The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-03-24

.,o, vep what a dav it vii! be when
ronr precious bundle OF life shall pc openeu
IN the 'house OF many Mansions, an1u
sanity and angelic and divine Inspection!
The bundle may be spotted with TINS iHeiAs
of much exposure, it may pear ihsc1lo-ion
after inscription 10 tell through what Or,
deal It has passed. perhaps splasheo OF
vaven,d scorched OF flame. but all II mas
within unchanged Of the journey. ana
With what shouts Of JOY the bundle 0: ne
will be greeted by all the voices O. Tue
heavenly homo circle.
In our anxiety at last 10 reach heaven
We are apt to lose sight OF the giee OK We
come that awaits US II we get In at az. We
ali have friends up there. They will some
how hear that We are coming. Such chose
and swift end constant communication Is
there between those Uplands and these
lowlards that we will not surprise them py
sudden arrival. II loved ones on eartn e1.
pect our coming visit and are at the depot
with carriage to meet US, surely we VIII
be met at the shining gate by old frienos
now sainted and kindred now Sioriheo. II
there were no angel of God to meet US and
show US the palaces and guide US to our
everlasting residence, these kindred would
show Us the "a and point out the
s%plsndors and guide US TO our ceres
tial home, powered and fountalned and
archod -and illunine1 by a sun that never
Sets. Nitl IL LOt w SIClAOOS, IL 6OAhS IA
and the settling down after all the moving
about and up.ettings of earthly experience?
We will soon know all our ~EeighbOrs. king
~, Queeniy, prophetic. apostolic. seraphlc,
i, archanGelic. TIE precious bundle or life
opened amid palaces and grand marches
and acclamations. They viii all be so glad
we nave 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 O. the
thirty-two 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 heavenly
world il bv the pardoning and pro:
tectinS grace Of God We come to celestial
wharfage. We shall nave to tell them OF
the many wrecks that we have passed or
the way across wild seas and amid C2rib.
bean cyclones. Il will be like our arriva
some years ago from New Zealand at sgd
ney. people surprised that we got in at all,
because we we're two days late, and some
OF the ships expected had gone to the bot
tom, and We had passed derelicts an
abandoned crafts all up and down that aw.
! full chanpel-our arrival in heaven all the
more rapturously welcomed because 0; the
doubt as to whether we would ever &c,
there at all.
OAC0 lucIo I viii 10 lOuUu Una III
safety Of that precious bundle of life wa
assured because it was bound up with tn,
life Of God in Jesus Christ. Heaven coul(
not afford to have that bundle lost because
it had been said in regard to its transoorta
ton and safe arrival, kept by the powe
OF God through faith unto complete saliva
tion.' The veracity Of the heavens is in
to keep His promise 20 just = ransome.
soul, the pillars OF Jehovah's thron,
would fall, and the foundations OF tn,
eternal city would crumble, and inGnit
poverties would dash down all tn
ch.!:ces. and close all the b%anonating halls
and he river Of life you'd change it
course, sweeping everything WITH aesola
ton, and frost would blast all the gardens
and Unreasonable sickness slay the i'm
mortals, and the new Jerusalem becom,
an abandoned city. with nc chariot vince
on the streets and no wOrshippers in tn,
temple-a dead Pompeii of the skies,
buried Herculaneum Of the heavens. Les
any one should Coubt, the God who canno
lie smlteS his OnnIlOtent hand on the sid
OF his throne and takes affidavit, declaring
AS l live, saith the Lord God, l hav
no pleasure in the death OF him that dieth.
Oh. l cannot tell you how l feel about it
the thought is SO glorious. Bound up wit
God. Bound up with infinite mercy. Boun,
up with lnhnlte Joy. Bound up with in
O puAilN. oOuuu up Will lnInlte night
That thought is more beautiful and clori
Gus than was the heroic Abigail, who q
the foot OF the crags uttered, Bound i
the bundle Of life with the Lord thy God,
Now, my nearer and reader, appreciate
the value OF that bundle. See that it j
bound up with nothing mean. but with tn
unsuliied and the immaculate. No, with
pebble Of the shifting beach, but with til
kohinoor or the palace: not with som
fading regalia Of earthly ponp. but wit,
the robe washed and made white in t.
blood o. the Lamb.
The Grand 'rnrL.S orinr Cor L.r.n