The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-25
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also will laugh at your calamity Oh, what q
laugh that isl deep laugh; a long, reverberat-
ing laugh; overwhelming laugh God grant
we may never hear it; but in this day OF merci-
full vistations 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 Bible the
only one shall speak of. is heavens laughter, OF
the expression of eternal triumph. Christ said
to his disciples: Blessed are ye that weep now,
for We shall laugh" That makes me know posi-
lively that we are not to spend our days In heav-
en- singing long-met psalms The formaiistic
and stiff notions of heaven that some people have
would make me miserable. / am glad to know
that the heaven of the Bible is not only place
of holy worship, but of magnificent sociabllity.
What" say you, will the ringing laugh go
around the circles of the savedW say. yes; pure
laughter. cheering laughter; holy laughter. 1t
will be a laugh Of congratulation. When we
meet friend who has suddenly come to TOR
tune, or who has got over some dire sickness, DO
we not shake hands, do we not laugh with nims
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: 'sThe last time saw you. you had been
suffering for six weeks under a low, intermittent
fever" or to another we will say 'You for ten
years were limpiug with the rheumatism 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 financial
embarrassments in this world because they
have become millionaires in heaven.
Ye shall laugh. 1t shall be laugh OF reasso.
citation. 1t is just as natural for us to laugh
when we meet friend we have not seen for ten
years. as anything is possible. When we meet
our friends from whom we have been parted ten.
twenty thirty years, will it not be with infinite
congratulations Our perception quickened. our
knowledge improved, we will know each other at
a flash. We will have to talk over all that mas
happened since we have been separated, the one
that has been ten years in heaven telling US all
that has happened in the ten years of his heaven
ly residence, and we telling him in return all
that has happened during the ten years of his
absence from earth.
Ye shall laugh l think George Whitfield
and John Wesley will have laugh of contempt
for their earthly collisions; and Toplady and
Charles Wesley will have laugh of contempt
for their earthly Misunderstanding; and the
farmers who were in a lawsuit all their days will
have laugh of contempt over their earthly dis
turbances about line fence. Exemption from
all annoyances Immersion in all gladness. Ye
shall laugh. Christ says So Ye shall laugh.
Yes, it will be laugh of triumph.
Oh, what a pleasant thing it will be 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
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 Water
loo you know how Americans 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 greet
ing, the gladden. greeting, when the snow white
cavalry troop of heaven shall 60 through the
streets and, according to the Book of Revelation,
Christ, in the red coat, in the crimson coat. on
white horse and all the armies Of heaven fol-
lowing on white horses! Oh, when we see and
hear that cavalcade we shall cheer, we shall
laugh.
Does not your heart beat quickly this morning
at the thought of the great jubilee upon which
we are soon to enter2 / pray God that when we
get through with this world, and are going out of
it, we may have some such visit as the dying
Christian had when he saw written all over the
clouds in the sky the letter CIV, and they asked
him. standing by his side, what he thought the
letter "W" meant. sOh," he said shat stands
for welcome" And so may it be when we quit
this world. ''W" on the gate, wv" on the door
of the mansion, "W" on the throne. Welcome!
Welcome! Welcomed
/ have preached this sermon this morning
with FIVE prayarful wishes: That you might see
what mear thing is the laugh Of skeptcism,
ultation, what a hollow thing Is the laugh Of
laugh Of condemnation, what radiant, rubi.
Avoid the i'll; choose the right Be comforted.
-ye shall laugh" Ye shall laugh