The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-06

bOuu0 o00 PLAINLY QuOoS0u- WIN WnS
alacfity and slse We await some package
that has bssn fossteld By Letter; some heh-
day presentation; something thst Will q.
rich and ornament our homo, some testi.
mony q admiration and afIeotioni With
what glow Of expectation We unite The
knot and take Oh the cord that holds II 10
gether in safety, and with what glad az
Clamstion we unroll the covering and seo
the aift or purchase In all it, beauty Of
color and proportion. Well, what . day II
will be whom your precious bundle Of life
shall be opened In the "house Of many
mansions" amid sanity and angelic and
divine inspectioni The bundle may bo
spotted with the marks Of much exposure.
It may bear inscription after inscription
to tell through what ordeal 1t has passed.
Perhaps splashed of wave and scorched Of
flame, but all 1t has within unchanged of
the Journey And with what shouts Of
Joy the bundle Of life will be greeted by
all the voices Of the heavenly home oirclel
In our anxiety at last to reach heaven
we are apt to lose sight Of the glee or well
come that awaits us II 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 communion
ton Is there between those uplands and
these lowlands that we will not surprise
them by sudden arrival. II loved ones on
earth expect our coming visit and are at
the depot with carriage to meet us, surely
we will be met at the shining gate by old
friends now sainted and kindred now glo-
rif1ed. 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
tho splendors and guide us to our celestial
home, powered and fountained and arched
and illumined by sun that never sets.
Will 1t not be glorious, the going In and
the settling down after all the moving
about and upsettings Of earthly experienced
We will soon know all our neighbors,
kingly, queenly, prophetic, apostolic, &C.
raphic, archangelic. 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 lis 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 heartily 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 tho 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 1t
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 abandoned crafts
oil up ind down that awful channel-our
arrival in heaven all the moro rnpturously
welcomed because Of the doubt as to
whether we would ever get there at all.
Bound Up with Gods Love.
Once there twill be found that the safe-
ty Of that precious bundle of life was as
gurrd because it was bound up with the
life of God in Jesus Christ. Heaven could
not afford to have that bundle lost, be-
cause 1t had been said in regard to its
Transportation and safe arrival, kept by
the power of God through faith unto COM
plete salvation" The veracity Of the heav-
ems Is involved in Its arrival. II God
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 crumble and In
finite povertics would dash down all the
chalces and close all the banqucting halls,
and tho river of life would change its
course, sweeping everything with dcsola-
ton, and frost would blast all the gardens,
and unreasonable sickness Stay the i'm
murtals and the new Jerusalem become
an abandoned city, with no chariot wheel
on the streets and no worshipers in the
temple-a dead Pompeii Of the skies,
buried Hcrculaneum of the heavens. Lest
any one should doubt, tho God who cannot
lie smites his omnipotient hand on the side
of his throne, and takes affidavit, declar-
ing, LAS live, said the Lord God have
no pleasure in the death of him that
dieth." OH cannot tell you how feel
about it, tho 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 moro
beautiful and glorious than was the heroic
Abigail, who at tho foot Of the crags ut
tered it" Bound in the bundle Of life
with the Lord thy Godr'
Now, my nearer and reader, appreciate
the value of that bundle. SEQ that 1t Is
bound up with nothing mean, but with
the unsullied and immaculate. Not with
pebble of the shifting beach, but with the
kohnoor of the palace, not with some fad
irr r, Lila of earthly pomp, but with the
rome Nuthod and made white in the blood
Of the Lamb. Pray us you never prayed
before, that by divine chirography written
all over your nature, you may he properly
addressed fora glorious destination. Turn
not over a new leaf of tho old book, but by
the grace of God open IN entirely new vol
ume OF experience and put into practice
the advice contained in tho peculiar bnt
beautiful rhythm Of some author whose
namo I know not:
IF you've any task to do,
Let me whisper, friend, to you
Do 1t.
II you've any thing to say,
True and needed, yea or nay,
Say II.
II you've anything to love
As blessing from above,
Love ID.
Hyou've anything to give,
That nnothcr's Joy may live,
II some hollow creed you doubt,
Though the whole world boot and shout
Doubt it.
II you've my debt to pay,
Rest you neither night nor day
Pay it.
II you've any Joy to hold,
Near your heart, lest it grow cold,
Hold II.
II you've any grief to meet,
At loving Fathers feet
Meet it.
II you know what torch to light,
Guiding others in the night,
Light 1t.
rne nest l.arisnIOner.
(which sort of man is most helpful to
your asked one clergyman of another.
II mean to you personally and individu-
ally"
His friend looked puzzled, and the ques-