Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-03-06

01cc1OyS LII CO1UO11d1 Slid14 UhCJ WILL
be Websters in the senate. Or she will
be Mary Lyon in educational realms,
or a Frances Willard on reformatory
platform, or a Helen Gould in military
hospitals Or she will make home life
radiant with helpfulness and self sacri-
fee and magnificent womanhood. Oh,
what bundle of hopes and ambitionsl
It is bundle Of garlands and scepters
from which I would not take one sprig
of mignonette nor extinguish one spark
of brilliance They who start life with
out bright hopes and inspiring ambi
lions might as we'll not start at all, for
every step will be failure. Rather
would I add to the bundle, and if l open
it now it will not be because I wish to
take anything from it, but that [ may
put into it more coronets and hosannas.
Bundle of faculties in every man and
every womanI Power to think-to
think Of the past and through all the
future, to think upward and higher
than the highest pinnacle of heaven, or
to think downward until there is no
lower abysm to fathom. Power to think
right, power to think wrong, power TO
think forever, for, once having begun
to think, there shall be no terminus for
that exercise and eternity itself shall
have no power to bid it halt. Faculties
to love-flial love, conjugal love, pa
ternal love, 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
hell 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 womanl Sublime and
infinite bundle of faculties The thought
of it staggers me- swamps me, stuns
me, bewilders me, overwhelms me. Oh
what bundle of life Abigail of my
text saw in David and which we ought
to see in every human yet immortal be-
ing
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 we'll 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
die of life is well put together
body, the mind, the soul. Who but the
omnipotent God could bind such a bun
| die? Anatomists, Psychologists, physi-
cists, logicians, metaphysicians, declare
that we are fearfully and wonderfully
made. That we are bundle well put
together I prove by the amount of jour
neying we can endure without damage
by the amount Of rough handling we
can survive, by the fact that the vast
majority of US go through life without
the loss of an eye or the Gripping of a
limb or the destruction of a single ener-
! gy of body or faculty of mind. I sub
pOena 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 a 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 so 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 30 years
ago have been torn down his nerves
bring messages from all parts of his
body as well as when God strung them
| rs years ago. Was there ever such a
complete bundle put together as the hu-
man being? What factory What an
enginel What a mill race! What a
lighthousel What locomotive What
an electric battery! What a furnace |
What masterpiece of the Lord God
Almighty Or, to employ the anticlimax
and use the figure of the text, what a
bundled
Know, also, that this bundle of life is
properly directed. Many 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 INSTRUCTED packages that they
appoint days Of vendue to dispose of
them. All intelligent people know the
Importance of having valuable pack
age plainly directed, the 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.
VaIuahIo
This bundle of life that Abigail in
my text speaks of is plainly addressed.
By divine penmanship it is directed
heavenward. However long may be the