The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-04-28

snow storms and felt enough chills and
wrapped yourself in enough blankets.
In the ordinary length OF human life
you have carried enough burdens, and
shed enough tears, and suffered enough
injustices, and felt enough pangs,
and been clouded by enough doubts,
and surrounded by enough nlys-
teries. We talk about the shortness
OF life, but if we exercised good sense we
would realize that life is quite long
enough. If we are children of God,
we are at q banquet; and this world is
only the first course of the food, and
we ought to be glad that there are
other and better and richer courses
OF food to be handed on. We are here
in oneroom of our Fathers house, but
there are rooms up stairs. They are
better pictured, better upholstered,
better furnished. Why do we want to
stay in the anti-room forever, when
there are palatial apartments wait
ing for our occupancy? What a
mercy that there is limitation to
earthly environments! a& f".s
Death also makes room for i'm
proved physical machinery. Our
bodies have wondrous powers, but
they are very limited. There are
beasts that can outrun us, outfit us,
out-carry 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 machinery and makes room
for something better. These eyes that
can see half a mile will be removed for
those that can see from world
to world. These ears, which can
hear q sound a few feet off, will be re-
moved for ears that can
HEAR FROM ZONE TO ZONE.
Thosefeet will be removed for powers
of locomotion swifter than the rein
deer's hoof, or eagles plume, or light
ning's flash. Then, we have only five
senses and to these we are shut up.
Why only five senses? Why not 50,
why not a 100, why not a thousand?
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 ANTAGONISTS and all psychologists,
and all scientists and with the psalm
ist that "we are fearfully and wonder
fully made" But, I believe and know
that God can and will get us better
physical equipment. tits possible for
man to make improvement in almost
anything and God not be able to make
improvements in mans physical ma
chinery? Shall canal boat give way
to limited express train? Shall slow
letter give place to telegraphy, that
places San Francisco and New York
within minute of communication?
Shall the telephone take the sound
of voice so miles and instantly
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 indefinite multiplication? Be
cause Death comes in and makes the
necessary removal to make way for
these supernatural improvements. So
also our slow process OF getting infor-
nation must have a substitute.
Through prolonged study, we learned
the alphabet, 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 400 or 500 pages,
we have gained one or two profitable
ideas, we feel we have done we'll. There
must be some swifter way and more
satisfactory way of taking in Gods
universe of thoughts and facts and
emotions and informations. But this
cannot be done with your brain in it's
present state. Many a brain gives
way under the present facility. This
whitish mass in the upper cavity of
the skull, and at the extremity of the
nervous system-this center ofpercep-
ton and sensation cannot endure
more than it now endures. But God
can make a better brain, and he sends
death to remove this inferior brain
that he may put in a superior brain.
BLESSED is DEATH.
for it prepares the way for change of
zones, yea it clears the path to semi
omnlpresence.
I was told at Johnstown, after the
flood, that many people who had been
for months and years bereft, for the
first time got comfort when the awful
flood came, to think that their de.
parted ones were not present to SEE
the catastrophe. AS the people were
floating down on the house tops, they
said: "Oh, how glad 1 am that father
and mother are not here,' or chow
glad am that the children are not
alive to see this horror!" And ought
not we who are down here amid the
upturnings of this life be glad that
none of the troubles which submerge
us can ever alright our friends as
cended? Before this warrant our de-
parted ones have been introduced to
all the celebrities of heaven. Shall
we pity our glorifed kindred? No, they
had better pity us. We, the ship
wrecked, and on a raft in the hurri-
cane, looking up at them sailing on
over calm seas, under skies that never
frowned with tempests, we hoppled
with chains; they lifted by wings.
"Surely the bitterness of death is
past"