POWERS OF THE RESURRECTION STATE.
By S. M. Campbell, D. D.
THE foreshadowing of these superior powers is sometimes witnessed even here; and what is quite remarkable is, it is seen in the organization of what we call the lower orders of being. The horse is better organized for certain purposes than is man, and so is the bird and even the dog. You went quite extensively over the city a few days ago, leaving your favorite dog shut up at home, so that he should not follow you; but after you had gone a great way, making many a winding and many a turn, and reaching a distance far from your dwelling, up came the sagacious creature, and with every demonstration of delight said in plain dog-talk, "Here we are; I have found you!" That dog had tracked you all the way; your footfall had left an impression on the pavement that he at once recognized, and which he distinguished from every like impression, made by other footfalls, as your own; and following that through every crook and turn you had made, he came where you were. No human faculties were ever equal to such an achievement. Neither our microscopic tests nor our chemical analysis could ever have discovered the impression made by those footfalls, as that brute sense could do. And if in so lowly a creature this humble faculty could be so exalted, what may we not expect for the higher senses in the perfected organization of man?—S. M. Campbell, D. D.