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

10 the heavens shall laugh" Again; "The
Lord will laugh ut him. Again al will
laugh at his calamity y With such demon
strasion 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 wIckedness, or a
secret Is revealed, aud the foundation be-
gins 20 rock, and Gnslly the whole thing
Is demolished. What is the matter?
will tell you what the matter is The
crash OF ruin Is only the reverberation OF
Gods laughter.
ON Wall street there are great many
good men and great many fraudulent
men. fraudulent man thare saws; 81
mean to have my mllllon.n lie goes TO
work reckless OF honesty and he
gets his FIRST one hundred thou
sand dollars. lie gets after
his $4,000 "Nown he says, az have
only one more move To make aud / shall
have my million" He gathers up all his
RESOURCES; he makes one last grand
move; he fails and loses ali, aud he has
not enough money left to pay the cost Of
the car 10 his home. People cannot un-
derstand this spasmOdio revulslon Some
said 1t was sudden turn in Erie railway
| stock or IN Western Union ar in Illinois
/ Central; some said II was Jay Gould,
some said 1t was one Spectator, some
said II was another. They all guessed
wrong | will tell you what it was ole
| that sltteth in the heayenen laughed.
| man In New York said he would be
4 the richest man In the city. He left his
/ honest work of chair-making and got into
/ the city councils some way, and ia ten
/ years stole So 600 900 from Che city gov
eminent. Fifteen million dollars! lie
held the legls AZURE OF the state
! Of New York IN the grip OF
his right hand Suspicious were
aroused. The grand jury presented in
dictments. The whole land stood aghast.
The man who expected to put half the
city N his vest pocket goes to Black
Wells island, goes to Ludlow Street Jail,
breaks prison and goes across the sea, is
rearfesled and brought back and again re
manded TO jail and died there. Why?
ole that stitch in the heayensn
laughed
Rome was a great empire she had
Horace and Virgil among her poets she
had Augustus and Constantine among
her emperors. But what mean the de-
ANNNN 4 ohAAASOA4 AuN AuI Jul kNlluEAl lubO
a cattle market, and the broken walled
Coliseum and the architectural skeleton
OF her great aqueduct? What, was that
thunder: "Oh,' you say, "that was the
roar Of the battering-rams against
her walls" No, What was that
quivoU con" you say, "that was the
tramp OF hostile legiong. No. The culver
and the roar were the outburst OF Omnip-
otent laughter from the dehed and in
suited heavens. Rome deled God and
He laughed hcr down. Thcbes uened
God aud He laughed her down Babylon
dcied God and He laughed hnr down.
There is gveat difference between
Gods laugh and His smile. His smile Is /
eternal beatitUde. lie smiled when
David sang and Miriam clapped the sym- |
balls cad Hannah made garments for her |
son und Paul preached and John kudled |
WITH ap0calYpLir vision, ana Whcu any
man has anything % 10 ana does 10 well. |
His smile Why 10 is the 18th of Nav. the I,
apple orchards ia fun bloom it Is heaven .
at high uoon all the bells beating the
marriage peal But His laughter may |
N neycr fall on us. Il les condemnation |
ior our sin IL is waebine away Wei
may let The satitlst laugh at MS, and OH I
ompanions may laugh at us, and we
may be the target for ihe metr.ment oil
ear.h and bell; but God forbid .
that we should ever come TO the .
lui0Hment OF the prophecy against the re- I
jactors of the truth: 81 will laugh Ell I
your e@amity" But, my friends, all of .
as W3u reject Chrlstand the pardon OF the /
gospel must come under that tremendous .
commandment God wants us all to re-
peut. lie cOunScls He cQaNes. ne in-
FORTUNES and lie 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 shout
der, and then with that Alp on one side
ard that Himaaya on the other He
starts up the hill back of Jerusalem 10
achieve our salvation. He puts the palm
OF His right foot on one long spike, and
He puts the nalm Of his left foot on an
other long spike, and then with hands
spotted with His own blood He gesticu-
lates saying; "LOok look and live; with
the crimson veil OF my sacrifice |
VIII cover up all your sins; with nv
dying groan | viii swallow M all your
grOaus. Look, liyc!n But some of YOU
this morning turn your back on that, and
then this voice Of invitation turns
to Il tone divinely ominous that
sobs like q simeon through the first chan.
ter OF Proverbs; Because | have called
and We refused, l have stretched out my
hand and no mao regarded; but We have
set at naught all my counsel and would
none of my reproof; also viii laugh at
your calamity" Oh, what q laugh that
is! deep laugh, a long reyerberatlng
laugh, an overwhelming laugh. God
grant we may never hear it, but in this
day o. mercilul visitation yield your
heart to Christ that yod 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 bi.
ble--the only one | shall speak oils
heavens laughter, or the expression of
eternal triumph. Christ said to his dis
ciples BLESSED are We that wees now,
for ye shall laugh" That makes me know
positively that we are not to spend our
days In heaven singing long psalms.
The journalistic and stir notions OF
heaven that some people have wouldmake
me miserable | am glad TO know thar
the heaven OF the bible Is not only a
place of holy Worship, but OF magnificent
sociebiliy. "What," say you, twill the
ringing laugh go around The circles OF the
savedy" say yes pure laughter, cheer
HHUH NaHnH HuN N..Uu a. "a.