The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-15

OF Christ Comparatively little was said
concerning Christ between the creation or
Adam and the advent Of Jesus. Then came
the brief period of His public ministry At
His baptism the Father from above and the
dove-like incarnation OF the divine spirit
resting on Christ's brow. invested Jesus
with surprising divine honor. The ascen-
sion OF Christ inaugurated the period of the
dispensation of the Holy Spirit. The ascen-
the administration of the Holy Spirit on the
earth. The temporary envoy must depart
ere the permanent ambassador could make
His advent He came in signal triumph at
pentecost. ten days after the ascension OF
Jesus; For 1.Soo years He has been fulfill
ing Christ's promise, He shall teach you
membrance. whatsoever / have said unto
YOU His mission is TO reprove the word
or sin, and of righteousness, and OF judg-
ment.' He bears testimony to our fiial re-
lationship to God. He Is the divine agent in
the regeneration OF each individual human
soul. His mission is application and His do
main the human intellect and heart He
breathes the dead soul and Ii glows with
spiritual purity. He grappieS the faculties
and affection unlooses its hold on sensual OBJ
jects. He implants and nourishes all OF the
graces of experimental religion. He spreads
in human hearts the banquet of love, JOY
Of pardon and acceptance. only because
Christ has assembled has the spirit Of God
come to abide with US in perpetuity Be
received the benediction of His perpetual,
efficacious and authoritative high priesthood
when Romulus disappeared from Rome
the patrcians declared that he hai been
translated to be a propitious god for his peo-
PIE. Julius Proclus affirmed that he had APP
peared to him in blazing armor and commits
stoned him TO tel the Romans that he had
gone back to heaven TO be their future friend
and deity. Qurinius. BY His ascension Jesus
has become our intercessor with the Father.
Paul told the Romans of Christ's place, on
the Fathers right hand, and His mission
as our mediator. He tod the Hebrews that
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most who should come TO God on the basis
of His microscopy Office. Our petitions are
granted on the foundation or Christ's atom
ing work on earth and microscopy work in
heaven. There He swells the tide OF bless
ings for men by the potency OF his pray
OTHER RESULTS.
Besides these blessings the ascension has
established Chrisfs kingly authority on the
head of the Christian church. Peter said OF
Him that God had exalted Him that He
might be Prince and a Savior Paul de-
clares that Christ is to reign until He hath
put all enemies under His feet. Sin, long
struggling to usurp the throne of human af-
fection-Satan marching at the head of all
powers that are hostile to the universal do
minion Of Christ-and death, conquering the
departed generations and waiting for new
generations to conquer, shall be bound.
captives. to Christ's victorious chariot. False
systems Of religion may wave their scepters
over noble intellects idolatry and supersti-
tion may rear their bloody affairs. skeptical
PHILOSOPHERS may seek to undermine the
foundations of the Christian faith, war may
continue to write its CORY records in GRIM
son characters yet Jesus reigns' and andy 6y
Christ is slowly subjugating all hostile forces
TO His universal domination.
Christianity viii write the hnai anthem r,a
The hour speeds down the path OF time when
Christian civilization shall have won world
wide victory. Because the ascended and en-
throned Christ is King of Kings the aurora
of Salvation shall yet light up the moral
midnight of the nations. The crescent flag
vary and the empty sepulcher of the Christ
Of history. Beautifully sings William cullen
Bryant:
20 Father, haste the promised hour
When at Christs feet shall lie
Ali rule, authority and power
Beneath yon ample sky;
When He shall reign from pole to pole,
The Lord of every human SOUL
"The ascension of Christ ratified. also. and
most impressively. the covenant OF the resur-
rection glory of the bodies OF His frieDds.
Promise after promise did He utter relative
to the physical translation OF His followers
at the close of time. His ascension was
necessary to the fulfllment OF these pledges.
Going home He carried up his glorified h ~
resurrection harvest. AS Elijah tossed to
his successor, Elisha. his mantle of prophet
zeal power. as he entered GODS eF rbrsa;
ascended He covered the tomb OF every
Christian saint down to the end OF time with
tine tn goen ou en3ess
and deathless glory. Paul assured the Cor
inthians that as we have borne the image
of the earthly we shall also bear the image
of the heavenly Paul also told the church
at Philippi that Christ shall change our vile
bodies that they may be fashioned like unto fbo
angels serenaded the shepherds at Bethle--
hem. David sang, L shall be satisfied when
awake in Thy likeness Hope does not stand
Sleeps cps" in Jesus. The siumbering tenants of
Christian graves are TO be promo.eu
from the captivity of death :. to an az
order is Christ first. then they that are
Cnrist's at His coming He whose wisdom
transfigures carbonic ACID gas INTO me mpst
He who, I'm a shell, paints, with the prilnaLy
colors of the rainbow, the plumage OF the
worm V.or "a from its crysolis of corruption and
bids it wave the gorgeous wings OF newly
created butterfly in the sunlit ether-can
His own celestial likeness and image. AT
His ascension Christ was received up INTO
glory He had been aSa for IRON e again saf
down at the right hand of the Majesty on
high! What must have been the celestial
splendor of His entry and reception into
His capital?
EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY RULERS.
"Sixty-one years before Christ became in
carnate Rome gave TO her illustrious war
ror, Pompey famous triumphal welcome.
He came through the gates OF the city at
the head of an army that took two days
to pass the imperial court. The enthusiastic
populace had strewn the streets with flow
ers. Pompey sat in a triumphal chariot
behind which, in chains. walked the kings,
queens and great generals of fifteen for
eign lands. After enriching the soldiers OF
his army ne paid to the imperial treasury
tnirty-five millions os drachmas of gold be-
sides immense other spoils. He was pub
Hcly crowned 'conqueror of the world. The
ceremonies and fetes connected with the
approaching reception and coronation al
Moscow of the young Car of Russia viii
be far more Respondent and costly. He
will ride to Moscow on the finest train earth
ever saw, and soldiers will flank thes rail-
way for four hundred miles. The govern
ment will spend thirty millions of roubles
on the Nominations, decorations and vast
banquets. Representatives OF Asatic and
EuroDean monarchs will be present Ii
will be the most magnificent reception ever
rendered TO an emperor. On the brow OF
the Gear Will rest crown among whose
Jewels are five hundred diamonds.
How think you that Jesus was received In
the capital Of the King OF Kings. on the
morning OF Ascension day, when company
OF angels conveyed Him home ward? Think
YOU not that Raphael. Michael and Gabriel,
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