Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-18

Of food to - handed on We are here
IN che roo1a - oar fathers hoase. bat
there are rs-saas ap stairs. They are bet
Ter paofared. better upholstered. better
furnished Way &c We want 20 stay IN
the snteroom forever. when there are
pAlAtial apartments waiting for our oe-
eapzscye WhAs mercy that there y .
limitation 70 e&rtnly environments.
oCR s0og. WEAK soefEs-
DeAlh Also takes room for improved
physical machinery Oar bodies have
wsadrous powers. bat they are very HIM
led. There are beasts that can catrun
Us, ocLlift Us. ouscaTry Is. Ths birds
have both the earth and air for travel.
yet ws must stick 20 the one. In this
world. which the human race takes for
It's ewn, there are creatures " God thai
can far srrpAss Us in some things. Death
esmoves this slower and less adroit ma
coiRery aud makes room fer something
better.
These eyes that can see half mile
Will Do removed for those that can see
from world TO world These ears. which
eau hear a sound few feet off, will be
removed for ears that can hear from
zone 10 Zone. These feet viii be removed
for powers OF locomotion swifter than
the rcindeer's hoof or eagles plume or
iightnirgs hash. Then We have only
ave senses and 20 these we are shut up.
7 Why only five senses: Why not fifty.
why not one hundred, why not thou
sand? We can have and we viii have
them, bat not until this present physical
machinery is put out of the way.
Do not think that this body is the best
that God can 90 for us. God did not
half try when he contrived your bodily
mechanism. Mind you. believe tYitii
all anstomists and all physiologists and
with all scientists and with the pealmist
that I'VE are fesrfully and wonderfully
made" Bat l believe and know that
God can and viii get US better physical
/ equipment. Is il possible for man TO
make Improvement in almost anything
and God not be able 10 make improve
ments in mans physical machinery:
Shall canal boat give way to limited ex
( press train: Shall slow letter give place
/ to telegrsphy, that places San Francisco
/ and New York within minute Of com
munication? Shall the telephone take
/ tho sound of q voice sixty miles and ir
| stantly bring back another voice, and
God. who made the man who does these
things. not be able 10 improve the man
! himself with infinite velocities and in
finite multiplication: Benedcent Death
! comes in and makes the necessary re-
moval 10 make way for these supernat-
7 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 the
book is put before as, and the eye trav-
els from word TO word and from page to
page, and we take whole days to read
4 the book. and if 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
/ Of taking in Gods universe of thoughts
and facts and emotions and information.
But this cannot be done with your Drain
in its present state. Many q 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-cannot endure more than
it now endures.
But God can make better brain, ard
he sends Death to remove this inferior
brain that he may put in superior
Ill l~~t
destroy the idea of q resurrection of the
present bodyr" Oh, no. II will DO tho
old factory with new machinsry-new
driving wheel, new bands. new levers
and new powers. Don't you see? So
suppose the dullest human brain after
the resurrectionsry process viii have
more knowledge, moro acuteness. more
briliiancy, more breadth of swing then
any Cir William Hamilton or Herschcl
or Isaac Newton or Faraday or Agassiz
ever had IN tho mortal state. or all their
intellectual powers combined.
BLESSED III DEATH.
You see God has only Just begun TO
bald you. The palace of your nature
HIS only the foundation laid. and part
Of the lower story. and only par: OF ono
window, but the Great Architect has
made his raft Of what you will be VI hen
tho Alsambra Is completed. JOAN was
right when ilc said. 1T doth not yet ap-
pear what we shall be-" Blessed bs
DEATH for II removes all the hindranccs.
And who has ret eli his life run against
hindrsncce? We cannot 60 far up nor
far down. u we 60 far up We get dizzy,
and If we 20 fer down We get suRecsted.
II men wculd go siga mp they ascend
the MatteShern or Msnt Blanc or Hina-
laya, bat what disasters have been re-
ported ~ they came trnbiing down.
Or if they wen. down too far. bark TO
the espicaon o. the fHedamps and see
the disAgured bodies OF the poor miners
at the bottom Of the coal shaft
Then therc are lie Genealogical Kim
drsnees. We run against unpropitious
weather Of oil sorts. Wsnter blizzard
and Summer .corch. and each season
seens to hatch brood Of les own dis
orders The summer spreads iix wings
and matches cat fevevs and sunstrpkes.
ard spring aud autumn spread their
wings and hascn ont malarias, and win
ter spreads It's wings sai matches out
poeuwonias spd Russian grippes, and
the climate Of this world Is a hindrance
has felt. Death il 10 the good transfer
ence 10 Superior weather-weather never
tickle, add never 100 cold. ard never too
hot, And never TOO hight. and never too
DARK. Have You any doubt that God