The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-07-20

tor ye snail laugh, Inat makes me
know positively that we are not to spend
our days In heaven singing long meter
psalms The formalistio and stiff no.
lions 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 tho
saved9' i 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 we not laugh with himr 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 10 years were limping with the
rheumatism, and you We're full Of COM
plants when we saw you last l 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
lionaires in heaven. Ye shall laugh 1t
shall be 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 80
years, will it not be with infinite con-
graduation? Our perception quickened,
our knowledge improved, we will know
each other at a 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. think George
Whitefield 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 a law
suit all their days will have laugh of
contempt over their earthly disturbance
about a line fence. Exemption from all
annoyance. Immersion in all gladness.
Yeshall laugh. Christ says SO. Ye shall
laugh. Yes, it will be laugh of tri-
umph. Oh, what 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 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 Rome
cheered when Pompey came back vic
tor over 900 cities. Every cheer was
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 in the
red coat, the crimson coat, on white
horse, and all the armies of heaven fol-
lowing him on white horsesl Oh, when
we see and hear that oavalcade we shall
cheer; we snail taught Does not your
heart beat quickly at the thought of the
great jubilee upon which we are soon
to enter? l pray God that when we get
through with this world and are going
out of it we may have some guch 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, !"
he 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, CIV" on the
throne Welcome! Welcomed We'll
come have preached this sermon with
five prayerful wishes-that you might
see what mean thing is the laugh of
skeptioism, what bright thing is the
laugh of spiritual exultation, what
hollow thing is the laugh of sinful MGR
riment, what an awful thing is the
laugh Of condemnation, what radiant,
rubiound thing is the laugh of eternal
triumph. Avoid the i'll; choose the
right. Be comforted. Blessed are We
that weep now-ye shall laugh; ye shall
laugh"