Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-19


Then all the hYpercriticisms, all the cal
cstures and all the lssrned sneers in Il
quarterly reviews will be brought to jud
ment; and amid the rocking OF everythir
beneath and amid the flaming of everythin
above, God will thunder: But thou did
laugh" / think the most tsscinstin
laughter at Christianity l ever r
member was Theodore Psrkers. 3
made the Word Of God seer
ridiculous and he laughed on at our hol
religion until he came to die, and then b
said: my life has been a failure
failure domestically. l have no children
a failure socially for l am treated in tn
streets like pirate; failure profession
ally, because know but one minister tina
has adopted my sentiments" For
quarter Of century he laughed at Chris
raDity, and ever since Christianity bs
hsen laughing at him. Now, it is a meal
thing to go into a mans house and stes
his goods; bat tell you the most gigantic
burglary ever invented is the proposition
to steal these treasures Of our holy re
ligion. The meanest laughter ever nj
tered Is the laughter OF the skeptic.
The next laughter mentioned in tn
Bible is
DAyID's LAUGHTER,
or the lagbter of spiritual exultation
Then was our mouth filled with laughter.
he got very much down sometimes, bu
here are other chapters where for four ol
FIVE times, he calls upon the people to
praise and exult [. was not mere twitct
of the lips, it was demonstration that
took hold of his whole physical nature
Then was our mouth filled with laughter "
My friends, this world will never be con-
versed to God until Christians cry less aud
laugh and sing more The horrors are
poor bait If people are to be persuaded
10 adopt our holy religion, it will be be,
oause they have made up their minds i, ia
a happy religion. They don't like NOR,
Did Christianity. know there are morbid
people who enjoy funeral. They come
early TO See too friends take leave Of the
corpse, and they steal ride to the ceme-
tery; but oil healthy people erioy a we'd.
ding better than they do burisl Now
you make the religion Of Christian
sepulchral and hearse-like and you make
Il repulsive
say, plant the rose of Sharon along
he church walks, and columbiue TO clam.
Der over the churca wall; and have smile
on the lip and have the mouth filled with
holy laughter. There is no mGu in the
world except the Christian that has right
20 feel an uutrammeled glee. He is prom.
sed everything that is to be- tor the best
here, and he is On The way to a delight
Which will take all the professions with
palm branches, and ell tho orche,lras,
1arped aud cymbalIed and trumpeted, to
express. Oh" you soy, Il have so much
rrouble" Have yon more trouble than
Paul had2 What coes he say? Sorrow
tdl yet always rejoicing. Poor, yet making
many rich. Having nothing, yet possess
ing all things
THE MERRIEsT LAUGH
| think | ever heard has been in the sick
room OF Gods dear children. When Theo.
dosius was put upon TIE rack he suffered
very great torture at the fest Somebody
asked him how he endured all that pain
On the rack He replied: When
/ was first put upon the rack |
a great deal; but very soon
young man in white stood By my side aud
With soft aud comfortable handkerchief
he wiped the swent from my brow and my
oaius we're relieved; it WAS punishment
for neto get from the rack, betslse when
the pain vas all gone tie ansel wGs gone
%, rejoice evermore You know how it
is in the army-au army in encsmpment
If to-day news comes that our side has
had defeat, it demoralzss oil the host.
But if the news comes Of victory to dsy
and victory to morrow, the whole army is
lmpassioned for tt9 contest. Now in Inc
kingdom OF our Lord Jesus Christ report
aver defeats; tell us the vic ories-victo
~ over sio aud death aud hell. Rejoice
avermors ard egsin ! say rejaice. De
Iieye there 10 more religion in laugh
han in gFoan. Anybody can grosn but
o laugh in the midst OF bauishment and
persecution and iude:cri5able trial, that
requires q David, o Daniel, Paul, q
modern heroine.
The next laughter mentioacs IN the
Bble that ! shall spank o., is the fools
laughter or the expression OF sinful merri.
nNnt Solomon was very quick at simile;
when he mskes comparison We all catch
t. What is the laughter Of fool like?
he says: 1T is the crAckIipg Of tho.ns IN.
der pot t" The kettle is swung, bunch
If brambles is put under it, nud the torch
is applied to it and there is GreSt noise
and big blazs aud sput'er aid h quick
-xtinguishment; then ia darker than it
was before Fools Laughter. The most
miserable thing on earth is bad mans
iun. There they src-ieu men in bsr.
room; they have d, home hives, mothers
daughters. The impure Jest starts At one
corner of tie bsrroom and crackle, craekIer
crackle, it goes ell around. In FIVE hau-
irsd such outlaws there is not one item Of
hsppiress.
TaEy All yETL RENElYEp
if they have any cirscieuce lef'. Have
nothing to do with men or women who tell
immoral stories. ! have no confi ,nce
ii her in their Cnrislisn character or their
So ell merriment that springs out Of the
defects OF oihers- caricatare Of q lane
foot o. curved spine or blind eye or
3eAt esr-will be met with the ldgmenls
Of God either upon you or your children.
Twenty years ago in this city, | knew
man. who was particularly skilifll in imi-
tsting the lsneness Of a neighbor. Not
long ego G son Of ,Le skilliut mimic had
MS leg smputa;e1 for the very defect which
his fs'her had minickAd years before. ]
10 not ssy Ii WAS a Judgment Of God; !
leave you to make your own inference.
so, ell merriment born Of dissipation,
that which starts q; the counters
of the drinking restaurant, or from
the wine glass in the home
circle, tue Rapdi;p sirhps,, the mean
iugless Joke, the ssturnslisn gibberish, the
paroxYsn Of mirth about nothing that you
sometimes see in fashionable clubroom or
or in the exquisite parlor at twelve O'Clock
a. night, are the cracking Of ,horns under
a POI. Such laughter and such sin end in
death When | was q lad book came