The Yale expositor., 1899-03-10

the Omnipotent God could bind such
a bundle? Anatomists, physiologigts,
physicists, logicians. metaphysicians,
declare that we are fearfully and won
derfully made That we are q bundle
well put together l prove by the
amount of journeying 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 limb, or the de-
struction OF single energy OF the
body or faculty of mind. l subpoena
for this trial that man In yonder view
seventy or eighty 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 no 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 sixty years
ago were long ago sold for old iron,
he has the original powers OF locomo-
ton in the limbs with which God start
ed him; and though all the electric
wires that carried messages twenty
five years ago have been torn down,
his nerves bring messages from all
parts or his body as we'll as when Gol
strung them seventy-fve years ago.
Was there ever such a complete bun
die put together as the human being?
What a factory! What an engine!
What mill-racel What a light
house! What a locomotive! What an
electric battery! What a furnace!
What masterpiece OF the Lord God
Almighty! Or, to employ the anti
climax and use the figure Of the text,
what bundle!
Know, also, that this bundle OF life
Will be gladly received when it comes
to the door Of the Mansion for which
1t was bound and plainly directed.
With what alacrity and glee we await
some package that has been foretold
! by letter; some holiday presentation;
something that will enrich and orna-
ment cur home some testimony of adj
miration and affection! With what
| glow OF expectation We unite the knot
and take off the cord that holds it to-
! gether In safety, and with what glad
! exclamation We unroll the covering,
and see the gift or purchase in all its
! beauty of color and proportion. Well,
what day it will be when your pre-
| cious bundle of life shall be opened in
| the House Of Many Mansions" amid
sanity and angelic and divine inspec-
! ton! The bundle may be spotted
with the marks of much exposure; II
may bear inscription after inscription
| to tell through what ordeal it has
, passed; perhaps splashed Of wave and
scorched OF flame, but all 1t has with
! In unchanged OF the journey. And
with what shouts Of Joy the bu2dle OF
life will be greeted by all thu voices O,
the heavenly home circle!
! In our anxiety at last to reach heav-
en- we are apt to lose sight OF the glee
| or welcome that awaits us If 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 communication Is there be-
tween those up-lands and these low
! lands that we will not surprise them
by sudden arrival. If loved ones on
earth expect our coming visit and are
at the depot with carriage to meet us,
surely We will be met at the shining
gate by old friends now sainted and
kindred now glorifed. II there were
no angel of God to meet us and show
us the palaces ard guide us to our
everlasting residence, these kindred
would show us the way and point cut
the splendors and guide us TO our
celestial home, powered, and four-
tanned, and arched, and illumined By
sun that never sets. VIII IL not be
glorious, the going in AID the settling
down after all the moving about and
upsettings of earthly experience. We
will soon know all our neighbors,
kingly, queenly. prophetic. apostolic,
seraphic, archangelic. The precious
bundle Of life opened amid palaces,
and grand marches, and acclamatioas.
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 thirty-two ships that were
overdue at New York hsYbor in the
storm of week before last were 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, II by
the pardonirg and protecting grace OF
God we come to celestial 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. 1t will be like
Our arrival some years ago from New
Zealand at Sydney, Australia; people
surprised 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