The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-04-29

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for something better. These eyes that
can see half mile viii be removed for
those that can see from world to world.
These ears, which can hear a sound a
rew feet off, viii be removed for ears
that can hear from zone to zone.
These feet will be removed for powers
of locomotion swifter than the rein
deer's hoof or eagles plume or light
ning's fash 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 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 physiolo-
gists and with the Psalmist that ''we are
fearfully and wonderfully made" But
believe and know that God can and
will get us better phyF6al equipment.
Is it possible for man to make improve
ments in mans physical machinery?
Shall canal boat give way to limited
express train? Shall slow letter give
place to telegraphy, that places San
Francisco and New York within min
ute of communication? Shall the tele-
phone take the sound of a voice sixty
miles and instantly bring back another
voice, and God, who made the man who
does these things, not be able to inn
prove the man himself with infinite
velocities and infinite multiplication?
Beneficient death comes in and makes
the necessary removal to make way for
these supernatural improvements.
So also our slow process of getting
information must have a substitute
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 MS, 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 hundred 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 can not be done with your brain in
its present state. Many brain gives
way under the present facility. This
whitish mass in the upper cavity of the
skull, and at the extremity of the nerv-
Gus system-this center of perception
and sensation can not endure more
than it now endures. But God
can make better brain, and
He sends deaf h to remove this
inferior brain that He may put in
a superior brain. well, -" you say, "does
not that destroy the idea of a resurrec-
ton of the present body?" Oh, no. II
will be the old factory with new ma
chinery, new driving wheel, new bands,
new levers and new powers. Don't you
see? So 1 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 Fara-
day, 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 the founda-
ton 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 Al
hambra is completed. John was right
when he said: 1T doth not yet appear
what we shall be-" Blessed be death!
for it removes all the hinderances. And
who has not all his life run against
hinderances? We can not go so far up
or so far down. If~we go far up we get
dizzy, and if we go far down we get
suffocated. If men would go high up
they ascend the Matterhorn or Mont
Blac or Himalaya, but what disasters
have been reported as they come down.
| Or, if they went down too far, bark to
the explosion of the fire damps, and
see the disfgured bodies of the poor
miners at the bottom of the coal shaft.
Then there are the Chronological
hinderances. We run against unpro-
| pitious weather of all sorts Winter
blizzard and summer scorch, and each
season seems to hatch brood of its
own disorders. The summer spreads
its 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 pneumonia and
Russian grips, and the climate of this
world is hinderance which every man
and woman and child has felt. Death
/ is to the good transference 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 characteristic of this planet?
Blessed is death. for it prepares the
way for change of zones, yea it clears
| the path to semi-omnipresence. How
often we want to be in different places
at the same time. How perplexed we
get being compelled to choice between
weddings, between friendly groups, be-
tween 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 so 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 glorified
kindred, among the martyrs, among the
apostles, in the gate, on the battle
ments, 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 hinderance Inn
mensity easily eompassed. Semi-omni-
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