Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-04-21


to world. These ears, which can hear a
sound Il few feet off, will I've removed 70,
ears that can hear from zone to zone These
feet will be removed for powers of locomo
ton swifter than the reindcer's hoof OF
eagles plume OF 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 nun
dred: why not n thousand? We can have,
and we will have them. but not until this
present physical machinery is put ont OF
the way. Do not think that this body is
the best that God can do for us God did
not halftrv when lac contrived your bodily
mechanism. Mind YOU. believe with all
anatomist. and with all Psychologists and
with I'll scientists and with the psalmst
that we are ft0rIuily and wonderfully
made" But | believe and | know that
God can and will get us better physical
equipment.
Is it possible for man to make improve
ment in almost anything and God not be
able TO make improvements in mans phys
zeal machinery? shall canal boat give
way TO limited express train? Shall slow
letter give place to tclctraphy, that places
San Francisco and New York within n
minute of communication? Shall the ;clp.
phone take TIE sound OF Il voice sixty miles
and instantly bring back another voice,
aud God. who made the man who does
these thinQs. not be able to improve tn,
man himself with infinite Iclocitics aud
infinite multiplication Bcnefcent Death
comes in and makes the necessary removal
to make way for these supernatural i'm
provcments. So also our slow process, of
getting information must have substi-
tute.
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 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 profit.
able ideas we feel We have done well.
There must he some ~Wifter way and more
satisfactory way Of taking in Gods uni
verse OF thoughts and facts and emotions
and information But this cannot be done
with your brain in it. present state Many
Il brain gives way under the present facil
ity. This whiti-h mass in the upper cav.
ity Of the skull and at the extremity of
the nervous >y-tom-this center of perccp.
ton and sensation cannot endure more
than ii now cndureS
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, docs not that destroy t.-
idea of a resurrection of the presrn,
body" Oh. no. 1t will be the old factory
with new Neutrality-suspicious. driving wheel,
new bands, new levers and new powers.
Don't You see? 80 suppose the dulles,
n n It pr he rf4-I npt
ess will have mere knowledge, more acute
ness, more brilliancy. more breadth of
swing than any Sir William Hamilton or
F1erschel 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 ne
foundation laid and part of the lowe:
story, and only part of one window, bit
the great architect has made his draft OF
what you will be when the Alhambra is
completed
John was right when he said, at doth
not yet appear what we shall boz blessed
be deathl for 1t removes all the hindIauce,
And who ha, not all his life run against
hindrances! We cannot 20 far MP or fan
down. If we go far up we get dizzy, and
ii we go far down we get suiTocated If
men would go high up they ascend the
Matterhorn or Mont Blanc or Ilimalaya
but what disasters have been reported as
they came tumbling down. Or if they
went down too far. bark to the explosion
of the fredamps, and sec the dsilgurcd
bodies of the poor miners al the bottom OF
the coal shat.
AN END OF EARTHLY VICIsSITUDES
Then there are the Glimatologica lin
drances. We run against unpropitious
weather Of al! sorts. Winter blizzard and
summer scorch, and each season seems to
hatch brood OF its own disorders. The sum
mer spreads it's wings and matches out fevers
and sunstrokes, and spring and autumn
spread their wings and hatch out malarias.
and winter spreads its wings and matches
OUT pneumonlas and Russian grippes, and
the climate of this world is a hindrance
which every man and woman and child
has felt. Death is TO the good transfer.
encc to superior wcather-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 characteristic
of this planet; blessed is death! for II
prepares tn" way for change Of zones. yea.
IT clears the pal 10 "A scHomnprescnce.
How often we want to be in different
places at the same time, How pcrplcXed
we get being compelled to choose between
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 Oppor-
tunity 10 be in many places at the same
time, so easy and 50 quick and so nstanta-
neous will be the lrausfcrCncc that it will
amount to about the same thing. Quicker
than can speak this sentence you will be
among your glorious kindred, among the
martyrs, among the apostles, in the gate,
on the battlements, AT the temple, and now
from world to world aS soon It's a robin
hops from one tree branch to another tree
branch. Distance no hndranCc. Immcn-
sity easily cOmpassed. OmnipreSencol
But, says some one, 81 cannot see how
God is going to reconstruct my body in the
resurreot ton" Oh, that will be very easy
as compared with what he has already
done with your body four or six or ten
times. All scientists tell us that the hu-
man body changes entirely once in seven
years, 80 that if you are twenly-cight years
Of age you have now your fourth body. If
YOU are forty-two years Of age You have
had six bodies. Ify You are seventy years Of