The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-07-16

all SrOanS. LOOK! nVe but tHOu-
sand of you turn your backs on that, and
then this voice Of invitation turns to a tone
diviney ominous, that sobs like a simeon
through the first chapter OF Proverbs: Be
cause | have called and We refused, 1 have
stretched cut my right hand and no man
regarded; but We have set at nauSht all my
counsel, and would none of My reproof;
also will laugh at your calamity O!
what laugh that is-a deep laugh; Il long,
reverberating laugh; an overwhelming
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 thunder of the laugh of
Gods indignant
The other laugh mentioned in the Bible,
laughter, or the expression of eternal tri-
umph. Christ said to His disciples: "Bless-
ed are We that weep now, for We shall
laugh That makes me know positively
that we are not to spend days in heav-
en- singing long-meter psalms. The formal
lstlc and stiff notions of heaven that some
am glad to know that the heaven of the
Bible is not only a place of holy worship,
but Of magnificent sociality. What" say
circles of the saved? l say, yes; pure
laughter cheering laughter; holy laughter.
1t Will be laugh of congratulation. When
we meet friend who has suddenly come to
fortune, or who has got over some dire
sickness, do we not shake hands, do not
laugh with him? And when we get to heaven
ana see our friends there, some of them
having come up out of great tribulation,
why will say to one of them: "The last
time | saw you, you had been suffering for
six weeks under low intermittent fever"
or, to another, we will say: you, for
ten veal; years We're limping with the rheu-
When we saw you last; | congratulate you
on this eternal recovery" We shall laugh.
Yes. we shall congratulate all those who
have come out of great financial embarrass-
ments in this world. because they have be-
come millionaires In heaven. Ye shall laugh.
1t shall be a laugh of reassociation. 1t Is
II for 70 Ion han
meet a friend We have not seen for ten
Years as anything il possible to be natural.
When we meet our friends from whom
We have. been parted for ten or twenty
or thirty years. will it not be with infinite
congratulation? Our perception quickened,
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
happened in the ten years of his heavenly
residence, and telling him in return
all that has happened during the ten years
of his absence from earth. Ye shall laugh.
I think George Whitetield and John Wesley
will have a laugh of contempt for their
earthly Misunderstanding, and the two
farmers who were in q lawsuit 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, 1t will be
a laugh Of triumph. O! what a pleasant
thing it will be to stand ON the wall OF
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. You know how the French
men cheered when Napoleon came back
from Elba you know how the English
cheered when Wellington came back from
Waterloo; you know how Americans cheered
when Kossuth arrived from hungary you
remember how Rome cheered when Pom
pey came back victor over 900 cities.
Every cheer was u laugh But, Oh. the
mightier greeting, the sladder greeting
when the snowwhite cavalry troops of
heaven shall so through the streets, and
according to the book of Revelation, Christ
in the red coat, the crimson coat, on a
white horse, and all the armies of heaven
following 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 vision the dying
Christian had when he saw written all
over the clouds of the sky the letter wv
ard they asked him. standing by his side,
"Oh!' be said, that stands for welcome"
And so may it be when we quit this world
''W' on the gate, 'W'' on the door of the
mansion, "W'' the throne. Welcome!
Welcome! Welcome! / have preached this
sermon with five prayerful wishes: th@tt
laugh Of scepticism what a bright thing
Is the laugh of spiritual exultatton, what
a hollow thing is the laugh of sinful merri-
nent what an awful thing ie the LAUGH Of
condemna ton, what a radiant, rubicuhd
thing is the LAUGH of eternal triumph
forted. blessed are We that weep now
vet shall laugh We shall laugh