AND WHILE HE BLESSED THEM, HE WAS TAKEN UP . . . OUT OF THEIR SIGHT.
And it is this promise which should cheer us all in these dark days. St. Paul calls it "that blessed Hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ!"
May we all be ready to welcome Him when He comes!
[XIV. "Consider the Lilies"]
Nazareth is a place of many flowers and of lovely views. From the hills around, those who go there can see peeps of the blue Mediterranean; and travellers tell us that the fields and hillsides are carpeted with countless flowers.
Here Jesus, our Lord, lived for thirty years. Here He wandered as a child, and grew up as a young man.
When at length the time came for Him to fulfil His great Mission, He came down to the cities round the Lake of Galilee.
For He had come from Heaven to preach the Gospel to the poor, to heal the sick and brokenhearted.
But more than all these things, He had come down from His home in Heaven to save sinners!