The Penn's Grove record., 1892-04-22

But this cannot be done with your brain 10
its present state. Many a brain gives way
under the present facility. This whitish
mass in the upper cavity of the skull aud at
the extremity Of the nervous sys;en-this
center of perception and sensation cannot
endure more than it now en- lures.
81 But God can make a better brain. AMI He
sends Death to remove this inferior brain
that He may put in a superior brain.
"Weli," you say, docs not that destroy the
Idea of a resurrection OF tue present body?'
On, no. 1t will be the old factory with new
machinery new driving wheel. new bands.
new levers and new powers. Don't you seeY
So l suppose the dullest human brain after
the rasurrectionary process will have more
knowledge, more acuts ness, more brilliancy,
more breadth OF swing than any Sir William
Hamilton or Herschel or Isaac Newton or
Faraday or Agassiz ever had in the mortal
state or all their Intellectual powers COM
bined. You see God has only just begun To
build you. The palacs Of your nature has
only the foun iation laid and part of the
lower story. and only part of one window,
but the great architect has made His draft
Of what you will be when the Alhambra is
completed.
' John was right when he sail, "It doth
not yet appear what we shall be-" Blessed
be death! for it removes all the h~indrances,
And who has not all his life run against
hindrances? We canno go far up or far
down. If we go far up we get dizzy, and if
we go far down we get suffocated Ii men
would go high up they ascend the Matterhorn
Or Mount Blanc or Himalaya, but what dis
Asters havs been reported as they came
tar, bark to the explosion OF the firedamps,
and see the disfgured bodies Of the poor
miners at the bottom OF the coal shaft.
Then there are the climatological him
frances. We run against unpropitious
weather of all sorts. Winter blizzard aud
,,pnpnar ccnrnh apA aa.h oaasan caans 70
hatch a broo1 Of Its W disorders. The
J summer spreads its wings and hatchss out
lever and sunstrokes. AMI spring AMI
autumn spread their wings and hatch out
nalarias, and winter spreads its wings and
patches out pneumonia and Russian grippeS,
and the climate of this world is a hindrancs
which every man and woman and child has
telt. Death is to the good transference to
/ superior weather weather never tickle, and
never too cold, and never too hot, and never
too light, and never too dark. Have you any
ioubt that God can make better weather
than is characteristic of this planet? Blessed
Is DEATH for it prepares the way for change
Of zone, yea, it clear tina path to a semiom.
aipressnce.
1t the same timei How perplexed We get
being compelled TO choose between invita-
lions, between weddings, between friendly
groups, between three or four places we
would like to be in the same morning or the
same noon or the same evening. While death
may not open opportunity to be in many
places at the same time, so easy and SO quick
and so instantaneous will be the transferencs
that it will amount to about the same thing.
Quicker than l can speak this sentence got
will be among your glorious kindred, among
the martyrs, among the apostles, in the gate,
on the battlemsnts. at the temple, AMI now
from world to world as soon as a robin hops
from one tree branch to another tree branch.
Distance no bindrance. Immensely easily
.ompassed. Semiomnipresencei
"But," says some one, 81 cannot see how
God is going to reconstruct my body in the
resurrection" Oh, that will be very easy as
compared with what He has already done
with your body four or six or ten times. All
scientists tell us that the IN body
changes entirely once in seven years, SO that
have o you fourth body. II you are
forty-two years Of age you have had six
bodies. II you are seventy years of age you
have had ten bodies. Do you not, my un-
believing friend, think il God could build
for you four or five or ten bodies He could
really build for YOU one more to he callei
the resurrection body. Aye! to make that
resurrection body will not require half as
much ingenuity and power as those other
bodies you nave had. Is it not easier for a
sculptor to make a statue out of silent clay
than it would be to make a statue out OF
some material that is anve ana moving, ana
cunning hither and thitherf
Will it not be easier for God to make the
| resurrection body ont of the silent dust of
| the crumbled body than it was to make your
| body over five or six or eight times while it
was in motion, walking, climbing, falling or
| risingf God has already on your four or five
bodies bestowed ten times more omnipotence
/, than He will put upon the resurrection body.
Yea, We nave the foundation for tue
resurrection body in us now. Surgeons and
| Psychologists say there are parts OF the
human body the uses Of which they cannot
understand. They are searching what these
| parts are made for, but have not found out.
l can tell them. They are the preilminaries
| of the resurrection body. God does not make
anything for nothing The uses of those now
| surplus parts of the body will be demon
strated when the glorifed form is construc
| ted.
Now, IL Death clears the way for all this,
why paint him as a h~obgoblinr Why call
| him the king of ~terrorsS Why think OF him
as a great spookf Why sketch him with
/ skeleton aud arrows, and standing on a bank
| of dark watsrsI Why have children so
| frightened al his name that they dare not
go to bed alone, and old men have their
| teeth chatter lest some shortness of breath
! hand them over to the monster?I All the ages
have been busy in ~maligning Death. hurting
! repulsive metaphors at Death, slandering
| Death. Oh, for the sweet breath Of Easter
| to come down on the earth. Right after
the vernal equinox, and when the howeri
| are beginning to bloom, well may all nations
| with song and with congratulation and gar
| lands celebrate the resurrection OF Christ,
| and our own resurrection when the time Is
| gone by, and the trumpets pour through the
| living clouds the harmonies that shall wake
the d ead.
By the empty niche of Joseph's mauso-
| leum, by the rocks that parted to let the
Lord com through, let our ideas OF chang
ing worlds be forever revolutionl2sd. IL
what l nave been saying is true, how DIFF
| f~erently We ought to think Of our friends
| departed. The body they have put oil is
only as, when entering a hall lighted ana
resounding with musical bands, you leave
your hat and cloak in the cloakroom. What
/ would a ~banqueter do if he had to carry
| those encumbrances of apparel with him in
| to the brilliant reception? What would your
| departed do with their bodies IL they had to
be- encountered with them in the kings
| drawing room? Gon into the light! Gone
/ into the music! Gone into the f%estIvlty'
lone among kings and queens aid Goa
querorsl Gone to meet Elijah and hear him
tell of the chariot of fire drawn by horses OF
fire and the sensation Of mounting the sap
| phire stespsi Gone to meet with Moses an |
| hear him describe the pile of black b1salt
! that shook when the law was givenl Gone
to meet Paul and hear him tell how Felix
! IFefQDib1, anu uDA tic sup "bh ~ IStN
in the breakers. and how thick was the
darkness in the Mamertine dungeon Gone
to meet John Knox and John Wesley and
Hannah More and Francis Havergal. Gone
70 meet the kindred woo preceded them!
Why l should not wonder If they had a
larger family group there than they ever
had here. Oh, how many Of them have got
together againi Your father and mother
vent years apart, but they have got to-
rethaE. and thar children that went
years ago gos together again. Gone
where they nave more room! Goni
whers they have more jubilant So
| cietyl Gone where they have mightieE
capacity to love you than when they were
herei Gone out of hindrances into UNI
| bounded libertyl Gone out OF January into
| Junel Gone where they talk abont gov as
we always ak about absent friends and
saw: II wonder when they will come up here
! to Join US. HarkI the outside door OF heaven
swings open. Harki there ara feet on thu
golden stairs. PERHAPS they are coming"
/ was told at J~ohnstown after the flood
that many people who had been for months
and years bereft for the first time got con-
fort when the awful flood came to think that
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