The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-03-15

lasting exile. Oh, what it is to be
man Oh, what it is to b, woman
Sublime and infinite bundle Of facul-
ties! The thought Of it staggers RE,
swamps me, stuns me, bevilders me,
overwhelms ne. Oh, what bundle of
life Abigail Of my text saw in David,
and which we ought to see in every hu-
man, yet immortal, being!
Know, also, that this boundle Of life
was put with great care. Any merch-
ant and almost any faithful householder
will tell you how much depends on the
way boundle is bound The cord or
rope must be strongenough to hold, the
knot must be we'll tied. You know not
what rough hands may toss that bundle.
If not properly put together, though 1t
may leave your hands in good order and
svmmetrice' before it reaches its PRO
per destination it may ne loosened IN
fragments for the winds to scatter or the
rail train to lose.
Now, | have to tell you that this
bundle of life is well put together-the
body, the mind. the soul. Who but
the omnipotent God could bind such a
bundle? Anatomists psychologists,
physicists. logicians, metaphysicians,
declare that We are fearfully made.
That We are bundle we'll put together
| prove by the amount Of journey;ng
We can endure without damage, by the
amount Of rough handling we can sur
vire, by the act that the vast majority
Of US go through life without the loss Of
an eye, or the crippling of a lamb, or
the destruction of single energy Of
body or faculty Of mind. I subpoena
for this trial that nan in yonder view
70 or 50 years of age aud ask him to
testify that after ali the storms and &C
cidents and vicissitudes of long life be
still keeps his FIVE senses, and though
all the lighthouses as old as he is have
been reconstructed Ut new lanterns put
in, he has in under his forehead the
same two lanterns with which God
stated hip, and, though the locomo-
tives Of so years ago were long ago
sold for old iron, he has the original
powers Of locomotien in the limbs with
which God started him, and, though all
the electric wires that carried messages
25 years ago have been torn down, ;hls
nerves bring messages from all parts Of
his body as well as when GOD strung
then rs years ago. Was there ever
such complete bundle pat together as
the human being? What a factory!
What an engine! What a mill race!
What lighthouse! What locomo-
tive! What an electric battery! What
fu1nacel What a master piece Of the
Lord God Almighty! Or to employ the
anticlimax and use the figure of the
text, what bundle
Know also that this bundle Of life is
properly directed Many bundle has
missed its way and disappeared because
the address las dropped and no one can
find by examination for what city or
town or neighborhood it was intended.
All great carrying companies haze so
many misdirected packages that they
appoint days of vendue to dispose Of
them. All intelligent people know the
Importance of having a valuable pack
age plainly directed, name of the one
to whom it is to go plainly written.
Baggage master 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 penmanship it Is directed
hcavenward. However long may be
the earthly distance it travels, its .des-
tination is the eternal city Of G6d on
high. Every mile it goes away from
that direction is by some human or in
fernal fraud practiced against it. There
are those who put it on some other
track, who misplace it in some wrong
conveyance, who send it of or send it
back by some diabohc miscarriage.
The value of that bundle is so we'll
known all up and down the universe
that there are million dishonest hands
which are trying to detain OF divert it,
or to forever stop its progress in the
right direction There are so many in
huences abroad 20 ruin your body, mind
and soul that my wonder is not thatso
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
assault begins. First Of all, there are
the infantile disorders that threaten
the body just launched upon earthly
existence. Scarlet fevers and pneum
onias, and dipbtherias and inAuenzas,
and the whole pack Of epidemics sur
round the cradle and threaten its occu-
pant, and iDfant 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 foes without. Evilappetite
Joined by outside allurements. Temp
tations that have utterly destroyed
more people than now inhabit the earth.
Gambling saloons and rummeries, and
places where dissoluteness Teigns su
preme, enough in number to go round.
and round the earth. Discouragements,
jealousies, revenges, malevolences,
disappointments, swindles, arsons, con-
fagrations and cruelties which make
continued existence of the human race
wonderment Was any valuable
bundle ever so inperiled as this bundle
of life? 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. F" Heaven with its y
gates standing wide open with invita-
tions. All the forces Of the Godhead
pledged for our heavenly arrival if we
will do the right thing. All angeldom
ready for our advance and guidance.
All the liphtninrs of heaven many