Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-04-28

and been clouded by enough doubts,
and surrounded by enough rnys-
teries. We talk about the shortness
OF life, but if we exercised good sense we
would realize that life is quite long
enough. If we are children OF God,
we are at banquet; and this world is
only the first course of the food. and
we ought to be glad that there are
other and better and richer courses
OF food to be handed on. We are here
i'll oneroom OF our Fathers house, but
t.-..- are rooms uD stairs. They are
better pictured, better upholstered,
better furnished. Why do we want to
stay in the anti-room forever, when
there are paiatial apartments wait
ing for our occupancy? What q
mercy that there is limitation to
earthly environments!
Death also makes room for i'm
proved physical machinery. Our
bodies have wondrous powers, but
they are very limited. There are
beasts that can outrun us, outfit us,
out-carry 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 it's
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 q mile will be removed for
those that can see from world
to world. These ears, which can
hear a sound few feet of, will be re-
moved for ears that can
HEAR FROM ZONE TO ZONE.
Thosefeet will be removed for powers
Of locomotion swiiter than the rein
deer,s hoof, OF eagles plume, or light
ning's flash. Then, we have only five
senses and to these we are shut up.
Why only five senses? Why not so,
why not Il 100, why not thousand?
We cam 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, l believe, with
all ANTAGONISTS and all psychologists,
and all scientists and with the psalm
ist that 1--WE are fearfully and wonder
fully made" But, l believe and know
that God can and will get US better
physical equipment. tits possible for
man to make Improvement in almost
anything and God not be able to make
Improvements in mans physical ma
chinery? Shall canal boat give way
to limited 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 a voice 60 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 indefinite multiplication? Be.
cause Death comes in and makes the
necessary removal to make way fol-
these supernatural improvements. So
also our slow process OF getting infor'
nation must have a substitute
Through prolonged study, we learned
the alphabet, and then we learned to
read. Then the book is put before u.s.
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word and from page to page, and WE
take whole days to read the book, and
il from that book OF 400 OF 500 pages
we have gained one or two profitable
ideas, we feel we have done well. There
must be some swiiter way and more
satisfactory way OF taking in Gods
universe OF thoughts and facts and
emotions and informations. But this
cannot be done with your brain in its
present state. Many a brain gives
way under the present facility. This
whitish mass in the upper cavity O.
the skull, and at the extremity OF the
nervous system-this center ofpercep
ton and sensation cannot endure
more than it now endures. But Goo
can make better brain, and he sends
death to remove this inferior brain
that he may put in q superior brain
BLESSED IS DEATH.
for it prepares the way for change o
zones, yea it clears the path to semi
omnipresence.
Twas told at ,Johnstown, after thu
flood, that many people who had beer
for months and years bereft, for thu
| 1lrSt time got cOmlOfC Wien Jne :tWlll
flood came, to think that their de
| parted ones were not present to SCI
the catastrophe. AS the people wer'
floating down on the house tops, they
said: :Oh, how glad am that father
and mother are not here" or chow
glad l am that the children are no,
| alive to see this horror" And ought
not we who are down here amid thu
upturnings OF this life be glad thai
none of the troubles which submerg
us can ever alright our friends as
cended? Before this | warrant our de
parted ones have been introduced tt
all the celebrities OF heaven. Shall
we pity our sloriticG kindred? No, they
had better pity us. We, the ship
wrecked, and on a raft i'll the hurrl
cane, looking up at them sailing OF
over calm sens, under skies that neve
frowned with tempests, we hopplet
with chains; they lifted by wings
"Surely the bitterness OF death Ii
past"
Further, il what have been sayin!
is true, we should trust the Lord ant
he thrilled with the fact
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