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


than the highest plrnacle 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 1t is to be mani Oh,
what it is to be womani Sublime and
infinite bundle of faculties The
thought of it staggers me, swamps me-
stuns me, bewilders me, oyerwhelms
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
to scatter or the rail train to lose.
Now, have to tell you that this bun
die of life is well put together-the
body, the mind, the soul. Who but the
omnipotent God could bind such bun
die? Anatomists, psychologists, physi-
cists, logicians, metnphysicians, declare
that we are fearfully and wonderfully
made. That we are bundle well put
together l 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
limb, or the destruction of single en-
ergy of body or faculty of mind sub
poena for this trial that man in yonder
view. 70 or 80 years of age, and ask him
10 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 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
25 years ago have been torn down, his
nerves bring messages from all parts of
his body as well as when God strung
them IS years ago. Was there ever such
a complete bundle put together as the
human being? What factory! What
an enginel What mill race! What a
lighthouse! What a locomotivel What
an electric battery! What furnacel
What masterpiece Of the Lord God
Almighty! Or, to employ the ant;cli-
max and use the figure of the text, what
a bundle!
Know also that this bundle of life is
properly directed. Many bundle has
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 companies
have so many misdirected packages
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 the one to whom it is to go
plainly written. Baggage master and
expressman ought to know at the first
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 the
earthly distance IL travels. its destina-
ton is the eternal city of God on high
Every mile that it goes away from that
direction is by some human or Internal
fraud practiced against it. There are
those who put 1t on some other track,
who misplace it in some wrong convey
ance, who send 1t off or send it back by
some diabolical miscarriage. The value
of that bundle is so well known all up
and down the universe that there are
a million dishonest hands which are
trying to detain or divert it, or to for
ever stop its progress in the right di-
rection.
Every human being is assailed at the
start. Within an hour of the time when
this bundle of life is made up the as
sault begins. First of all, there are the
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body just launched upon earthly exist
eIce. Scarlet fevers and pneumonias,
ard diphtherias and influenzas, and the
whole pack of epidemics surround the
cradle and threaten its occupant. and
infant Moses in the ark of bulrushes
was not more imperiled by the mon
sters of the Nile than every cradle is
imperiled by ailments all devouring,
In after years there are foes within and
foes without. Evil appetite joined by
outside allurements. Temptations that
have utterly destroyed more people
than now inhabit the earth. Gambling
saloons and rummeres, and places
where dissoluteness reigns supreme,
enough in number to go round and
round the earth. Discouragements,
iealousies, revenges, malevolences, dis
appointments, swindles, arsons, confa-
gratiors and cruelties which make con-
tinued existence of the human race a
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