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ascension--the bodily ascension of Jesus Christ. Where was He going?
Since the telescope has been pointed at the stars, where was He going?
The New Jerusalem is not there. The abode of the gods is not there.
Where was He going? Which way did He go? That depends upon the time
of day that He left. If He left in the night He went exactly the
opposite way from what He would in the day. Who saw this miracle?
They say the disciples. Let us see what they say about it. Matthew
did not think it was worth mentioning. He doesn't speak of it at all.
On the contrary, he says that the last words of Christ were: "Lo, I am
with you always, even unto the end of the world." That is what he
says. Mark, he saw it. "So, then, after the Lord had spoken unto them
He was received up into heaven and sat on the right hand of God." That
is all he has to say about the most wonderful thing that ever blessed
human vision--about a miracle great enough to have stuffed credulity to
bursting; and yet we have one poor, little meagre verse. So, then,
after He had quit speaking, He was caught up and sat on the right hand
of God. How does he know He was on the right hand? Did he see Him
after He had sat down? Luke says: "And it came to pass while He
blessed them He was parted from them and was carried up into heaven."
But John does not mention it. He gives as His last words this address
to Peter: "Follow thou Me." Of course He did not say that as He
ascended. In the Acts we have another account. A conversation is
given not spoken of in any of the others, and we find there two men
clad in white apparel, who said: "Men of Galilee, why stand ye here
gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus that was taken up into heaven
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go up into Heaven."
Matthew didn't see that; Mark forgot it; Luke didn't think it was worth
mentioning, and John didn't believe it; and yet upon that evidence we
are led to believe that the most miraculous of all miracles actually
occurred. I cannot believe it.

I may be mistaken; but the church is now trying to parry, and when they
come to the little miracles of the new testament all they say is:
"Christ didn't cast out devils; these men had fits." He cured fits.
Then I read in another place about the fits talking. Christ held a
dialogue with the fits, and the fits told Him his name, and the fits at
that time were in a crazy man. And the fits made a contract that they