Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-29

| wonderfully maden But l believe and
! know that God can and viii get Us better
physical equipment.
Is it possible for a man to make improve
ment in almost anything and God not bt
able to make improvements In mans phys1
| cal machinery1 Shall canal boat give way
to limited express train? Shall slow letter
| give place TO telegraphy, that places Sar
! Francisco and New York within a minute oil
communication Shall the telephone take
the sound Of a voice sixty miles and instant
| " bring back another voice, and God, whc
made the man who does these things, not b
able to improve the man himself with inf
| mite velocities and infinite multiplication?
Benefcent 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 substitute.
Through prolonged stady 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 eye travels from word
to word and from page to page and we take
whole days to read the book. and II 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 Ct 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 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-thls
center of perception and sensation cannot
endure more than it now endures.
| But God can make better BRAIN and He
| sends Death to remove this inferior brain
that He may put in superior brain.
well" you say, docs not that destroy the
idea OF resurrection of the present body?'
Oh, no. 1t VIII be the old factory with new
machinery-new driving Wheel new bands.
new levers and new powers Don't you see?
So l suppose the dullest human brain after
the resurrectlonary process will have more
knowledge, more acute ness, more briliancy,
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 ali their intellectual powers CON-
bined. You see God has only just begun to
build you. The palace Of your nature has
only the foun iation 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 Alhambra is
completed.
John was right when he sail, ut doth
not yet appear what we shall be-" Blessed
be death! for it removes all the hindrances.
And who has not all his life run against
hindrances? We cannot go far up or 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 Mount Blanc or Himalaya, but what dis
asters have been reported as they came
tumbling down. Or if they went down too
far, bark to the explosion of the fredamps,
and see the disfgured bodies Of the poor
miners at the bottom of the coal shaft.
Then there are the ciimaUolosical him
ORANGES. We run against unoropitlouS
weather of all sorts. Winter blizzard and
summer scorch, and each season seems to
hatch brood of Its disorders. The
summer spreads it's wings AMI matches out
fever and suustrokes AMI spring and
autumn spread their wings and hatch out
malarias, and winter spreads its wings and
matches out pneumonia and Russian grlppeS,
and the climate OF this world hndrance
which every man and woman and child has
felt Death is to the good transference to
superior weather-weathe" never tickle, and
never too cold, and never too hot, aud 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 zone, yea, it clears the path to a semlom-
nipreSence.
How often we want to be in different places
at the same timei How perplexed we get
being compelled to choose between invita-
tions, between weddings, between friendly
groups, between three or four places we
would like to be in the same morning or the
same noon or the same evening. " nile death
may not open opportunity to be in many
places at the same time, easy aud 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 glorious kindred amouE
the martyrs, among the apostles, IL 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. Immensely easily
compassed. mnipresencel
"But," says some one, Il cannot see how
God is going to 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 human body
changes entirely once in seven years, SO that
if you are twentyeght years of age you
have now your fourth body. If you are
forty-two years Of age you have had six
bodies Ii you are seventy years Of age you
have had ten bodies. Do you not, my I'M
believing FRIEND think if God could build
for you four or five or ten oiies He could
really bulId for YOU one more to be called
the resurrection body. Aye! to make that
resurrection body will not require half ds
much ingenuity and power as those other
bodies you have hal. Is it not easier for
sculptor to make = statue out of silent clay
than it would be to make statue out of
some material that is alive and moving, and
running hither and thither?
Will it not be easier for God to make the
resurrection body out of the silent dust of
the crumbled body than it was to make your
body over five or SIX or eight times while it
was in motion, walking, climbing, failing or
rising? God has already on your four or five
bodies bestowed ten times more omnipotence
than he will utupon the resurrection body.
Yea, we have the foundation for the
resurrection body in US now. Surgeons aud
Psychologists say there are parts OF the
human body the uses OF which they cannot
understand. They are searching what these
parts are made Tor, but have not found out.