The Penn's Grove record., 1894-07-20
NUMBER 81.

that sobs like a simeon through the first
chapter of Proverbs. because l have
called and ye refused, L have stretched out
My right hand, and 10 man regarded, but
ye have set at naught all My counsel and
would lone Of My reproof, I, also, will
laugh at your calamity" Oh, what q laugh
that Is a deep laugh. a long, reverberatIng
laugh, an overwhelming laugh. God grant
we may never hear 1t. 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 thun-
der OF the laugh OF Gods indignation.
The other laughter mentioned In tho
Bible, the only one 1 shall speak OF, is
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 mis- erable.
l nm glad to know that the heaven OF the
Bible is not only a place of holy worship,
but of magnificent sociality. "What," say
you, twill the ringing laugh go around the
circles OF the sayei?' I say yes-pure
laughter. cheering laughter, holy laughter.
It will be n laugh of congratuiation. When
we meet a friend who has suddenly
come to a fortune, or who has got over
some dire sickness, do We not shake
hands, do we not laugh with htm2 And
when we get to heaven and see our friends
there, some of them having come up out of
great trlkuIation, why, we will say to one OF
them, 1.-THE last time l saw you you had been
suffering for six weeks under allow intermit-
tent fever" or TO another we will say "You
for ten years were limping with the rheu-
matism, and you were full Of complaints
when we saw you last. l congratulate you
on this eternal recovery" We shall laugh,
W. ro ,b,II oo0rrnff,Iot oil thoaa wbo haua
come out of great financial embarrassments
in this world because they have become mill
~ionaires in heaven. Ye shall laugh. 1t
shall be a laugh Of reassociation. 1t is Just
rs 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 or twenty or thirty
years, will It not be with infinite congratula-
lion? Our perception qulckene1, our
knowledge improved, we will know each
other at a flash. We will have to talk over
NIL that has happened since We have been
separated, the one that has been ten yearsin
heaven telling US all that has happened In
the ten years OF his heavenly residence, and
we telling him IN return all that has hap
pened during the ten years OF his absence
from earth. Ye shall laugh. l think George
Whiteleld and John Wesley will have q
laugh of contempt for their earthly colli-
5lOnS, RQQ 1Oplauy anu Cuttlss Wesley Will
have a laugh OF contempt for their earthly
misunderstanding, ami the two farmers
who were in q lawsuit all thei- days will
have a laugh of +amnt over their earthly
disturbance about a line fence. AAeLnp,-
from all annoyance. Immersion In all glad
ness Ye shall laugh. Christ says 80. Ys
shall laugh. Yes, it will be q laugh OF tri-
umph. Oh, what a pleasant thing it will be
to stand on the wall of heaven n look
down at satan and hurl at him defiance and
see him Gagged and chained and we forever
free from his clutches Aha! Yes, 1t will
be a laugh of royal greeting.
You know how the Frenchmen cheered
when Napoleon came back from Elba you
know how the English cheered when We'll
linston came back from Waterloo you know
how Americans cheere1 when Kossuth ar
rived from Hungary. you remember how
Rome cheered when Pompey came back VIC
torious over 900 cities. Every cheer was a
laugh. But, oh, the mightier greeting, the
gladder greeting, when the snow white cav
airy troop Of heaven shall go through the
streets. and. according to the Book Of Reve-
lation. Christ In the red coat, the rinse
coat. on a white horse, and all the armies OF
heaven following Him on white horses! Oh,
when we seq n hear that cavalcade We
shall cheer, we shall laugh! Does not your
heart beat quickly at the thought OF the
great Jubilee upon which we are soon to en-
ter? I pray God that when We get through
with this world and are going out OF 1t 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 ""
meant. "Oh,' he said. "that stands for well
come" And so may it be when we quit this
world. "W" on the gate. W on the door
OF the mansion, 'W" on the throne. Vel
come! Welcome! Welcome! 1 have
preached this sermon with five prayerful
wishes-that you might see what q mean
thing is the laugh of skepticism, what a
bright this is the laugh of spiritual exulta-
ton, what a hollow thing is the laugh of sim
tul merrlment, what an awful thing Is the
laugh CT condemnation, what a radiant. rubt-
cund thing is the laugh OF eternal triumph.
Avoid the i'll choose the right. Be COM
forted. blessed are ye that weep now-ye
shall langh w shall laugh."