Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-04

cell, the swallow seeks its home
with an accuracy which would be
nothing less than miraculous in man.
God has bestowed, in separate gifts,
upon the smallest creatures degree
of power and intelligence and actiy-
ity which, if combined in one and
given to man would enable him to
hurl the mountains into the sea and
shake the foundations of the earth.
The present limitations of our facul-
ties are evidently designed to guard
against abuse. If our present fac
ul:ies were suddenly enlarged, and
our command over the elements OF
nature were proportionally increased, ,
we should be like children playing
with fire without knowing its quick
and terrible power. Our Father is
too wise and too kind to give us fa-
cilities which we should use only in
destroying ourselves.
When the spirits of the just have
been made perfect, it will be safe
and easy for the Giver of all gifts to
enlarge their capacities a thousand.
fold. They may then be made like
the cherubim, full of eyes to survey
the universe with on all.pervadiug
vision. They may move with the
speed of the lightning in any direc-
ton and to any distance they please,
and nothing have power to oppose
their progress. They may be ablo
to work without WEAKNESS and with
out rest, and always find pleasant
and profitable work to do. They
may be so perfectly guarded against
accident and injury that neither fire
nor force of any kind can hurt them.
knowledge may come to them as
easily as it came to Adam in Para
dise-as easily as instinct comes to
the bird and the bee.
All this wondrous enlargement of
faculty may God bestow upon man
in the new heavens and the new
earth. And the extraordinary gifts
:. which he has already bestowed upon
the little things of the earth lead us
to expect that He will give more and
greater to his redeemed and immor-
tai children. He who gives small
insect power to fly Over a thousand
miles of ocean without resting, can
surely give the soul of man power
to pass from world to world with the
speed of light and with e mind that
never tires. He who forms fifty
thousand perfect eyes for the use OF
n creature that lives and dies in a
day, may surely give more than five
senses to that spiritual body which
shall never die.
The Bible says: Eye hath moi
seen, ear hath not beard, heart hatl
not conceived the greatness and the
glory of the home which God hatl
prepared for those that love him
But let our present faculty of yisiCl
be enlarged fifty thousand fold
let our eyes he opened to take in th,
divine harmonics that roll through
, the eternal space from world t(
world; let our minds be gifted Will
r angelic power to wander through
immensely, where height aud dep'l
are lost in the infinite blaze of ca
| reering suns, and then the littl
! world in which we now live, with al
its fields of glory ana parade o
power, will seem like half-forgot
ten dream when the night is past
I The earth, which we now tread UP
: on, and which seems so great wit
Y its voiceful seas and eternal mouE
h tains, will seem like a single mote !,
n the sunbeam, when we have the ey
q 10 see and the mind 10 measure III
,. immensities of creation. The ha!
piest hours of this earthly life Wi
. be remembered as the faint gieam q
q a falling star amid the splendors G
II that day to which there shall be u
= night. And all the mystic powe
,s and hidden wisdom OF these It'll
II things of earth are appointed {
"a raise our hearts and hopes to tha
- glorious state when the perfect shaI
! come and the partial shall he don
II away.
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ing nearly a pound.