Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-03-11

phetic. apostolic. seraphic. archangellc.
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 80 ships that were overdue at
New 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 will be greeted in the heav-
emily world if by the pardoning and pro-
tccting 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 and
amid Caribbean cyclones. It will be
like our arrival some years ago from
New Zealand at Sydney. people sur
prised that we got in at all. because we
were two days late. and some of the
ships expected had gone to the bottom.
and we had passed derelicts and ADAM
doned crafts all up and down that awful
channel-our arrival in heaven all the
more rapturously welcomed because Of
the doubt as to whether we would ever
get there at all
Gods PromIne.
Once there it will be found that the
safety of that precious bundle Of life
was assured because it was bound up
with the life of God in Jesus Christ
Heaven could not afford to have that
bundle lost because it had been said in
regard to its transportation and safe ar
rival. "Kept by the power of God
through faith unto complete salvation. >
The veracity of the heavens is involved
in it's 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
slay 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 his
throne and takes affidavit, declaring,
GAS live, saith the Lord God. have
no pleasure in the death Of him that
ditth. Oh, | cannot tell you how l
feel about it, the thought is SO glorious.
Bound up with God. Bound up with
infinite mercy Bound up with infinite
joy. 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
Godl"
Now. my nearer and reader. appreci-
ate the value of that bundle See that
it 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
pomp. 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 o 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 theadvice contained in the peculiar
hut beautiful rhythm OF some author
whose name know not
If you've any tasl; 10 do
Let me whisper. friend, to you.
Do it.
II you've anything to say,
True and needed. yea OF nay.
Say it.
If you've anything 10 love
AS IL blessing from above,
Love it.
If you've anything TO give,
That another's Joy may live.
Give It,
If some hollow creed you doubt
Though the whole world boot and shout
Doubt it.
If you've any debt to pay,
Rest you neither night nor day
Pay it.
If you We any Joy 10 hold.
Near your heart. lest 1t grow cold
Hold it.
If you've any grief to meet.
At loving Fathers feet
Meet it.
II you know what torch to light
Guiding others in the night,
Light it.