The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1892-06-23

upholstered, better furnished. Why
do we want to stay In the ante-roon
forever, when there are .palatial apart
ments waiting for our occupancy
What mercy that there is limita
ton to earthly environments!
Death also makes room for improved
physical machinery. Our bodies hrvc
wondrous powers, but they are very
limited. There are beasts that CO n 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 are creatures Of
God that can far surpass us in some
things. Death removes this slower and
less adroft machinery and makes room
for something better. These eyes that
can see half mile will be removed for
those that can see from world to world.
These ears, which can hear a 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 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 fifty,
why not one hundred, why not thou
sand? 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 anatomists and all physiolo-
gists and with the Psalmist that 1--WE are
fearfully and wonderfully made" But
| believe and l know that God can and
will get us better physical equipment
Is it possible for man to make improve
ments in mans physical machinery?
Shall canal boat give way to limited
express train? Shall slow letter give
place to telegraphy, that places San
Francisco and New York within min
ute of communication? Shall the tele-
phone take the sound of voice sixty
miles and instantly bring back another
voice, and God, who made the man who
does these things, not be able to i'm
prove the man himself with infinite
velocities and infinite multiplication?
Bene1cient 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 a substitute
Through prolonged study we learned the
alpha bet, and then we learned to spell.
and then we learned to read. Then the
book is put before us, and the eve
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 four hundred 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 can not 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 nerv-
GUS system-this center of perception
and sensation can not endure more
than it now endures. But God
can make a better brain, and
He sends deaf h to remove this
inferior brain that He may put in
a superior brain. "Wen," you say. docs
not that destroy the idea Of resurrec-
ton of the present body?" Oh, no. It
will be the old factory with new ma
chinery, new driving-wheel, new bands.
new levers and new powers. Don't YOU
see? So l suppose the dullest human
Drain after the resurrectionary process
viii have 1cnre knowledge, more acute
ness, more brilliancy, more breadth of
swing than any Sir William Hamilton,
Or Herschel, or Isaac Newton, or Fara-
lay, or Agassiz ever had in the mortal
state or all their intellectual powers
combined. You see God has only lust
begun to build you. The palace of
your nature has only the founda-
ton laid, and part of the lower story,
md only part of one window.
but the great architect has made his
1raft of what you will be when the AL
aambra is completed. John was right
when he said: ''It doth not vet appear
what we shall be-" Blessed be death,
Now, if death clears the way for all
his, why paint him as hobgoblin?
Why call him king of terrors? Whv
think of him as a great spook? WHY
sketch him with skeleton and arrows,
Ind standing on the bank of dark wa
5ers? Why have children so frightened
1t his name that they dare not go to
bed alone, and old men have their teeth
chatter lest some shortness of breath
land them over to the monster? All
he ages have been busy in maligning
teath, hurting repulsive metaphors at
1eath, slandering death. Oh, for the
sweet breath of Easter to come down on
he earth. Right after the vernal eoui
lox, and when the flowers are begin
hing to bloom, well may all nations
With song, and congratulation, and
sarlands celebrate the resurrection of
Jhrlst and our own resurrection when
he time is gone by, and the trumpet
'our through the flying clouds the har-
monies that shall wake the dead. Bv |
he empty niche of Joseph mausoleum, |
" the rocks that parted to let the Lord |
ome through, let our ideas of chang
ng worlds be forever revolutionized. IF |
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