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Our Lord's ascension bears the promise of power to come. Yet even our ability to trust that promise is a sign of that power already come and working among us. Keeping that trust alive requires constant contact with that power. F. B. Meyer wrote in connection with a mission conference he attended in Tasmania: "... I see again that majestic range of mountains ... on their summit was a lake of fifty miles in circumference, which supplied a waterfall a thousand feet in height. As with Niagara ... the vast volume of power generated by the fall has been converted into an electric current, which now supplies the entire island with power. This has already tempted manufacturing companies to establish themselves ... and is likely to attract others. There will be large demands for labor, and the prosperity of Tasmania will be greatly enhanced ... the suggestion of spiritual analogy was irresistible ... that mountain lake, hidden from sight, carried my thought to the mystery of the Eternal God ... the fall of descending water was a symbol of the Incarnation ... the diffusion of power to the factory and the home suggested the grace of the Holy Spirit ... Would it not be the height of folly if Tasmania were to resolve to cut the supply of power from that mountain lake and to substitute handpower? Yet it often seems as though the modern Church were in danger of making a similar mistake ..."
-- Anton
Our Lord's ascension bears the promise of power to come. Yet even our ability to trust that promise is a sign of that power already come and working among us. Keeping that trust alive requires constant contact with that power. F. B. Meyer wrote in connection with a mission conference he attended in Tasmania: "... I see again that majestic range of mountains ... on their summit was a lake of fifty miles in circumference, which supplied a waterfall a thousand feet in height. As with Niagara ... the vast volume of power generated by the fall has been converted into an electric current, which now supplies the entire island with power. This has already tempted manufacturing companies to establish themselves ... and is likely to attract others. There will be large demands for labor, and the prosperity of Tasmania will be greatly enhanced ... the suggestion of spiritual analogy was irresistible ... that mountain lake, hidden from sight, carried my thought to the mystery of the Eternal God ... the fall of descending water was a symbol of the Incarnation ... the diffusion of power to the factory and the home suggested the grace of the Holy Spirit ... Would it not be the height of folly if Tasmania were to resolve to cut the supply of power from that mountain lake and to substitute handpower? Yet it often seems as though the modern Church were in danger of making a similar mistake ..."
-- Anton
