The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-05-27

by enough doubts, and surrounded by
enough mysteries. We talk about the
shortncss of life, but IL we exercised
good sense we would realize that life Is
quite long enough. IL we are the chill.
dren OF God, we are at banquet, and
this world is only the first course of the
iood, 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 one room of our Fathers
mouse, but there are rooms upstairs.
they are better pictured. better up
holstered, better furnished. Why do
we want To stay in the antc-room for
ever, when there are better apartments
waiting for our occupancy? What a
mercy that there is limitation to
earthly environments!
Death also makes room for improved
physical machinery. Our bodies have
wondrous powers, but they are very
limited. There are beast that can out.
run 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 arc 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 annie will be removed for those
that can see from world To world.
These ears, which can hear n sound a
few feet Off, will be removed for ears
that can hear from zone To zone. These
feet will be removed for powers of loco
motion swiftcr than the rcindcer's hoof,
or the eagles plume, or the lightnings
flash. Then, we have only five senses.
and 10 these we are shut up. Why only
five senses? Why not fifty, why not 100,
why not 1000? We can have. and we
will have them, but not until this pres
ent 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 contrivcd
your bodily mechanism. Mind you,
believe with all anatomists and all
psychologists and with all scientists
and with the Psalmst that 1--WE arc
fearfully and wonderfully made" But,
believe and ! know that God can and
will get MS better physical equipment.
Is it possible for man to make improve
ment in almost anything and God not
be able to make improvements in mans
physical machinery? Shall canal boat
give way to limited express train?
Shall slow letter give place TO teleg-
raphy, that places San Francisco and
New York within minute of commu-
nication? Shall the telephone take the
sound of n 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 velocitics and in
finite multiplication? Beneflcent death
comes in and makes the necessary
to make way for these super
natural improvements. So also our
slow process of getting information
must have a substitute. Through pro-
longed study we learned the alphabet,
and then we learned to spell, and then
we learned to read Then the book is
put before MS, 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 OF taking in Gods
universe of thoughts and facts and
emotions and information. But this can
not be done with your brain in its pres
mt state. Many brain gives way under
-he present facility. This whitish mass
u the upper cavity of the skull and
lt the extremity of the nervous
center of perception and
sensation. can not endure more than it
now endures. But God can make bet
Ter brain, and he sends death TO remove
his inferior brain that he may put in
/ superior brain. WELL" you say, docs
lot that destroy the idea of the resur-
-cction of the present body?" oh, no. |
Il will be the old factory with new ma
'hinery, new driving wheel, new bands,
new levers and new powers. Don't you
zee? So l suppose the dullcst human |
brain after the resurrectionary process |
will have more knowledge, more acute |
less, moro brilliancy, more breadth OF |
wing than any Sir William Hamilton
n Herschel or Isaac Newton or Fara-
lay or Agassis ever had in the mortal
tate or all their intellectual powers |
combined. You see God has only |
ust begun to build you. The
palace Of your nature has only |
he foundation laid, and part of the
over story, and only part of one win
low, but the great architect has made
,is draft of what you will be when the
\lhambra is completed. John was
light when he said: ut doth not yet
appear what we shall be-" Blessed be