The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-03-10

in editorial chair: they will be web
Mary Lyon in educational realms, pr a
Frances Willard on reformatory plat
form, or Helen Gould in military hos
pitals Or she will make home life ra-
diant with helpfulness ard self-sacri-
fee and magnificent womanhood. Oh,
what bundle of garlands and scepters
from which / would not take one sprig
of mignonette nor eXtinguish one spark
of brilliance. They who start life with
out bright hopes and inspiring ambi-
tions might as well not start at all, for
every step will be a failure. Rather
would add to the bundle, and if open
it now ii viii not be because wish TO
take anything from it, but that may
put into it more coronetsand hosannas.
Bundle of faculties in every man and
every woman! 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 wrong, power to think forever,
for, once having begun to think, there
shall be no terminus for that exercise,
| and eternity itself shall have no power
| to bid it halt. Faculties to love-filial
| love, conjugal love, paternal love, ma
ternal love, love of country, love of God.
| Faculty of judgment, with scales so
| delicate and yet so mighty they can
weigh arguments, weigh emotions,
weigh words, weigh Heaven and hell
Faculty of will, that can climb noun
tains or tunnel them, wade seas or
! bridge them, accepting eternal en-
| thronement or choosing everlasting
| exile. Oh, what it is to be man! 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 bundle of life Abigail
of my text saw in David, and which we
ought to see in every human, yet i'm
mortal, being!
| 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 a bundle IS bound. The
cord, or rope, must be strong enough
| to hold, the knot must be we'll tied.
You know not what rough hands may
toss the bundle. If not properly put to-
gether, though it may leave your hands
in good order and symmetrical, before
it 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 bun
die of life is well put together-the
boHy, the mind. the soul. Who but the
omnipotent God could bind such bun
die? Anatomists, Psychologists, physi-
cists, logicians, metaphysicians, declare
that we are feaNully and wonderfully
made. That we are u bundle Well put
together I prove by the amount Of jour
neying 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 single en-
ergy of body or faculty of mind. l sub
| poena for this trial that man in yonde1
| 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 five senses, and
| though all the lighthouses as old as he
is have been reconstructed or new Ian,
terms put in, he has in under his fore
head the same two lanterns with which
God started him, and, though the loco
motives of 60 years ago were long age
sold for old iron, he has the original
powers of locomotion in the limbs with
which God started him, and, though al
the electric wires that carried messages
25 years ago have been torn down, his
nerves bring messages from all parts Of
| his body as we'll as when God strung
them T5 years ago. Was there ever sucE
complete bundle put together as the
human being? What factory! What
an engine! What mill race! What :
lighthouse! What locomotive! What
an electric battery! What a furnace.
What a masterpiece of the Lord Coo
Almighty! Or, to employ the anticli
max and use the figure of the text, what
| a bundle!
Know also that this bundle of life is
properly directed. Many a bundle ha:
missed its way and disappeared because
the address has dropped, and no one
can find by examination for what city
or town or neighborhood it was in
tended. All great carrying companie:
have so many misdirected package!
that they appoint days of vendue to dis
pose of them. All intelligent people
know the Importance of having a val
liable package plainly directed, the
name of tine one to whom it is to gC
plainly written. Baggage master anC
expressman ought to know at the frs
| glance to whom to take it.
This bundle Of life that Abigail, in my
text, speaks of is plainly addressed. By
Divine penmanship it is directed Heav
onward. However long may be tht
earthly distance it travels, its destina
ton is the eternal city of God on high
Every mile that it goes away from tha
direction is by some human or inferna
fraud practiced against it. There ar,
those who put it on some other track
who misplace it in some wrong convey
ance, who send it off or send it back By
some diabolical miscarriage. The value
of that bundle is so we'll known all VI
and down the universe that there are
million dishonest hands which arr
trying to detain or divert it, or to for
ever stop its progress in the right di
rection.
Every human being is assailed at tn
start. Within an hour of the time whel
this bundle of life is made up The as
sault begins. First of all. there are tn
infantile disorders that threaten tn
body just launched upon earthly exist
ence. Scarlet fevers and pneumonias
and diph htherias and infuenzas, and th
whole pack of epidemics surround th
| cradle and threaten its occunant an