Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-08-02

Nnrown out of the school. and or. q
0he court room. so that men no nor,
swear by it, and it is to be put in darl
corridor of the city library. the Koran
On one side and the writings of Confu
rus on the other, then let us each on,
keep copy for himself, for we might
nave trouble. and we would want to be
under the delusions of its consultations
ana we might die. and we would want
the delusion of the exalted residence
Oh Tod S right hand, which it mentions
" what an awful thing it is to laugh il
uods face, and hurl His revelation
pack at Him, After awhile the day
VIII come when they will say they did
not laugh. Then all the hypercriti.
clsms. all the caricatures, and all the
learned sneers in the Quarter " Review.
VIII be brought to judgment; and amid
the rocking of everything beneath,
ana amid the flaming of every
thing above, God will thunder: but
thou didst laugh" / think the most
fascinating laughter at Christianity |
ever remember was man in New En-.
gland lie made the Word of God seem
ridiculous, and he laughed at our holy
religion until he came TO die. and then
be said: My life has been a failure
failure domestically; l have no chill
dren; a failure socially, for am treated
IN the streets like a pirate; failure
professionally, because / know but one
minister that has adopted my senti-
ments For a quarter of a century he
laughed at Christianity; and ever since
Christianity has been laughing at him.
Now, II IS mean thing to go into a
mans house and steal his goods; but /
tell you the most gigantic burglary ever
invented is the proposition to steal
these treasures of our holy religion.
The meanest laughter ever uttered is
the laugh of the sceptie.
The next laughter mentioned in the
Bible is David's laughter, or the express
sion of spiritual exultation. 'Then was
our mouth filed with laughter" He
got very much down sometimes; but
there are other chapters where for four
or five times he calls upon the people
to praise and eXult. II was not a mere
twitch of the lips; it was a demonstra-
ton that took hold of his whole phvsi-
cal nature, Then was our mouth
filled with laughter" My friends, this
world will never be converted TO God
until Christians cry less. and laugh
and sing more. The horrors are a poor
bait If people are to be persuaded TO
adopt our holy religion. it will be be-
cause they have made up their minds it
is happy religion. They don't like a
morbid Christ ianity. | know there are
morbid people who enjoy a funeral.
They come early to see the friends
take leave of the corpse; and they steal
a ride to the cemetery; but all healthy
people enjoy a wedding better than
they do burial. Now, you make the
religion of Christ sepulchral and
hearse-lilse, and you make it repulsive.
i say, plant the rose of Sharon along
the church walks, and columbine to
over the church wall, and have
a smile on the lip, and have the mouth
filed with holy laughter. There is no
man in the world except the Christian
that has right to feel an untrammeled
glee. He is promised everything is to be
for the best here, and he is on the way
to delight, which will take all the
professions with palm branches, and
all the orchestras harped, and Gym
balled and trumpeted to express. 20"
you say, II have so much trouble"
Have you more trouble than Paul had? |
What does he say? ''Sorrowful. yet |
always rejoicing. Poor, yet making |
many rich. Having nothing, yet pos
sessing all things" The merriest laugh |
| think ever heard has been in the
sick room of Gods dear children. When
rheodosius was put upon the rack, he
very great torture at the first.
asked him how he endured
Ill that pain on the rack. He replied:
when was first put on the rack !
great deal; but very soon a
,oung man in white stood by my
tide. and with a soft and COM
ortable handkerchief he wiped the
iweat from my brow, and my pains
we're relieved; it was a punishment
or me to get from the rack, because
when the pain was all gone, the angel
vas gone" o. rejoice evermorel You
,now how it is in the army-an army in
If to-day news comes
hat our side has had defeat, and to-
morrow another portion of the tidings
ONES saying we have had another de-
eat. it demoralizes all the host. But
the news comes of victory to-day and
-ictory tomorrow, the whole army is
for the contest. Now, in
he kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ,
eport fewer defeats; tell US the vic
ories-victory over sin and death and
ell. Rejoice evermore, and again
ay rejoice. believe there is more re-
igion in a laugh than in groan-
anybody can groan; but to laugh in
he midst of Punishment, and persecu-
ion and indescribabie trial, that re-
uired a David, a Daniel, Paul, a
lodern heroine.
The next laughter mentioned in the
,ible that / shall speak of is the FOOLS
,ughter, or the expression of sinful
pertinent. solomon was very quick