Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-03-16

form, or a Helen Gould in military hos
pitfalls. Or she will make home life ra-
diant with helpfulness and self-sacri.
fee and magnificent womanhood, oh,
what bundle of garlands and scepters
from which I would not take one sprig
of mignonette nor eNtinguish one spark
of brilliance. They who start life with
out bright hopes and inspiring ambi.
tons might as well not start at all, for
every step will be failure. Rather
would add to the bundle, and il open
it now il will not be because wish to
take anything from it, but that may
put into it more coronetsR and hosapnas.
Bundle of faculties In every man and
every woman! Power 10 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-flial
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
taius 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 a woman! Sublime and
infinite bundle of faculties! The
thought of 1t 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 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
1t reaches its proper destil ton 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, metaphysicians, declare
that we are fearfully and wonderfully
made. That we are bundle we'll put
together 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 gripping 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 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 lam
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
% years ago have been torn down. bis
nerves bring messages from all parts of
his body as well as when God strung
them - years ago. Was there ever such
Il complete bundle put together as the
human being? What factory, What
an engine! What mill race! What .
lighthouse! What n locomotive. What
an electric battery! What furnace!
What masterpiece of the Lord God
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 bundle has
missed lis way and disappeared because
the address has dropped, and no one
can find by examination for what city
or town or neighborhood II 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 tine one to whom II 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 II is directed Heav-
onward. However long NAV be the
earthly distance it 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 il on some other track.
who misplace il in some wrong convey
ancp who send IL off or send n bo nl b, |