"Thus," he said, "it is written that Christ the King of Israel must suffer, and die, and rise again the third day, just as has come to pass. And now you are to go forth and preach that men must everywhere turn from their sins to God, and be forgiven of their sins through the power given to me. And you are to begin your preaching here in Jerusalem, the very place where I have been crucified. I will soon send down on you the Holy Spirit whom my Father has promised. But wait in this city until the power comes upon you from on high." [Illustration: "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."] Then the risen Christ led them out of the city to the Mount of Olives. No one except those who believed in him could see him, for he was unseen to all other people. As he drew near Bethany he lifted up his hands and blessed his followers. While they were looking at him, and his hands were held out, he rose into the air, higher and higher, until after a time a cloud covered him from their sight, and Jesus the Lord of glory was seen no more. While they were looking upward, two men dressed in shining white, angels of God, were seen standing beside them. These angels said to the followers of Jesus: "Men of Galilee, why are you standing here looking up towards the heavens? This Jesus, who has been taken from you, will come again to earth in the very same way that you have seen him go up to heaven." So Jesus Christ was taken up to heaven, and there sat down on his throne at the right hand of God. He sits there still, watching over his people until the day shall come for him to return to earth. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Text uses Caesar in the introduction and Cæsar in the stories. There were hyphenation differences between the text usage and caption usage. For example, the text uses no hyphen on "today" while one of the captions does hyphenate it. Page 31, "his" changed to "this" (Upon this altar a) Page 56, "Caesarea" changed to "Cæsarea" (from Shechem or Joppa or Cæsarea) Page 228, word "do" removed from text. Original read (do you give them) Page 353, "Zacc eus" changed to "Zaccheus" (rich man named Zaccheus) Page 455, "portr t" changed to "portrait" (portrait of Jesus) Page 472, "is" added to text (this is the place where) End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old, by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut