f i Tfce Great Preacher Draw laaplra tlon From Homelf Phie-LWe, , Spiritual and Physical, la DlWaelr Protected. tCopyrlght, 1S39. by American Press'Asso clatiori. Washington. March 5. Under the familiar image of a bundle Dr. Talmage shows in this sermon the things which go to make up man's earthly and heav enly life; text. I Samuel xxv. 29, "The bouI of my Lord shall he bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God." Beautiful Abigail in her rhythmic plea for the rescue of her inebriate hus band, who died within .ten days, ad dresses David, the warrior, in the words of the text She suggests that his life, physically and intellectually and spirit ually, is a valuable package or bundle, divinely bound up and to be divinely protected. . The phrase "bundle of life" I heard manyvtimes in my father's family pray ers. Family Sprayers, you know, have frequent repetitions, becauf e day by day they acknowledge about the same blessings and deplore about the same frailties and sympathize with about the same misfortunes, and I-do not know why those who lead at household devotions should seek variety of com position. That familiar prayer becomes the household liturgy. I would not give one of my old father's prayers for 50 elocutionary supplications. Again and again, in the morning and evening prayer, I heard the request that we might all be bound up in the bundle of life, iut I did not know until a few clays ago . that the phrase was a Bible phrase. Now, the more I think of It the bet rter I like it Bundle of life! It is such a simple and unpretending, yet express ive comparison. There is nothing like grandiloquence' In the - Scriptures. While there are many sublime passages in Holy Writ there are more passages homely and drawing illustrations from common observation and everyday life. In Christ's great sermons you heara hen clucking her chickens together, and see the photographs of hypocrites with a sad countenance, and hear of the grass of the field, and the black crows, which our heavenly Father feeds, and the salt that is worthless, and the precious stones flung under the feet of swine, 1 and the shifting sand that lets down the honse with a ereat crash, and hear the comparison of the text the most unpoetical thing we can think of a bundla ' Ordinarily it is something tossed about something' thrown under the table, something that suggests gar rets or something on the shoulder of a poor wayfarer. But there are bundles of great value, bundles put up with great caution, bundles the loss of which means consternation and despair, and there have been bundles represent ing the worth of a kingdom. Blessed Dandle. During the last spell of cold weather there were bundles that attracted the attention and the plaudits of the high heavens, bundles of clothing on the way from comfortable homes to the door of the mission room, and Christ stood in the snow banks "and eaid as the bundles passed. "Naked, and ye clothed me. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye are multiplying. Blessings on those who pack them. Blessings on those who dis tribute them. Blessings on those who With what beautiful aptitude did Abigail in my text speak of the bundle -of life I Ohr what a precious bundle is life I Bundle of memories, bundle of hopes, bundle pf ambitions, bundle of destinies I Once in awhile a man writes his autobiography, and it is of thrilling interest The storv of his birthnlaec. the story qf his struggles, the story of mi r a.i i . a . nis Buuenngs, xne sioryor nismumpnsl But if the autobiography of the most eventful life were well written it would make many chapters of adventure, of tragedy, of comedy, and there would nojle an uninteresting step from cra dlefto grave. J N Bundle of memories are you! Boy hood memories, with all its injustices from playmates, with all its games with ball and bat and kite and sled. 3Ianhood memories, withall your. strug gles in starting -obstacles, oppositions, accidents, misfortunes, losses, successes. Memories of the first marriage you ever saw solemnized, of the firet grave you ever saw opened, of the first mighty wrong you ever suffered, of the first victory you ever gained. Memory of the hour when you were affianced, memory of the first advent in your home, memory of the roseate cheek faded and of blue eyes closed in the last sleep, memory of anthem and of dirge, memory of great pain and of slow convalescence, memory of times. when all things were against you. memory of prosperities that came in like the full tide of the sea. memor xies of a lifetime. What a bundle! I lift that bundle today and unloose the cord that binds it. and for a mo ment you look in and see tears and smiles and laughter and groans and noondays and midnights of experience. and then I tie again the bundle with heartstrings that i have some time vi brated with joy and anon been thrum med by fingers of woe. ' Hopes and Ambitions. " , Bundle of hopes and ambitions also is almost every man and woman, espe cially at the starting. What gains he wilK harvest or what reputation he will achieve, or what bliss he will reach, or