Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-07-19


tremendous bombardment God wants
us all to 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 Himalaya Oh the
other, he starts up the hill back Of
Jerusalem to achieve our salvation.
He puts the palm of his right
foot on one long spike, and he
puts the palm of his left foot on an
other 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 l will cover up all your
sins; with my dying groan 1 will swal-
low up all your groans. Look! live"
But thousand of you turn your back
on that, and then this voice of invita-
ton turns to tone divincly ominous,
that sobs like a simoom through the
first chapter of Proverbs: Because
/ have called and We refused, / have
stretched out my right hand and no
man regarded; but We have set at
naught all my counsel, and would
none of my reproof; l, also will laugh
at your calamity" o! what laugh
that is-a deep laugh: long, rever-
berating laugh; an overwhelming
laugh; God grant we may never hear it.
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 for ever the
thunder of the laugh of Gods indigna-
tion.
The other laughter men toned in the
Bible, the only one shall speak of, is
heavens laughter, or the expression
of eternal triumph. Christ said to his
disciples: Blessed are we that weep
now, for We shall laugh" That makes
me know positively that we are not to
spend our days in heaven singing
long meter psalms. The journalistic
and stiff notions of heaven that some
people have would make me miserable
l am glad to know that the heaven of
the Bible is not only place of holy
worship. but of magnificent soci ality.
What" say you, will the ringing
laugh go around the circles of the
saved?" l say yes; pure laughter, cheer
ing laughte 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 our friends
there, some of them having come up
out of great tribulation, why we 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 years were limping with
the rheumatism, and you were full of
complaints when we saw you last; l
congratulate you on this eternal re-
coverv." We shall laugh Yes; we
shall congratulate all those who have
come out of great financial embarrass-
ments In this world because
they have become millionalres in
heaven. Ye shall laugh. 1t shall
be laugh of re-association. 1t is just
as natural for us to laugh when we
meet a friend we have not seen for ten
years, as anything is possible to be
natural. When we meet our friends
from whom we have been parted ten,
or twenty, or thirty years, will it not
be with infinite congratulation? Our
perception quickened, our knowledge
improved, we will know each other at
flash. We will have to talk over all
that has happened in the ten years of
his heavenly residence, and we telling
him in return all that has happened
during the ten years of his absence
from earth. Ye shall laugh. think
George Whitefeld and John Wesley
will have laugh of contempt for
their earthly collisions; and Toplady
and Charles Wesley will have a
laugh of contempt for their earthly
Understandings and the two
farmers, who were in law suit all
their days, will have laugh of con-
tempt over their earthly disturbance
about 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
laugh of triumph. Oh! what pleas
ant 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 roy al greet
ing. You know how the Frenchmen
cheered when Napoleon came back
from Elba; you know how the Englis b
cheered when Yelling ton came back
from Waterloo; you know how Ameri-
cans cheered when Kossuth arrived
from Hungary; you remember how
Rome cheered when Pompey came
back victor over 900 cities. Every
cheer was a laugh. But, Oh! the
mightier greeting, the gladder greet
ing, when the snow white cavalry
troop of heaven shall go through the
streets, and, according to the book OF
Revelation, Christ, IN the red coat, the
crimson coat, on 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
jubilee upon whIchwe are soon to great
enter? / pray God that when we get
throurh with this world and are oO