Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-07-27

your back on that, AMI tnen tnlS VOICE VI
invitation turns TO n tone divineiy ominous,
that sobs like simoom through the first
chapter of Proverbs. Because nave
called ami V refused, have stretched OUT
NV right hand. and no man regarded, ou!
We have set at naught all My counsel and
would none of My yreproot, l, also; VIII VIII
LAUGH at YOUR calamity" Oh. what lauSh
that is =? deep laugh. a long. reVerberating
laugh an overwhelming laugh. God grant
we may never hear IT. But IN tn:s Gay oi
mprcfful visitation yield your heart to Christ,
that Won may spend all your life on earth
under His smile and escape forever the thun-
der of the laugh of Gods indignation.
TIE other laughter mentioned in the
Bible. the only one 1 shall speak OF, Is
heavens laughter, or the expression OF
eternal triumph. Christ said TO HIS dls-
ciDles. "BIessed are ye that weep now. 1oF
We shall laugh" That makes me know
positively that we are not to spend our days
in he aven singing long meter psalms. Inc
formalistic and stiff notions of heaven that
some people have would make me mis- eraole.
I am glad to know that the heaven OF the
Bible is not only place of holy worship,
but of magnificent sociality. ''What, say
YOU. "wilI the ringing laugh go around the
circles Of the saved2" | say yes-pure
laughter cheering laughter, holy lau2hter.
1t will be a laugh of congratuiallon. When
we meet a friend who has suddenly
come TO fortune. or who has got over
some dire sickness, do we not snake
hands, do we not laugh with him! And
when we get TO heaven and see our 1rlehus
there, some of them having come up out o!
great trihu ation why. we will say to one Oh
Them. "The last time saw you you had been
suffering for six weeks under low lntermt-
tent fever" or TO another we Will say You
for ten wears were limpiDG with the rheu-
mntism and YOU were full OF complaints
when we saw you last. 2ohSratUia,e 3Vu
on this eternal recovery" We sha!! !auEh.
YES. we shall CONGRATULATE all those who have
come out of great financial embarrassments
in this world because they have become mill
ionaires in heaven. Ye shall laugh.
shall be a laugh Of reassOciation. 1t is Just
rs natural for US to laug h when we meet
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 thlrty
wears, will it not be with infinite conSratua-
ton? Our perception quickened, our
knowledge improved, we will know each
other at flash. We will have to talk over
ali that has happened since we have been
separated, the ono that has been ten years IN
heaven telling US AL that has happened In
the ten years of hiS3 heavenly residence AMI
we telling him in feturn all that has hap
nened during the ten wears of his absence
from EARTH Ye shall laugh. think George
Whiteleld and John Wesley will have a
laugh of contempt for their earthly COLT
sions. and Toplady and Charles Wesley will
have laugh OF contempt for their earthly
Misunderstanding, AMI the two farmers
who were in lawsuit all Their days will
| have a laugh Of contempt over their earthly
| disturbance about a line fence. Exemption
| from all annoyance. Immersion in all glad
ness Ye shall laugh. Christ says so. Ye
| shall laugh. Yes, it will be a iaugn OF trl-
! umpb, Oh, what pleasant thing it will ba
| to stand on the wall of heaven and LOOK
| down at satan and hurl at him defiance and
| see him cayed and chained and We forever
| Tree from his clutches Aha! Yes, 1t will
| be Il laugh of royal greeting.
You know how the Frenchmen cheered
| when Napoleon came back from Et0a yCu
| know how the English c99arel wlen Wei
| inyton came back from Waterloo; you kno "
| now Americans cheered when hossuth ar"
! lived from Hungary; you remember now
| Rome cheerei when POmpey came back VIC
| orious over 900 cities. Every cheer was q
| Gaugb. But oh, the mig alter greeting. the
| yladder greeting, when the snow white cav
| airy troop OF heaven shall go through the
| streets and, according to the BOOK OF ReVe-
| iaton, Christ in the red coat, the crimson
cont On a white horse. and all the armies o.
! heaven following Him on white horses ! Oh
! when we sea and hear that cavalcade WI
| Shall cheer. we SHALL laugh! Does not youl
! heart beat quickly at the thought OF the
| grnHt Jubilee upon which we are soon 10 en-
ter? pray Go1 that when we get throuSf
with this world an ara going out OF 1t We
| nav have some such vision as the
dviny Christian had when he say
written all over the clouds in the sky tn
letter "W." an they asked him. standing b,
his side, what he thought that letter 'W
meant "Oh," he said. ''that stands for vel
come" And so may it be when we quit tht
world ':W'' on the gate, "W" on the doc
| of fine mansion. 'W" on the throne. Wei
come! Welcome! Welcome! [ hav
| preached this sermon with five prayerfu
wtshes-that you might sec what meal
thing is the laugh OF sEepticism, what
briynt this is the laugh OF spiritual exulta
ton. what a hollow thing is the laugh Of sin
tul merriment, what al awful thing IS tn
Ian III cf condemnation, what a radiant. rubi,
cund thing is the laugh of eternal triumph
Avoid the i'll; choose the right. Be con
fortel. BLESSED are ye that weep noW-yt
shall laugh ye shall laugh