Democratic messenger., 1892-04-23


can far surpass us i'll some things. Death
removes this slower and less adroit ma
chinery and makes room for something
better
These eyes that can see half mile
will be removed for those that can see
from world To world. These ears. which
can hear sound few feet off. will bc
removed for ears that can hear from
zone Ia zone. These feet will be removed
for powers of locomotion swif;er than
the reindcer's hoof or eagles plume or
lightning's flash. Then we have only
five senses and To these we are shut up.
( Why only five senses: Why not fifty
why not one hundred. why not a thou
sand? We can have and we will have
them. but not until this present physical
machinery is put ont of the way.
Do not think that this body is the best
that God can do for us. God did not
half try when he contrived your bodily
mechanism. Mind you. believe with
all anatomists and all Psychologists and
with all scientists and with the psalmisi
that I'VE are fcarfully and wonderfully
made" But believe and | know that
God can and will get us better physical
equipment: Is it possible for man Ia
max" improvement in almost anything
and God not bc able to make improve
mcnts i'll mans physical machinery:
Shall canal boat give way to limited eX-
press train: Shall slow letter give place.
to tclcgraphy. that places San Francisco
I and New York within a minute of com
muuication: Shall the telephone take
the sound Of voice sixty miles and in
/ stantlv bring back another voice. and
! God. who made the man who does these
/ things. not he able To- improve the man
I himself with infinite vclocities and in
\ finite multiplication: Bcneiicent Death
comes in and makes the necessary re-
moval to make way for these supernat-
ural Improvements.
/ So also our slow process of getting in
I formation must have a substitute
\ 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 tray
els from word To word and from page IL
\ page and we take whole days Ia read
/ the book. and if from that book of four
or five hundred pages We have gained
one OF two profitable ideas we feel We
/ have done well There must be som.
swiftcr way and more satisfactory way
of taking in Gods universe Of thoughts
( and facts and emotions and information
/ But this cannot be done with your uraIG
/ in its present state Many brain gives
way under the present facility. This
whitish mass iii the upper cavity Of the
skull and at the extremity Of the nerv-
GUS system-this center of perception
and sensation-cannot endure more than
it now endurcs.
But God can make a better brain. ami
he sends Death To remove this inferior
brain that he may put in superior
brain. "Wcll." YOU say. does not that
destroy the idea of resurrection of the
present body OH. no. Ii will be the
old factory with new machincry-uew
driving wheel. new bands. new levers
and new powers Don't you see: 50 |
suppose the dullcst human brain after
the resurrectionary process will have
more knowledge. more acuteness, more
I brilliancy, more breadth of swing than
any Sir William Hamilton or Herschcl
or Isaac Newton or Faraday or Agassiz
ever had i'll the mortal state. or all their
! intellectual powers combined.
BLESSED BE DEATH.
You ser God has only just begun TO
build You. The palace of your nature
has only the foundation laid. and part
of the lower story. AMI only part Of ono
window. but the Great Architect has
made his draft of what YOU will b. when
the AlhaInbra is completed. John was
right when he said 1T doth not Yet ap-
pear what We shall be-" Blessed he
death. for il removes all the hindrances
And who has not all his life run against
hindrances: We cannot 20 far up nor
far down. If we go far up we get dizzy.
and If we 90 far down we get suffocated.
If men would 20 high mp they ascend
the Maiterhorn or Mont Blanc or Hima-
lava. but what disasters have been re-
ported rs they came tumbling down
Or if they went down too far, hark 10
the explosion IF the firedampS and see
the iisiigured bodies of the poor miners
at the bottom of the coal shaft.
Then therc are the climatolo;,ical him
ORANGES. We run against unpropitious
weather Of all sorts Winter blizzard
and summer scorch and each season
seems to hatch brouod Of its own dis
orders. The summer spreads its wings
and matches ont feverS and sunstrokcS,
and spring and autumn spread their
af,1 hns,.b La gn1
ter spreads 49, wings and matches ont
pneumonas and Russian grippes. and
thc climate &c this world j "A hndrance
which every man and woman and child
has felt. ID ath is to the good transfc;
encc Ia superior WI taiher-wcathcr never
fickle. and never too cold. and never too
hot. AMI newer too light. and never too
dark. Have You any doubt that God
can make better weather than is char
acteristic of this planet: Blessed is
death, for IT prepares the way for change
&. ~.-. ..rtit clears the path toa semi
GnmiprcAcIC".
How often we want To be in different
places at t!iV same time. How pcrplexcd
we get being compelled to choose be
tween invitations. between weddings.
between friendly groups. between three
or four places we would like tn be i'll
the sam" morning. or the same noon. OF
the same evening. While death may
not open opportunity 10 be i'll many
places nj the same time, so easy and 81
quick and So instantaneous will he the
transference that it will amount t.
about the same thing. Quicker than
can speak this sentence You will be
among ycur glorified kindred. among
the martyrs. among the apostles, in III,
gate. on the battlements, at the temple
and now from world 10 world as soor
rs robin hops from one tree branch
another tree branch. Distance no hin
drancc. lmmensity easily compassed
Semiomniprcsencc! But. says som.
one. Il cannot see how God is going I,
reconstruct my body in the resurrec
ton"