{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_37564/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_37564","id":"gutenberg_37564","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37564","summary":null,"tags":["Bible stories, English -- Luke -- Juvenile literature","Bible stories, English -- New Testament -- Juvenile literature","Category: Children & Young Adult Reading","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Jesus Christ -- Ascension -- Juvenile literature"],"text":"\n\n\n\nProduced by Larry B. Harrison, and the Archives and Special\nCollections, University Libraries, Ball State University\nand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttp://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: Book Cover]\n\n No. 47.\n\n CHRIST GOING UP TO\n HEAVEN.\n\n BY THE AUTHOR OF \"PEEP OF DAY.\"\n\n LONDON:\n JOHN HATCHARD AND SON.\n 1848.\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\nCHRIST GOING UP TO HEAVEN.\n\n\nOnce the Son of God walked about this world, but he is not here now.\nWhere is he? Jesus, the Son of God, is in heaven; he is sitting on the\nthrone of God his Father. When did he go there? Oh, it is a long\nwhile ago since he went up to heaven. I will tell you how it was.\nSurely you would like to know all about it.\n\nOn the day that he meant to go up to heaven he took a walk with some\nof his dear friends. They loved him very much, as well they might.\nJust six weeks before, he had been nailed to a cross, and killed, and\nburied. But he had soon come out of his grave; and now the marks of\nthe nails might be seen on his hands and feet, and the mark of a great\nspear in his side, but the places were quite well, they did not bleed\nnow, though once they had bled a great deal. Whenever his friends\nlooked at those marks, they thought of his love in dying for them, for\nit was for their sins he died, and not for theirs only, but for your\nsins, also, my child.\n\nHis friends liked to walk with him and to talk to him. About what did\nJesus speak? About his Father and about heaven. He told his friends he\nshould soon leave them, but he made them a promise. What was it? He\nsaid that he would send the Holy Spirit down from heaven to be with\nthem. Who is the Holy Spirit? He is God; he comes down and fills the\nhearts of God's people. It is pleasant to see Jesus, and to walk about\nwith him, but it is still better to have the Holy Spirit in our\nhearts, for the Holy Spirit makes people good and happy.\n\nWhere was Jesus when he took his last walk with his friends? He was in\na town called Jerusalem, and he walked into the country. How sweet is\na country walk? Children who live in towns are delighted when their\nfathers say to them, \"I shall take you to the green fields to-day.\"\nThen the children think, \"We shall hear the birds sing, and we shall\ngather flowers from the hedges, and see the little lambs by the side\nof their mothers; we shall play about, and be so happy.\" And even\ngrown-up people like to go into the country. If they wish to talk\nabout God, they like to walk in a quiet place among shady trees. Jesus\ntook his friends by his favourite path; he led them down into a low\nplace over a little stream, then by a garden where olive trees\ngrew,--then up a green mountain called Olivet. When they were at the\ntop he began to pray with them. While he prayed, he lifted up his\nhands to bless them. In a moment he was gone--a cloud took him up. His\nfriends looked up, and the cloud was going up higher and higher, till\nat last it looked like a speck, and then could not be seen at all.\n\nBut on the mountain-top there stood two men; they were angels, dressed\nin white. No one can tell how bright angels look, or how sweetly they\nspeak. These angels had come to comfort the friends of the Lord Jesus.\nThey said, \"Why do you stand looking up towards heaven? Jesus shall\ncome again in the same way that you have seen him go into heaven.\"\n\nHas Jesus come again? Not yet; but he will come. Those angels would\nnot have told lies; they know that Jesus will one day come down here\nagain, and that they shall come with him. What a glorious day it will\nbe! Some people will be very much frightened when they see him; they\nwill howl, and shriek, and try to hide themselves in deep holes, but\nthey will not be able to get away. The angels will seize them, and\nshut them in that dark and burning place where Satan will torment them\nfor ever and ever. But some people will be glad to see Jesus; they\nwill say, \"This is our God; we have waited for him.\" Should you be\nglad, my dear child, to see Jesus this day? We know not when he will\ncome. Have you prayed to him to-day? Do you love him?\n\nBut what became of the friends of Jesus who were standing on Mount\nOlivet looking up into the sky? They could not stay with the angels,\nthey went back to Jerusalem. Did they go back crying and sobbing, and\nsaying, \"We have lost our dearest friend?\" Oh, no; they went back\nquite glad, for they had not lost Jesus; they knew where he was gone;\nthey knew he would pray to his Father, and that he would send down\nthe Holy Spirit very soon. So they waited at Jerusalem as Jesus had\ntold them, and in ten days Jesus did send down the Holy Spirit upon\nhis dear friends.\n\nThere is a sweet name given to the Holy Spirit; it is this, the\nComforter. Why is he called the Comforter? Because he comforts people\nwhen they are in trouble. When we are unhappy we like to be comforted.\nIf a little child falls down and hurts itself, it runs crying to its\nmother; it wants to be comforted. And oh, how tenderly a mother\ncomforts her little darling! She takes it on her knee and kisses it,\nand says, \"Tell mother what is the matter. Has it hurt its dear little\nhand?\" and then she kisses the hand, and the child soon leaves off\ncrying, and leans its head upon its mother's bosom.\n\nBut no mother can comfort as the Holy Spirit can. He tells people\nthat God loves them, and has forgiven their sins, and will take them\nto heaven. My child, ask God for his Holy Spirit, and he will hear you.\n\nYou may find the history of Jesus going up to heaven in Luke xxiv. 50\nto end; Acts i. 1--12.\n\n\n\n\n There is a glorious world of light,\n Above the starry sky,\n Where saints departed, clothed in light,\n Adore the Lord most high.\n We're marching through Immanuel's ground,\n And soon shall hear the trumpet sound.\n We hope to meet at Jesus' feet,\n And never, never part again!\n What! never part again?\n No, never part again.\n What! never part again?\n No, never part again.\n We hope to meet at Jesus' feet,\n And never, never part again.\n\n (_Hill's Collection._)\n\n\nMacintosh, Printer, Great New-street, London.\n\n\n\n\nPRAYER.\n\n\n O Father in Heaven,\n Thou hast made all things;\n The sun, moon, and stars, the land and sea.\n Thou hast made me.\n Thou hast taken care of me.\n I thank Thee for all thy kindness.\n\n Great God, Thou art in every place;\n Thou seest in the dark,\n As well as in the light;\n Thou knowest all the naughty things\n That I have done, and said, and thought.\n\n O Merciful Lord, pardon my sins,\n Because Jesus Christ, thy dear Son,\n Died upon the cross for sinners.\n Give me thy Holy Spirit,\n That I may love Thee, and obey thy laws.\n Keep me from minding Satan,\n And save me from going to hell:\n And whenever I die,\n O take my soul to Heaven.\n\n When Jesus comes with clouds,\n And with the holy angels,\n May I be glad to see Him.\n May my dear parents, and brothers, and sisters,\n Be happy with Thee for ever and ever.\n May all people love Thee,\n And speak of thy goodness.\n Hear me for Christ's sake. Amen.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber's Note\n\n\n * Obvious punctuation errors repaired.\n\n\n\n\n\n
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