St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-19

VI, al nlh lO, 1000.
ers, daughters. The impure Jest starts at
one corner of the bar-room and crackle,
crackle, crackle 1t goes all around. In 500
such outlaws there is not one item of hap
piness. They all feel bemeaned if they
have any conscience left. Have nothing to
do with men or women who tell immoral
stories. | have no confidence either in
their Christian character or their morality.
The next laughter that l shall mention as
being in the Bible is the laugh of Gods
condemnation: He that stitch in the
heavens shall laugh" Again: 1.-The
Lord will laugh at him." Again: II will
laugh at his calamity" With such demon
stratiOn will God greet every kind OF great
sin and wickedneSs. But men build up
yillainieS
HIGHER AND HIGHER.
Good men almost pity God because he is
so schemed against by men. Suddenly a
pin drops out of the machinery OF wicked
ness or secret is revealed. and the found
alton begins To rock; and finally the whole
thing Is demolished. What is the matter?
l will tell you what the matter is. The
crash or ruin is only the reverberation of
Gods laughter. On Wall street there are a
great many good men and a great many
fraudulent men. a fraudulent man there
says: Il mean TO have my Million" He
goes to work reckless of honesty and he
gets his first 500, 900. He gets after
awhile his $500, O0o. After awhile he gets
his $500, 600. Now" he says, Il have
only one more move to make and l shall
have my million" He gathers up all his
resources; lie makes that one last grand
move; he fails and loses all and ne has not
enough money left TO pay the cost of the car
To his home. People cannot understand this
spaslnodic revulsiOn. Some said it was q
sudden turn in Erie railway stock or in
Western Union; some said it was Jay
Gould; some said it was one speculator,
some said it was another. They ali guessed
wrong. will tell you what it was: He
that stitch IN the heavens" laughed. A
man In New York said he would be the
richest man in the city. He left his honest
work OF chair-making and got into the city
cornell some way. and in ten years stole
l5,OOO,OO0 from the city government
Fifteen million dOllarsl He held the legis-
lature 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 to put half the city in his vest
pocket goes to Blackwell's island, goes TO
Ludlow street jail, breaks prison and goes
across the sea, is reaTreSted and brought
back and again
RENAMED TO JAIL
and died there. Why? HE that sitteth
IN the heavens" laughed. There is great
difference between Gods laugh and His
smile. His smile is eternal beatitude. He
smiled when David sang and Miriam clapped
the cymbals and Hannah made garments
for her son and Paul preached and John
kinded with apocalyptic vision, and when
any man has anything to do and does it
well. His smilel Why, it is the 18th of
May, tke apple orchards in full bloom; it is
heaven at high noon, all the bells beating
tie marriage peal. But His laughter
may it never fall on Us! 1t IS cOndemna-
ton for our sin; it is wasting away. We
may let the Satirist laugh at US and all cur
companions may laugh at us, and We may
be the target for the meiriment of earth
and neil; but God forbid that we should
ever come to the fulfilment of the prophecy
against the reflections OF the truth: Il will
laugh at your calamity" But, my friends,
all OF Us who reject Christ and the pardon
of the gospel must come under that ire
mendOus bombardment. God wants us all
TO repent, The other laughter mentioned
in the Bible, the only one / 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 me know
positively that we are not to spend our days
in heaven singing long-metre Psalms. The
journalistic and
STIFF NOTIONS OF HEAVEN
that some people have would make me mis-
cradle. / am glad to know that the heaven
Of the Bible is hot only place Of holy wor-
ship, but OF magnificent sociability.
WHAT" say you. Twill the ringing laugh
90 around the circles of the saved?" ! say
yes; pure laughter; cheering laughter; holy
laughter. 1t will be laugh of congratula-
ton. When we meet a 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 him? And
when we get to heaven and see our friends
there, some Of them having come up out of
great tribalation, why, we Will say to one
Of them: 1.-The last time saw you you
had been suffering for six weeks under a
low, intermittent fever;;n or TO another we
will say. "You for ten years were limping
with the rheumatism, and you were full of
complaints when we saw you last. l con-
graduate you on this eternal recovery :"
We shall laugh; yes, we shall congratulate
all those who have come up out of great
financial embaraSsmentS in this world be-
cause they have become millionaires in
heaven. Yes, it will be q laugh of triumph.
oh, what pleasant thing it will be to
stand on the wall of heaven and look down
at Satan and hurl at him de-
tiance and see him Gagged and chained and
We forever free from his clutcheSl Aha!
Yes. it will be laugh of royal greeting.
You know how the Frenchmen chsered
when Napoleon came back from Elba; YOU
know how the English cheered when We'll
lington came back from Waterloo: YOU
know how Americans cheered when Kos
suth arrived from Hungary; you remember
how Rome cheered when Pompey came
back victor over 900 cities. Every cheer
was laugh. But, oh, the mightier greet
ing. the gladder greeting, when the snow
white cavalry troop of heaven shall go
through the streets and, according to the
book OF Revelation, Christ, in the red coat
in the crimson coat, OH white horse and
all the armies OF heaven following on white
horses! On, when we see and hear that
cavalcade we shall cheer, we shall laugh.
Does not your heart beat quickly this morn
ing at the thought Of the great jubilee upon
which we are soon TO enter? l pray God
that when we get through with this world,
and are going out of it. we may have some
such vision as the dying Christian had
when he saw written all over the clouds
i'm the sky the letter "W;" and they asked
him, standing by his side. what he thought
that letter Nv" meant. oh" he said.
that stands for welcome" And so may
il be when we quit this world.