The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-30
REV. ALBERT DALE GANTZ DIS
COURSES ON AST-ASCEN-
SION THEME.
Large and Interested Congregation
Listened to the Reverend Gentle
mans Remarks Sunday.

OF the First presbyterian CHulNh' N
Birch and First streets. preached to a
large and interested congregation Sun
day, on the ascension theme of
Christian work. He said in part:
Last Sabbath was spent in the con-
temptation Of our Lords ascention.
Today we turn our attention to the
Immediate sequel The disciples had
listened to their Lords parting words
they had received His final blessing;
they had seen Him, with uplifted
hands, vanish into heaven. Now they
stand wonder struck and mOtiOnlesS.
gazing up into the skies. The King of
glory entering at last in triumph into
the heavenly Jerusalem amidst the ac-
clamation of angeIs-is still mindful
Of His simple hearted disciples whom
He has left behind He details two of
the heavenly host to return and speak
a word to them in their lonliness. Thus
while they are still gazing heaven
ward. two men in white apparel stand
beside them with a message. That mes
sage is the text for your study today.
1t is found in the book of Acts, first
rhapter and eleventh verse. and READS:
we men of GaIilee, why stand We
looking into heaven? This Jesus who
was received up from you into heaven,
shall come in like manner as ye beheld
Him going into heaven.
1t is not often that we get a purely
heavenly point of view regarding things
which take place here on the earth.
Even in the earthly lfe of our Lord it
is only seldom that we hear heavenly
voices. True, his whole life was the
life of a heavenly being here below
the life upon the earth of the highest
heavenly Being-God. thereby enabling
us to see how the Deity would live and
think and act among men. This life,
however, was made incarnate 1t was
yelled in flesh SO that we are ac-
customed to think of it's utterances
though divine, as made from the hui
man point of view. But when we hear
a word from an angela distinctly and
purely heavenly order of being-we feel
sure that it is spoken from the heavenly
view point. We catch a glimpse, as it
were, of that other world and gain some
understanding of what they are think
ing of us there Now we know what
common thing it is to have our Gu
riosity excited to know what some
other person or persons are thinking
OF us here. We wonder if they under
stand us. We wonder if they sympa-
thize with our situation and struggle.
We wonder if they know our SORROW
If they can appreciate our anguish of
spirit. Again We often do our work
with reference to the opinion of others. |
Some imaginary spectator is before
us. Some fancied audience appears to
us. The child conducts itself with ref
erence to the approval or disapproval
" nay "O"lu lilotHeI
say? What would teacher think? The
young graduate is preparing the COM
mehcement address with an audience
OF approving parents and friends and
sWeethearts in mind. We are spurred
on to do well, we are checked from do
ing Ill by the consciousness of a review
OF our actions by others, what would !
The church people think? What would !,
my customers Think What would Mrs |.
Grundy say? There is one thing to say
with reference to all this. and that is. !
if We are doing right, acting frank. Iiv-
ing clean. honest lives We need have /
no apprehension of What men will saw