News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-21

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all anatomists and all physiologistssan(
with all scientists and with the psalms
that 1--WE are fearfully and wonderful!
made" But I believe and know tina
God can and will get us better physica
equipment. Is it possible for man t.
make improvement in almost anything
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 biography, that places San francisco
and New York within minute of com
munication? Shall the telephone taxi
the sound of voice sixty miles and IN
stantly bring back another voice, anC
God, who made the man who does thes'
things, not be able to improve the maj
himself with infinite velocities and IN
finite multiplication? Beneficent Dealt
comes in and makes the necessary re-
moval to make way for these supernat
ural improvements.
So also our slow process of getting IN
formation must have a substitute
Through prolonged study we learned the
alphabet, and then we learned to spell
and then we learned to read. Then thu
book is put before US, and the eye trav
els from word to word and from page tt
page, and we take whole days to reaC
the book, and if from that book of foul
or five hundred pages we have gained
one or two profitable ideas we feel W.
have done well. There must be somf
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 brain give:
way under the present facihty--Th
whitish mass in the upper cavity of the
skull and at the extremity of the nerv
Gus system-this center of perception
and seusation-cannote endure more thar
it now endures.
But God can make better brain, anc
he sends Death to remove this inferior
brain that he may put in a superior
brain. ''Well, you say, ''does not that
destroy the idea of resurrection of the
present body?" Oh, no. 1t will be the
old factory with new machinery-new
driving wheel, new bands, new levers
and new powers. Don't you see? So
suppose the dullest human brain after
| the resurrectionary process will have
more knowledge, more acuteness, 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 their
| intellectual powers combined.
BLESSED BE DEATH.
You see God has only just begun to
build you. The palace of your nature
has only the foundation 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 said, at doth not yet ap-
pear 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 nor
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 Blanc or Hima-
laya, but what disasters have been re-
ported 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 Genealogical him
ORANGES. We run against unpropitious
weather of all sorts. Winter blizzar1
and summer scorch, and each season
seems to hatch a brood of its own dis
orders. The summer spreads its wings
and matches out fevers and sunstrokes,
and spring and autumn spread their
wings and hatch out malarias, and win
ter spreads its wings and matches out
pneumonias and Russian grippes, and
the climate of this world is hindranee
which every man and woman and child
has felt. Death is to the good transfer
ence 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 char
acteristic of this planet? Blessed is
death! for it prepares the way for change
of zones, yea it clears the path to a semi
omnipresence.
How often we want to be in different
places at the same time. How perplexed
we get being compelled to choose be-
tween invitations, 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. 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 l
can speak this sentence you will be
among your glorifed kindred, among
the martyrs, among the apostles, in 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 him
drance. immensely easily comprised.
Semiomnipresence! "But," says some
one, 81 cannot see how God is going to
reconstruct my body in the resurrec-
ton"
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
that if you are twenty-eight years of age
you have now your fourth body. fyou
are forty-two years of age you have had
six bodies. If you are seventy years of
aged you have had ten bodies. Do you
not, my unbelieving friend, think if God
could build for you four or five or ten
bodies he could really build for you one
more to be called the resurrection body?
Ayel to make that resurrection body
will not require half as much ingenuity
and power rs those other bodies you
have had.
Is it not easier for sculptor to make
a statue out of silent clay than it would
be to make statue out of some mate
rial that is alive and moving, and run
ming hither and thither? Will it not be
easier for God to make the resurrection
body out of the silent dust of the crum-
bled body than it was tomake your body
over five or six or eight times while it
was in motion-walking climbing, fall
ing or rising? God has already on your
four or five bodies bestowed ten times
more omnipotence than he will put upon
the resurrection body. Yea, we have
the foundation of the resurrection body
in us now. Surgeons and Psychologists
say there are parts of the human body the
uses of which they cannot understand.
They are searching what these parts
were made for, but have not found out.
can tell them. They are the prelim-
inaries of the resurrection body. God
does not make anything for nothing.
The uses of those now surplus parts of
the bodS will be demonstrated when the
glorified form is constructed.