The sacred mountains . and all was over. No! not over, for the se-pulchre was yet to open, and the slain Christwas yet to mount the heavens in his glori-ous ascension. I will not speak of the moral grandeur ofthe atonementâof the redemption purchasedby the agony and death on Calvary, for theyare familiar to all. Still they constitute thegreatness and value of the whole. It is theatonement that makes Mount Calvary chiefamong the Sacred Mountainsâgives itsuch altitude that no mortal eye can scan itstop, or bear the full effulgence of its called on his young disciples to sum-mon their
The sacred mountains . and all was over. No! not over, for the se-pulchre was yet to open, and the slain Christwas yet to mount the heavens in his glori-ous ascension. I will not speak of the moral grandeur ofthe atonementâof the redemption purchasedby the agony and death on Calvary, for theyare familiar to all. Still they constitute thegreatness and value of the whole. It is theatonement that makes Mount Calvary chiefamong the Sacred Mountainsâgives itsuch altitude that no mortal eye can scan itstop, or bear the full effulgence of its called on his young disciples to sum-mon their strongest energies and bend theirhighest efforts to comprehend the lengthand breadth, and depth and height of this MOUNT CALVARY. 167 stupendous themeâ a length which reachesfrom everlasting to everlasting; a breadththat encompasses every intelligence andevery interest; a depth which reaches thelowest state of human degradation andmisery, and a height that throws floods ofglory on the throne and crown of Jehovah. In the preceding sketches I have confinedmyself to descriptions of scenes alone, notbecause there was no great moral truth in-culcated in them, but to give them definite-ness. Each is full of instruction, and indeedwas designed to be a great lesson for Gods hatred of sin, sometimeshis care for his children, sometimes the dis-cipline of his church, were the motives thatled him to make such wonderful displays ofhis power, his terror, and his goodness. Butbesides their present benefit, they have alsoan ultimate meaning; and those immortalmountains, with their silent yet eloquentsummits, all point to a spiritual elevation, THE MOUNT OF GOD. 169 whose top is lost in the glorious atmosphereof the upper world. Thus Ararat, with theheaven-lifted, heaven-guided ark resting onits summit, is but a symbol of the Christiansrepose, after the storms of life, and wreck ofall earthly things, on the serene heights ofperpetual bliss. Mount Moriah is only theshadow of tha
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