flight, Charles said to him: $50 on with
your writ Dg! what has the bOmbshell
to do with the letter l am dictating?"
If the assembled Christ be on our side,
nothing should disturb us.
''Our fellow sufferer yet retains
fellow feeling in our pains,
And still remembers, in the skies,
His tears, His agonies and cries"
/ am 50 glad that Christ broke the
natural law of gravitation when He
shook off from his feet the clutch of
Mount Olivet People talk as though
cold, iron, unsympathet C, natural law
controlled every thing. The reign of
law is a majestic thing, but the God
who made 1t has a 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 do so. A law is not
strong enough to shackle the Almighty.
Christ broke the botanical law when one
Monday morning in March, on the way
from Bethany to Jerusalem, by a few
words he turned full leaved fig tree
into lifeless stick. He broke ichthyo-
logical law when, without any natural
inducement, he swung great school OF
fiji into part of Lake Tiberias, where
the fishermen 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 compelling,
". tn a word. the angered sea to hush its