The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-07-19

OF cart and hell hut Go forbid that we
should -ar come 10 the fulhllment OF the
propher 1cainst the reiectors Of the trutt.
| ~ will laugh at your calamitv" But. nv
/ friends, all OF us who reje,. Christ and the
par on OF the gospel must come under that
tremendous bombarimen'. God wants us
| alto repent. He counsels, He coaxes, He
/ importunes. and He dies for us. He comes
down out OF heaven. He puts all the worlds
sin on one shoulder. He puts all the worlds
sorrow on the other shoulder. and then with
that Alp on one side and that Himalava on
the other He starts NJ the hill back OF Jeru.
salem 10 achieve our salvation. He puts the
| palm OF His right foot on one lore spike.
and He puts the palm OF His lett
foot on another long spike. and then.
with His hands spotted with His own blood.
| He gesticulates. saying "Look. look and
live. With the crimson veil OF My sacrifice
I will cover up all your sins with Ny dying
| eroan will swallow up all your groans
Look Live !" But n thousand OF Won turn
your back on that, AMI then this voice OF
Invitation turns TO n tone divinclv ominous.
chapter OF Proverbs. because I have
called and ye refused. have stretched out
My right hani. aud no man regar led, but
| ye have set Mt nau9ht all MY counsel and
would none OF NV reproof I. also. will
| laugh at your calamity" Oh. what laugh
n
laugh, an overwhelming laugh. God grant
we may never hear IT, But In this day Of
merciful visitation Weld your heart 10 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 the
Bible. the only one / shall speak Of. IA
heavens laughter, or the expression lsf
eternal triumph. Christ said 20 Hts dis.
ciples, "Blessed are We that weep now, for
We shall laugh" That makes mo know
positively that we are not TO spend our days
In heaven singing long meter psalms. Ths
formalistic and still notions OF heaven that
some people have would make me mis- ,rable.
l nm glad 20 know that the heaven OF tho
Bible Is not only u place OF holy worship,
hut OF magnificent socality. "wha'." say
you, Twill the ringing laugh go around the
circles OF the saveiP" / say yes-pure
laughter. cheering laughter, holy laughter.
II will be laugh OF congratulation. whan
we meet friend who has suddenly
come to fortune, or who has got over
some dire sickness. do we not shake
hands. do we not laugh with htmp And
when we get 20 heaven and see our friends
there, some OF them having come up out OF
great trihulation, why. we will say TO one o,
them, THE last time saw you YOU had been
suffering for six weeks under a low intormit.
tent fever" or TO another we will say "You
for ten years were limping with the rheu.
mntism. and you were full OF complaints
when we saw you last. | congratulate you
on this eternal recovery" We shall laugh.
Yes, we shall congratulate nll those who havs
come out OF great financial embarrassments
In this world because they have becoms mill
ionaires In heaven. Ye shall lnugh. II
shall be laugh OF reasso ,iation. II is lust
as natural for Us to laugh when W. meet "A
friend we have not seen for ten years as any
thing Is possible 10 be natural.
When we meet our friends from whom we
have been parted ten or twenty or thirty
years, will II not be with Infinite congratu!n-
ton? Our perception qulckenei. our
knowledge improved, We will know each
other at fash. We will have 10 talk over
all that has happened since we have been
separated. the ono that has been ten years In
heaven telling US all tina; 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. think George
| Whiteneld aud John Wesley will have
laugh OF contempt for their earthly COLT
sions, and Toplndy AMI Charles Wesley will
have laugh OF contempt for their earthly
Observation-Disclosures. and the two farmers
| who were In q lawsuitk all thel- days will
have a laugh OF contempt over their earthly
J disturbance about line fensa Eve pp'lon
from all annoyance. Immersion In al glad
ness. Ye shall laugh. Christ says 50. Ye
shall laugh. Yes, IL will be a laugh OF trl-
| umph. Oh, what "a pleasant thing II will bo
TO stand on the wall OF heaven and look
| down at satan aud hurl at him defiance and
see him Gagged ani 4 chained AMI W. forever
free from his clutches Aha Yes, II will
! be n laugh of royal greeting.
You know how the Frenchmen checrei
| when Napoleon came back from Elba YOU
know how the English chserei wisn Ws,-
| iington came back from Waterloo you know
how Americans cheerei when Kossuth ar
III 4.
/ Rome cheere1 when Pompey came bacS vir-
torious over 300 cities. Every cheer was
laugh. Bat. oh, the mishtler greeting. the
! gladdor gr tetiny. when the snow white cav
| airy troop OF heaven shall 20 through tho
streets, and. ding to the Book Of Reve-
| lation, Christ In the ral coat. the crimson
| coat, on a white horsn. AMI all the armies OF
heaven following Him on white horses On,
when we SEQ and hear thar cavllcade wD
! shall cheer, we shall laugh Do's not your
| heart beat quickly at tho thought or ths
| great jubilee upon watch wa are soon 20 en-
ter? pray God that whom We get through
with THIS world ami ars going out OF It we
may have some such vision ~ the
| dying Christian had when he saw
written all over the clouds in tho sky tine
letter NV" an they asked him. standing bv
his side, what he thought that letter ''W"
meant. "Oh," he said. ''tnat stands for wei.
come And so may IT be wnen we quit this
world. "W' on the gate, Nv" on the door
Of the mansion. wv on tho throne. Wei.
come! Welcome Welcome have
| preached this sermon with il"' prayerful
wlshes-that you might see v 1t mean
thing Is the laugh OF siepticl,.n, what
bright this Is the laugh OF spiritual exulta.
ton, what a hollow thing is the laugh OF sin
| lul merrlment, what an awful thing Is ths
laugh of condemnation, what radiant, rubi-
cund thing is tho laugh OF eternal triumph.
Avoid the i'll choose the right. Be con-
| forted. blessed are ye that weep now-yo
snail laugh " shall laugh"
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