The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-04-01

in editorial chair; they will be Web |
sters in the senate. Or she will be
Mary Lyon in educational realms, or
Frances willard on reformatory plat
form, or Helen Gould in military hos
pitfalls. Or she will make home life ra
diant with helpfulness and self-sacri-
| flee and magnificent womanhood. Oh,
what bundle of garlands and scepters
from which I would not take one sprig
| of mignonette nor eXtinguish one spark
of brillance. They who start life with
out bright hopes and inspiring ambi-
tons 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 it will not be because l 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 womanl 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 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 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
d to scatter or the rail train to lose.
t Now. have to tell you that this bum
S die of life is well put together-the
), body, the mind, the soul. Who but the
n omnipotent God could bind such bun
T die? Anatomists, psychologists, physi-
It cists, logicians, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., declare
a that we are fearfully and wonderfully
6 made. That we are bundle we'll put
r together prove by the amount of jour
: neying we can endure without damage,
# by the amount of rough handling we
l. can survive, by the fact that the vast
h majority of us go through life without
n the loss of an eye, or the gripping of a
q limb or the destruction of single en-
G ergy of body or faculty of mind. Isub
poena for this trial that man in yondel
# view, 70 or 80 years of age, and ask him
e to testify that after all the storms and
n accidents and vicissitudes of long life
e he still keeps his five senses, and
re though all the lighthouses as old as he
It is have been reconstructed or new Ian
e terms put in, he has in under his fore
e head the same two lanterns with which
lie God started him, and, though the loco
y motives of GO years ago were long age
:. sold for old iron, he has the origina
S powers of locomotion in the limbs will
s. which God started him. and, though al
/! the electric wires that carried messages
25 years ago have been torn down. hi
Il nerves bring messages from all parts o
u his body as well as when God struns
is them 70 years ago. Was there ever sucl
Of complete bundle put together as thu
of human being? What factory! Wha
es an engine! What mill race! What
IL lighthouse! What a locomotive! VIVA
b. an electric battery! What furnace
he What masterpiece of the Lord Go,
is Almighty! Or, to employ the anticli
OF max and use the figure of the text, wha
IN a bundle!
u Know also that this bundle of life i
re properly directed Many bundle ha
p missed its way and disappeared becaus
the address has dropped, and no on
y can find by examination for what cit
es or town or neighborhood it was in
tn tended. All great carrying companie
n have SO many misdirected package
es that they appoint days of vendue to dis
C. pose of them. All intelligent peopl
es' know the Importance of having a va,
er liable package plainly directed. tn
gu name of the one to whom it is to g
ny plainly written. Baggage master an
ST expressman ought to know at the frs
OIL glance to whom to take it.
"a, This bundle of life that Abigail, in m
ur text, speaks of is plainly addressed. B
Elk Divine penmanship it is directed Hsa,
ne onward. However long may be til
OF earthly distance it travels, its destin;
OF ton is the eternal city of God on higl
les Every mile that it goes away from thu
m direction is by some human or intern;
ne fraud practiced against it. There al