Connecticut western news., 1899-03-09

ternai iove 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 he'll 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 womani Sublime and infinite bundle of facultiesl The thought of it staggers me, swamps me, stuns me, bewilders me, overwhelms me. Oh, what a 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 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
 it's proper destination 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 dle of life is well put together-the body. the mind the soul Who but the omnipotent God could bind such bun dlef Anatomists, physiologists, 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 ,an survive. by the fact that the vast majority of us go through life without the loss of an eye or the crippling of limb or the destruction of a single ener- gy of body or faculty of mind I sub- pgna for this trial that man in yonder view 70 or 80 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 lanterns 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 in the limbs with which God started him. and though all the electric wires that carried messages 25 years ago have been torn down his nerves bring messages from all parts of his body as well as when God strung them 75 years ago. Was there ever such complete bundle put together as the hu- man being3 What factory What an enginel What mill racel What lighthouse What locomotive What an electric batteryl What furnacel What masterpiece of the Lord God Or, to emplosthe anticlimax and use the figure of the text, what bundlel
 Know, also, that this bundle of life is properly directed. Many a 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 of having valuable pack age plainly directed. the name of the f<x xryho # i5f f< y,1o iylu rfftnr, 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 my text speaks of is plainly addressed By divine penmanship it is directed However long may be the earthly distance it travels its destina ton is the eternal city of God on high Every mile it goes away from that di 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 diabolic miscarriage The value of that bundle is so well known all up md down the universe that there are 1, 900, 900 dishonest hands which are irving to detain or divert it or to for ever stop it's progress in the right direc- tion. 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 ,nce. Scarlet levers and pneumonias md diphtherias and infuenzas and the whole pack of epidemics surround the ,radle and threaten it's occupant, and infant Moses in the ark of bulrushes vas not more imperiled by the monsters # the Nile than every cradle is imperil- d by ailments all devouring. In after years there are foes within and foes Evil appetite joined by out ,AuO CLuCubc- ptdLlOuS budt nave utterly destroyed more people than now inhabit the earth. Gambling sa- oons and rummeries and places where lissoluteness reigns supreme, enough n number to go round and round and 'ound the earth. DiscouragemeAts jeal- )usies, revenges. malevolences, disap- oointments, swindles, arsons, confagra- ions and cruelties, which make contin- 1ed existence of the human race a won- lerment. Was any valuable bundle ever so imperiled as this bndle of lifef 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. Heaven with its 12 gates standing wide open with invitation All the forces of the Godhead pledged for our heavenly arrival if we will do ;he right thing. All angeldom ready 'or our advance and guidance. All the fnir Nf J,-ou