The Forrest City times., 1892-04-22

Vhe nervous svstem-this center of per- ception 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 a superior brain.
 we'll you say, ''does not that de- stroy the idea of resurrection of the present body?" Oh,no It will be the old factory with new machinery, new driving wheel, new bands, new lever, ana new powers. Don't you see? So suppose the dullest human brain, ai.er the resurrectionary process, Will have more knowledge, more acuteness, Ihore brilliancv. 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 lower story, and only part of one window, but the great architect has made his draft of what you will be when the Alham- bra is completed. John was right when he said: Tt doth not yet appear what we shall be-" Blessed be Death, for it removes all the hindrances. And who has not all his life run against him drances? We cannot go far up or far down. If we go far up we get dizzy, and if we go far down, we get suffo- cated. 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 they went down too far, hark to the explosion of the fire damps, and see the disfigured bodies of the poor miners at the bottom of the coal shaft.
 All scientists tell us that the human body changes entirely once in seven years, so that if you are 9s years of age you have now your fourth body. If you are 42 years of age you have had six bodies. If you are 70 years of az you have had ten bodies. Doyou not, my unbelieving friend, think if God could , he could really build for you one more to be called the resurrection body? Aye! 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 sculp- tor to make statue out of silent clay than it would be to make a statue out of some material that is alive and nov ing 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 rising? 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 foundation for the resurrection body in us now Surgeons and physiologists say that there are parts of the human body the uses of which they cannot They are searching what
 
 found out. I can tell them. They are the preliminaries of the resurrection body. God does not make anything foi nothing. The uses of those now sur plus parts of the bodies will be dem onstrated when the giorified form is 
 What have been saying is true, how we ought to think of our friends departed. The body they have put off is only as when entering hall lighted and resounding with musical bands, you leave your hat and cloak in the cloak room. What would a ban oueter do if he had to carry those en- cum mbrances of apparel with him into the brilliant reception? What would your departed do with their bodies if they had to be encountered with them in the Kings drawing room? Gone into the light, Gone into the music' Gone into the festivity. Gone among kings and queens and conquerersl Gone to meet Elijah and hear him tell of the chariot of fire drawn by horses of fire and the sensation of mounting the sapphire steeps! Gone to meet with Moses and hear him describe the pile of black ba- salt that shook when the law was given. Gone to meet Paul and hear him tell how Felix trembled, and how the ship went to pieces in the breakers and how thick was the darkness in the dungeon Gone to meet John Knox and John Wesley and Hannah More and Frances Haver- gal. Gone to meet the kindred who preceded them. Why I should not wonder if they had larger family group there than they ever had here. o, how many of them have got together again. Your father and mother went years apart, but they got to- pether, and their children that went years ago got together again. Gone where they have more room! Gone where they have more jub- liant society! Gone where they have mightier capacity to love you than when they were here' Gone out of hindrances into unbounded liberty Gone out of January into June! Gone where they talk about yon, as we always talk about absent friends, and say: II wonder when they will come up here to join us. Harkl the outside door of heaven swings open. Hark! there are feet on the golden stairs. Perhaps they are ,omingv'
 Oh weep no more your comforts slain,
 The Lord is risen, he lives again.
 And now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our