The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-03-08

age that has been foretold By letter;
some holiday presentation; something
that will enrich and ornament our
home; some testimony of adIairation
and affectionl With what glo y Of ex-
pectation we unite the knot and take Of
the cord that holds 1t together in safe
ty, and with what glad exclamation we
unroll the covering and see the gift or
purchase in all its beauty of color and
proportion. Well, what day it will
be when your precious bundle of life
shall be opened in the house of "many
mansions amid sanity and angelic
and Divine inspectionl The bundle may
be spotted with the marks of much ex-
posure. 1t may bear inscription after
inscription to tell through what ordeal
it has passed. Perhaps splashed Of wave
and scorched Of flame, but all 1t has
within undamaged of the journey. And
with what shouts of joy the bundle of
life will be greeted by all the voices Of
the heavenly home circle!
In our anxiety at last to reach Heaven
we are apt to lose sight of the glee or
welcome that awaits us If we get in at
all. We all have friends up there. They
will somehow hear that we are coming.
Such close and swift and constant COM
mupication is there between those up
lands and these lowlands that we will
not surprise them by sudden arrival.
II loved ones on earth expect our COM
ing visit and are at the depot with car
riage to meet us, surely we will he met
at the shining gate by old friends now
sainted and kindred now glorifed. II
there were no angel OF God to meet us
and show us the palaces and guide us to
our everlasting residence, these kin
dred would show us the way and point
out the splendors and guide US to our
celestial home, powered and fountained
and arched and illumined by a sun that
never sets. Will it not be glorious, the
going in and the settling down after
all the moving about and upsettings Of
earthly experience? We will soon know
all our neighbors, kingly, queenly,
prophetic. apostolic, seraphic, archan-
gelic. The precious bundle of life
opened amid palaces and grand marches
and acclamations. They will all be SO
glad we have got safely through. They
saw us down here in the struggle. They
saw us when We lost our way. They
knew when we got off the right course.
None Of the 80 ships that were overdue
at New York harbor in the storm Of
week before last was greeted so Eeart-
lily by friends on the dock or the steam
tugs that went out to meet them at
Sandy Hook as we will be greeted in the
heavenly world if by the pardoning
and protecting grace of God we come
to celestial wharfage. We shall have
to tell them of the many wrecks that we
have passed on the way across wild seas
and amid Caribbean cyclones. II will
be like our arrival some years ago from
New Zealand at Sydney, people sur
prised that we got in at all. because we
were two days late, and some of the
ships expected had gone to the bottom,
and We had passed derelicts and aban-
doned crafts all up and down that aw-
full channel-our arrival in Heaven all
the more rapturously welcomed be-
cause of the doubt as to whether we
would ever get there at all.
Once there II will be found that the
safety Of that precious bundle Of life
was assured because it was bound UP
with the life OF God in Jesus Christ.
Heaven could not afford to have that
bundle lost, because it had been said in
regard to its transportation and safe
arrival: Kept by the power Of God
through faith unto complete salvation"
The veracity Of the heavens is involved
in its arrival. IfGod should fail to keep
His promise to just one ransomed soul
the pillars of Jehovah's throne would
fall, and the foundations of the eternal
city would erumble, and infinite power
ties would dash down all the chalices
and close all the banqueting halls, and
the river of life would change its course,
sweeping everything with desolation,
and frost would blast all the gardens,
and immeasurable sickness slay the inn
mortals, and the new Jerusalem be-
come an abandoned city, with no chariot
wheel on the streets ard no worshipers
in the temple--a dead Pompeii Of the
skies. buried Herculaneum Of the
heavens. Lest anyone should doubt,
the God who cannot lie smites His om-
nipotent hand on the side of His throne
and takes affidavit, declaring: "As l
live, said the Lord God, have no pleas
ure in the death OF him that dieth."
Oh, cannot tell you how feel about
it, the thought is so glorious! Bound
up with God. Bound up with infinite
mercy. Bound up with infinite Joy.
Bound up with infinite purity. Bound
up with infinite might. That thought
is more beautiful and glorious than
was the heroic Abigail, who at the foot
of the crags uttered it: "Bound in the
bundle Of life with the Lord thy God."
Now, my hearer and reader, appreci-
ate the vaiue of that bundle. See that
Il is bound up with nothing mean. but
with the unsullied and immaculate.
Not with pebble of the shifting beach,
but with the kohinoor of the palace;
not with some fading regalia of earth
ly pomp, but with the robe washed and
made white in the blood Of the Lamb.
Pray as you never prayed before that
by Divine chirography written all over
your nature You may be properly ad-
dressed for a glorious destination.
Turn not over new leaf Of the old
book, but by the grace of God open an
entirely new volume Of experience and
put into practice the advice contained
in the peculiar but beautiful rhythm
of some author whose name know
not:
II you've any task to do,
Let me whisper. friend, to you,