The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-04-29

| ing rams against her walls" No. What
was that quiveri "Oh," you say, "thst
was the tramp Of hostile legions." No.
The culver and the roar were the outburst
Of Omnipotent daughter from the defled
and insulted heavens, Rome dehed God
and He laughed her down. Babylon de.
hed God and He laughed her down.
There 10 a great difference between Gods
laugh and His smile. His smile 10 eternal
beatituds. He smiled when David sang
and Miriam clapped the cymbals and Ham
nah made garments for her son and Paul
preached and John kindled with Apoca.
lyptic vision, and when any man has
anything to do and does IL well.
| His smile; Why, it is the 18th of May,
the apple orchards i'm full bloom; 1t is
Heaven at high noon; all the bells beating
the marriage peal. But his laughter-may
il never fall on usi II 10 . condemnation
for our sin; it is wasting away. We may
let the satirist laugh at US and all our COM
panions may laugh at us, and we may be
the target for the msrriment Of earth and
hell; but God forbid that we should ever
come to the fulfllment of the prophecy
against the rejectors of the truth: 81 will
laugh at your calamity" But, my friends,
all Of us who reject Christ and the pardon
of the Gospel must come under that tre-
mendous bombardment. God wants US all
to repent. He counsels, He coaxes. He
importuues, and he dies for US. He comes
down out Of Heaven. He puts all the
worlds sin on one shoulder, He puts all the
| worlds sorrow on the other shoulder, aud
then with that Alp on one side and that
| Himalaya on the other, he starts up the
hill back of Jerusalem to achieve our sal.
walton. He puts the palm OF his right foot
| on Ole long spike, and he puts the palm OF
his left foot on another long spike, and
then, with hands spotted with his own
blood, he gesticulstes, saying: ''Lookl
| look and lives with the crimson veil Of my
sacrifice 1 will cover up all your sins; with
my dying grosn viii swallow up all your
groans. Look, liveW But some Of
you this morning turn your back
ON that, and thea tkis voice
OF invitation turns to a tone de
| vinely ominous that sobs like . simeon
through the first chapter OF Proverbs: "Bs.
cause have called and ye refused have
stretched out my hand, and no man re-
garde6; but we have set at naught all my
counsel and would none Of my reproof;
also will laugh at your calamity" oh,
what laugh that Is! a deep laugh; q
long reverberating laugh; an overwhelm-
ing laugh. God grant we may never hear
it but in this day of merciful visitation
yield your heart to Christ that you may
spend all your life on earth under his
smile and escape forever the thunder Of
the laugh of Gods indignation.
The other laughter mentioned In the
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heavens laughter or the expression of
eternal triumph. Christ said to his dis.
ciples: "Blessed are We that weep now,
for We shall laugh" That makes me know
positively that we are not to spend our
days In heaven singing long meter psalms.
The journalistic and stiff notions of heaven
that some people have would make me
miserable. l am glad to know that the
heaven of the Bible is not only place Of
holy worship but of magnificent sociabI-
ity. what" say you, twill the ringing
! laugh go around the circles Of the saved~
l say yes; pure laughter; cheering laugh.
ter; holy laughter. 1t win be laugh OF
congratulation. When we meet friend
who has suddenly come to . fortune or
who has got over some dire sickness, do
we not shake handsf 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 tribulations, why,
we will say to one Of them: "The asst time
l saw you, you had been suffering for six
weeks under low, intermittent fever;"
| or, to another we will say: "You for ten
years were limping with the rheuma-
tism, and you were full of complaints
when we saw you last. / congratulate
you on this eternal recovery" We shall
| laugh-yes, we shall congratulate all those
who have come up out Of great fnan.
cial endorsements in this world be.
cause they have become millionaires in
| heaven.
Ye shall laugh. 1t shall be laugh of
reassociation. 1t is just as natural for
us to laugh when we meet a friend we
have not seen for ten years as any thing
is possible to be natural. When we meet
our friends from whom we have been
parted ten, twenty or thirty years, will it
not be with infinite congratulation? Our
perception quickened, our knowledge inn
proved, we will know each other at
| flash. We will have to talk over all that
has happened since we have been separ-
ated, the one that has been ten years in
the ten years of his heavenly residence,
and we telling him in return all that has
happened during the ten years OF his SD.
sence from earth.
Ye shall laugh. think George Whit.
field and John Wesley will have a laugh
of contempt for their earthly collisions;
and Toplady and Charles Wesley will have
a laugh of contempt for their earthly mis-
understandings; and the farmers who
were in a lawsuit all their days will have q
laugh Of contempt over their earthly dis.
turbances about line-fence. Exemption
from all annoyance. Immersion in all
gladness. Ye shall laugh. Christ says 50.
Ye shall laugh.
| Yes, it will be laugh of triumph. Oh,
what pleasant thing it viii 20 TO stand
on the wall of Heaven and look down at
Satan and hurl at him defiance and see
him Gagged and chained and we forever
free from his clutches! Yes, it will be .
laugh of royal greeting. You know how
the Frenchmen cheered when Napoleon
came back from Elba; you know how the
English cheered when Wellington came
back from Waterloo; you know how Amer.
| leans cheered when Kossuth arrived from
Hungary; You remember how Rome
cheered when Pompey came back victor
over nine hundred cities. Every cheer was
a laugh. But oh, the mightier greeting,
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