Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-03-11

out bright hopes and inspiring ambi-
tions might as well not start at all. for
every step will be failure. Rather
would add to the bundle, and if Iopen
it now it will not be because / wish to
take anything from it, but that may
put into it more coronets and hosannas.
Bundle of faculties in every man and
every woman Power to 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
right, 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- pa
ternal love, maternal love. love of coun-
try, love Of God Faculty of Judgment,
with scales so delicate and yet SO mighty
they can weigh arguments, weigh emo
tions. weigh worlds. weigh heaven and
hell. Faculty of will, that can climb
mountains 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 woman Sublime and
infinite bundle of faculties The thought
Of it stuggers 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 immortal be-
ingl
Carefully Wrapped Up.
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 Il 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 that
bundle If not properly put together.
though it may leave your hands in good
order and symmetrical, before it reaches
its proper destination itmay be loosened
in fragments for the winds to scatter
or the rail train to lose.
Now. Ihave 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 mctaphysicians, 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 all eye or the Gripping of a
limb or the destruction of Il single ener-
~ of body or faculty of mind. | sub
pnna 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 lanterns put
in he has in under his forehead the
same two lante: rs 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
.iocomotion in the limbs with which God
started him. and though all the electric
wires that cnrried messages rs years
ago have been torn down his nerves
bring messages from all parts of his
body as we'll as when God strung them
rs years ago. Was there ever such a
complete bundle put together as the hu-
man being? What factory What an
enginel What mill race What a
lighthouse What locomotive What
an electric battery What furnace
What masterpiece of the Lord God
Almighty Or, to employ the anticlimax
and use the figure of the text. what a
bundled
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 intended.
All great carrying companies have so
many misdirected packages that they
appoint days of vendue to dispose OF
them. All intelligent people know the
imnortance of having Il valuable pack
age plainly directed. the name of the
one to whom it is to 60 plainl,' written
Baggage master and expressman ought
to know at the first glance to whom to
take it.
A Valuable Package.
This bundle of life that Abigail in
nv text speaks Of is plainly addressed.
BY divine penmanship it is directed
heavenward. However long may be the
earthly distance it travels its destlna-
ton is the eternal city of God on high
Every mile it goes away from that d.
rection is by some human or internal
fraud practiced against it There are
those who put it on some other track
who misplace it in some wrong convey
ance. who send it off or send it back BY
some diaholic miscarriage The value
Of that bundle is so well known all up
and down the universe that there are
1000. 600 dishonest hands which are
trying to detain or divert it or to for
ever stop its progress in the right direc-
ticn 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
the next. but that there are not more
who go down irremediably.
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
infantile disorders that threaten the
body Just launched upon earthly exist
once Scarlet fevers and pneumonias
md diphtherias and inhuenzas 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 monsters
of the Nile than every cradle is imperll-
ed by ailments all devouring. In after