The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-04-27


mechanism. Mind you, believe with all
anatomists and with all Psychologists and
with all scientists and with the psalmist
that 1--WE are fearfully and wonderfully
made" But l believe and 1 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 trainE Shall slow
letter give place to biography, that places
San Francisco and New York within a
minute of communication? Shall the tele-
phone take the sound of a voice sixty miles
and instantl- bring back another voice,
and God, who made the man who does
these things. not be able to improve TIA
man himself with infinite velocities and
infinite multiplication: Beneficent Death
comes in and makes the necessary removal
TO make way for these supernatural inn
provements. 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 eve travels from
word TO word and from page to page, AMI
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 be some swiftcr way and more
satisfactory way of taking in Gods uni
verse Of thoughts and facts and emotions
and informa, on But this cannot be done
with your brain in its present state. Many
a brain givas way under the present facil
ity This whitish mass in the upper cav.
ity of the skull and ut the extremity of
the nervous system-ths center of percep-
tion and sensation cannot endure more
than il now endures.
But God can make a better brain, and he
sends Death 10 remove this inferior brain
that he may put in a superior brain.
''Well." You say, docs not that destroy ts,-
idea Of "A resurrection Of the present
body" Oh. no. Ii will be the old factory
with new machinery-new driving wheel,
new bands. new levers and new power
Don't you sep So suppose the dullest
human brain after the resurrectionary proc
esSwill have more know ledge, more acute
ness. more Jrilliancy. more breadth OF
swing than any Sir William Hamilton or
He-schel or Isaac Newton or Faraday or
Agassiz ever lad in the mortal state or all
their intelle"' nal powers combined. You
see God has only just begun 10 build you.
The palace Of your nature has only the
foundation laid and part Of the lowe-
story, and only part of one window, hit
the great architect has made his draft of
what you will be when the Alhambra is
completed.
John was right when he said. "lt doth
not vet appear what we shall be-" Blessed
be DEATH for il removes all the hindtance,.
And who has not all his life run against
hindGncesy We cannot 90 far mp or far
down. II we go far ur we get dizzy. and
if we 90 far down we get suifocated. Ii
men would go high mp they ascend the
Matterhorn or Mont Blanc or Eimalaya.
but what disasters have been reported a.
they came tumbling down. or if they
went down too far bark TO the explosion
of the fredamps, and see the disfguIsd
bodies Of the poor miners at the bottom of
the coal shaft
An END or EARTHLY VGCISSGTUDEs
Then there are the Chronological hin
ORANGES. We run against unpropitious
weather of all sorts. Winter blizzard and
summer scOrch, and each season seems TO
hatch brood Of It's own disorders. The sum
erspreads its wings and matches out fevers
and sunstrokcs and spring and autumn
spread their wings and hatch out malarias,
and winter breads its wings and matches
out pneumOnias and Russian grippes and
the climate Of this world is hindrance
which every man and woman and child
has felt. D. til is TO the good transfer
ence TO superior weather-weather ever
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 planet2 Blessed is death. for i.
prepares the way for change Of zones, yea,
il clears the path 10 a semiOmnipresence.
How often we want to be in different
places at the same time! How perplexed
we get being compelled TO choose between
invitations, between weddings, between
friendly groups, between three or four
places we would like 10 be in the same
morning or the same noon or the same
evening. While death may not open oppor-
tunity TO be in many places at the same
time, so easy and 50 quick and so instanta-
neous viii be the transference that it will
amount 10 about the same thing Quicker
than 1 can $. eak 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 as "A robin
hops from one tree branch TO another tree
branch. Distance no hindrance. Immcn-
slty easily comprised. Scmiomnipresencei
But" says some one, Il cannot sec how
God is going 10 reconstruct my body in the
resurrection" 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 hui
man body changes entirely once in seven
years, so that II you are twenty weight years
of age you have now your fourth body. If
you are fOrty-two years OF age you have
had six bodies. If you are seventy years Of
age you have had ten bodies Do you 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 Hody. Aye to make
that resurrection body viii not require half
as much ingenuity and power as those othtr
bodies you have had. Is it not easier for a
sculptor TO make a statue out Of silent
clay than il would be 10 make a statue out
of some material that is alive and moving,
and running hitler and thither?
Will it not he easier for God TO make the
resurrection body out Of the silent dust Of
the crumbled body than il 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 nave the Ioun-
dation for the resurrection body in us now
Surgeons and Psychologists say there are
parts Of the human body the uses Of which