The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-07-26
When was lad book came out

entitled "Dow juniors Patent Ser.
mons.' 1t mado great stlr--a very
WIDE jnugh-all over the country, that
booK dld. IL wos n caricature of the
Chrlsttan ministry, and OF tho word OF
God, and OF the day Of judgment. Oh,
we had great laugh. Tho comment.
ary on tho whole thing is that tho au.
thor OF that book died In poverty, shame
debauchery, kicked out of society and
cursed OF Almighty Goa. Tho laugh
ter OF such men is tho echo of their own
damn alton.
! Tho next laughter that shall men.
ton as being in tho Bible is the laugh
OF Gods condemnation, "IIe that cit
ten in the heavens shall laugh" Again
''The Lord will laugh at him." Again.
VI Will laugh Mt his calamity" With
such demonstration will God uIeet every
KIND OF great Sin and wickeduesr. But
men build up vlllanles higher and higher
Good men almost pity God be-
cause ho is schcmsd against by
men. Suddenly pin drops out
OF tho machinery "f wickedness, or n
secret ls revealed, and the foundation be
gins TO rock. Finally the whole thing
Is demolished. What is the matter? l
Will tell you what the matter is. That
crash OF ruin is only the reverberatlon Of
Gods laughter.
LII the money market there arc great
many good men aud a great meny fraudu.
lent men. a fraudulent man there says,
VI mean TO have my mlllion." He goes
10 work reckless Of honesty, and he gets
his first 100000. lie gets after awhile
his $1,000 After awhile he gets his
$500, 900. "Now," ho says, II have
only ono more m0Ve to make, and I
shall have my million" He gathers up
all his resources, ho makes that one last
grand move, no. fails and loses all, and
he has not enough money Of his own left
TO pay tho cost Of The car TO his homo,
People. cannot understand this spasmodic
revulsion. Somc said it was u sudden
turn in Eric railway stock, or IN Wes.
tern Union, or in Illinois Central. Some
said one thing and some another. They
all guessed wrong. ! will tell you what
1t was, "He that sittcth in The heavens
laughed"
A man in New York said he would
be the richest man in tho city. He left
his honest work as mechanic and got
into the city councils some way and in
10 years stole 8I5, 900, 900 from the city
government. Fifteen million dollars!
He had the Legislature of the state of
New York in Tho grip Of his right hand.
Suspicious were aroused. The grand
jury presented indictments. The whole
land stood aghast. The man who eX.
pected TO put half the city in his vest
pocket goes TO Blackwell's island, goes |
to Ludlow Street jail, breaks prison and |
goes across tho sea, is rearl ested and |
brought back and again remanded to Jail. |
Why? ole that sitteth in the heavens |
laughed"
Rome was q great empire; she had |
Horace and Virgil among her poets; |
she had Angus us and Constantine |
among her emporors. But what mean |
the defaCed Pantheon, and the Forum |
truncd into cattle market. md the bro. |
ken walled Coliseum, aud the architectu. |
ral skelton OF her great aqueduCts? What |
was that thunder? "Oh!" you say, shat |
Was the roar OF the battering rams against
her walls" No. What was that qui.
vel? OH" you say, "Lhat was the
tramp of host;ls legions." No. The
quivcr and the roar were tho outburst
OF omnipOtcn! laughter from the dclied
and insultcd heavens. Rome deiled God,
and he laughed her down. Thobes de-.
lied God, and he laughed her down.
Rinevch delcd God, and he laughed her
down. Babylon dclied God, and he
laughed her do Rn.
Thcre is 4 grcay difference between
God's laugh and his smile. His smile is
eternal beati!ude. He smiled when
David sang, and Miriam clapped the
cymbals, and Hannah made garments
for her son, Paul preached, and John
kindled with apocalyptic vision, and
when any man has anything TO do and
does it we'll. His smile! Why, il is The
18th, OF May, the apple orchads in full
bloom; il ia morning breaking OH rippl-
ing sen; 1t is heaven al high noon, all the
bells beating the marriage peal. But
his laughter-may it never fall on us! 1t
10 condemnation for our sin; il is q
wasting away. We may let tho satlrist
laugh 0t us, aud all our companions
may laugh at us. and we may be made
the target for tho merrlmcnt Of earth aud
hell, but God forbid that we BOuld ever
come to the iullillment OF the prophecy
against the reiectors OF the truth, "I will
laugh aL your calamity"
But, my friends, all OF us who re ject
Christ AMI the pardon of tho gospel
must come under that I'll emendous bonn
bardment. God wants us all TO repent.
He counsels, he CoaXcs, he importunes,
and he dies for us. He comes down out
OF heaven. lie puts all the worlds sin
on one shoulder, he puts all worlds sor-
row on the other shoulder, and then with
| that Alp on one side and that IImalaya
on tho other he starts up the hill back
Of Jerusalem TO achieve our salvation.
llo puts the palm Of his right foot on ono
long 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 eosticuates, saying: "Look, look and
live! With tho crimson veil of my sacri-
lice | Will cover up oil your sins. With
my dying groan l will swallow up all
your groans. Look! LiveW But q
thousand OF you turn your back on that
and then this voice Of invitation turns to
n lone divinity ominous, that sobs lks a
simoom through the first chapter Of Pro,
verbs: "Because h ave called and ye
refused, | have stretched out my right