what love he will win. What makes college commencement day so entrancing to all of us as we see the etudents receive their diplomas and take tip the garlands thrown to their feet? iney win be Faradays in science; they will be Tennysons in poesy: they will he Willard Parkers in surgery; they will be Alexander Hamilton in na BOUND IN A PACKAGE BUNDLES OF LIFE THE SUBJECT OF Da TALM AGE'S SERMON. tional finance ; they will be Horace Greeleys ia editorial chair; they will be Websters in the senate. Or she will be a 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 fice and - magnificent womanhood. Oh, what a bundle of hopes and ambitions 1 It is a 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 i hopes and inspiring ambi tions might as well not start at all, for every step " will be a 2 failure. Rather would I add to the bundle, and if I open it now it will not be because I wish to take anything from it but that I may put into it more coronets and hosannas. -Bundle of faculties in every man and every woman I Power to think to think of the past and through all the future, to think upward and higher than the highest pinnacle pf heaven, or to think downward until there is no lower abysm to fathom. Power to think right, power to think wrong, power, to thirik 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 filial 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 a man! Oh, .what it is to be a woman 1 Sublime and infinite bundle of faculties I The thought of it staggers me, swamps me," stuns me, bewilders mej overwhelms me. Oh, what a bundle of life Abigail of my text saw in David and which we ought to see in every human yet immortal be ing! - v.-. '!. Carefnllr Wrapped Up. Know also, that this bundle of life was put up with great cam Any mer chant, and almost any faithful house holder will tell you how much depends on the way a bundle is bound. The cord or rope must beTfltrong enough to hold. The knot must be well 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 its proper destination it may be loosened in fragments for the winds to, scatter or the rail train to lose. - j j -Now, I have to tell you that this bun dle of life is well put together the body, the mind, the souL Who but the omnipotent God could bind such a bun dle? Anatomists, 'physiologists., physi cists, logicians, metaphysicians, declare that we are fearfully, and wonderfully mada That we are a jbundle 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 crippling 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 60 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 25 years ago have been torn down his j nerves bring messages from all parts; of his body as well as when God strung them 75 years ago. Was there ever such a complete bundle put together as the hu man being? What a factory 1 What an engine 1 What a mill race I What a lighthouse! What a locomotive I What an electric battery! What a furnace What a masterpiece of the Lord God Almighty! Or, to employ the anticlimax and use the figure of the text what a bundle I ' ..h. -..-! :! Know, also, that this bundle of life is properly directed. Many a 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 misdirected packages that they appoint days of vendue to dispose of them. All intelligent people know the importance of having a 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 . ;. " j A Valuable Paelc&se. 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 earthly distance it travels its destina tion is the eternal city ofGod on high. Every mile it goes away from that di rection is by some human or infernal fraud practiced against it There are those who put it on some other track, who misplace it in somewrong convey ance, who send it off or send it back by some diabolic miscarriage. The value f that bundle is so well known all up and down the universe that there are 1.000.000 dishonest hands which are trying to detain or divert it or to for ever stop its progress in the right direc tion. There are so many influences abroad to ruin your body, mind and toul that my wonder is not that I so many are destroyed for this world and the next but that there are not more who go down irremediably. ! Every human being is assailed at the tart Within an hour of the time when this bundle of life is made up the as sault begins. First of all there are the infantile disorders that threaten the body just launched upon earthly exist ence." Scarlet fevers and pneumonias and diphtherias and influenzas and the whole pack of epidemics surround the cradle and threaten its occupant and infant Moses in the .ark of bulrushes was not more imperiled by the monsters of the Nile than every cradle is imperil ed by ailments all devouring. In after years there are foes within and foes without Evil appetite joined by out side allurements. Temptations that have utterly desteoyed more people than now inhabit the earth. Gambling sa loons and rummeries and places where dissoluteness reigns suprema enough in number to go round and round and round the earth. Discouragements, jeal ousies, revenges, malevolences, disap