The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-04-22

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enough. Ii we are the children of God
we are at banquet, and his world i
only the first course of the food, ant
we ought to be glad that there ar
other and better and richer course
OF food to be handed on. We are her,
in one room of our fathers house. bu
there are rooms up stairs. They are bet
ter pictured, better upholstered, better
furnished. Why do we want to stay il
the anteroom forever, when there are
palatial apartments waiting for our oc
cupancy? What mercy that there is {
limitation to earthly environments.
OUR POOR, WEAK BODIES.
Death also makes room for improved
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
| 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
l,o ri,
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 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 Psychologists and
with all scientists and with the psalmist
that 1--WE are fearfully and wonderfully
made" But / believe and | know that
God can and will get us better physical
equipment. Is it possible for man to
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and God not be able to make improve
ments in mans physical machinery?
Shall canal boat give way to limited ex-
press train? Shall slow letter give place
to teler-aphy, that places San Francisco
and n r. Y-rk within a minute of com
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 ard makes the necessary re-
moval to make way for. these supernat-
ural improvements.
So also our slow process of getting in
formation must have q. substitute.
Through prolonged study we learned the
alphabet, and then we learned to spell, |
and then we learned toread. 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
5he book, and if from that book of four
II five hundred pages we have gained
)ne or two profitable ideas we feel we
nave done well. There must be some
'wifter way and more satisfactory way
If taking in Gods universe of thoughts
md facts and emotions and information
But this cannot be done with your brain
n its present state. Many brain gives
way under the present facility. This
vhitish mass i'll the upper cavity of the
kull and at the extremity of the nerv-
'us system-this center of perception
md sensation-cannot endure more than
t now endures.
But God can make better brain. and
lie sends Death to remove this inferior
rain that he may put in a superior
,rain. We'll" You say, docs not that
estroy the idea of a resurrection of the
resent body" Oh, no. 1t will be the
Id factory with new machinery-new
irving wheel, new bands, new levers
nd new powers. Don't you see: SO |
oppose the dullest human brain after
he resurrectionary process will have
lore knowledge. more acuteness, more
more breadth of swing than
ny Sir William Hamilton or Herschel
r Isaac Newton or Faraday or Agassiz
yer had in the mortal state, or all their
1tellectual powers combined.
BLESSED BE DEATH
You see God has only just begun to
uild you. The palace of your nature
as only the foundation laid, and part !,
the lower story, and only part of one +,
but the Great Architect has
lade his draft OF what you will be when !
ne Alhambra is completed. John was
ght when he said, 1T doth not yet APP
ear what we shall be-" Blessed be s,
cath! for it removes all the hindrances.
md who has not all his life run against q
indrances? We cannot go far up nor
NJ down. If we go far up we get dizzy. ,,
nd if we go far down we get suffocated.
men would go high up they ascend
he Matterhorn or Mont Blanc or Hima-
wa, but what disasters have been re-
orted as they came tumbling down.
r if they went down too far. bark to
he explosion of the fredamps and see I
he disfigured bodies of the poor miners ,
the bottom of the coal shaft.
Then there are the Genealogical him :
RANGES. We run against unpropitious .