The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1899-03-17

lurements. Temptations that have utterly
destroyed more people than now tnhabit
les and places where dissoiuteness reixns
supreme, enough In number to 90 round
and round the earth. Discoufagements,
jealousies, revenges, malevolences, disap-
tfons and crueities, which make continned
existence OF the human race . wonder
ment. Was ever any valuable bundle ever
SO tmperiled as this bundle of life2 oh.
look at M the address and .aIs get that bundle go
Lord thy God with all thy heart and soul
and mind and strength"
Know also that a bundle may have in It
more than one invaluable. There may be
oIp essess Of 1xsa contain snd
embroidered robe and Dore's illustrated
Bible. A bundle may have two treasures.
Abigail In my text recognised this when
she said to David. "Ths 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 a loving and sympa-
thetic God. We may be as near to Him as
ever were emerald and ruby united In one
age, as ever were two vases on the same
shelf. as ever were two valuables In the
same bundle. Together In time OF SORROW.
Together in time OF joy. Together on
partnership OF God. Hear Him, .I Will
never leave thee, nor forsaks thee" "For
the mountains shall depart and the hills be
removed, but MY Kindness shalt not depart
from thee, neither shall the covenant OF
Ny peace be removed, saith the Lord that
hath mercy on thee" And when those
Bible authors compared Gods friend
ship to the mountains for height and
flrmness they knew what they were
mountains are. All those lands are noun
tainous. Mount Hermon, Mount Gilboa,
Mount Gerlzim, Mount Engedi, Mount
Horeb, Mount Nebo. Mount Plsgah, Mount
Lebanon, Mount sinai, Mount Golgotha.
Yes, we have the divine promise that ali
those mountains shall weigh their anchor
age OF rocks and move away from the
earth before loving and sympathetic God
will move away from US II we love and
trust Him. Oh, IL we could realize that
according to my text we may bound up
with that God. how independent 1t would
make us Of things that now harass and an
stead OF grasshopper being a burden, a
world OF care would be as light as a
feather. and tombstones would be marble
stairs to the Kings palace, and all the
giants OF opposition we would smite down
hip and thigh with great slaughter.
Know, also, that this bundle Of life will
be gladly received when It comes to the
door OF the mansion for which 1t was bound
and plainly directed. With what alacrity
aud glee we await some package that has
been foretold by letter, some holiday pre-
sentation, something that will enrich and
ornament our home, some testimony Of ad-
miration and affectioni With what glow
OF expectation we unite the knot and take
off the cord that holds 1t together in safety,
and with what glad exclamation we un-
roll the covering and see the gift or pur-
chase I'm all its beauty OF color and proper
tion. Well what y day 1t will be when
your precious bundle OF life shall be opened
In the "honse OF many mansions" amid
sanity and angelic and divine inspectioni
The bundle may be spotted with this marks
OF much exposure, II may bear inscription
after inscription to tell through what or.
deal 1t has passed, perhaps splashed OF
wave and sSorched of flame. but all 1t has
within undhmaged of the journey. And
with what shouts OF 10y the bundle of life
will be greeted by all the voices Of the
heavenly home circle.
In our Anxiety at last to reach heaven
We are apt 70 lose sight Of the glee or well
como that awaits us II wo get In at all. We
! all have friends up there. They will some-
aDS sSsh s9is s
| there between those uplands and these
| lowlands that we will not surprise them by
| sudden arrival. Ifloved ones on earth ex-
pect our csming visit and are at the depot
with carriage to meet us, surely we will
| be met at The shining gate by old friends
now sainted and kindred now glorlfled. If
there We're no angel of God, to meet US and
show us hdpalaces and guide us to our
1
show us the way and point out the
| splendors and guide ns to our celes-
| tial home, powered and fountained and
arched and ilumined by a sun that never
sets. VIII 1t not be glorious, the going In
and the settling down after all the moving
aboat and upsettings of earthly sxperiencea
We will soon know all our neighbors king
ly queenly, prophetic, apostolic, seraphic.
archangelic. The precious bundle Of life
opened amid palaces and grand marches
uxxytn on hn rvl Id
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 of the right course. None of tthe
York harbor In the storm OF week before
last was greeted so heartily by friends on
the dock or the steam tugs that went out
to meet them at Sandy Hook as We
wil nl,a be greeted sss raonth T. the heavenly
wharfage. We shall we to tell them Of
the many wrecks that I'VE have passed on
the way across wild s&s and amid Carib-
from svS
ney. people surprised tHt we got in at all,
because we were two dtys late, and some
OF the ships expected haf gone to the bot.
tom. and we had pasAd derelicts AMI
full channel-our arrival n heaven all the
more rapturously WELCOMED because OF the
doubt as to whether we would ever get
there Mt all.
Once there 1t will be found that the
safety Of that precious hA ndls Of life was
assured because 1t was h,und up with the
life OF God In Jesus Chrill. Heaven could
not afford to have that b}ndle lost because
1t had been said In regard 70 its transporta-
tion and safe arrival, "Kspt by the power
OF God through faith unto complete saliva
tion." The veracity Of the heavens Is in.
volved In its arrival. II God shoulSSe
soul. fhA pillars OF JEovah's throne
| Tod1d fan. and the fou ,dations OF the