The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-03-11
THE LEXINGTON INTELLIaENcER. SATURDAY. MARCH ii 1899

~alaerity and glse we await some pack.
age that has been foretold by letter;
some holiday Presentation; something
that will enrich and ornament our
home; some testimony Of admiration
aud ateetioni With what glow Of ex.
Peetaton we unite the knot and take Of
the cord that holds II together In safe.
". and with what glad exclamation we
unrou the covering and see the Rift OF
purchase in all its beauty OF color and
proportion. Well. what = day Il will
be when your precious bundle Of life
shall be opened in the house OF many
mansions amid sanity aud angelic
and Divine iEspectionl The bundle may
be spotted with the marks Of much ex-
posture. II may bear inscription after
inscription to tell through what ordeal
ithas passed. Perhaps splaxhed Of wave
and scorhed Of flame, but all It has
within unchanged OF the journey. And
with what shouts of joy the bundle Of
life will be greeted by all the voices Of
the heavenly home circle"
In u anxiety at last TO reach Heaven
we are apt to lose sight Of the Rlee or
welcome that awaits US II we get in at
all. We all have friends up there. They
will somehow hear that we are coming.
such close and swift and constant COM
nunieAtion is there between those up
lands and these lowlands that we Will
not surprise them by sudden arrival.
II loved ones on earth expect our COM
ing visit and are al the depot with car.
riage TO meet US, surely We will be met
at the shining gate by old friends now
sainted and kindred now giorifed. II
there were no angel Of God to meet us
and show Us the palaces and guide Us TO
our everlasting residence, these Kin
dred would show us the way and point
out the splendors and guide US 10 our
celestial home. powered and fountained
and srched and illumined BY a sun that
never sets viii it not be glorious, the
going in and the settling down after
Gil the moving about and upsettings Of
earthly experience? We will soon know
all our neighbors. kingly, queenIy,
prophetic, apostolic, seraphic, archan-
gelie. The precious bundle Of life
opened amid palaces and grand marches
and aeelamatiOnS They will all be so
glad We have got safely through. Thew
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 the 30 ships that were overdue
at New York harbor in the storm of
week before last vas greeted SO heart
ny BY friends on the dock or the steam
tugs tnat went out TO meet them At
sandy Hook as we will be greeted in the
heavenly world IL by the pardouing
and protecting grace Of God we come
10 celestial wharfage. We shall have
70 tell them of the many wrecks that we
have passed on the way across wild e
and amid Caribbean cyclones. II will
DC K "a 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
snips expected had gone TO the bottom
ana we had passed derelicts and aban,
ooned crafts all up and down that av.
enannel-our arrival In Heaven All
me more rapturously welcomed be-
cause OF the doubt as 10 whether W..
would ever get there at all.
once there II will be found that ,bs
safety OF that precious bundle Of life
was assured because II was bound nm
with the life Of God in Jesus Cbrist
could not afford TO have that
bundle lost, because Il had been said IN
regard TO its transportation and safe
arrival: Kept by the power OF God
through faith unto complete salvation -
The yeraeity Of the heavens Is involved
Its arrival. flood should fall 10 keen
nus promise 10 Just one ransomed souI
me pillars Of Jehovah's throne would
D the foundations Of the eternal
rity would crumble. and inanite power
lies would dash down all the chalIces
and close all the banqueting halls. and
Inc river OF life would change its course
sweeping everything with d~esolation'
and frost would blast sll the garden.
and unreasonable sickness sIay the i'm.
mortals, and the new Jerusalem be.
come an abandoned city with no chariot
wheel OF the streets and no worshipers
a the temple-a dead PompeIi OF the
'kies' q buried Herculaneum Of the
neaHena Lest anyone should doubt.
me God who cannot lie smites His ON.
nipotent hand on the side Of His throne
md takes affidavit, declaring: "AsI
I'VE said the Lord God, 1 have no pleas
IRE In the death Of him that dieth.n
d. l cannot tell you how l feel about
IT, the thought Is so gloriousi Bound
up with God. Bound up with infinite
mercy. Bound up with infinite joy.
Bound up with inApite purity. Bound
Up with infinite might. That thought
6 more beautiful and glorious than
vas the heroic Abigail. who at the foot
the crags uttered II: Bound in the
bundle Of life with the Lord thy OodIn