Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-04-18


enough. If we are the children OF God,
we are at a banquet, and his world is
only the first course Of the food, and
we ought to be glad that there ore
other and better and richer coures
Of food to be handed on. We are here
in one room of our fathers house, but
there are rooms up stairs. They are bet
ter pictured, better upholstered, better
furnished. Why do we want to stay in
the anteroom forever, when there are
pale:ial apartments waiting for our oc-
cupancy? What a mercy that there is a
limitation to earthly environments.
OUR POOR, WEAK BODIES.
Death also makes room for improved
physical machinery. Our bodies have
wondrous powers, but they are very lin
tied. There are beasts that can OF run
us, outfit 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 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, v hich
can hear a sound few feet off, viii 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
ightnings flash. Then we have only
five senses and to these we are shuG up.
Why only five senses? Why not fifty,
why not one hundred, why not thou
sand? 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, believe with
all anatomists and all psychologists and
with all scientists and with the psalUlist
that 1--WE are fearfully and wonderfully
made" But / 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 limited ex-
press trainp Shall slow letter give place
to telegraphy, that places San Francisco
and New York within minute of com
munication? Shall the telephone take
the sound of a voice sixty miles and in
stantly 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 in
finite multiplication? Benefcent 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
formation must have 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 trav-
els from word to word and from page to
page, and we take whole days to read
the book, and if from that book of four
or five hundred pages we have gained
one or two profitable ideas we feel we
have done well. There must be some
swifter way and more satisfactory way
of taking in Gods uni, erse of thoughts
and facts and emotions and information.
But this cannot be done with your Drain
in its present state. Many brain gives
way under the present facility. This
whitish mass in the upper cavity of the
skull and ut the extremity of the nerv-
ths, 90
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 superior
brain. "Well," you say, "does not that
destroy the idea of resurrection of the
present bodyg' Oh, no. 1t will be the
old factory with new machinery-new
driving wheel, new bands, new levers
and new powers. Don't you see? So
suppose the dullest human brain after
The resurrectionary process will have
more knowledge, more acuteness, more
more breadth of swing than
any Sir William Hamilton or Herschel
)r Isaac Newton or Faraday or Agassiz
ever had in the mortal state, or all their
intellectual powers combined.
BLESSED BE DEATH.
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 ono
but the Great Architect has
made his draft of what you will be when
the Alhambra is completed. John was
right when he said, 1T doth not yet APP
pear what we shall be-" Blessed be
leathl for il removes all the hindranoes.
And who has not all his life run against
hindrances2 We cannot go far up nor
lar down. If we go far mp we get dizzy,
and if we go far down we get suffocated.
II men would so high up they ascend
the Matterhorn or Mont Blanc or Hima-
aya, but what disasters have been re-
ported as they came tumbling down.
Or If they went down too far, bark 10
ihe explosion OF the fredamps and see
Ihe dishgured bodies Of the poor miners
At the bottom OF the coal shaft.
Then there are the Chronological him
ORANGES. We run against unpropitious
weather of all sorts. Winter blizzard
and summer scorch, and each season
seems TO hatch brood of its own dis
orders. The summer spreads its wings
and matches out fevers and sunstrokes,
And spring and autumn spread their
wings and hatch out malarias, and win
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