The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-07-31

men Of God. are in that great com.
pany whose number no man can mum.
ber. yet Christ sits at the right hand
with q name above every name and
all powers and principalities at His
feet. This exaltation - His through
all time--enriches all His past. makes
the land on which He lived to us
holy. His precepts priceless and gives
the largest satisfaction and fullest
fruition TO our faith
The ascension OF Christ pays honor
TO the body. The third article Of our
religion is "Christ did truly rise
again from the dead and took again
His body. with all things appertain-
ing 10 the perfection OF mans ma
ture. wherewith He ascended into
| heaven and there sitteth until He
| return 10 Judge all men at the last
| day" Pestilences are not from Him.
Disease. making the body, as Pope
declares his, an apparatus OF tor
| ture." Is no more from God than
the disease of the soul. Jesus cured
both and inflicted neither. The body
| designed TO be an instrument OF
| Righteousness must be strong. To
be strong IL must be nourished by
pure air. pure water. pure food. Even
1 IL,
the legislation should compass the
hygiene OF homes, Offices and facto-
ries. the prohibition both of overtax-
ing hours for women and the Staying
OF childhood upon Mammop'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 10 be removed.
ChriSt's ascension confirms our
hopes OF immortality. We have n
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
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.
III there were no continuation Of
this life after death, Christ says: II
would have told you So" No pro-
visos concerning its terribleness-"I
would have told you So" II go TO
prepare a place for you: that where
/ am. there ye 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 persecute them with
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
consummation by Him of almighty
power filled them with joy.
JOY comes from power. Govern
ment Is said to have its 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 II 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 IL is from the
power that turns carnal Kingdoms
into those Of eternal love, fits inten-
sity and duration is fullest. This
was the source Of the disciples joy
They continually praised and blessed
God"
We may be the depository OF the
| spiritual power Of twenty Christian
centuries. We may exercise IL TO
make the world purer, juster. holier.
The pathway OF the ascen6ed Christ
may be the trial of our own spirits
to ineffable glory. Under the do
minion of these convictions as IL is
our privilege and duty to be, we ex-
perience with the disciples the great
ascension Joy and will like them
| "contfnua1ly praisa and bless God 4"