pointments, swindles, arsons, conflagra tions and cruelties, which make contin ued existence of the human race; a won derment Was any valuable bundle ever so Imperiled as this bndle of life? Oh, look at the address; and get that bundle going in the right way ! "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy - heart and soul and mind - and strength." Heaven with its 12 gates standing, wide - open, with invitation. All the forces of the Godhead pledged for our heavenly arrival if we will do the right thing. All angeldom ready for our advance and guidance All the lightnings of heaven so many drawn swords for our protection. What apityJ what an everlasting pity, if this bundle of life, so well bound and so plainly di rected, does not come out at the right station, but becomes a lost bundla cast out amid the rubbish of the universe. ' Two Treasures. Know also that a bundle may have in it more than one invaluable. There may, be in it a photograph of a loved one and a jewel for a car cane t It may contain an embroidered robe and a Dore'a illustrated Bible. A bundle may have two treasures. Abigail in my text rec ognized this when she said to David, 'The soul of my lord is bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God. " And Abigail was right We may be bound up with a loving and sympa thetic God. We may be as near to him as ever were emerald and ruby united in one ring, as ever were two deeds in one package, as ever were two vases on the same shelf, as ever were two valu ables in the same bundla Together in time of sorrow. Together in time pf joy. Together on earth. Together in heaven. Close companionship of God. Hear him, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thea" "For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be . removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thea" And when those Bible authors compared God's friend ship to the mountains for height and firmness they knew . what they , were writing about for they well knew what mountains ara All these lands are mountainous. Mount Hermon, Mount Gilboa, Mount Gerizim, Mount Engedi. Mount Horeb, Mount Nebo, Mount Pis gah,' Mount Olivet Mount Zion. Mount Moriah, Mount Lebanon. Mount Sinai. Mount Golgotha. Yes, we have the di vine promise that all those mountains shall weigh their anchorage of rocks and move away from the earth before a loving and sympathetic God will move away from us if we love and trust him. Oh, if we could realize that according to my text we may be bound up with that God, how independent it would make us of things that now harass and annoy and discompose and torment us! Instead of a grasshopper being a bur den, a world of care would be as light as a feather, and tombstones would be marble stairs to the King's palace, and all the giants of opposition we would smite down hip and thigh with great slaughter. , , God Ia Near. A God away up in the heavens is not much consolation to us when we get in to life is struggle. It is a God close by, as near to us as any two articles of ap parel were near, to each other in that bundle that you sent the other day to that shivering home, . through whose roof the snow sifted and through whose bjroken window pane- the night winds howled. It was sanctified irony and holy sarcasm that Elijah used when he told the idolaters of Baal to pray louder, saying that their god might be asleep or talking or on ajourney or gone a-hunt-ing. But our Gfod is always wide awake and always hears and is always close by and to him' a whisper of prayer , is as loud as an archangel's trumpet and a child's 'Now I lay me down to sleep" is! as easily heard by him as the prayer of the great Scotchman amid the high lands when pursued by Lord Claver hpuse's miscreants. The Covenanter said, O Lord, cast the lap of thy cloak about these children of the cove nant " and a mountain fog instantly hid the pursued from their bloodthirsty pur suers. I proclaim him a God close by. yhen we are tempted to do wrong, when we have questions of livelihood too much for us. when we put our dart lings into the last sleep, when we are overwhelmed with physical distresses, when we are perplexed about what next to do, 'when we come into combat with the king of terrors, we want a God close by. How do you like the doctrine of the text "Bound in the bundle of lite with the Lord thy God?" Thank you. Abigail, kneeling there at the foot of the mountain, uttering consolation for all ages, while addressing David. No wonder that in after time he invited her to the palace and put her upon the throne of his heart as well as upon the throne of Judah. (Know, also, that this bundle of life .will be gladly received when it comes to the door of the mansion for which it was bound and pjainly directed. With what alacrity and glee we await some package that has been foretold by letter, some holiday presentation, something that will enrich and ornament our horn a some testimony of admiration and affec tion 1 With what glow of expectation we untie the knot and take off the cord that holds it , together in , safety, and with what glad