Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-07-16

my sacrifice l will cover up all your
sins; with my dying groan 1 will swal-
low up all your groans. Look! Live!"
But a thousand of you turn your back on
that, and then this voice of invitation
turns to tone divinely ominous, that
sobs like a simeon through the first
chapter of Proverbs, Because 1 have
called and ye 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,
I, also, will laugh at your calamity. I"
Oh, what laugh that is-a deep laugh,
long, reverberating laugh, an over
whelming laugh. God grant we may
never hear it. But in 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 l 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 ye shall laugh" That makes mo
know positively that we are not to spend
our days in heaven singing long meter
psalms. The journalistic and stiff no.
tions 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 wor-
ship, but of magnificent sociality.
What" say you, twill the ringing
laugh go around the circles OF the
saved?' I say yes-pure laughter,
cheering laughter, holy laughter. 1t
will be laugh of congratulation. When
we meet 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 him? And
when we get to heaven and see orr
friends there, some CT them having come
up out of great tribulation, why, we
will say to one of them, 1.-THE last time
7 saw you you had been suffering for
six weeks under low intermittent
fever" or to another we will say: 'You
for 10 years were imping with the
rheumatism, and you were full Of COM
plants when we saw you last I con-
graduate you on 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
HOnaires in heaven. Ye shall laugh. 1t
shall be q laugh of reassociation. 1t is
just as natural for US to laugh when we
meet friend we have not seen for 10
years as anything is possible to be nat
ural.
When we meet our friends from whom
we have been parted 10 or 20 or SO
years, will it not be with infinite con-
graduation? Our perception quickened,
our knowledge improved, we will know
each other at flash. 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 in return all that has happened
during the 10 years of his absence from
earth. Ye shall laugh. L think George
Whiteield 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 ell
annoyance. Immersion in all gladncss.
We shall laugh. Christ says SO. Ye shall
laugh. Yes, it will be laugh of til
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!
Aha! Yes, it will 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 Romo
cheered when Pompey came back vic
tor over 900 cities Every cheer was a
laugh. But, oh, the mightier greeting, |
the gladder greeting, when the snow
white cavalry troop of heaven shall go
through the streets, and, according to |
the book of Revelation, Christ i'll tho
red coat, the crimson coat, on a white |
horse, and all the armies of heaven fol-
lowing him on white horses! Oh, when |
we see and 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 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 ''W' meant. "Oh,"