Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-03-09

they can weigh arguments, weigh emo
tons, weigh worlds, weigh heaven and
hell Faculty of will, that can climb
mountoiHS or tunnel them, wade seas or
brid m, accepting eternal enthrone,
mo yhoosing everlasting exile. Oh,
VIII. . 10 be a mani Oh, what IL is to
be Womanl Sublime and infinite bundle
of faculties The thought of it staggers
me, swamps me, stuns me, bewilders mo,
overwhelms me. Oh, what bundle of life
Abigail of my text saw in David, and
which wo ought to see in every human,
yet immortal, being!
Know, also that this bundle of life was
put up with great care. Any merchant
and almost any faithful householder will
tell you how much depends on the way
bundle is bound The cord or rope must
be strong enough to hold, tho knot must
be we'll tied You know not what rough
hands may toss that bundle. If not prop
erly put together though it may leave
your hands in good order and symmetrical
before it reaches its proper destination it
may be looscncd in fragments for the
winds to scatter or the rail train to lose.
Now have to tell you that this bundle
of life is well put togcther-the body, the
mind, the soul Who but the omnipotent
God could bind such bundleP Anato-
mists, psychologists, physicists, logicians
mctaphy scans, declare that we are fear
fully and wonderfully made. That we are
a bundle well put together | prove by the
amount of jOurneying we can endure
without damage, by the amount of rough
handling we can survive, by the fact that
the vast majority of us 90 through life
without the loss of an eye, or the crippling
of limb, or the destruction of "A single
energy Of body or faculty of mind. ] sub
pnna for this trial that man in yondCr
view 20 or so years of age and ask him to
testify that after all the storms and acct
dents and vicissitudes of long life he still
keeps his five senses, and, though all the
lighthouses as old as he is have been re-
constructed or new lanterns put in he has
in under his forehead the same two Ian
terms with which God started him, and,
though the locomotives 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 messenger
20 years ago have been torn down, his
nerves bring messages from all parts of
his body as well as when God strung them
rs years ago Was there ever such a com
plcte bundle put together as the human
bcinR9 What factory What an enRincl
What a mill racol What q lighthousel
What locomotive What an electric bat
terry What n furnace What a master
piece of the Lord God Almighty Or, to
employ the anticlimaX and use the figure
of the text, what bundled
Is Properly Directed.
Know also that this bundle of life is
properly directed Many a bundle has
a
the address has dropped and no one can
find by examination for what city or town
or neighborhood it was intended All
great carrying companies have so many
INSTRUCTED packages that they appoint
days of vendue to dispose of them. All
intelligent people know the Importance of
having valuable package plainly direct
ed, 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 heaven
ward However long may be the earthly
distance it travels its destination is the
eternal city of God on high. Every mile it
goes away from that direction is by some
human or Internal fraud practced against
it. There are those who put it on some
other track, who misplace it in some wrong
conveyance, who send it off or send it back
by some diabolic miscarriage. The value
of that bundle is so well known all up and
down the universe that there are million
dishonest hands which are trying to detain
or divert it, or to forever stop its progress
in the right direction There are so many
influences abroad to ruin your body, mind
and soul that my wonder is not that so
many are destroyed for this world and tho
next, but that there are not more who go
down irrcmodiably.
Every human being is assailed at the
start. Within an hour of the time when
the bundle of life is made up the assault
begins First of all, there are the infantie
disorders that threaten the body just
launched upon earthly existence Scarlet
fcvers and pneumonias, and diphtherias
and induenzas, and the whole pack Of cpl
denies surround the cradle and threaten
its occupant, and infant Noses in the ark
of bulrushes was not moro impcrilcd by
the monsters of the Nile than every cradle
is imperiled by ailments all dcvouring. In
after years there are foes within and foes
without. Evil appetite joined by outside
nllurcmcnts. Temptations that have ut
terly destroyed more people than now in
habit the earth Gambling saloons and
rummeries, and places where dissolutcness
! reigns supreme, enough in number to go
round and round and round the earth.
/ DisCouragcments, jcalousies, revcnPcs
| indebtedness, disappointmcnts, swindlcs
arsons, conllagrations and cruelties which
make continued existence of the human
! race a wonderment. Was any valuable
! bundle ever so imperiled as this bundle Of
| life? Oh, look at the address and get that
/ bundle going in the right way Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart and soul, and mind and strength. I"
Heaven with its - gates standing wide
open with invitation All the forces of the
Godhead pledged for our heavenly arrival
if we will do tho right thing. All angel
dom ready for our adyan &c and guidance
| All the lightnings of heaven so many
drawn swords for our protection. What a
! pity, what an everlasting pity, if this bun
die Of life. so well bound and so plainly
/ directed, does not come out at the right
station, but becomes lost bundle, cast
out amid the rubbish of tho universal!
Value OF the Bundle.
Know also that a bundle may have in 1t
more than one invaluable. There may be
in it photograph of loved one and a
jewel for carcanet 1t may contain an
embroidered robe and Dorc's illustrated
Bible. a bundle may have two treasures.
Abigail, in my text, recognized this when
she said to David, 1.-The soul Of my lord is
bound in the bundle of life with the Lord
thy God, and Abigail was right We
may be bound up with loving and sym
no hot IL Ia %,