The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-04-20

courses OF 1OOd 10 DC hnnued on we
are here in one room of our Fathers
house, but there are rooms upstairs.
They are better pictured, better up
holstered, better furnished. Why do
we want to stay in the ante-room for
ever when there are palatial apartments
waiting for our occupancy? What a
mercy that there is limitation to
earthly environments!
Death also makes room for improved
physical machinery. Our bodies have
wondrous powers, but they are very
limited. There are beasts that can out
run us, outlift us, outcarry us. The
birds have both the earth and 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 machinery and makes room for
something better. These eyes that can
see half a 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 lo-
comotion 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 thousand? We
can have, and we will have them, but
not until this present physical ma
chinery 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, l believe with
all anatomists and all Psychologists and
all scientists and with the Psalmist
that 1--WE are fearfully and wonderfully
made" But 4 believe and know that
God can and Will get us better physical
equipment. Is it possible for man to
make improvement in almost anything
and God not be able to make improve
ments in mans physical machinery?
Shall canal boat give way to lin
tied express train? Shall slow letter
give place to telegraphy, that places
San Francisco and New York within
a minute of communication? Shall the
telephone take the sound of u 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? Beneficcnt death
comes in and makes the necessary re-
moval to make way for the supernatural
improvements. So also our slow process
of getting information must havea sub
stitute. Through prolonged study we
learned the alphabet, ana 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 Ia
page, and we take whole days to read
the book, and, II from that book oi
four or five hundred pages, we have
! gained one orawo profitable ideas, we
feel we have done we'll There must be
some swifter way and more satisfactory
way of taking in Gods universe o
thoughts and facts and emotions. But
this cannot be,done with your brVin IL
its. present state. Many n brain give
| way under the present facility. Thii
whitish mass in the upper cavity 0f th'
skull, and at the extremity OF the nerv
GUS system-this center OF perception
and sensation cannot endure more than
Il now endures. But God can make {
better brain, an6 he sends death to re-
move this inferior brain that he may
put in q Superior brain. well" you
say, 'does not that destroy the idea o
a resurrection Of the present body?
O, no. It will be the old factory with
new machinery, new driving wheel, new
bands, new levers and new powers
Don't you see? So l suppose the dulles
human brain after the rcsurrectionary
process will have more knowledge
more acuteness, rnore brilliancy. more
breadth Of swing than any Sir William
| Hamilton or Herschel or Isaac Newton oi
Faraday or Agassiz ever had in thC
mortal state or all their intellectual
powers combined. You see God hat
only Just begun to build You. The pal
ace Of your nature has only the fouHda
ftion laid, and part Of the lower story
and only part of gne window, but th'
great. architect has made his draft o
what you will be when the Alhambrs
as completed. John was right when h'
said: "It doth not yet appear what w'
shall be-" Blessed he DEATH for 1t re
moves all the hindranccs. And who has
not ali his life run against hindrances'
We cannot go far up or far down. II
we go far up we get dizzy, and II we g
far down we get suffocated. II mer
would go high up they ascend the Mat
terhorn or Mont Blanc or Himalaya
but what disasters have been reported
rs they came tumbltng down. Or, l
they vent down too far, bark to th,
kexplosion of the fire damps, and see thu
disfgured bodies Of the poor miners a
the bot6om of the coal sssaft.
Then there are the climatologica
hindranees. We run against unpro
pitious weather of all sorts. Winter
blizzard and summer scorch, and eacl
season seems to hatch brood of III
own disorders. The summer spreads
its wings and hatehes ont fevers ant
sun-strokes, and spring and autumn
spread their wings and hatch out ma
larias, and winter spreads its wings ant
matches out pneumonias and Russian
grippes, and the climate Of this worlt
is q hindrance which every man ant
woman and child has felt. Death is to the
good transference TO superior weather