"REV. DR. TALMAGE, THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: *‘Laughter” Texr: “Then was our mouth filled with laughter," —Psalm exxvi., 2. ‘He that sit- | Joh in the heavens shall laugh," —Psalm a % Thirty-eight times does the Bible make reference to this configuration of the fea- tures and quick expulsion of breath which we call Jaughter, the sunshine and sometimes the midnight. Bometimes it stirs the sympathy of angels and sometimes the cachinnation of devils, | All healthy people laugh. Whether it pleases the Lord or displanses Him, that de- | ends upon when we lauch and at what we aughb. My theme to-day is the laughter of the Bible-—namely, Sarah's laugh, or that of skepticism ; David's laugh, or that of spirit ual exultation ; the fool's laugh, or that o sinful merriment; God's laugh, or that o Sometimes ft {8 born of | f | that pain on the rack, tf tianity, I know there are morbid pesple who enjoy a funeral, They come early to seethe friends take leave of the corpse, and they steal n ride to the cemetery, but all healthy people enjoy a wadding better than they do a burial, Now, you make the meligion of Christ sapulehral and hearselike, and you make it repulsive, Isay plant the rose of Sharon along the church walks and columbine to clamber over the church wall, and have a smile on the lip, and have the {| moath filled with holy laughter. There ls no man in the world, except the Christian, | that has a right to feel an untrammeled gles Ho Is promised everything is to be for the | best here, and he is on the way to a delight which will take all the processions with palm | branches and all the orchestras | eymbaled and trumpeted to express, you say, ‘I have so much trouble,” | you more trouble than Paul had? What does | ho say? “‘Borrowiul, yet alwavs rejoicing Poor, vet making many rich, Having noth- ing, yet possessing all things." lnugh I think I have ever heard has! the slekroom of God's dear children Theodosius was put upon the rack, fered very great torture at the first, Somebody asked him how he endurad all Ho replind “When harped and “Oh,” nen in When was first put on the rack, I suffered a great | infinite condemnation ; heaven's laugh, or | deal, but very soon a young man in white that of eternal triumph, Boene, an oriental tent, old Abraham and Sarah, perhaps wrinkled and decrepit, Their three guests are three angels, the Lord Almighty one of them. In return for the hospitality shown by the old people God promises Sarah that she shall | woome the anoestress of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sarah laughs in the face of God, Bhe does not belleve it, She is affrighted at what she has done. She denies it. She says, “I did notlaugh.” Then God retorted with an emphasis that silenced all disputa- tion, “But thou didst taugh,” My friends, the laugh of skepticism In all ages is only the echo of Sarah's laughter, will accomplish a thin g, and men say it ean- notbe done. A great multitude laugh at the miracles. They say they are contrary to the laws of nature, What is a law nature? It is God's way of doing a thing. You dinarily cross a river at one ferry. To-mor- row you change for one day, and you across another ferry, You made the rule, Have you not the right to change it? You ordinarily come in at that door of the charch, Buppose that next Sabbath you come in at the other door, It is a habit you have, Have 03 not a right to change your habit? aw of nature is God's habit—His way of doing things. If He makes the law, has He Ore 20 hot a right to change it at any time He wants | to change it? Alas! for the folly of those who laugh at RL ira a 4 A 16) ponding, u ean't doit, God gays that the Bible is true—it is all true olenso laughs, Harbert Spencer Stuart Mill laughs, great German universities laugh, Harvard laughs softly. A great many of the learned institutions, with long rows of professors seated on the fence between Christianity and infidelity, laugh softly. They say, “We didn’t laugh.” That was Sarah's trick. God thunders from the heavens, ‘‘Bat thou didst laugh!" The garden of Eden was only a fable, There Dever was a rk built, or if it was built it wis too small to have two of every kind. The plliar of fire by night was the northern lights, the ten plagues of Egypt only a briiliaut spee juggiery. The sea parted because the wind blew violently a great while from one direction. The sun and moon did not put themselves out of the way for Joshua, Jacob's ladder was only horizontal and pieturesqus clouds, The de stroying angel smiting the firstborn Ezspt was only cholera infantum epidemig. The gullet of the whale, by