The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-04-29

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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 travels 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
swif'er way and more satisfactory way
of taking in Gods universe of thoughts
and facts and emotions and informa-
tion. But this cannot be done with
your brain in it's present state.
Many brain gives way under
the present facility. This whitish
mass. ain the upper cavity of the
seull, and at the extremity of
the nervous system--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 superior brain.
swell, you say, "does not that de-
stroy the idea of g resurrection of the
present body?" 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
1 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 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: ut doth not yet appear what
we shall be-" Blessed be Deathl for it
removes all the hindrances. And who
has not all his life run against him
ORANGES? 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-
Gated. 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,
bark to the explosion Of the fire damps,
and see the dishgured 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 2S years of age
you have now your fourth body. If
you are AZ years of age you have had
six bodies If you are 20 years of ag
you have had ten bodies. Doyou not, my
unbelieving friend think if God could
build for you four or five or ten bodies
he could really build for you one
more to be called the resurrection body?
Aye! to make that resurrection body
will not require half rs much ingenuity
and power as those other bodies you
have had. Is it not easier for a 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 thitherP
viii 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 Psychologists
say that there are parts of the human
body the uses of which they cannot
understand. They are searching what
these parts were made for, but have not
found out. l can tell them. They are
the preliminaries of the resurrection
body. God does not make anything for
nothing. The uses of those now sur
plus parts of the bodies will be dem
onstrated when the giorifed form is
constructed.
What have been saying is true, how
differently 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 ban
queter do if he had to carry those en-
cumbrances 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
sleeps! 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
Mamertine dungeonl Gone to meet
,John Knox and John Wesley and