The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-05-09

properly put tuEetneF, thonSh y may cave
your hands In god order and symmetrical
before IL rescEf.s is proper destination II
may be lo1ssIied in fragments for the
winds 10 scetisr or the rail train to lose
Bodt. Mind. and >sui.
wow. have 10 tell you that this bundle
Of life Is well put together-the body, the
mind. the soul. Who but the Omnipoteni
God could bind sCch a bundle. Anat0-
mists physiOle1=sts, lOgicians. metaphy-
sicians. declare that We are fearfully and
wonderfully made. That We are bundle
well put together I prove by the amount
OF tourneying We can endure without dam
age. by the amount Of rough handling we
can survive, oy the fact that the vast ma
jority OF Us 90 through life without the
loss of an eye, or the crippling Of a limb.
or the destruction OF d single energy o.
body or faculty of mind. | subpoena
for this trial that man seventy or eighty
years Of age. and ask him to testify that
after all the storms, and accidents. and
vic!ssitudes Of a long life he stiIl keeps
his five senses; and though all the light
houses as old as he is have been recon-
struCted or new lanterns put in. he has
had under his forehead the same two Ian
terms with which God started him; and
+. though the locomotives Of sixty 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
messages twenty-five years ago have been
/ torn down, his nerves bring messages
from all parts OF his body as well as when
God strung them seVenIy-fiye years ago.
W as there ever such a complete bundle
put together as the human being! What
factory, What an engine, What mill
/ racel What lighthouse What loco
motivei What an electric batteryi What
furnacei What a masterpiece OF the
Lord God Almighty Or. TO employ the
anti-clirnax and use the figure of the text.
what a bundle.
Reaches It's Destination.
Know, also, that this bundle Of life is
properly directed. Many q bundle has
missed it's 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 CT yendue to dispose of them. All
intelligent people know the Importance OF
having a valuable package plainly di-
| rected. the name of the one to whom II
is 10 20 plainly written. BagEdge-mdSter
| 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 penm6nskip 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 practiCed
against il. There are those who put il
on some other track, who misplace it in
| or send it back by some Giabolic mis-
| carriage. The value of that bundle is 50
well Known all up and down the universe
| that there are a thousand dishonest hands
which are trying to detain, or divert il,
! 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 tor this world and the next, but
| that there are rot more who go down
irremediably.
Foes on All sides.
Every human being is assailed at the
start. Within an hour of the time when
| this bundle of life is made Up the assault
| begins. First of all, there are the infan-
| tile disorders that threaten the body just
| launched upon earthly existence Scarlet
| fevers and pneumOnias. and diphtherias.
| and influenZas, and the whole pack of
| epidemics surround the cradle and threat
en- its occupant; an infant Moses in the
ark of bulrusheS was not more imperiled
| by the monsters of the Nile, than every
cradle is imperiled by ailments all-de-
vouring. In after years there are foes
within and fees without. Evil appetite
! Joined by outside allurements. TempJa-
| tiOns that have utterly destroyed more
people than now inhabit the earth.
Gambling saloons, and rummerieS, and
| places where dissOlutenesS reigns su-
| preme. enough i'm number to go round, and
round, and round the earth. Discourage
| ments, JealOUSieS, TeVenges. maleVOlenceS.
disappointments, sWindles, arsons. conlla-
grations, and cruelties which make con-
tinued existence of the human race a
wOnderment Was any valuable bundle
ever SO imperiled as this bundle of life?
| ., look at the address. and get that
| bundle going in the right Wayi Thou
| shalt love the Lord Thy God with all thy
| heart, and soul, and mind, ana strength.
Heaven with it's twelve gates standing
wide OPEN with invitation. All the forces
of the GOd-head pledged for cur heavenly
arrival if we viii do the right thing. All
angeldOm ready for our advance and guild
anCe All the lightnings of heaven so
many drawn swords for our protection.
| What q pity, what an everlasting pity, If
| this bundle of life, so well bound and so
plainly directed, does not come out al
| the rl2nt station Dul DetOUntS d lOSL
| bundle cast out amid the rubbish of the
| uniVeTseI
| More Than One Treasure.
| "Know, also, that q bundle may have
| in it more than one invaluable. There
may be in it photograph Of a loved one
and a Jewel for a carcanet. 1t may con-
| tain an embroidered robe and a DUre's
| illustrated Bible. A bundle may have
two treasures. Abigail, in my text, rec
| ognized this when she said to David: THE
| soul of my lord is bound in the bundle
| of life with the LORD thy Cod and Abb
| gail was right. We may be bound up
with a loving and sympathetic God. We
may be as near TO Him as ever were
| emerald and ruby united in one ring, as
| ever were two deeds in one package, as
| ever were two vases on the same shelf,
| as ever were two valuableS in the same
! bundle Together in time Of sorrow. To
| gether in time of JOY. Together on earth.
| Together in heaven Close companionship
| of God. Hear Him: I viii never leave
| thee nor forsake thee. For the noun
| tains shall depart, and the hills be re-
| moved; but My kindness shall not de-
| part from thee. neither shall the covenant
/ of Nv peace be removed, saith the Lord
| that hath mercy on thee And when
| those Bible authors compared Goo :
| friendship to the mountains for height
| and fiTmness, they knew what they were
| writing about, for they well knew VIVA;
mountains are. All those lands are noun
| tsins Mount HerInCn, Mount G.lbOa,
| Mount GeriZim, Mount Engedi. Mount
| Horeb, Mount Nebo. Mount Pisgah, Mount
| OIivet, Mount Zion, Mount MoTlah. Noun!
| Lebanon Mount Sinai Mount GOigotha
| Yes, We have the divine promise that all
| those mountains shall weigh their anchor
| age Of rocks and move away from the
| earth before a loving and sympathetic
| God will move away from MS il we love
and trust Him Oh, if We could realize
4 that according 10 my text We NAV be
| bound 70 aith that God, now independent
| il would make US Of things that now
harass. and annoy, and discompOse, and
| torment us. Instead OF gFasshOppeI
| being a burden, a world Of care would he
| as light as "A feather, and tombstone
| would be marble stairs 70 the Kings pal
| ace, and all the giants OF opposition We
| would smiJe down nip ana thigh with
| great slaughter.
God Always with Us.
"a God away up in the heavens Is not
much consolation to US when We get into
Hfe's struggle. 1t is a God close by, as