ner of going heavenward and Mary's, for Mary was assumed or lifted up by God, but Christ ascended. For no one ascends to heaven by his own volition and power, but He, the Son of man, who descended from heaven. The Word was made flesh, clothing Himself, identifying Himself with our humanity, and dwelt amongst us leading captivity captive, and ascended on high to be for all time the Giver of gifts to men. The power with which He freed men from the slavery of the devil and placed on them His own light yoke and sweet burden proved Him to be 'God. He had proved it sufficiently by His victory over sin and death, but during the forty days between His Resurrection and Ascension, as we read in the Acts, He showed His divinity by many further proofs, and He confirmed it by His Ascension. Finally, He proves it by the permanency of that Church which He perfected during those days, and by the gifts with which He endowed her. He sent the Spirit of love, the All-good, upon her, to be diffused in our hearts crying Abba, Father, to encourage us with the thought that we shall have our Father for our judge and our Brother for our advocate. By His Resurrection and Ascension He has animated our faith in His divinity and all that it entails, enlivened our hope of arising and ascending as He did, and inflamed our charity, for where lies our treasure thither tend our hearts. He has given to all men a tendency upwards which, if rightly directed, leads to heaven. Many, alas! mistake the mount of God, climbing the hills of knowledge or of power in the vain hope that, once at the
