Connecticut western news., 1892-04-21

DeaIn alSO lllaReS TOOlu TOT llnpTONeu physical machinery. Our bodies have wondrous powers, but they are very linn tied. There are beasts that can outrun 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, which can hear a sound few feet off, will 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 lightning's flash. Then we have only five senses and to these we are shut up. Why only five senses? Why not fifty, why not one hundred, why not a 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 physiologists and with all scientists and with the psalmist that ''we are fearfully and wonderfully made" But believe and I 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 machineryi Shall canal beat give way to limited ex- press train2 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 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 thesc supernat- ural Improvements.
 So also our slow process of getting in formation must have a substitute. l 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 universe of thoughts | and facts and emotions and information. But this cannot be done with your brain in it's present state. Many a brain gives way under the present facility. This whitish mass in the upper cavity of the skull and at the extremity of the nerv- ous system-this center of perception and sensation-cannot endure more than it now endures.
 But God can make a better brain, and he sends Death to remove this inferior brain that he may put in n superior brain. Well" you say, "does not that destroy the idea of a resurrection of the present body?" Oh, no. It 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, moro 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.
 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 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 ap- pear 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 go far up nor far down. If we go far rp we get dizzy, and if we go far down we get suffocated. If men would go high up they ascend the Matterhorn or Mont Blanc or Hima- laya, but what disasters have been re- ported as they came tumbling down. | Or if they went down too far, hsrk to the explosion of the firedamps and sec the disfgured bodies of the poor miners ] at the bottom of the coal shaft.
 Then there are the climatological hin drances. We run against unpropitious weather of all sorts. Winter blizzard and summer scorch, and each season. seems to hatch a broood of its own dis orders. The summer spreads its wings and hatchcs out levers and sunstrokes, and spring and autumn spread their wings and hatch out malarias, and win ter spreads its wings and matches out pneumonias and Russian grippes, and
 Re climate of this world is hindrance
 which every man and woman and child mas felt. Death is to the good transfer ence 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 char acteristic of this planet? Blessed is deathl for it prepares tho way for change of zones, yea it clears the path to a semi omnipresence.
 How often we want to be in different places at tho same time. How perplexed we get being compelled to choose be- tween invitations, 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 SC quick and so instantaneous will be the transference that it will amount to about the same thing. Quicker than can speak this sentence you will be among your glorifed kindred, among the martyrs, among the apostles, in tho gate, on the battlements, at the temple and now from world to world as soor