The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1894-08-09

It high noon, al the bells b5at!ne the mar
riage peal But His laughter-nay it neYe,
fall on us! 1t is Il condemnation for ou,
sin 1T Is a wasting away.
We may let the satirlst laugh at w, and
all our companions may laugh at us, and We
may be made the target for the merrimeEs
Of earth ana hell, but Gol torhil that We
should ever coma to tho fulallment OF ths
prophecy against the reiectors OF ths trutA,
II will laugh at your calamity But. my
friends. all OF US who reject Christ and the
narion Of the sospal must come under that
tremendous bomhariment. God wants us
alto repent. He counsels. He coexes. He
impor:unes. and He dies for us. He comes
down out OF heaven. He puts all the world 3
Fin on one shoulder. He puts all the worlds
rorrow on the other shoulder. and then with
that Alp on one side ani that Himalaya on
the other He starts up the hill back Of Jeru-
salem to achieve our salvation. He puts the
palm OF His right foot on one lors spike,
and He puts the palm OF His lett
foot on another long spike. AMI then,
with His hands spotted with His own bioo1.
He Sestfcn'ates. saying: look. look ami
1--we. With the crimson veil OF My sacrifice
will cover up all your sins: with My dying
f.roan I will swallow up all your groans.
Look! Live But a thousand Of you turn
-FOUR back on that, aud then this voice OF
Invitation turns 10 tone divtnnlv ominous.
hat so5s like a simoom through the first
chapter Of Proverbs "8ecause I have
rallied AMI V, refused. I have stretched out
Nv right hani AMI no man regarded, but
ya have set at naucht all Ny counsel AMI
would none Of Ny reproof. I. also, will
laugh at your calamity Oh, what laugh
that is a deep laugh. a long. revereerating
laugh. an overwhelming laugh. God grant
Ee may never hear It. But IN this day OF
merciiul visitation yield your heart TO Christ.
that YOU may spanu all your life on earth
unier HIS smile and escape forever the thun-
der OF the laugh OF Gods indignation.
The other laughter mentioned in the
Bioh, the only one 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
Sc shall laugh" That makes me know
positively that we are not to spend our days
in heaven singing long meter psalms. The
formalistic and stiff notions Of heaven that
some people have would make me mis- erable.
I am glad to know that the heaven OF the
Bible is no: only place OF holy worship,
hut of magnificent sociaity. "What," say
YOU, "wil the ringing laugh go around the
eircles OF the savei?' I say yes-pure
laughter. cheering laughter, holy laughter.
It will be laugh Of congratulatlon. When
we meet friend who has suddenly
come to fortune, or who has got over
some dire sickness, do We rot shake
hands, do We not laugh with him? And
when We get to heaven and see our friends
there, some of them having come up out OF
great trlauation. why, We will say to one Of
them. The last time saw you you had been
suffering for six weeks under low 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. I congratulate you
on this eternal recovery" We shall laugh.
Yes. we shall congratulate all those who have
come ont 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. Il is Just
as 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 1t not be with infinite congEatLl!s=