Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-19

l INC UGluNlOu vi iit ttsAAltd AN'AANhNe -
Gods right hand which 1t mentions.
oh, what an awful thing It Is to laugh
ia Gods face and hurl His revelation
back at Him! After awhile the day will
come VIXEN they WIN say they did not
laugh. Then all the hypercriticlsms, all
the caricatures and all the learned sneers
In the quarterly reviews Will be brought
TO Judgment; and amid the rocking Of
every thing beneath, and the flaming of
everything above, God will thunder
uBut thou didst laugh.n ] think the
most fascinating laughter at Christianity
! / ever remember was Theodore Parker's.
| He made the word Of God seem
ridiculous and he laughed on at our holy
religion, until he came TO die, and then
( DO said oily life has been a failure--a
\ failure domestlcally, for I have no chill.
dren; failure socially, for ! am treated
/ Ia the streets like pirate; failure pro-
( fessionally, because know but one min
I lister that has adopted my sentiments"
/ For a quarter OF century he laughed at
/ Christianity, and ever since Christianity
has been laughing at him Now II is a
mean thing 10 go into mans house and
steal his goods bat | tell you the most
I gigantic burglary ever Invented is the
I proposition 10 steal these treasures of our
uttered is the laughter Of the skeptlc.
The next laughter mentioned 10 the bi.
| bic Is David's laughter, or the laughter Of
spiritual exultatiun: "Then was our
mouth filed with laughter" He got very
much down sometimes, but there are
other chapters where for four or
dive times he calls upon the peo-
pie 10 praise and eXult. II was
not mere witch of the lips, it was a
demonstration that took hold of his whole
physical nature. "Then was our mouth
filed with laughter" My friends, this
world will never be converted to God
until Christians cry less and laugh and
sing NOR. The horrors are poor bait
II people are TO he persuaded TO adopt
our holy religion, IL will be because they
have made up their minds it Is a happy
religion. They don't like morbid
Christianity. ! know there are morbid
people who enjoy Il funeral They come
carry TO see the friends take leave OF the
corpse, and they steal ride 70 the GENE
terry; but all healthy people enjoy
wedding better than they do & burial
Now, you make the religion OF Christ
sepulchral and hearse-like, and you make
1t repulsiye.
! say, plant the rose OF Sharon along
the church walks, and columbine to
chamber over the church wall, and nave q
smile on the lip and have the mouth fllled
witt holy laughter. There is no man "a
the world except the Christian that mas
right TO feel an untrammeled glcc. He
rs promised everything is TO be for the
best here, and he is ON the way to a de.
Hight which win take all the professions
with palm branches, and all the orches-
fFrB.i .
peted, u express. "Oh,n YOU saw, 81
have SO much uoublen' Have You more
trOulle than Paul had? what does be
say? "SOrTowfal, yet always rejoicing.
Poor yet making many rich. Having
nothing, yet possessing all things" The
merrlest laugh think | ever heard has
been 10 the sick room of Gods dear chill |
dlen When Yheodusms was put upon
the rack he suffered very great torture at
IRE first. Somebody asked him how ne en-
dured ai that pals on TIE rack. lie
replied "When [ was .ifsl pat upon the
rack suffered a great b9ol bus ycry
soon young man i'm white stood by nv
side, and with a soft and comfortable I
handkerchief he wiped the sweat iion my
brow and my pains were relieved II was
punishment for me 10 get from Cue rack /
because when the pain was all gone the |
angel was gomez on, rejoice evermore (
You know now 50 Is IN the army an army !
ia epcampment. II to-day news comes /.
that our side has had defeHt, lt demon.
allies all the host. But If the news comes |
OF victory to-day and victory tomorrow, 1
the whole emy is mpassloned for the |
contest. N0F, la the Kingdom OF our
Lord Jesus Christ report fewer defeats
tel us the Misunderstanding over sin ara /
death and hell. Rejoice evermore, and |
again ssy rejoice. | believe there Ia |
more religion IN laugh than In a groan 1
Anybody can groan, but Co laugh in the
midst of Punishment and persecution and /
Undesirable trial that requires David, /
n Daniel, a Paul. a modern heroine.
The next laughter mentioned In the |
bible that shgl speak OF Is the fool $ |
laughter, or the expression Of sinful mer-
rlment. solomon was very quick at /
slmilei when he makes a comparison we |
all catch 1t. What Is the laughter OF |
fool like2 He says at is the cracking /
Of thorns under potn The kettle Is (
swung, q bunch Of brambles is put under /
it and the torch is applied TO 1t, and there |
rs great noise and big blaze and q |
sputter and quick eXtingutshment; then |
10 Is darker than Il was before. FOOLS |
laughter. The most miserable thing on |
Garth is bad mans fun. There they |
are--ten men In a 0ar-room; they have at |
home wives, mothers, daughters. The /
impure jest starts at one corner of the
harroom, and crackle, crackle, crackle, il
goes all around. In 500 such outlaws
there Is not one item Of happiness. They
all feel bGmcaned If they have any CON
science left. Have nothing TO do with
men or women who tell immoral stories.
l have no confidence either In their
ChrlstIan character or In their morality.
80, al merriment that springs ort OF
the defects of others --caricature OF lame
foot or u curved spine ora blind eye or a
deaf ear-will be met with the judgments
OF God either upon you or your children,
Twenty years ago in this city I knew a
man who was particularly skilliu In inn
ltatIng the lameness OF neighbor. Not
long ago a son OF the skilliul mimic had
hts leg amputated for the very defect
which his father had mimlcked years be-
Tore, | do not say Il was Judgment OF
God; j leave you 70 make your own Infer
ence. SO, all merrlment born OF dissipa.
lion, that which starts at the counters of
the drinking restaurant, or from
The Wino-gass Ia the home circle
The maudlin simper, the mean
.nuleSg ioko tho saturtnlfau tffthorish I