A Sermon Preached in the Holy Trinity-Cathedral on May 16, 1926, by, the Rev. A. C, S. Trivett "So then after the Lord had spoken nto them, He vas re~ ceived up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God."
Mark 16:19.
'A few moments ago we repeated the creed together, we said as we y Sunday by Sunday that we believe "Jesus Christ our Lord" and then after stating our belief in the events of His life and death and His resurrection we went on to express our conviction that "He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead."
And it fs fitting that, on this the first Sunday after Ascension Da: we should remind ourselves of these great facts and their bearing on! our lives as Christian men and! women, The fact of the Ascension' is preli established. The direct evi. deice is slender, but one must remenaber that the fact was too obvious to require more than a bald star ment by the writers of the Gospi narratives. 'They barely mention it as forming the conclusion of what they set out to record, It is quite in accord with this that we find the most detailed account in the book the Acts, the lesson we read this ening.' As Dr. Salmond puts it, "The Gospels report the story of our Lord's ministry upon earth. The Book of the Acts reports the the story of His ministry in heaven discharged through His Apostles, and it begins appropria ately with the Ascension."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.