exclamation we unroll the covering and see the gift or pur- Yon receive an urgent message calling you away from home for several days. You haven't been away for a leng time, consequently you are not prepared to travel. However. your start with a rush to get your things together, when you stum ble up against an astounding reality: You have neither Trunk' or. Valise, belongings. i WHAT Trip delay eel. You go out among your neighbors,' appeal to them to help you outT Possibly bad fix as you. Then you rush to the store, buy the first thing you find, pay whatever they you get balanced you discover that you have something almost worthless. Tl 'm m . ', j . AlAuJCOklg Successors Salesmen : J. "W. Crawford, "W. H. Bees, Harry 8. Donnell, ' Will. B. Bankln, John T. Beet. chase in all its beauty of color and pro portion. Well, what a day it will be when your precious bundle of life shall be opened in-the "house of many man sions," amid saintly and angelic and divine inspection 1 The bundle may be spotted with the marks of much ex posure, it may bear inscription after in scription to tell through what ordeal it has passed, perhaps splashed of wave and scorched of flame, but all it has within undamaged 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! 'Welcome Awaita. In our anxiety at last to reach heaven 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 com munication is there between j those up lands and these lowlands that we will not surprise them by sudden arrival If loved ones on earth expect our coming1 visit and are at the dpot with carriage to' met us, surely we will be met at the shining gate by old friends now sainted! and kindred now glorified. If 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 way and point out the eplendcrs rnd guide us to our celes tial home, bowered and fountained and arched and ill amined t by a ! sun that never seta WJ11 it not be glorious, the' going in and the settling down after! all the moving about and upsettings of, earthly experience? We will soon know all our neighbors, kingly, queenly, pro phetic apostolic, seraphic, arcbangelic. The precious bundle of life opened amid, palaces and grand marches and accla mations. 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 32 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 heav enly world if by the pardoning and pro tecting grace of God we come to celes tial wharf aga We shall have to itell them of the many wrecks that we have passed on the way across wild seas and amid Caribbean cyclones. It will be like our 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 the1 ehips expected had gone to the bottom, and we bad passed derelicts and aban doned crafts all up and down that awful channel our arrival in heaven all the more rapturously welcomed because of the doubt as to whether we would "ever get there at alL j God's Promise, j j : - Once there it will be found that the safety of that precious bundle of life was assured because it was bound up with the life of God in Jesus Christ Heaven could not afford to have that bundle lost because it had been said in regard to its transportation and safe ar rival. "Kept by the poweri 6f God through faith unto complete salvation. " The veracity of the heavens is involved in its arrival. If God should fail to keephis promise to just one ransomed soul, the pillars of Jehovah's throne would fall, and the foundations of the eternal city would crumble, and infinite poverties would dash dqwn all the chalices and close all the banqueting halls, and the river of life would change its course, sweeping everything with desolation, and frost would blast all the gardens, and immeasurable , sickness slay the immortals, and the new Jerus alem become an abandoned city, with no chariot wheel on the streets and no in which to pack your is r CONSEQUENCE ? Avoid'all the unpleasant features and make a selection from Our Full Stock ! . j t; ' " K Where you can find anything that you want in TRAVELING EQUIPMENT. TM1 to Matthews, Chisholm, Stroud & Rankin. worshipers in the temple a dead Pom peii of the skies, a buried Herculaneum of the heavens. Lest any one should doubt, the God who cannot lie smites his omnipotent hand on the side of his throne and takes affidavit, declaring, 4 4 As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth." Oh, I cannot tell you how I feel about it. the thought is so glorious. Bound up with God. Bound up with infinite mercy. Bound up with infinite joy. Bound up wJth infinite purity. Bound up with infinite might That thought is more beautiful and glorious than was the heroic Abigail, who at the foot of the crags uttered it, 'Bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God!" . , Now. my hearer and reader, appreci ate the value of that bundla See that it is bound up with nothing mean, but with the unsullied and the immaculata Not with a pebble of the shifting beach, but with the kohinoor of the palace; not with some fading regalia of earthly pomp, but with the robe washed and made white in the blood pf the Lamb. Pray as you never prayed before that by divine chirography