positive measurement, too small to swallow & prophet, The story of the immaculate conception a shock to all The lame, the dumb, the blind, the halt, cured by mere human surgery. The resurrection oniy imen of 3 at become ™ m decenoy. of Christ's friend only a beautiful tableau, | Christ and Lazarus and Mary and Martha acting thelr parts well, isnot a doctrine Or statement 0 +51 skepticism of the day. God's ho BOT Deen garidsd © The occupants | fortable God says He | Al in | oe | ! | stood by my side, and with a soft and com- handkerchief hoe wiped the sweat from my brow, and my pains were relieved | It was a punishment for me to get | rack, be when | the angel was gone,” "Huse Oh, rej You know how it is in the arn | encampment, If to-day news our side has had a defeat, an another portion of the tidings ing we have had another defeat, FAL all the h victory to- evermore WM Army fit d But if the news o lay and vietory to-n whole army is impassioned for Now, in the kingdom of Christ report fewar defeats tells tories victory over sin and death Rejolee evermors, i thers Is st, our and } and again I say rejoloe, alleve more religion in a laugh than in a groan. Anybody ean gre to laugh in the midst of banishment and persecution and indesaribable trial, that re quired a David, a Daniel a Paul, a | heroine, | The next laughter mentioned in the | that I shail speak of is the fool's | the expression of sinful merri | was very quick at simile, W romparison, we all h | laughter of a fool like? | erackling of the tle is sung, a bunch of brambles is put un- | der it, and the torch is applied it, there is a great noise, and a big bi | sputter and a quick extinguishment, | it is darker than it was before, Fo | ter, - The most miserable thing on | bad man’s fan, There they are a barroom. 'y have at mothers, daughters, T at one corner of the barr rrackie, crackle it goes all such guffaws there sr ness, They all feel b any consci left, with men or women wl I bave no confidences ian character or their o Bo all merriment defects of others or a curved spine, o wn, but modern Bit cate “9 ‘ H Lwenty yen tion re pa ness of the skillifal mimi very defect mimicked years before, n judgment of God. 2 inference, i that which counter of the drinking restaurant winogiass in the home circle, th simper, the meaningless joke, ti : gibberish, the parox bm of mirth about ne the Starts ing which you sometimes see ic the tashion- i My friends, there | able elabroom or the exquisite parlor at LOTHA Under a pot, sin ond in death, When I was a lad, a book I take up this book of King James's trans- | came out entitled, “Dow Junior's Patent lation. [ consider it a perfeot Bible, but here are skeptics who want It torn to pieces, And now, with this Bible in my band, let me tear out all those portions which the skepticisx of this day demands shall be torn out. What shall go first? “Well,” says some one in the audience, ““taks out all that about | i ¢ | the creation and of the world." says some on miracul in the about the first settioment Away goes Genesis, “Now,” , ‘take out all that about the Away goes Ex “Xow,” save some one else in the audience, ‘there are things ia Deuteronomy a: Kings that are not fit to be read.” Away Deuteronomy and the Kings. Now," some one, Job is a fable th ought to « Away goes the | Job, ""Now." says some one, ‘those ages in the New Testament which img divinity of Jesus Christ ought to same our,” Away go the Evangelists, some one, ‘the book of preposterous | s A +4} go Le fig h at the oO 14 Now," says Revslation—how It represents a man with the { and of the word of {lanes of the children of Israel | , tus moon under his feet and a sharp sword in | his hand." Away goes the book of Revela- tion. Now thero are a few pleces left, What shall wo do with them? "Oh." says armo man in the andisnce, "I don't believe a word In the Bible from one end to the othe er.” Well, it Is all gone, Now you have Ia out the last light for the nations, Now t is the piteh darkness of eternal midnight, How do you like it? But I think, my friends, wo bad better keep the Bible a little longer fntast, It has done pretty well for a good many years, Then there are old peopls who find A a com- fort to have it on thelr laps, and children lke the stories In it, curiofity anyhow. If the Bible is to be thréWn out of the school and out of the courtroom, #0 that mer no more swear by it, and it is to be put in a dark corridor of ke ® , the Korah on one sldé and the | man thers says, “I mean to Let us koep it for a | | Some said It was a sudden turn in Erie Rall- | of Confucius on the other, then let | | writl us oT ont keop