The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-04-21

Benefcent Death comes in and makes the
necessary removal 10 make sway for these
supernatural improvements. SO also our
slow process OF getting information must
have n substitute.
Through prolonged stsdv we learned the
alphabet, and then we learned TO SPELL AMI
then we learned 10 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 10 read the BOOK. AMI 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 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
its present state. Many a brain gives way
under the present facility. This whitish
mass in the upper cavity Of the skull aud at
the extremity OF the nervous systetn-this
center OF perception and sensation cannot
endure more than IL now endures.
But God can make q better brain, AMI He
sends Derth 20 remove this inferior brain
that He may put in superior brain.
well" you say, does not that destroy the
idea Of a resurrection of the present bodyy'
Oh, no. IL will be the old factory with new
machinery--new driving wheel new bands
new levers and new powers Don't you seeg
So suppose the dullest human brain after
the resurreCtionary process will have more
knowledge more acute ness, 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 thcir intellectual powers com.
bined. You see Col has only Just begun 20
build you. The palace OF your nature has
only the Foundation laid and part of tho
lower story, an1 only part Of one window.
but the great architect has made His draft
OF what You will be when the Alhambra is
c)mpletel.
John was right when he sail. ut doth
mot t.fa sb,,t h.n l..
ho death for It removes all the hindrances.
AMI VINO has not all bis life run against
hinirtncl,? We cannot 90 far up or far
down. IL We go far up we get dizzy, and il
we go FAR down we get sufocated. II men
would go high up they ascend the Mattorhorn
or Mount Blanc or Himalaya, but what dis.
aster, have been reported as they came
tumbling down. Or IL they went down tol
far, bark to the explosion OF the flredamps,
and see the disngured bodies Of tho poor
miners at the bottom OF the coal shaft.
Then tner1 are the climatoloyicll him
ORANGES We run against unp:opitious
weather OF all sorts. Winter blizzard AMI
summer scorch, and each season seems 10
hatch brood OF its own disorders Tne
summer spreads its wings and matches out
fever and sunstrokeS and spring AMI
autumn spread their wings and hatch out
malurils, and winter spreads its wings and
matches out pneumonia and Russian grippes,
and the climate OF this world Is hndranc3
which every man aud woman aud child has
felt Death l. 10 the good transferencc TO
superior weather. weather never tickle and
never too cold, and never too hot, andnevcr
too light, and never too dark. Have you any
doubt that God can make better weather
than is characteristic OF this planet, Blessed
Is deathl for IL prepares the way for change
ot zone, yea, 10 clears ths path 10 a semiOm.
niprosence.
How often we want 20 be in different places
at the same timel How pcrplcNed we get
being compelled TO choose between invita-
tlons, 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 opportunity 10 b. in many
places at the same time, 50 easy aud 50 quick
ani 50 instantaneous will be the transferencs
that ~ will amount % 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 battlemontS at the temple aud now
from world 20 world as soon as IA robin hops
trsr % tree branch TO another tree branch.
, cns nn = no hindrance lmmensity easily
= ;ss%is@1lPFsfenSSl S1s.99G IS asnnos Sc. how
Eos y'truct my body in the
= ILa, 1890 a5 "a Rstjyij be ysyJr es ~ q
compared with what TO has already don.
with your body four or six or ten times All
scientists tell us that the human BODY
changes entirely once in seven years, 50 that
II you are twenty-sight years of age you
have now your fourth body IL you are
forty-two years Of age you have had six
bodies IL you are seventy years OF age you
have had ten bodies. Do you not, my un-
believing friegl, think ii God could buili
FOR you four or five or ten bodies He could
really build for YOU ono more to b called
F the resurrection body. Ave! 70 make that
resurrection boly will not require half as
much ingenuity and power as those other
bodies YOU have had Is II not easier for II
sculptor 10 make statue out Of silent clay
than II would be TO make a statue out OF
some material that Is alive and moving and
running hither ami thithers
VIII Il not be easier for God u make the
resurrection body out Of the silent dust OF
the crumblei body than IL was 20 make your
body over five or six or eight times while it
was IN motion, walking, climbing, falling or
risingy God has already on your four or five
bodies bestowed ten times more omnipotencs
than He viii put tupon the resurrection BODY
Yea, we have the foundation for the
resurrection body in US now. Surgeons and
physlo.ogistS say there are parts of the
human body the uses Of which they cannot
understand They are searching what these
parts are made for, but have not found out
can tell them. They are the preliminarles
OF the resurrection body. God does not make
anything for nothing. The uses of those now
surplus parts OF the body will be demon
strated wnea the gloriied form is construc.
ted.
Now, il Death clears the way for all this,
why paint him as "A hobgobliny Why cali
him the king of terrOrss Why think OF him
as a great spooS? Why sketch him with
skeleton and arrows, and standing on a bank
OF dark waters! Why have children SO
frightened at his name that they dare not
20 70 bel alone, and old men have their
teeth chatter lest some shortness of breath
hand them over 10 the monster2 All the ages
have been busy in maligning Death, hurling
repulsve metaphors at Death, slandering
Death. Oh, for tho sweet breath of Easter
TO come down on the earth. Right after
the vernal equinox, and when the flowers
are beginning 70 bloom well may all nations
with song and with congratulation and gar
lands celebrate the resurrection of Christ,
and our own resurrection when the time is
gone by, AMI the trumpets pour through the
flying clouds tho harmon!es that shall wake
/ the aad.
BY the empty niche of Joseph's mauso-
leuln, by the rocks that parted to let the
Lord come through, let our ideas of chang
] inV Ia IL