The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1908-07-24

ing hours for women and the Staying
| of childhood upon Mammon's altar.
The wounded are to be healed. More.
! the road between Jerusalem and Jeri-
| cho so patrolled as to make wounds
| from robbers impossible. Not only
is disease to be cured, but the cause
| Is to be removed.
Christ's ascension confirms our
| hopes of immortality. We have
| twofold origin. First, the physical.
| from Adam. Like myriads of his de-
| scendants who have lived before us,
| we see how our bodies will dissolve
| into the dust. Our spiritual commu-
Mon with God the Father, our pass
j ing from death to life in love for the
| brethren. This is our creation anew
| in the second Adam. Christ Jesus,
! AS that which bore the image of the
first Adam follows Him, so that in
Us which bore the image of the Sec
ond Adam will follow Him.
! If there were no continuation of
this life after death, Christ says: 81
would have told you So" No pro-
vlsos concerning it's terribleness-"I
would have told you So" II go to
prepare a place for you: that where
I am, there We may be Also" Christ's
ascension describes our pathway be-
yond the grave, and where He Is, all
the spirits of just men made perfect
| will be also. The ascension of Christ
! gives most emphatic confirmation of
our hope of the life beyond.
Joy from the ascension of Christ.
These men had parted from their
: teacher, the prince among teachers,
the friend of friends. His hands
would no more be laid upon them in
benediction. No more would His
voice be heard. They were the suf-
ferers of the most irreparable loss.
| Thus bereft, their task was to dis
ciple all nations composed of hostile
peoples, eager to prosecute them with
| death torture. Oh, the agony of
their despair! Yet they returned
to Jerusalem with great joy" Album
| dant must have been their ascension
joy to have absorbed their grief.
His words to them were "all power
is given to me-" Wickedness would
| be annihilated by His omnipotent
| grace. The assurance of the fruition
of your supreme desire gives great
| joy. The supreme desire of these
who were trained by Him who is full
, Of grace and truth would be the de-
struction of evil and the enthrone-
| ment of good. The assurance of this
contamination by Him of almighty
power filed them with JOY.
Joy comes from power Govern
ment is said to have it's origin in
| mans desire to govern rather than
to be governed. The successful can
didate flushed with power is joyful.
All the power of our ancestors
meets in US and must obey our be-
hest which may be thus far" The
Dark Ages said this and arrested pro-
gress. or IL further, which we of the
twentieth century say, the labors of
the race are transmitted to the en-
richment Of posterity These dis
ciples tense with the power of Him
by which they can do all things, were
joyful. But when it is from the
power that turns carnal kingdoms
into those of eternal love, it's inten-
sity and duration is fullest. This
was the source of the disciples joy.
Thev continually praised and blessed
Gcd."
We may be the depository of the
Spiritual power of twenty Christian
centuries. We may exercise it to
make the world purer, juster, holier.
The pathway of the assembled Christ
may be the trial of our own spirits
to ineffable glory. Under the do
minion of these convictions as it is
our privilege and duty to be, we ez-
perience with the disciples the great
ascension joy and will like them
continually praise and bless Cad"