Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-26
TempIars Observe Ascension Day

about the heavier than air machine. It was proved to be impossible Against
 law of gravitation. So wireless, X-ray, submarines. Before the thing became
 fact Jules Vefne's Twenty Leagues
 Under the Sea was extravagant fancy,
 but every modern man knew that such | things were against the laws of sense
 and nature. But the scientific demon-i
 strations against these are dead and |
 buried. Much infallible science of yes
 terday Is on the rubbish heap today.
 The man who rejects anything today
 because it is impossible is not quite
 modern-he is thinking in last quarter
 of century terms. The up to date man
 is cautious about saying anything
 is impossible. His morning paper
 may show the thing done over
 night. He has seen so many marvels-= almost miracles-in the last six years.
 The war was won by doing impossible things. The supernatural of century ago is the natural of today. Miraculous of yesterday is commonplace of today.
 The man who stumbles at the miracu- lous is fifty years behind his age This is the age of miracles compared with former time. Radio bullet-proof glass,
 flying machines, wireless-would have | been ascribed to either divine or dia- bolical agency when our fathers were
 young. It may be that the man who ac- cepts the miraculous in gospels is up- I to-date while the scoffer is bigoted
 back number. We are breaking into the
 region where the so-ca1led miraculous i merges into the natural.
 Itshas been found that some things
 are not contrary to all law but merely 1 to the laws we knew. Let us be prop I erly humble wisdom will not die with
 us, We must not assume because a 1 thing is impossible under the laws we
 know it must therefore contradict all laws of universe. We have not begun
 to tap the mysteries of world yet. We
 know only the A. B. c. of natural law ;
 are but children picking up pebbles on the shore of possible. Because we know no law by which a body may float in l air is no reason why Christ did not
 know and take advantage of such a l law We need not be surprised if that | law is discovered any day. What I am trying to say is that we are getting nearer to. and not farther from, even
 the possibility of a human body, in obe-
 dience to a law yet unknown to us, ris-
 ing from the earth as easily as it now
 falls towards it. If that took place to-
 morrow we should dismiss it with the
 remark What wonderful age we are
 living in' and go on our way without a quickened pulse. It wouldn't be even l a nine days wonder.
 l gravitation. When life this book l overcome that law, and do it by means of the higher law of mind and will Why might not Christ have used such a law to cause His body to overcome the law of gravitation? We trace all natura : law back to mind, and when you have reached mind and will you may expect anything. We are not stressing that fact, as we might do, that Christ is rep . ] l~pc fad 41aa Epe-+a, 14c
 ing the agent through which all thing. 2 were made and it is likely that He ha: control over the works of His hands. H. could probably give pointers to tn, foremost physicist
 : Further, His post-resurrection body seems to have been different in somt ways. He passed through closed doors 9 appeared and disappeared at will Trans e ported himself through space when de a sired. He seems no longer subject t, e earthly laws. Earth had lost it's at Q traction and therefore gravitation doe T not seem to have worked upon His glor : flied body. If this be true there is n need to stumble over ascention. Apostle , do not seem to. It was final leave-talz I ing in bodily form that troubled then
 His hands would no longer bless, eye no longer look kindly upon them. Hi ' voice was heard no more, His sense o - physical nearness gone.
 . If you can accept the resurrection 0 Jesus the ascension need not give yo Il much trouble No use straining at ' gnat after you have swallowed came Y The ascension is not only a histori II fact it is also a principle as are all tn ' great facts in Jesus life. Incarnatio 2 is meant to be repeated in the experl Il enee of every Christian. He was bar ! tfzed with the Holy Spirit that we migh S also be. He arose from the dead 'tha r we might arise from the death of si 'e to the life of righteousness, and als U U from the destruction wrought by phys :. cal death. He ascended that we ascen g from earthly things into a. life of spil itual power but also that we might fo F low Him finally into the heavens Nc II only was death and earth unable to hol u Him; they are equally unable to hol y us Earth was not the end of His joul
 ney and He left it for larger climes, ne 'n ther is it the end of our journey. W y are creatures whose destiny is to sha1 ;s the highest throne of life with the Kin Il of Life Himself As He ascended int 'e the heavens. so shall and must we ?. The ascension argues for the embo( ls fed existence. The teaching of the Ne U Testament is not that we are to becon n spirits without a body. The embodie sL life marks us off as human beings an ee 1t seems to be no part of Gods purpo: IT. to make us less. We shall remain hl man beings forever. Not with these ma III terial bodies-that would be a calamit Ve -but with a body suited to the ne " conditions under which our life shs ut go on. We are not to be redeemed sou ut but redeemed persons. As Jesus ca en ried transfigured body with Him H. we shall be changed and made '1il ne 1nto his r1orioI1s hodV''
 n- The ascension was a necessary pa ny of His plan. He had passed throul " death. His work was done. He was Ii ve ing under new conditions. He belong ali no more to life this side of death. I ao could not die again. Had no need or staying longer. The earth life must
 terminated. What more fitting tn; d. that it end in glorifcation This. mt impressive, digni1ed! memorable close an earths most memorable life The e
 alted. the interceding, the home-ma 'e- ing. the welcoming Christ is taken aw lte from the future if ascension be reduc Or to mere subjective experience with UT objective value.
 th A hymn was followed by the bened mt ton bv Rev. Dr. Roberts. The Knfgf 'se formed in line again and headed by l sd- band, marched through drizzling rs ar to the Masonic Temple where they we - dismissed.
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