THE angels of God ascended and descended upon the ladder which Jacob beheld in his dream; this is a beautiful similitude of Christ. Himself God and man, he has become Mediator between both, and has formed a communication between heaven and earth; he descended at his incarnation, and ascended when he was received up in sight of his sorrowing disciples from the hill of Bethany. The vision of Jacob furnishes also a lively representation of the Christian. For what else is our religion