Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-03-18


saloons and rummeries. and places
where dissolu,eness reigns supreme.
enough in number 20 20 round and
round the earth. DiScouragements.
jealousies. revenges. malevolences. dis
appointments, swindles. arsons. confis-
grations and cruelties which make con-
tinued existence of the human race
wonderment. Was any valuable bun
die ever SO imperiled as this bundle OF
life? Oh. look at the address and get
that bundle going in the right wayi
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart. and soul. and mind. and
strength" Heaven with It's ~ gates
standing wide open with invitation. All
the forces OF the Godhead pledged for
our heavenly arrival IL we will do the
right thing. All angeidom ready for
our advance and guidance. All the
lightnings of Heaven so many drawn
swords for our protection. What q
pity. what an everlasting pity. II this
bundle Of life. so well bound and so
plainly directed. does not come out at
the right station. but becomes los,
bundle. cast out amid the rubbish OF
the universel
Know also that this bundle OF life will
door Of the mansion for which IL WA
bound and plainly directed. With what
ai8crity and glee 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
and affection. With what glow OF ex-
pectat.on we unite the knot and take of
the cord that holds il together in safe
y, and with what glad exclamation we
unron the covering and see the gift or
purchase in all It's beauty Of color and
proportion. Well. what a day il will
be when your precious bundle of life
shall he opened IN the house Of many
T mansions" amid sanity and angelic
and Divine inspection, The bundle may
be spotted with Che marks OF much ex-
posture. II may bear inscription after
inscription 10 TEL through what ordeal
81 has passed. Perhaps FLASHED Of wave
and scorched OF flame. but all IL has
within unchanged OF the journey. And
with what shouts OF JOY the bundle Of
life viii be greeted 10y an the voices OF
the heavenly home circle!
In our anxiety at last 10 reach Heaven
We are apt 60 lose sight OF the glee or
welcome that awaits Us ~ we get in at
all. We an have friends up there. They
viii somehow hear that We are coming
Such close and swift and constant COM
muuication is there between those up
lands and these lowlands that we will
not surprise them 10y sudden arrival.
? II loved ones on earth expect our COM
ing visit and are az the depot with car
{ riage 90 meet US. surely We will be met
q the shining gate 10y old friends now
. sainted and Kindred now gloridcd. II
e there were no angel OF God 10 meet 10
Z and show as the palaces and guide Us 70
I our everlasting residence. these kim
a dred would show US the way and point
10 out the splendors and guide us 10 our
b celestial home. powered and foun 'ained
r and arched and iilumined by a sun that
IA never sets. win tnot be glorious. the
q going In and the settling down after
e OH the moving about and upseitings OF
!. earthly cNperience2 We will soon know
O. ali our neighhors. kingly. queenly
De- prophetic. apostolic. seraphic. archan
b gelic. The precious bundle Of IN,
b opened amid palaces and grand marchei
De- and acclamations They viii an be 81
20 glad we have got safely through. The,
81 saw as down here in the struggle The,
b saw as when we lost our way The,
D knew when we got of The right course
's None OF the 30 ships that were ovcrdu
is a New York harbor ia the storm o
y week before last was greeted 20 teari
" lily by friends on the dock or the ~tean
IA tugs that went out 10 meet them a
ie SANDY Hook as we will be greeted in IN
~ heavenly world II by the pardonin
and protecting grace OF God We com
al 20 celestial wharfage We shall hav
+! 10 tell them OF the many wrecks that W
% have passed on the way across wild sea
H. and amid Caribbean cyclones. II wi
al be like our arrival some years ago froi
New Zealand at sydney. people SUI
IS prised that we got in al all. because "
as were two days late and some OF N
Sc ships expected had gone 10 the bottom
ne and we had passed derelicts and abal
" doned crafts all up and down that ay
n ful channel-our arrival In Heaven a
es the more rapturously welcomed b
.es cause Of the doubt as TO whether v
Is would ever get there at all
de Once there &, VIII be found that Il
al safety Of that precious bundle OF Il
he was assured because II was bound I
go with he life Of God In Jesus Chris
nd Heaven could not afford 20 have III
rst bundle lost. because Il bad been said
regard 10 its transportation and "a
ny arrival; Kept by the power OF G,
BY through faith unto complete salvation
av- The veracity Of the heavens is involv
he ] In its arrival TfCod sho,,id fail "a T.