The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-07-18

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I have stretched out My right hand
and no man regarded; but ye have set
at naught all My counsel, and would
none Of My reproof; l, also, will laugh
at your calamity" o, what a laugh
that is-a deep laugh; long, re-
verberating laugh; an overwhelm-
ing 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 seape forever the
thunder of the laugh Of Gods indigna-
tion.
The other laughter mentioned 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 ye shall laugh" That makes
me know positively that we are not 10
spend our days in Heaven singing long
meter psalms The formalistic 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 wor-
ship, but of magnificent sociality.
What" say you, will the ringing
laugh go around the circles of the
saved?" / say, yes; pure laughter,
cheering laughter, holy laughter. 1t
will be laugh of congratulation.
When we meet n friend who has sud-
denly come TO fortune, or who has got
over some dire sickness, do we not
shake hands, do we not laugh with
himp And when we get to Heaven and
see our friends there, some OF them
having come up through great tribu-
lation, 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 rheumatism, and you
were full of complaints when we saw
you last; | congratulate you on this
eternal recovery" We shall laugh.
Yes; we shall congratulate all those
who have come out of great financial
embarrassments in this world, because
they have become millionaires in
Heaven. Ye shall laugh. 1t shall be
a laugh of reassociation. 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, OF
thirty years, will it not be with in
finite congratulation? Our perception
quickened, our knowledge improved,
we will know each other at flash. We
will have to talk over all that has hap
pened since we have been separated,
the one that has been ten years in
Heaven telling us what has happened
in the ten years of his heavenly resi-
dence, and we telling him in return all
that has happened during the ten years
of his absence from earth. He shall
laugh. think George Whitefeld and
John Wesley will have a laugh OF con-
tempt for their earthly collisions, and
Toplady and Charles Wesley will have
q laugh of contempt for their earthly
Misunderstanding; and the two farmers,
who were in lawsuit all their days,
! will have laugh of contempt over their
earthly disturbance about line fence.
Exempt from all annoyance. INNER
sion in all gladness Ye shall laugh.
Christ says so. Ye shall laugh. Yes,
II will be laugh of triumph. Oh!
what a pleasant thing 1t 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, il will be laugh Of royal greet
ing. You know how the Frenchmen
chcered when Napoleon came back
from Elba; you know how the English
rhcered when Wellington came back
from Waterloo; you know how Ameri-
cans chcered 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 greet
ing, the gladder greeting, when the
| snow-white cavalry troop Of Heaven
shall go through the streets, and accord
ing to the book Of Revelations, Christ, in
the red coat, the crimson coat, on n
white horse and all the armies Of Heaven
following on white horses. Oh! when
we see and hear that cavalcadc we shall
cheer. we shall laugh. Does not your
heart beat quickly at the thought Of
the great Jubilee upon which we are
soon TO enter? pray God that when
we get through with this world and are
going out of II, we may have some such
vision as the dying Christian had when
he saw written all over the clouds i'm
the sky the letter "W:" and they asked
| him. standing by his side, what he
thought that letter wv" meant. "Ohw
he said. "that stands for welcome" I"
| And so NAV IL be when we quit this
world. wv" on the gate, "W' on the
door of the mansion, "W" on the throne.
Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! 1have
preached this sermon with five prayer
ful wishes: that you might see what q
mean thing Is the laugh Of scepticism,
what bright thing is the laugh Of
! spiritual eXultation, what hollow
thing is the laugh of sinful merriment,
what an awful thing is the laugh OF
condemnation, what radiant, rubi-
cund thing is the laugh Of eternal fri
umph. Avoid the i'll: choose the right,
BE comforted BLESSED are We that
weep now-ye shall laugh, ye shall
laugh"
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