The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-07-21

tnat you may spend all your lIfo on earth
under His smile and escape forever the thun-
der OF the laugh OF Gods indignatioo.
The other laughter mentioned in the
Bible, the only one shall spsaS o., Is
heavens laughter. or the expression OF
eternal triumph. Christ said TO His dis.
ciples, "Blessed are ye that weep now, TO
ye shall laugh" That makes me know
positively that We are not to spend our days
in heaven singing long meter psalms. Tne
formalistic and stin notions OF heaven that
some people have would make me mis- srab!e.
| am glad TO know that the heaven OF the
Bible is not only place OF holy worship,
hut OF magnificent sociality. "What." say
you, will the ringing laugh go around the
circles Of the savedp' l say yes-pure
laughter. cheering laughter, holy laughter.
II will be laugh of congratulatioD. When
We meet friend who has suddenly
come 10 fortune, or who has got over
some dire sickness, do we not shake
nands, do we not laugh with htm2 Aud
when we get 10 heaven AMI srs out friends
there, some of them having come up out OF
great tribulation. why. we will say TO one OF
them, "The last time saw you you had been
suffering for six weeks under a low interm
tent fever, or to another we will say You
for ten years were limping with the rheu-
matism. and you were full OF complaints
when we saw you last l congratulate you
on this eternal recovery" We shalt laugh.
Yes, we shall congratulate all those who havs
come out OF great financial emharrassments
in this world because they have become mill.
ioraires in heaven. He shalt laugh. IL
shall be laugh OF l oasso ,iation. II Is Just
rs natural for us to laugh when We meet a
friend we have not seen for ten years as any
thing is possible to be natural.
When we meet our friends from whom We
have been parted ten or twenty or thirty
years, will II not be with infinite congratula
ton? Our perception Quickenel, our
knOwlp1yp imnrOyei. know
other at fash. We will have TO talk over
all that has happened since we have been
separated, the one that has been ten years in
heaven telling us all thathas happened in
the ten years Of his heavenly residence, an
we telling him in return all that has hap
pened during the ten years OF his absence
from earth. Ye shall laugh. | think George
Whiteneld and John Wesley will have u
laugh OF contempt for their earthly COLI
sions, and Toplady and Charles Wesley will
have a laugh of contempt for th"ir earthly
MISUNDERSTANDING, and the two farmers
who were in lawsuit NIL their days will
have u laugh OF contempt over their earthly
disturbance about line fence. Exemption
from all annoyance. Immersion In all glad
ness Yc shalt laugh. Christ says so. Ye
shall laugh. Yes, It will Ue laugh OF tri
umph. Oh. what n pleasant thing II will bs
to stand on the wall OF heaven and LOOK
down ut satan aud hurl at him defiance and
see him Gagged and chainei and We forever
be n laugh OF royal greeting.
You know how the Frenchmen cheered
when Napoleon camn back from Elba you
know how tho English cheerei when Wei
lington came back from Waterloo you know
how Americans cheered when Kossuth ar
rived from Hungary you remember how
Rome cheercd when Pompsy same back vi'
torous over 900 cities. Every cheer was u
laugh. But. oh, the miShtier greeting. the
gladder greeting, when tho snow white cav
airy troop of heaven shall go through the
streets, and, according to the Book OF Reve-
lation. Christ I'm the red coat. the crimson
coat, on u white hors". and all the armies OF
heaven following Him on white horses Oh,
when we SEQ and hear that cavalcade we
shall cheer. we shall laugh! Does not your
heart beat quickly at the thought OF ths
great jubilee upon which We are soon to en-
ter2 pray God that when we get through
may have some such sviston as the
dying Christian had Ehcn he saw
written all over the clouds In the sky tns
letter "W." and they asked eim. standing bv
his side, what he thought that letter "W'
meant. ''Ob," he said. "that stands for wei.
come" And so may Il he when we quit this
world. "w" on the gate, w" on the door
Of the mansion, "W ! on the throne. Wei
comel Welcome Welcome! have
preached this sermon with five prsyerfu
wishes--;hat you might -" what mean
thing Is the laugh at sN"pticism what u
bright this Is the laugh OF spiritual cXulta-
ton. what a hollow thin; is the laugh OF sin
iul merriment. what au aw.ul thing Is tn
laugh - r"nd..ss.,s''''"", whnt ~ liant rubi-
cund thing is the laugh OF eternal triumph
Avoid tho i'll choose tho right BE com
fortej. blessed arc We that weep now-ye
shall laugh ye shall laugh.