Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1908-08-06

Of prophets, sages, kings and mighty
men Of God, are In that great com.
pany whose number no man can NUM-
Der, yet Christ sits at the right hand
with a name above every name and
all powers and pr~incipalities 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 n 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 to the perfection OF mans ma
ture, wherewith He assembled n
heaven and there stitch until He
return to Judge all men at the last
| day." Pestilences are not from Him.
Disease, making the body, as Pope
declares his. al 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 it must be nourished by
pure air, pure water, pure food. Even
if these be secured by legislation,
the legislation should compass the
hygiene Of homes, Offices and facto-
rfes, the prohibition both Of overtax-
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 aus
is to be removed.
Christ's ascension confirms our
hopes of immortality. We have a
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
5 first Adam follows Him, SO that in
+ us which bore the image of the sec
ond Adam will follow Him.
5 If there. were no continuation of
this life after death, Christ says: Il
: would have told you So" No pro-
visos concerning it's terribleness-"I
: would have told you So" ct go to
prepare a place for you: that where
: I am, there We may be ALSO" Christ's
ascension describes our pathway be
vond the grave, and where He is, all
e the spirits of Just men made perfect
Twill be also. The ascension of Christ
: gives most emphatic confirmation OF
s our hope OF the life beyond.
7 Joy from the ascension of Christ
e These men had parted from theil
c teacher, the prince among teachers
: the friend of friends. His hands
t would no more be laid upon them in
S benediction. No more would His
: voice be heard. They were the sui
e ferers Of the most irreparable loss
Thus bereft. their task was to dis
n ciple all nations composed of hostile
peoples, eager to persecute them will
death torture. Oh, the agony Of
d their despair! Yet they %"returnet
to Jerusalem with great JOY" Album
9 dant must have been their ascension
h joy to have absorbed their grief.
d His words to them were "all powe
e Is given to me-" Wickedness woul>
be annihilated by His omnipoten
n grace. The assurance of the fruitiol
d of your supreme desire gives grea
joy. The supreme desire of thes
It who were trained by Him who is full
r of grace and truth would be the de
e struction of evil and the enthrone
If ment of good. The assurance of thi
y consummation by Him of almight
st power filled them with JOY.
lg Joy ome from power. Govern
p ment is said to lave its origin i
Mt mans desire to govern rather tina
is to be governed. The successful car
If didate flushed with power is joyful.
at All the power Of our ancestor
:. meets in US and must obey our bt
"a hest which may be thus far" Th
IS Dark Ages said this and arrested prt
n gress, or if further, which we of tn
IS twentieth century say, the labors {
to the race are transmitted to the e,
C. richment of posterity. These df
tn ciples tense with the power of Hi
ut by which they can do all things, wei
H. joyful. But when it is from tt
cd power that turns carnal kingdom
in into those of eternal love, its intel
be sity and duration is fullest. TIL
tn was the ource of the disciples jo
re They continually praised and blesse
ce God"
&C. We may be the depository of II
spiritual power of twenty Christie
lily centuries. We may exercise it
It make the world purer, juster, hole
IS The pathway Of the assembled Chri
IN may be the trial of our own spiri
to ineffable glory. Under the d
I'M minion of these convictions as it
He our privilege and duty to be, we e
perience with the disciples the gre
in ascension JOY and will like the
lily continually praise and bless Cod"