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

ominous, that sobs like a simeon
through the first chapter of Proverbs
because have called and We refused
| nave stretched out My right hanC
and no man regarded; but We have SCI
at naught all My counsel, and would
none of My reproof; /, also, will laugh
at your calamity o, what a laugh
that is-a deep laugh; long, re
vcrberating 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 escape forever the
thunder of the laugh of Gods indigna
ton.
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 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. / 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
savcd?7 ] say, yes; pure laughter.
cheering laughter, holy laughter. II
will be a laugh OF congratulation.
! nv hon D., a
denly come to 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 through great tribu-
lation, why we viii 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. Ne shall laugh. 1t shall be
a laugh Of reassociation. It is just as
natural for rs 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 il not be with in
finite congratulation? Our perception
quickened, our knowledge improved,
we viii know each other at a flash. We
viii have to talk over all that has hap
pened since we have been separated.
the one that has been ten years in
Heaven telling rs 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. Ye shall
laugh | think George Whitefield and
John Wesley will have laugh Of con-
tempt for their earthly collisions, and
Toplady and Charles Wesley will have
a laugh of contempt for their earthly |
Misunderstanding: and the two farmers. |
who were in lawsuit all their days, |
will have a laugh Of contempt over then
earthly disturbance about a line fence
Exempt from all annoyance Inner
sion in all gladness. We shall laugh
Christ saws so. We shall laugh. Yes
it will be a laugh of triumph. Oh
what pleasant thing it will be &c
stand on the wall of Heaven and look
down at Satan. and hurl at him defiance
ana see him Gagged and chained, and we
forever free from his clutches. Aha
Yes, it will be laugh of royal greet
ing. You know how the Frenchmen
cheered when Napoleon came back
from Elba; you know how the English
cheered when Wellington 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 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 a
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 youI
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 it. we may have some such
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 Nv" meant. ''OhF
he said. that stands for welcome.
And so NAV it be when we quit this
world "W" on the gate, avs on the
door of the mansion, "W' on the throne.
Welcome. Welcome, Welcomed have
this sermon with five prayer.
ful wishes: that you might see what
mean thing is the laugh of scepticism,
what bright thing is the laugh of
spiritual eXultation. what a hollow
hing is the laugh of sinful merriment
what an awful thing is the laugh OF
fiDu what a radiant ,.tsbi