The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30


was that CULVER? "Oh," you say, ssthae
was the tramp Of hostile legions.n Ne,
The CULVER and The roar were the outburse
Of Omnipotent laughter from the defied
and insulted heavens. Rome deied God
and He laughed her down. Babylon Dc.
Ned God and He laughed he's down.
There l. great difference between Gods
laugh and His smile. His smile il eternal
beatituds. He smiled when David sang
and Miriam elapped the cymbals and Han.
nah made garments for her son and Paul
preached and John kindled with Apoca.
lyptic vision. and when any man has
anything 70 do and does &c well.
His smile; Why, Il is the 18th Of May,
the apple orchards in full bloom; IL 10
Heaven 1t high noon; all the bells beating
the marriage peal. But his laughter-msy
it never fan on rs! Il 10 Q condemnation
for our sin; Il is wasting away. We may
let the satirist laugh at ~ and all our com.
panions may laugh ut NJ, and we may be
the target for the merriment Of earth and
hell; but God forbid that we should ever
come to the fulfillment Of the prophecy
against the rejectors of the truth: 81 will
laugh at your calamity" But. my friends.
all Of rs who reject Christ and the pardon
Of the Gospermust como under that tire.
mendous bombardmsnt. God wants Us all
to repent. He counsels, He ooAxes. He
importunes, and he dies for "a. He comes
down out Of Heaven. He puts an the
worlds sin On one shoulder, He puts all the
worlds sorrow on the other shoulder, and
then with that Alp on one side and that
Himalaya on the other, he starts mp She
hill back Of Jerusalem to achieve our sal.
walton. He puts the palm OF his right foot
on one leng spike, and he puts the palm Of
his left foot ON another long spike, and
then, with hands spotted with his own
blood, he gesticulates, saying: "Looki
look and live: with the crimson veil Of my
sacrifice I will cover mp all your sins; with
my dying groan viii swallow mp all your
groans. Look. live" But some OF
you this morning turn your back
ON that, and thea this voice
Of invitation turns to tone di.
vinely ominocs that sobs Ike . simeon
through the firss chapter Of Proverbs: "Be.
cause have called and We refused have
stretched out my hand, and no man re-
garded; but We have set at naught all my
counsel and would noRs of my reproof: I
also will laugh at your calamity" OH,
what laugh that is! . deep laugh; q
long reverberating laugh; an overwhelm-
ing laugh. God grant we may never hear
it! but in this day of merciful visitation
yield your heart to Christ that you may
spend all your life on earth under his
smile and escape forever the thunder Of
the laugh Of Gods Indignation.
The other laughter mentioned In the
Bible, the only one I shall speak of is
heavens laughter or the expression Of
eternal triumph. Christ said to his dis.
ciples: "Blessed are We that weep now,
for ye shall laugh" That makes mo know
positively that we are not to spend our
days In heaven singing long meter psalms.
The journalistic and stiff notions of heaven
that some people have would make me
miserable. am glad to know that the
heaven of the Bible is not only a place Of
holy worship but of magnificent sociabil-
ity. "What," say you, twill the ringing
laugh 60 around the circles Of the saveds"
say yes; pure laughter; cheering laugh.
ter; holy laughter. It will be a laugh Of
congratulation. When We meet q friend
who has suddenly come to . fortune or
who has got over some dire sickness. do
We not shake hands? do We not laugh with
himf And when we get 10 heaven and
see our friends there, some Of them having
come up ont Of great tfibulatioBs, why,
we will say to one Of them: ''The last time
I saw you, you had been suffering for six
weeks under a low, intermittent fever;"
or, to another we will saw: "You for ten
years were limping with the rheuma-
tism, and you were full of complaints
when We saw you last. congratulate
you on this eternal recovery" We shall
laugh-yes, We shall congratulate all those
who have come up out Of great finan-
cial embarrassments in this world be.
cause they have become millionsires in
heaven.
Ye shall laugh. It shall be laugh Of
reassociation. It is just as natural for
US to laugh when we meet a friend we
have not seen for ten years as any thing
10 possible to be natural. When we meet
our friends from whom we have been
parted ten, twenty or thirty years, will it
not be with infinite congratulation? Our
perception quickened, our knowledge i'm.
proved, we will know each other at o
flash. We will have to talk over all that
has happened since we have been separ.
ated, the one that has been ten years in
heaven telling as all that has happened in
the ton years Of his heavenly residence,
and VIC telling him in return all that has
happened during the ten years Of his abb
sence from earth.
Ye shall laugh. I think George Whit
field and John Wesley will have a laugh
of contempt for their earthly collisions;
and Toplady and Charles Wesley will have
. laugh of contempt for their earthly mis-.
and the farmers who
were in q lawsuit all their days will have .
laugh Of contempt over their earthly dis
turbances about . line-fence. Exemption
from all annoyance. Immersion in all
gladness. Ye shall laugh. Christ says 20.
Ye shall laugh.
Yes, It will be . laugh of triumph. Oh,
what Q pleasant thing it will be to stand
on the wall of Heaven and look down at
Satan and hurl at him defiance and see
him Gagged and chained and We forever
free from his clutches! Yes, it will be .
laugh Of royal greeting. You know how
the Frsnchmen cheered when Napoleon
came back from Elba; you know how the
English cheered when Wellington came
back from Waterloo; you know how Amer.
leans cheered when Kossuth arrived from
Hungary; you remember how Rome
cheered when Pompey came back victor
over nine hundred cities. Every cheer WAS
, laugh. But oh, the mightier greeting.
The gladder greeting, when the snow white
cavalry troop Of Heaven shall go through
the streets and, according to the book Of
Christ in the red coat in the