Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-03-10

tions might as well not start at all, for
every step will be failure. Rather
would | add to the bundle, and if open
ii now it will not be because | wish to
take anything from it, but that | may
put into it more coronets and hosannas.
Bundle Of faculties in every man and
every womanl Power to think-to
think of the past and through all the
future, TO think upward and higher
than the highest pinnacle Of heaven, or
to think downward until there is no
lower abysm to fathom. Power to think
right, power to think wrong, power to
think forever, for, once having begun
to think, there shall no terminus for
that exercise, and eternity itself shall
have no power to bid it halt Faculties
to love-flial love, conjugal love, pa
ternal love, maternal love, love of coun-
try, love Of God. Faculty Of judgment,
with scales so delicate and yet so mighty
they can weigh arguments, weigh emo
tions, weigh worlds, weigh heaven and
hell. Faculty Of will, that can climb
mountains OF tunnel them. wade seas
or bridge them, accepting eternal en-
thronement or choosing everlasting
exile. Oh, what il is to be mani oh,
what it Is to be woman Sublime and
infinite bundle Of faculties The thought
of it staggers me. swamps me, stuns
me, bewilders me. overwhelms me Oh.
what a bundle Of life Abigail Of my
text saw in David and which we ought
TO see in every human yet immortal be-
ingl
Carefully Wrapped Up.
Know also that this bundle Of life
was put up with great care. Any mer-
chant and almost any faithful house
holder will tell you how much depends
on the way bundle is bound The cord
or rope must be strong enough to hold.
The knot must be well tied You know
not what rough hands may toss that
bundle. If not properly put together,
though 1t may leave your hands in good
order and symmetrical, before 1t reaches
its proper destination it may be loosened
in fragments for the winds to scatter
or the rail train to lose.
Now, have to tell you that this bum
die Of life is well put together-the
body. the mind, the soul Who but the
omnipotent God could bind such bun
dlef Anatomists Psychologists. physi-
cists. logicians. metaphysicians, declare
that we are fearfully and wonderfully
made. That we are bundle well put
together prove by the amount OF Jour
neyipg we can endure without damage
by the amount Of rough handling we
can survive. by the fact that the vast
majority of us go through life without
the loss of an eye or the crippling OF a
limb or the destruction Of "a single ener-
ev Of body or faculty Of mind l sub
ppna for this trial that man in yonder
view 20 or so years Of age, and ask him
to testify that after all the storms and
accidents and vicissitudes Of long life
he still keeps his fve senses. and though
all the lighthouses as old as he is have
been reconstructed or new lanterns put
in he has in under his forehead the
same two lanterns with which God
started him. and though the locomotives
Of 90 years ago were long ago sold for
old iron he has the original powers OF
locomotion in the limbs with which God
started him. and though all the electric
wires that carried messages 20 years
AGO have been torn down his nerves
bring messages from all parts of his
body as we'll as when God strung them
75 years ago. Was there ever such
complete bundle put together as the hu'
man beingl What factory What an
engine What a mill racel What
lighthousel What locomotivel Nha'
an electric battery What furnace
What a masterpiece Of the Lord Goo
Almighty Or, to employ the anticlima'
and use the figure Of the text. what
bundlel
Know. also, that this bundle OF life /
properly directed Many a bundle ha
missed its way and disappeared oecaus
the address has dropped, and no one cal
find by examination for what city o
town or neighborhood it was intended
All great carrying companies nave S
many misdirected packages that the.
appoint days Of vendue to dispose o
them. All intelligent people know tn
importance of having a valuable pack
age plainly directed. the name OF tn
one to whom it is TO go plainly written
Baggage master and expressman ougn
TO know at the first glance to whom I
take it.
Valuable Package.
This bundle Of life that Abigail i
nv text speaks Of is plainly addressed
BY divine penmanship it is directe
beayenward. However long may be tn
earthly distance it travels its destina
r tion is the eternal city of God on hlgl
! Every mile it goes away from that al
? rection is by some human or lnferhi
t fraud practiced against it There ar
e those who put it on some other tracS
who misplace it in some wrong convey
7 ance. who send it off or send II back D
e some diabolic miscarriage The valu
Of that bundle is so well known all u
I and down the universe that there al
: 1. 900. 900 dishonest hands which al
irving to detain or divert it or to fol
3 ever stop its progress in the right dire'
ton. There are so many inhuehc'
abroad to ruin your body. mimi an
9 soul that my wonder is not that
= many are destroyed for this world an
the next. but that there are not moi
who 20 down irremediably.
, Every human being is assailed al u
b start Within an hour of the time VINE
: this bundle Of life is made mp the a
: ,ault begins First Of all there are Il u
lnfantile disorders that threaten II
body Just launched upon earthly exis
sne, scsriet fevers and pneumcnit
and diphtheriss and inh1enzas and u
whole pack Of epidemics surround u
!, cradle and threaten its occupant an
= infant Moses In the ark of 6ulrush
! was not more imperiled by the monste
Of the Nile than every cradle Is imperi
: ed BY ailments all devouring. In ait
g wears there are foes within ana 10
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