Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-07-21

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with his hands spotted with his own
blood, he gesticulates, saying: Look,
look and live. With the crimson veil Of
my sacrifice l will cover up all your
sins; with my dying groan / will swal-
low up all your grosns. Look Livel"
Buta thousand of you turn your back ON
that. and then this voice of invitation
turns to tone divinely ominous, that
sobs like simoom through the first
chapter of Proverbs, Because l have
called and We refused, have stretched
out my right hand. and no man regard.
ed. but We have set at naught all my
counsel and would none OF my reproof.
!, also, will laugh at your calamity"
Oh, what a laugh that is-a deep laugh.
a long, reverberating laugh, an over
wheiming laugh. God grant we may
never hear it. But i'll this day Of merci-
full 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 God indig.
nation.
The Laugh of Triumph.
The other laughter mentioned in the
Bible. the only one shall speak of, is
heavens laughter, or the expression of
eternal triumph Christ said to his dis
ciples, Blessed are ye 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
I psalms, The journalistic and stiff no.
lions of heaven that some people have
| would make me miserable. | am
glad to know that the heaven of the
Bible is not only a place of holy wor-
ship, but of magnificent sociality-
What. say you, will the ringing
laugh go around the circles of the
saved?" / say yes-pure laughter,
cheering laughter. holy laughter. 1t
will be a laugh of congratulation. When
we meet a friend who has suddenly
come to fortune, or who has got over
some dire sickness. do we not shake
hands, do we not laugh with him? And
when we get to heaven and see our
| friends there, some CT them having come
up out of great tribulation, why, we
| will say to one of them, 1.-THE last time
| saw you you had been suffering for
| six weeks under q low intermittent
/ fever or to another we will say: You
for 10 years We're limping with tho
rheumatism, and you were full of COM
4 plants when we saw you last. l con-
graduate You Oh this eternal recovery "
We shall laugh. Yes, we shall congrat-
| ulate all those who have come out of
great financial embarrassments in this
world because they have become mil
lionaires in heaven. Ye shall laugh. 1t
shall be a laugh of reassociation 1t is
just as natural for us to laugh when we
meet a friend we have not seen for 10
years as anything is possible to be nat
ural
When we meet cur friends from whom
we have been parted 10 or 90 or 80
/ years. will it not be with infinite con-
graduation? Our perception quickened,
our knowledge improved, we will know
each other at a fash We will have to
talk over all that has happened since
we have been separated, the one that
has been 10 years in heaven telling us
all that has happened in the 10 years Of
his heavenly residence, and we telling
him i'll return all that has happened
during the 10 years of his absence from
earth. Ye shall laugh. think George
Whitefield 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 two farmers who were in law
suit all their days will have laugh Of
contempt over their earthly disturbance
| about line fence Exemption from all
annoyance. Immersion in all gladness.
Ye shall laugh. Christ says so. Ye shall
laugh. Yes, it will be laugh of tri-
umph. 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 clutches!
Ahal Yes, it win be a laugh of royal
greeting.
Five Prayerful Wishes.
You know how the Frenchmen cheered
when Napoleon came back from Elba;
you know how the English cheered
when Wellington came back from Wa
terloo, you know how Americans
cheered when Kossuth arrived from
Hungary; you remember how Rome
cheered when Ponipey came back vic.
tor over 500 cities. Every cheer was
laugh. But, oh, the mightier greeting,
the gladder greeting, when the snow
white cavalry troop OF heaven shall 90
through the streets, and, according to
the book of Revelation, Christ in the
red coat, the crimson coat, on q white
horse, and all the armies of heaven fol-
lowing him OH white horses! Oh, when
we see and hear that cavalcade we shall
cheer, we shall Taught Does not your
heart beat quickly at the thought of the
great jubilee upon which we are soon
TO enter? pray God that when we get
through with this world and are going
out of it we may have some such vision
as the dying Christian had when he
saw written all over the clouds in the
sky the letter w." and they asked
him, standing by his side, what he
thought that letter Nv meant s.Oh,"
he said, that stands for welcome. +"
And SO may it be when we quit this
world Nv" on the gate. "W'' on the
door of the mansion, wv" on the
throne. Welcome! Welcomed We'll
conlel have preached this sermon with |
five prayerful wishes-that you might
see what mean thing is the laugh Of
skepticism. what bright thing is the
laugh CT spiritual exultation, what a
hollow thing is the laugh of sinful mer- /!
riment, what an awful thing is the
laugh of condemnation. what radiant,
rubicund thing is the laugh of eternal
triumph Avoid the i'll; choose the
right Be comforted- Blessed are We
that weep now--ye shall laugh; ye shall
laugh
The Royal Historical society has de-
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the death Of Gihbon in a suitable man.
ner in the fall There will be an address