a copy for himself, for we ight have trouble, and we would want to | under tho delusions of its cousolations, had we might die, and we would want the delusion of the exalted residence of God's right hand, which it mentions. Oh, what an awful thing it is to laugh In God's face and hurl His Revelation back at Him! After awhile the day will come whem they will say they did mot laugh. Chea all the hyper. criticisms, all the caricatures and all the learned aneers in the quarterly reviews will be brought to judgment, and amid the rosk- | ing of everything beneath and amid the flaming of everything above God will than der, “But thou didst laugh!” I think the most fascinating laughter at Christianity I ever remember was a man in Now England, He made the word of God seem ridloulons, | and he laughed on at our holy religion until he came to die, and then he sald: “My life has been a fallure—a failure domestically, I have no children, A failure socially, for I am treated in the streets like a pirate, A failure professionally because I know but one minister that has adopted my sentiments.” Fora quarter of a century he laughed at Christianity, and ever sinoe Christianity has been laughing at him. Now, it Is a mean thing to go into a man’s house and steal his 8, but I tell you the most gigantie bar. glary ever invented is the proposition to steal theses treasurers of our holy religion, The meanest laughter ever uttered ia the laugh of the skeptic ne next laughter mentionod In the Bible fs Duvid's laughter, or the expression of ritual exultation. “Then was our mouth lod with laughter.” He got very mush down sometimes, but there are other chap ters where for four or ive times he calls upon the Io to praise and exalt, It was nots mere twitch of the lips—it was a demons! ra- tion that took hold of his whole physical na- ture, ahah a out aout Hilal with laughter,’ y trisnds, this worl never ig lA by Mbp bad more, The horrors are | loft his honest Swick ad & Béshanle ahd got Sermons.” It made a great stir, a very wide laugh, all over the country, that It was a caricature of the Christ God, and wo had ag judgm « Oh, comme their own 4d isaghter that I shall n the Bible is the | nuation, “He tha shall langh.™ at him." ran, vd higher in ause He is 80 schemal aim Saddenly a pin drops out of the i of wickednoss or a secret is reveals! the foundation begins to rock. Finally ti whole thing is demolished. What matter? I will tell you what the matter ‘hat arash of rain Is only the reverberatio: of God's laughter, In the money market there are A great many good and a great many frandalent men. A fraudulent have my mil reckless of hon. $100,000, Ha nen a : nat is t men lion." He goss to work esty, and he gets his first gots after awhile his $200 000, After awhile he gots his $500.000, “Now.” he says. 1 have Only one more move to make, and | shall have my million." He gathers up all his resoyrces. He makes that one last grand move, he falls and loses all, and he has not enough momey of his own left to pay | the cost of the sar to his home. People can- not understand this spasmodie revalsion way stook, or in Western Union, or in Il pols Central ; some sald ons thing and some another, They all guessed wrong. toll you what it was, ‘‘He that sitteth in the heavens laughed.” A man In New York sald be would be the righest man in the city, He into the olty councils some way and In ten years stole $15,000,000 from tha city govern ment, Fifteen million dollars! He held the Legislature of the State of New York in the grip of his right hand. Baspicions were aroused. The grand jury presented indie ments, The whois land stood aghast, The man who expected to put half the city in his vest pocket goes to Blackwell's Island, goes to Ludlow street Jai breaks prison and goes ancross the sea, is rearrested and brought back and again remandel to jail, Why? “He that sitteth in the heavens laughed.” Rome wasn great empire, She had Horace and Virgll among her poots ; she had Angus tus and Constantine among her smperors, But what mean the defaced Pantheon, and the Forum turned Into a cattle market, an the broken walled Collseum, and the archi. teotural skeleton of her great aquelucts? | What was that thunder? "Ob." you may, ‘that was the roar of the battering rams against her walls.” No, What was that quiver? “Oh,” you say, “that was the tramp of hostile legions.” No. The quiver and the roar wers the outburst of omnipotent laughter from the defled and insulted heavy. ans. Rome defled'God, and He laughed her down, Thebes defied God, and He laughed her down. Nineveh defled God, sad He laughed her down, Babylon defied