Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-04-28

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the best that God can do for rs. God did
not half try when he contriyed your bodily
mechanism. Mind you, I believe with all
anatomists and with all psychologists and
| with all scientists and with the psalmist
that I'VE are fearfnlly and wonderfully
made" Bat / believe and / know that
God can and viii get US better physical
equipment.
Is it possible for man to make improve.
ment in almost anything and God not be
able TO make improvements in mans phys
ical machinery Shall canal boat give
way to limited express trainP Shall slow
letter give place to telegraphy, that places
San Francisco and New York within a
minute Of communication? Shall the teIe-
! phone take the sound OF a voice sixty miles
| and instantly bring back another voice,
and God, who made the man who does
these things, not be able to improve the
man himself with infinite velocities and
| infinite multiplication? Benehcent Death
comes in and makes the necessary removal
to make way for these supernatural i'm
provements. So also our slow process of
| getting information must have a substi-
tute.
Through prolonged study we learned the
alphabet, and then we learned to spell, and
then we learned to read. Then the book is
put before us and the eye travels from
word to word and from page to page, anl
we take whole days to read the book, and
| If from that book of four or five hundred
pages we have gained one or two profit
able ideas we feel we have done well.
There must be some swifter way and more
satisfactory way of taking in Gods uni
verse of thoughts and facts and emotion
and Information. But this cannot be done
with your brain in It's present state. Many
brain gives way under the present facil
| ity. This whitish mass in the upper cav.
ity Of the skull and at the extremity Of
the nervous system-this center Of percep-
tion and sensation cannot endure more
than it now endures.
But God can make better brain, and he
| sends Death to remove this inferior brain
that he may put in superior brain.
"Well," you say, "does not that destroy tSe
idea of a resurrection OF the present
body?" Oh. no. 1t will be the old factory
with new machinery-new driving wheel,
new bands new levers and new powers.
Don't you see? So suppose the dullest
human brain after the eresurrectionary proc
| esswill have more knowledge, more acute
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 combined. You
see God has only just begun to build you.
The palace Of your nature has only the
foundation laid and part Of the lowe.
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 said, 'Tt doth
not yet appear what we shall be-" blessed
bedeathl for it removes all the hindrauces.
And who has not all his life run against
hindrancess We cannot go far up or far
down. If we go far up we get dizzy, and
if we so far down we get suffocated. If
men would go high up they ascend the
Matterhorn or Mont Blanc or Himalaya.
but what disasters have been reported as
they came tumbling down. Or if tLcy
went down too far, hark to the explosion
Of the fredamps, and see the disfigured
bodies of the poor miners ut the bottom of
the coal shaft.
AN END OF EARTHLY VTCISsITUDFS,
drances, We run against uhpropitious
weather of all sorts. Winter blizzard aid
summer scorch, and each season seems to
hatch q brood of its own disorders. Thesum
spreadsits wings and matches out fevers
and sunstrokes, and spring and autumn
spread their wings and hatch out malarias,
and winter spreads its wings and matches
out pneumonias and Russian grippes, and
the climate Of this world is a hindrance
which every man and woman and child
has felt. Death is to the good transfer
ence 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 doubt that God can
make better weather than is characteristic
of this plnnet2 Blessed is death for it
prepares the way for change of zones, yea,
it clears the path to semiomnipresence
How often we want to be in different
places at the same timel How perplexed
we get being compelled to choose between
invitations, 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 oppor-
tunity to be in many places at the same
time, so easy and so quick and so instanta-
neous will be the transference that it will
amount to about the same thing. Quicker
than | can speak this sentence you will be
among your glorious kindred, among the
martyrs, among the apostles, in the gate,
on the battlements, at the temple, and now
from world to world as soon as robin
hops from one tree branch to another tree
branch. Distance no hindrance Immen-
sity easily compassed. Semiomnipresence
But" says some one, II 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 hui
man body changes entirely once in seven
years, SO that If you are twenty-eight years
OF age you have now your fourth body. If
you are forty-two years Of age you have
had six bodies. fyou are seventy years of
age you have had ten bodies. Do you not,
my unbelieying friend, think if God could |
build fol-. you four or five or ten bodies he
could really build for you one more to be
called the resurrection body. Ayel to make
that resurrection body will not require half |
as much ingenuity and power as those other |
bodies you have had. Is it not easier for a
sculptor to make a statue out of silent |
clay than it would be to make % statue out |
of some material that is alive and moving,
and running hither and thither?
Will it not be easier for God to make the |
resurrection body out 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 rissng2 God has already on your
four Or FIVE bodies bestowed ten times
more omnipotence than he will put upon the
resurrection body Yea, we have the founr
dltion for the resurrection body in us now.
Surgeons and Psychologists say there are
parts Of the human body the uses of which |
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