The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-05-04


ever, when there are better apartments
waiting for our occupancy? What a
mercy that there is a limitation to
earthly environments!
Death also makes room for improved
physical machinery. Our bodies have
wondrous powers, Int they are very
limited. There are beast that can out
run us, outfit MS, 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 it's own, there are 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 mile will be removed for those
that can see from world to world.
These ears, which can hear a sound q
few feet off, will be removed for ears
that can hear from zone to zone. These
feet win be removed for powers of loco
motion swiftcr than the reindeer's hoof,
or the eagles plume, or the lightning's
flash. Then, we have only five senses,
and to 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
eut 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
Psychologists and with all scientists
and with the Psalmist that 1--WE are
fearfully and wonderfully made" But,
| believe and know that God can and
will get us 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 a voice sixty miles and in
stantiy bring back another voice. and
God who made the man who does these
things not be able to improve the man
himself with infinite velocities and in
finite multiplication? Beneficent death
comes in and makes the necessary
removal 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 us, 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
well. 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
emit state. Many brain gives yayupder
the present facility. This wiiitishs f5ass
in the upper cavity of the skull rnd
at the extremity of the nervous
systcm-this center of perception and
sensation can not endure more than it
now endurcs. But God can make bet
ter brain. and lie sends death to remove
this inferior brain that he may put in
superior brain. well" you say, docs
not that destroy the idea of the rcsur-
rection of the present body?" Oh, no.
twill be the old factory with new ma
chincry, 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 acute
ness, more brilliancy, more breadth of
swing than any Sir William Hamilton
or Herschel or Isaac Newton or Fara-
day or Agassis ever had in the mortal
state or all their intellectual powers
combined. 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 win
dow, 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
appear what we shall be-" Blessed be
death! for it removes all the him
ORANGES? We can not go far up or far
down. If we go up far we get dizzy and
if we go far down we get suffocated.
If men would go far up they ascend the
Matthernhorn 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 fire damps, and see
the disfgured bodies of the poor miners
at the bottom of the coal shaft.
Then there are the Chronological him
drances. We run against unpropitious
weather of all sorts. Winter blizzard
and summer scorch, and each season
seems to hatch brood of its own dis.
orders, The summer spreads its wings
and matches out fevers and sun-strokes,
and spring and autumn spread theil
wings and hatch out malarias, and win.
ter spreads out its wings and matches
out pneumonia and Russian grips, and
the cXmate of this world is hindranct
which every man and woman and child
has felt. Death is to the good tranfr
ference to superior weather; weather
never tickle and never too cold and
never too not and never too light and
never too dark. Have you any doubt
that God can make better wea ther
thai is characteristic of this
planet? Blessed death! for it pre-