The Forrest City times., 1892-04-22
THE ANGEL OF DEATH
DR. TALMACE THROWS LIGHT
 AT SUPERSTITION.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Treated fin ., Easter Sermon Fluent with No,, Theology - Death as Seen from fin. True Christian Standpoint,


 nacle congregation had been invited to bring flowers the night before. and bank of them was on the front ot the pulpit and wreaths of them over the pulpit. The word Resurrection was spelled out in letters of white lilies. Especial music was added to the great congregational sirripp. Text, l. Samuel l5:32: "Surelv the bitterness of death is past"
 So cried Agag, and the only obiee- ton l have to this text is that bad man uttered it. Nevertheless fl is true, and in higher and better sense than that in which it was originally uttered. Years ago legend some thing like this was told me In a hut lived very poor woman by the name of Misery. In front of her door was. 8 pear tree, which was her only resource for a living. Christ, the Lord, in poor garb was walking through the earth and no one would entertain him. In vain he knocked at the door of pal aces and Of humble dwellings. Cold and hungry and insufficiently clad, as he was, none received him. But com ing one day to the hut of this woman, whose name was Misery, she received him, and offered him few crusts and asked him to warm himself at the hand ful of coals. and she sat up all night that the wayfarer might have a pillow to rest on. In the morning this divine belng asked her as he departed what she would have him do in the way of  reward and told her that he owned the universe and would give her what she asked. All she asked was that her pear tree might be protected, and that the boys who stole her fruit, once climbing the tree, might not be able to get down without her con- sent. So it was granted, and all who climbed the tree were compelled to stay there. After a while death came along and told the poor woman she must go with him. But she did not want to go, for however poor ones lot is no one wants to go with death. Then she said to Death, ''I will go with you if you will first climb up into my pear tree and bring me down few pears before I start" This he con sented to do. but having climbed into the tree, he could not again come down. Then the troubles of the world began, for Death did not come. The physicians had no patients, the undertakers no business, lawyers no wills to make, the people who waited for Inheritances could not get them, the old men staid in all the professions and occupations so that there was no room for the young who were coming on, and the earth got overcrowded and from all the earth the cry went up: 70, for Death. Where is Death?" Then the people came to the poor woman and begged her to let death descend from the tree. In sympathy for the world, she consented to let Death come down on one condition. and that was that he should never molest or take her away, and on that condition Death was allowed to come dowh, and he kept his word and never removed her, and for that reason we always have Misery with us.
 In that allegory some one has set forth the truth that mean to present on this Easter morning, which cele- brates the resurrection of Christ and our coming resurrection-that one of the grandest and mighriest mercies of the earth is our divine permission to quit it. Sixty-four persons every minute step off this planet.
 Death also makes room for improved physical machinery. Our bodies have wondrous powers, but they are very limited. There are beasts that can outrun us, outfit us, out-carry us. The birds have both the earth and the air for travel, yet we must stick to the one. In this world, which the human race takes for its own, there are creatures of God that can far surpass us in some things. Death removes this slower and less adroit ma chine,y 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 be removed for ears that can hear from zone to zone These feet will be removed for powers of locomotion swifter than the reindeer'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 thousandf We can have, and we will have them, but not until this present physical machinery is put out 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, I believe with all anatomists and all phvsiologists and with all scientists and with the Psalmist that i've are fearfully and wonderfully made" But I believe and know that God can and will get us better physical equipment. Is it possible for man to make improve ment in almost anything and tod not be able to make improvements Tn man $ AAysical machinery? Shall canal boat give way to limited express traln' Shall slow letter give place to teieg- raphy, that places San Francisco ana New York within a minutes of cominu- nieation? Shall the telephone take the sound of voice sixty miles ana ih- stantly bring back another voice. anu God who made the man who does these thinos. not be able to improve the man himself with infinite multipiicatlonF Benificent death comes in and makes the necessary removal to make way Tor