The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-05-05

holy water. There is no man in the wor Id
except the Christian that has a right to
feel an untrammeled gles. He is promised
every thing Is to be for the best b ere, and
he is on the way to a delight which will
take all the PROFESSIONS with palm
branches, and all the orchestras, hsrped
and cy inhaled and trumpted, 70 express.
"Oh," you say, 81 have SO much trouble"
Have you more trouble than Paul had!
What does he say! ...SorrOwful, ye: al.
ways rejoicing. Poor, yet making many
rich. Having nothing, yet possessing all
things"
The next aughter mentioned In the Bible
that l shall speak Of, is the fools laughter,
or the expression Of sinful nerriment.
Solomon was very quick at smile; when
he makes . comparison we all catch It,
What is the laughter Of = fool like! He
says: SIT is the cracking of thorns under
a pot" The kettle is swung, bunch Of
brambles is put under it, and the to.ch 10
applied TO it and there is . great noise and
big blaze and a sputter and a quick ex-
tinguishment; then it is darker than it was
before. Fools Laughter. The most mis-.
cradle thing on earth is bad mans fun.
There they are-ten men In bar.
room, they have at home wives,
mothers, daughters. The impure jest
starts at one corner of q. . bar
room, and crackle, crackle, crackls it goes
All around. In five hundred such outlaws
there is not one item Of happiness. They
all feel bemeaned il they have any COS
science left Have nothing to do with mon
or women who tell immoral stories. have
no confidence either In their Christian
character or their morality. q
20, all merriment that springs out Of the
defect of others-caricaturs Of q lame foot
or q curved spine Of q blind eye or deaf
ear-will be met with the judgments Of
/ God either upon you or your children.
Twenty years ago in this city knew
man who was particularly skillfsl in imi.'
Eating the lamsness Of a neighbor. Not
long ago q son of the skillful mimic had
his leg amputated for the very defect
which his father had mimicked years be.
fore. do not say it was q judgment Of
God; leave you to make your own In
ference. So, al sserriment born Of dissipa.
ton, that which starts ct the counters Of
the drinking restaurant, or from the wine
glass in the home circle. the maudlin sim.
psr, the meaningless joke, the saturnalian
gibberish, the paroxysm Of mirth about
nothing that you sometimes see in the
fashionable club.roou or Ia the exquisite
parlor at twelve o'clock ct night,
are the cracking Of thorns under .
pot Such laughter and such sin end IN
death. When / was lad hook came
out, entitled, "Don Jour's Patent Ser
mons" It made great stir, very wide
laugh, all over the country, that book did.
1t WAS caricaturs Of the Christian minis
try, and Of the word of God and Of tho
Day Of Judgment. Oh, We had = great
laugh! The commentary on the whole
thing is that not long ago the author Of
that book died in poverty, shame, deba uch.
cry, kicked out Of society aad 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: 1.-THE Lord
will laugh at him." Again: II win laugh
ct his calamity" With such dsmonstra.
tion will God greet every kind Of great
sin and wickednsss. But men build up
villainiss higher and higher. Good men
almost pity God because He is so schemed
against by men. Suddenly pin drops
out Of the machinery Of wickednsss, or q
secret is revealed, and the foundation be-.
{ ms to rock, and finally the whole thing is
demolished. What IL the matter! will
tell you what the matter 10. The crash of
ruin 10 only the rsverberstion Of Gods
laughter.
On Wall street there are . great many
good men and great many fraudulent
men. A fraudulent man there says: ~
mean to have my million" He goes to
work, reckless Of honesty, and he gets his
first one hundred thousand dollars. He
4 gets after awhile his two hundred thou
sand dollars. After awhile he gets hia
Ave hundred thousand dollars. "Now,''
he says, II have only one more move u
make and shall have my million" He
gathers up an his resources; he makes
that one last grand move; he fails and
loses al, and he has not enough money
lett to pay tn. cost Of the car to his home
People can not understand this spssmodic
revulsion. Some said Il was . sudden
turn in Erie Railway stock, o. In Western
Union, or in Illinois Central; some said Il
was Jay Gould; some said twas one spec.
ulator, some said il was another. They
all guessed wrong. will toll you what il
was: HE that stitch in the heavens
laughed.
A.man in New Y ork said he would b.
the richest man in the city. He left hil
honest work of chairma king and got into
the city councils some way, and in tor
years stole fifteen million dollars from tht
city government. Fifteen million dollars
He held the Legislature Of the State Of
New York in the grip Of his right hand
Suspicious were aroused. The grand jury
presented indictments. The whole land
stood aghast. The man who expected L
put halt the city In his vest pocket
goes to Blsckwell's Island, goes to Ludlow
street Jail, breaks prison and goes acros,
the sec, 10 rearrested and brought bach
and again remanded to jail aud died
there. Why. N"He' that stitch in tn,
heavens" laughed.
Rome was . great empire; she had Hor
ace and virisl among her poets; she hat
4 Augustus aad Constantine among her EN-
perors. But what mean the defaced Pan
theon and the Forum tHrned into cattl'
market and the broken walled Coliseum
and the Architectural skeleton Of her srsa
aqusducts What was that thunder! "Oh,
you say, shat Was the roar Of the batter
ing rams against her walls" No. VIVA
was that CULVER! "OA," you say, "tha