Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-16


crackle, crackle, il goes all around. 10
FIVE hundred such outlaws there is not
one item OF hODpiness. They all feel
bemeaned, If they have any conscience
left. Have nothing to do with men or
women who tell immoral stories. l
have no confidence either in their
Christian character or their morality.
So. all merriment that springs out OF
the defects OF others-caricature OF
lame foot, or a curved spine, or blind
eve, or a deaf ear-will be met with the
jndments Of God either upon you or
upon your children.
The next laughter that ! shall men
tion as being in the Bible, is the laugh
OF Gods condemnation: He that sit
teth in the heavens shall laugh"
Again: The Lord will laugh az him"
Again: II Will laugh at bis calamity.
With such demonstrations will God
greet every kind OF sin aud wickedness.
But men build up vlllauies higher and
higher. Good men almost pity God, be-
cause he is so schemed against by men.
Suddenly pin drops out OF the ma
chinery OF wickednsss, or a secret Is
revealed. and the foundation begins 10
rock. Finally the whole thing is demol-
ished. What Is the matter? l will tell
YOU what the matter is. The crash OF
ruin IS only the reverberatiOn OF God
laughter.
The other laughter mentioned IN the
| Bible, the only one l shall speak OF, IS
heavens laughter, or the expression OF
eternal triumph. Christ said to his dis
ciules: blessed are ys that weep now,
for ye shall laugh" That makes me
I know positively that we are not TO
spend our days 10 heaven singing long
metre psalms. The journalistic and stitf
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 molly wor-
| ship, but OF magnificent sociality.
Z what" say you, will the ringing
/ laugh 20 around the circles Of the
! saved?" l say, yes; pure laughter,
/ cheering laughter, holy laughter. IL
will be laugh Of congratulation. When
we meet a friend who has suddenly
come 10 a fortune, or who has got over
J 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 out OF great trloula-
ton, why we will say 10 one OF them;
{ Tine last time | saw you, you had been
/ suffering lor six weeks under low IN
I termittent feyer;" or, 10 another, we
| will say: "YOu for ten years were limp
| ing with the 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 en- osrrass-
| ments ia this world, because they have
! become millionaireS In heaven. You
shall laugh. 1t shall be a laugh OF re-
/ association. IL is just as natural
/ for us TO laugh when we meet
friend we have not seen for ten years,
as anything is possible 10 be natural.
/ When we meet our friends from whom
we have been parted ten, or twenty, or
\ thirty years, will il not be with intinite
congratulGtion? Our perception quick
/ ened, our knowledge i'm proved, we will
\ know each other at q flash. We will
\ have to talk over all that has happened
/ since we have been separated, the ore
| that has been ten years In heaven tell
ing Us all that has happened in the
and We telling BIN 9i6YfgtGr6esif that
has happened during the ten years OF
! his absence from earth. Ye shall laugh.
l think George Whitefeld and John
] Wesley will have a laugh of contempt
| for their earthly collisions; and Toplady
/ aud Charles Wesley will have laugh Of
\ contempt for their earthly misunder-
/ standings; and the two farmers, who
were in a law suit all their days, will
/ have a laugh Of contempt over their
/ earthly disturbances about line fence.
/ Exemption from all annoyance, INNER
/ sion 10 all glauness. We shall laugh.
Christ says 50. Ye shall laugh. Yes,
/ Ia will be laugh Of triumph. Oh. what
| a pleasant thing 10 will be 10 stand on
| the wall of heaven and look down at
| Satan, and hurl at him defiance, and see
/ him Gagged and chained, and we for
| ever free from his clutches. Aha.
/ Yes, it will be laugh OF royal greet
/ ing. You know how the Freedman
/ cheered when Napoleon came back from
| Elba; you know how the English
( cneered when Wellington came back
| from Waterloo; you know how Ameri-
cans Cheered when KoSsuth arrived
/ from Hungary; you remember now
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, ac-
/ cording TO the book OF Revelation,
Christ, in the red coat, the crimson coat.
on a white horse, aud all the armies Of
heaven following on white horses. On.
when We see and hear that cavalcade
we shall cheer. we shall laugh. Does
not your heart beat quickly at the
thought Of the great jubilee upon which
we are soon 10 enter? l pray God that
when we get through with this world
and are going out OF it, we may cave
some such vision as the dying Christian
had when he saw written all over the
clouds in the sky the letter wv" aud
they asked him, standing by his side,
what he thought that letter wv" meant.
OH he said, that stands for wei
come" Aud so nav il be when we
Quit this world. "W" on the gate, "W"
on the door OF the mansion, wv" on the
throne. Welcomed Welcome! We'll
come, I have preached this sermon
with five prayerful wishes: that you
might see what mean thing is the
laugh OF Scepticism, what a bright
thing is the laugh Of spiritual eXulta-
tion, what a hollow thing is the laugh
Of sinful merrimant, what an awful
thing is the laugh OF condemnation,
what radiant, rubicund thing is the
laugh OF eternal triumph. Avoid the
ill; choose the right. Be comforted.
blessed are ye that weep now-ye
shall laugh, We shall laugh"
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