Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-03-10

phetic. apostolic serapnic. archangelic
The precious bundle Of life opened amid
palaces and grand marches and accla-
nations They will all be so glad we
have got safely through. They saw us
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 30 ships that were overdue a.
New York harbor in the storm Of wees
before last was greeted so heartily ~
friends on the dock or the steam tul
that went ont 10 meet them al Sand7
Hook as we will be greeted in the heav
enly world if by the pardoning and pro
tecting grace of God we come TO celes
tial wharfage We shall have TO tell
them of the many wrecks that we have
passed on the way across wild seas an'
amid Caribbean cyclones II will
like our arrival some years ago from
New Zealand at Sydney people eur
prised that we got in at all bccau = "
were two days late. ara ome Of
ships expected had gone 10 the ootfC
and we had passed derelIcts and
doned crafts all mp and down ,hat
Chameleon arrival in heaven a.
more rapturously welcomed 0ecalse
the doubt as to whether we would eyp
get there at all
Gods Promise.
Once there it will be found that the
safety of that precious bundle Of life
was assured because it was bound ~
with the life of God in Jesus Christ
Heaven could not afford to have that
bundle lost because it had been said IL
regard to its transportation and safe n.
rival. Kept by the power Of Go
through faith unto complete salvation
The veracity of the heavens is involved
in its arrival If 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 infinite
poverties would dash down all the
chalices and close all the banqueting
halls. and the river of life would change
its course sweeping everything with
desolation, and frost would blast all the
gardens and immeasurable sickness
slav the immortals, and the new Jerus'
alem become an abandoned city, with
no chariot wheel on the streets and no
worshipers in the temple-a dead Pom
peii of the skies. buried Herculaneum
of the heavens Lest any one should
doubt. the God who cannot lie smites
his omnipotent hand on the side Of bis
throne and takes affidavit. declaring.
LAS live. saith the Lord God, | have
no pleasure in the death of him that
dieth. " Oh. cannot tell you how
feel about it. the thought is so glorious
Bound up with God. Bound up with
infinite mercy Bound up with infinite
10y. Bound up with infinite purity
Bound up with infinite might That
] thought is more beautiful and glorious
than was the heroic Abigail. who at
the foot of the crags uttered it, Bound
in the bundle Of life with the Lord thy
God
Now, my hearer and reader, appreci-
ate the value Of that bundle See that
il is bound up with nothing mean. but
with the unsullied and the immaculate.
Not with a pebble of the shifting beach.
but with the kOhinOor of the palace;
not with some fading regalia Of earthly
nomp. but with the robe washed and
made white in the blood Of the Lamb
Pray as you never prayed before that by
divine chirography written all over your
nature you may be properly addressed
for a glorious destination Turn not
over new leaf of the old book. but by
the grace Of God open an entirely new
volume of experience and put into prac-
tice the advice contained in the peculiar
but beautiful rhythm Of some author
Those name | know not
II you've any task 20 do,
Let me whisper, friend, TO you
Do it.
II you've anything to say.
True and needed. yea or nay,
say IT,
II you've anything 10 love
As a blessing from above,
Love It.
II you've anything to give,
That anoiher's Joy may live,
Give it
II some hollow creed you doubt,
Though the whole world boot and shout
Doubt IL.
II you've any debt TO pay
Rest you neither night nor day
Pay Il.
II you've any Joy to hold
II Near your heart. lest 1t grow cold
Hold IL.
II you've any grief to meet
Alta loving Fathers feet
Meet IL.
Hyou know what torch TO light
Guiding others in the night,
Light IL