written'all over your nature you may be properly addressed for a glorious destination. Turn not over a new leaf of the old book, but by the grace of God open an entirely newn volume of experience and put into prac tice the advice contained in the peculiar mt beautiful rhythm of some author vbose name I know not: - If you've any task to do, Let me whisper, friend, to you, . Doit. If you're anything to aay. True and needed, yea or nay. Bay It. If you've anything to love Aa a blessing from abore, Lovei ive, . If you've anything to give. That another's joy may 7 s Cite it If some hollow creed you doubt, : ; Though the whole world hoot and shout , - Doubt it If you're any debt to pay. Best you neither night nor day , - Pay it. ' . ; If you're aay Joy7to hold, . Near your hfeart lest it grow cold, i . . Hold it If you're any grief to meet. At loring Father's feet. Meet it If you know what torch to light Guiding others in the sight. Light it Mr. S. A. Fackler, Editor of the Mlcanopy (Fla.) Hustler, with bis wife and children, suffered terribly from La Grippe. One Minute Cough Cure was tne only remedy that nelpeu them It acted quickly. Thousands of others use this remedy as a specific for La Grippe, and Its exhausting aftereffects. Howard Gardner. Trusses and Crutches at Gardner's cor. opp. potoffice. . The Southern Passenger Asso ciation has issued a circular auth orizing rates to the Confederate veteran's reunion at Charleston, 6. C, on the dates May 10th to 13th. The rate named is one cent a mile in each direction. Late to bed and early to rise, pre pares a man for his home in the skies. But early to bed and a Little Early Kiser, the pill that makes life longer and better and wiser. Howard Gardner. Landreth & Sons' reliable Garden Seed fresh at Gardner's, corner oppo site postoffice. The United States is feeding five per cent, of the population of Cuba on free rations. "She Talked Too Much." Call at Gardner's and get a free copy. , Bsantla th ask. aa3 V V . ''I - . i . 300 South Elm 'St., Greeusbc: I Archbishop Chapelle, of 5 ' Orleans, the papel delegate i.' Cuba, charged withthe cl of placing the Roman Ci::7 Church on a new basis, itk; eriticised by the local press, b says lb effect, 'that wherfai; archbishop, under the Spaaiiin gime used to tell the people ud ' the Queen Regent, under the Air lean regime they obey the Pcp She Talked Too Much." Ctii Gardner's and get a free copjr. 1 j . In reolr to reports that fct fc tended to resign from! the cat:: t Secretary of War Alger said t he bad never entertained lucbt' idea and that so far as hit ftai position was concerned be, wc. remain in the cabinet until the t of the present adminiitratiot ' I have been afflicted with rheztti for fourteen years and notbior to give any relief. I waa ableti around all the time, but const ictl; ferlog. I had tried evcrjtblor 1 hear of and at last waa told ur Chamberlain's Pain IUlra, which It and was Immediately reliered ic4iij short time cured. I am bappr to r that it has not since returned.-Ja( Edgar. Gerananton, Cal. Forulis C. K. Hoi ton. ' Southern Raihva IN EFFECT PECEMBKU 4, . This condensed schedule i .ui,h-i.f! formation and is subject to cliiB notice to the public. - v-,j Trains ieare Greensboro, N. C: ;' 7 -AX m R7 diilr. Ws.tn0St"0 v western Limited for Chsilott-. mingbam, Memphis MontKm7 51 '". A Orleans and aft point i-mth "''"-.. Connects at Charlotte fur Column. Sarannab. JacksonTille snilmV' Pullman Sleeper .New York " f f New York to Memj.taU: New Yik wjr. Dining Car and Vsubulc L u j to Atlanta. J 7T a. tn-No. 11 dailr, for tW: t:-, and all points .-South. Connert at : Aheville.KnoxTillean(l Cliatun"-l- j sleeper New York to NauM. - 8 :10 a. m: No. (S dail, fr Dan j and local stations. jacasonriue w ntw C ir leepinff Car on Mondays Tia. t .i Soatbern raciflc. ban raneic y ? ) 7:14 p. m.-No. 33 4ai!j. lV'1, :?rK MaU for Charlotte. Atlanta , btnlk mr,A trin 1 1. Mr .f Con!)'"'-"' ior i ana local siaiion. i ui; j nonet : York bam: Sleeper Wednesday 10:13 p. m.-No. dailv. J Sontbwetern I.imiUj-1 f r " -'"l nrttnu North, l'ulltnan w Washington and New V,lk l . - ir. points. 8 and for tinra Ui. Kaltigh,GoIdboroand l.-- t-' ! 1 sf 10:50 p. m-No. It dailf . J''' and points east. I'ullian NC J to Norfolk.' I I i- if Norfolk. i 1 . xfi :l$ a.'m.-No. InV" I 1 local point. 1,,Ijr.1,v.U.to. .'? ileaceDtSnndsy t' i1-1 . . 8 and Daily except snnuay . . mm - in., ii mil T . - .-No.l0:,daiU1 ' alem. ..v, .-No. 10dsilfrwf5ti :tioa. of .11 riST enirers between piu" Wi niton-Salem ilil'tl.'M -Vl T3 p. m First sectioas earrr passengers bet are schednled to stop. , cV' JftBV If. CrLP. i f. v t o' 'i. Traffic Manager. O 1 S S - .sm"S. --,-y 'iW I i -116 p, m-No. Sfi daily. I ,r XI ail lor Washington, Kirhiv.-J . ! s-.-, Ncrth. Carries through I'M Sf,iA Iloom IJuffetfeleeirNtw (r!r ai - cai siaiion. i uiy ! Klrr Vpw York' t' ,V ' to JackvnTill-ci.Ji " ';- j. ) : Charlotte to Aiu"iia, ..4r' r :10 a. nu-No. 8 daily, f-r ' .:s r loctl points. Coniieet' s ' . Tsrboro, Norfolk ana SbJU. ISMUil A.,. -

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