Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-04-29

slow process o. getting information must
] have a substitute
Through prolonged stsdy wa learne the
alphabet, and then we learned to spell mn
then We learned to read. Then the book j,
put before US and the eye travels from word
10 word and from page to page, AMI we take
whole days 10 read the book, and IL 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 AMI more satisfactory
way OF taking in Gods universe OF thou ghts
and facts AMI emotions AMI information
But this cannot be done with your brain in
its present state. Many brain gives way
under the present facility This whitisa
mass In the upper cavity of the skull aud at
the extremity OF the nervous sys.en-th $
center OF perception and sensation cannot
endure more than IL now endures.
But God can make a better brain an He
sends Death to remove this inferior brain
that He may put in a superior brain.
well" you say, does not that destroy the
idea OF a resurrection OF the present bodyY'
Oh, no 1t will be the old factory with new
machinery-new driving wh eel, 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 acute ness more brilliancy,
more breadth OF swing thnu any Sir William
Hamilton or Herschel or Isaac Newton or
Faraday or AgassZ ever hal in the mortal
state or oil 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. AMI only part of one window
but the great architect has made His draft
OF what you will be when the Alhambra il
completed
John was right when he sail, 1T doth
not yet appear what we shall be-" Blessed
be death for it removes all the hindrancas.
And who has not all his life run against
hindrances? We cannot go far up or far
down. II we 60 far up we get dizzy and il
we go far down we get suffocated 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
tumbling down Or il they went down to)
Tar, bark to the explosion of the firedamps,
and see the distigured bodies OF the poor
miners at the bottom Of the coal shalt
Then there ara the climatoloyical him
ORANGES. We run against un9ropitious
weather OF all sorts. Winter blzz1ri and
GUNNER scorch, an1 each season seems to
hatch brool OF Its own disorders. Toe
summer spreads its wings AMI matches out
lever and sunStrokeS. AMI spring ami
autumn spread their wings anil hatcl ont
nallrlas, AMI winter spreads its wings AMI
1atCnes out pneumonia and Russian grippes
aud the climate OF this world is n hinirance
which every man and woman aud child has
.elt- Death is 10 the COOL transierence to
superior weather. waathe- never fckle, aud
never too cola, and never too hot and never
90 light and never too darG. Have YOU any
iCuJt that col can make better weather
.han is characteristic of this planat' Blessed
sdeath for it prepares the way for cdanCe
II zone, yea, it clears tn1 path to a semiom-
lipresenCc.
How often we want to be in different places
At the same tlmel How perpisxed we get
being compeliel 10 choose between invita-
ions, between weddings between friendly
groups, between three or four places ws
would like 10 be in the same morning or the
,ains noon or the same evening. While death
nay not open opportunity TO BE- in many
places at the sane time, - easy and 50 quick
AMI SO inst infamous will be the transterencl
hat it will AIN punt to about the same ing
Quicker than can speak this sentence you
will be among your glorious kin1red among
The martyrs among the apostles in the gate
IN the battlementN at tne tenole, AMI now
from worli to worli as soon as "A robin hops
rom one tree branch to another tree branch.
Distance no hlndrance. lmmensty easily
sompassed Sem!omnlpresence!
But" says some one II cannot see how
God is going TO reconstruct my body i'll the
resurrection" Oh, that will be very easy as
compared with wnat He has already don,
scientists tell us that the human body
changes entirely once in seven years, SO that
II you are twenty eight years Of age you
have now your fourth boly. IL you are
torty-two years Of age yol have hal six
bodies. Ii YOU are seventy years OF age you
have had ten bodies. Do yol not my un-
believing friend, think il God could buili
for you four or five or ten DO lies He could
really build for YOU one more to te callel
the resurrection body. Aye! to make that
resurrection boiy will not require half dS
much ingenuity and power as those other
bodies you have had. Is it not easier for
sculptor to make a statue out of silent clay
than it would b, to make a statue out OF
some material that is alive and moving, and
running hither and thitherf
Will it not be easier for God to make thu
resurrection body out of the silent dust of
the crumbe1 body than it was to make your
body over five or six or eight times while it
was in motion, walking, climbing, falling or
rlsingS God has already on your four or five
bodies bestowed ten times more omnipoteuce
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 thess
parts are made for, but have not found out.
can tell them They are the preliminares
Of the resurrection body. God does not make
anything for nothing. The uses of those now
surplus parts OF the bo1y will be demon
strated when the glorifed form is construc.
ted
Now. II Death clears the way for all this,
why paint him as a hobgoblin3 Why cali
him the king of terrorsf Why think OF him
as great spooHS Why sketch him with
skeleton and arrows and standing on bank
of dark watarsl Why have children SO
/ fricy nt hat
70 to bel alone and old men have their
teeth chatter lest some shortness of breath
hand them over to the m 0usteri All tae ages
have been busy in maligning Death. hurling
repulsive metaphors at Death, slauderinS
Death. Oh for the sweet breath of Elsier
to como down on the earth. Right after
the vornal equinox, and when the flowers
are beginning to bloom, we'll may all nations
with song and with congratuation and gar
lands celebrate the resurrection OF Christ,
and our own resurrection when the time is
| gone by, AMI tho trumpets pour through the
flying clouds the harmonies that shall wake
the d dsad.
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 revolutioniZel. Il
what l have been saying is true, how diff
ferently We ought to think of our friends
departed. The body they have put Off is
only a. when entering hall lighted and
resounding with musical bands, you leave
your hat and cloak in the cloakroom. What
would banqueter do if he hal to carry
those encumbranc2s of apparel with him in
to the brilliant receptions What would your
departed do with their bodies il they had to
bs encumbered with them in the kings
drawing room' Gone into the light! Gone
into the music! Gone into the festivty
Gone among kings and queens ard con
querorsl Gone to meet Eli jah and hear him
tell of the chariot of ere drawn by horses OF
fire and the sensation OF mounting the sap
phire steepSl Gone to meet with Moses and
hear him describe the pile OF black blsalt