The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-05-05

holy water. There is no man In the wor Id
except the Christian that has O right to
feel an untrammeled glee. He Is promised
everything IL to be for the best here, and
he is on the way to delight which will
take all the professions with palm
branches, and all the orchestras, harped
and cy inhaled and trumpted, to express
"Oh," you say, ~ have so much trouble ~
Have you more trouble than Paul hadp
What does he say, "Sorrowful, yet al
ways rejoicing. Poor, yet making many
rich. Having nothing, yet possessing all
things"
The next laughter mentioned in the Bible
that shall speak Of, is the FOOLS laughter,
or the expression of sinful merriment.
Solomon was very quick at simile; when
he makes q comparison we all catch 1t.
What is the laughter of fool likei He
says: at is the cracking OF thorns under
pot" The kettle is swung, q bunch of
brambles Is put under IL, and the torch is
applied to 1t and there is great noise and
big blaze and sputter and quick ex-
tinguishmsnt; then II 10 darker than II was
before. Fools laughter. The most mis-
cradle thing on earth 10 . bad mans fun.
There thoy srs---tsn men in O bar
room; they have at homo wives,
mothers, daughters. The impure jest
starts at one corner Of bar
room and crAckle, crackle, crackle IL goes
all around. In Ave hundred such outlaws
there Is mot one item Of happiness. They
all feel bemeaned II they have any con-
science left. Have nothing to do with men
or women who tell immoral stories. l have
no sonfdsAcs either In their Christian
character or their morality.
30, all nsrrimsat that springs sut Of the
defects Of others-osrieaturs Of lame foot
or curved spine Of blind eye or . deaf
sar-wM - ~ with the judgments Of
God either upon you OF your children.
Twenty years age IN Mis- city knew .
man who was particularly SKILLED In imi-
tstinE the laneness sf . neighbor. Not
long age soa Of ths shillful mimic lad
his leg anputated for tho very defect
which his father had mimioksd years be-
fore. I do not say Il was . Judgment Of
God; leave you 70 make your own in
ference. 80, sil merriment born Of dissips-
tion, that which starts ct the counters Of
the drinking restaurant, or from the wine
glass In the homo circle, tho msudlin sim
per, the meaningless joke, ths ssturnalisn
| gibberish, the paroxysm Of mirth about
nothing that you sometimes see Ia the
fashionable club-room or In the exquisite
parlor at twelve O'Clock ~ night,
are the cracking Of thorns under o
pot. Such laughter and such sin end In
death. when was . lad . book came
out, entitled, "Don Jour's Pateat Ser
mons" II made great stir, q very wide
laugh, all over the eountry, that book did
It was caricatIe Of the Christian minis
ty, and Of the word Of God and Of the
Day Of Judgment. Oh, we had . great
taught The commentary on the whole
thing Is that not long age the author Of
that book died In poverty, shame, dobauch-
cry, Kicked out OF society and cursed Of
Almighty God. The laughter Of such men
is the echo Of their own damnation.
The next laughter that shall mention
as being in the Bible is the laugh OF Gods
condemnation: "He that sitteth in the
heavens shall laugh" Again: "The Lord
will laugh at him." Again: ~ will laugh
t,on urI Goa or.s, a,orn LinJ 90 oroo,
..,r "a wioL.dno.. mi mn hn,,d mn
.villainies higher apd higher. Good men
almost pity God because He is so schemed
against by men. Suddenly pin drops
out Of the machinery OF wickedness, or a
sscrot IL ,.ysaI,d and Nh. foundation he.
a In, N rock. and s.,lly ths whole thing IL
demolished. What is IN, msttsrp will
tell you what tho matter Is. The crash Of
ruin 10 only The rsvsrbsration Of Gods
laughter.
n, Wall ,t-..t th.rs az, . or..t MANY
Good y,sp and , gra.t many fraudulent
me.. A fraudulspt man there saws, ~
mean to have NV uIllon.u He goes 10
worry. reotlss. of bon,,tv. and be gets his
br,t ON. bundrsd thousand dollars. He
eats .ftsr .wbil. his two hundred tbou.
sand dollar, Attsr awhile n. eats his
Az. Lund,aA thousand ao,,.r. uNov. u
bs saw, NJ hsv. onlx ON. NOR, nove "a
n.k. ana I ,h,u Nav. NV miIIion.n - He
oa,h.r. nm an his ,s.orro.., \, mak,s
Frat an. last g,.nd r.ov., he fails and
Io.as All, and he L.. MA .nough money
I.tt - r.x A. oo,t :, tha car /. MS horne
People can not understand this spasmodic
revplsion. Some said II was a sudden
turn in Erie Railway stock, or in Western
Union, or In Illinois Central; some said Il
was Jsy Gould; some said II was enc speo-
ulator, some said Il was another. They
all guessed wrong. Iwill TELL you what (.
was: "Ho that si,teth In the heayens'
laughed.
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