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| uuCeT UNe pTeSouG AdCulLy. Luis WulUlSu
mass in the upper cavity Of the skull and at
the extremity of the nervous system-this
center Of perception 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.
"Well, you say, docs not that destroy the
idea Of resurrection of the present bodyT
Oh, no. Il will be the old factory with new
| machinery--new driving Wheel new bands.
| new levers and new powers. Don't you sees
So suppose the dullest human brain after
the resurrectionary process will have more
knowledge, more acuteness, more brilliancy,
more breadth Of swing than any Sir William
Hamilton or Hersche1 or Isaac Newton or
Faraday or Agas5iz ever had in the mortal
state or all their intellectual powers COM
bined. 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 Alhambra is
completed.
John was right when he said. ut 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
hindrances? We cannot 60 far up or far
down. If we 60 far up we get dizzy, and II
we 60 far down we get suRocated. Ii men
would go high up they ascend the Matterhorn
or Mount Blanc or Himalaya, but what dis
asters have been reported as they came
Tar, bark to the explosion Of the fredamps,
md see the disfgured bodies Of the poor
miners at the bottom Of the coal shaft.
Then thers are the climstologicsl him
ORANGES. We run against unpropitiou5
weather Of all sorts. Winter blizzard and
summer scorch, and each season seems to
hatch brood Of Its own disorders. The
summer spreads its wings and. matches out
fever and sunstrokes. and spring and
autumn spread their wings and hatch out
malarias, and winter spreads its wings and
matches out pneumonia and Russian grippes
and the climate Of this world is hindrancs
which every man and woman and child has
felt Death is to the good transference 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 planet? Blessed
lsdeath! for it prepares the way for change
Of zone, yea, it clears thu path to q semiom-
nipresence.
How often we want to be in different places
at the same timel How perplexed we get
being compelled to choose between invita-
tions, 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 opportunity to be In many
places at the same time, SO easy and so quick
and so instantaneous will be the trausference
that it will amount to about the same thing.
Quicker than can speak this sentence you
will be among your glorious kindred, among
the mar tyrs 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 hindreuce 1mmensity easily
compassed. Semiomnipresencel
But" says some one, II cannot sac how
God is going to reconstruct my body in the
resurrection" Oh, that will be very easy as
compared with what ae has already done
with your body four or SIX or ten times. All
scientists tell US that the. human body
changes entirely once In seven years, so that
If YOU are twenty-eight years Of age you
have now your fourth body. II you are
forty.two years Of age you have had six
bodies. If you are seventy years Of age you
have had ten bodies. Do You not, my un-
believing friend, think If God could build
for you four or five or ten bodies He could
really build for you. one more to ts called
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 statue out OF silent clay
than it would bs to make a 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
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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
psychologists say there are parts OF the
human body the uses Of which they cannot
understand. They are searching what these
parts are made for, but have not found out.
/ can tell them. They are the preliminaries
of the resurrection body God does not make
ANYTHING for nothing. The uses Of those now
surplus parts of the body will be demon
strated when the glorified form is construc.
ted.
Now, if Death clears the way for all this,
why paint him as hobgoblinf Why call
him the king Of terrorss Why think OF him
as a great spook? Why sketch him with
skeleton and arrows and standing on bank
of dark watsrsl Why have children 80
frightened at his name that they dare not
20 to bed alone, and old men have their
teeth chatter lest some shortness OF breath
hand them over to the monster? ..All the ages
have been busy in maligning Death. hurting
repulsive metaphors at Death, slandering
Death. Oh, for the sweet breath Of Easter
to come down on the earth. Right after
the yernal equinox. and when the flowers
are beginning to bloom, well may all nations
with song and with congratulation and gar
lands celebrate the resurrection OF Christ,
and our own resurrection when the time Is
gone by. and the trumpets pour through the
flying clouds the harmonies that shall wake
the d d,ad.
By the empty niche Of Joseph's mauso-
leum, by the rocks that parted to let the
Lord come through. let our ideas Of chang
ing worlds be forever revolutionizsd. II
ferently We ought to think Of our friends
departed. The body they have put of Il
only a.. when entering hall lighted and
resouuding with musical bands you leave
your hat and cloak in the cloakroom. What
would banqueter do if he had to carry
those encumbrances of apparel wsh him in
to the brilliant reception? What would your
departed do with their bodies if they had to
be- encountered with them in the kings
drawing rooms Gone into the light! Gone
into the music! Gone into tie festivi.y! |!
Gone among kings and queens ahc con-
querors Gone to meet Eli ijah and hear him
tell Of the chariot Of fire drawn BIZ horses Of
fire and the sensation of mounting the sap
phire sleeps! Gone to meet with Moses and
hear him describe the pile Of black basalt
that shook when the law was given! Conc
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 Mamertine dungeon! Gone
to meet John Knox and John Wesley aud
Hannah More and Francis Havergal. Gone
to meet the kindred who preceded theml