God, and He laughed her down, There is a great difference between God's laueh and His smile, His smile Is sternal beatitude, He smiled when Davidsang, and Miriam clapped the cymbals, and Hanuah made garments for her son, and Paul preached, and John kindled with apooalyptie vision, and when any man has anything to do and does it I, His smile! Why, it is the 15th of May, the apple orchards In full bloom ; it Is morn- ing breaking on a rippling sea ; it Is heaven at high noon, all the hells beating the mar peal, Bat His laa or--may it never fallon us! It is a oon for our Have | The merriest | he sul- | " } rom the the pain was all gone | I- | heaven's I will | | of earth and hell, mt God forbid that wa should ever coms to the fulfillment «ff the prophecy against the rejoctors of tha trath, “I will laugh at your calamity." Bat, my friends, all of us who reject Christ and the pardon of the gospel must comes under that tremendous bombardment, God wants us allto repent, He counsels, He coaxes, He importunes, and He dies for us, He comes down out of heaven, He puts all the world’s #in on one shoulder, He puts ail the world's sorrow on the other shoulder, and then with that Alp on one side and that Himalaya on the other He starts up the hill back of Jeru. to nohleve our salvation, He puts the of His right foot on one long spike, He puts the palm of His left foot on another long spike, and with His hands spotted with His own blood, Ho gesticulates, saving “Look, k nnd live, With the crimson veil of I will cover up all your sins ; { groan I will swallow up all your grouns, Look! Live!" Buta thousand you turn | your back on that, and thon this ¥ invitation turns to a tone divinely ominous, that sobs lke a simoom through the first { chapter Proverbs, “Beenuss I have miled and yo refused, IT have stretched ont My right band, and no man regarded, buat yo have set at nauzht all My counsel and would none of My reproof, I, also, wi Inugh at your calamity.” Oh, w s laugh that Is —a deep laugh, a long, reverberating { laugh, an overwhelming lsugh, God grant we may never hear it, But in this day of mersiful visitation vield your heart to Christ, | that you may spend all your under His smile and sseape fc ler of the laugh of God's indignation The laughter ment Bible, the only one I shall Innhta or the triumph, ‘hrist sald 1 are ve that weep " That makes ively that we are n 1 singing long \ 100 of ¢ Lh fo on earth reaver the thun- i other ned the speak is fxn eternal i to spend our d mater psalms, he ringin a you had be ¢ralow intern BAY : AUR : r 1 sons (8 4] have a isug misunderstarn who ware ina lawsait all have a langh of contempt over their arthiy i disturbance about a Bue fence, Exemption ht a the srackling 2! | from all annovanes, Immersion ig wil teh laughter and such | hess, [& shal! inugh. 1 3 You it will be a laugh what s pleasant thing it » wal H i 1] | shall laugh, amph ON : heavy at} nd 1 the t ia ana ar preached this sermon wishesthat you might A INeAD thing is the jaugh of what a | bright this is the Jaugh of spiritual exalta. tion, what a hollow thing is the laugh of sin. ml merriment, what an awful thing is laugh ¢ f condemnation, what a radiant, rubi. cund thing is the laugh of eternal triumph. Avold the ll; choose the right, Be com | forted, ‘Blessed are yo that weep now-—ye shall laugh ; yo shall laugh, cn — . Effect of Dehorning on Milk, Dr. E. M. Gatehel, of West Chester, five what sxepticism, prayerial on ] | Penn., has within a week examined | about 700 cows for tuberculosis {a few cases were found, | that it will not be long before all the | herbs have passed 1spection and milk | from the county may once more be shipped to Philadelphia, In speaking of his examination, Dr. Gatchel made | this startling observation: | “There is one other evil I wish to eall your attention to. That is in re- | gard to using the milk of a herd of | cattle on the days immediately follow: ing the operation of dehorning. I | have examined quite a number of cat- | tle after they were dehorned and found [that ther temperature rose to 104, | 108, and, in some cases, as high as 108, | A period of eight or nine days elapsed before their temperature went down to nearly the normal. During that period the owners continued shipping | the milk to Philadelphia, When a | cow's temperature runs up to 104 or upward her milk is positively nnilt for use, and, I dare say, may be deadly to infants.” The custom of dehorning cattle is practised by a majority of the Chester farmers, is statement will probabl lead to a halt in this dehorning busi. ness or to the stopping of the ship. ment qf the diseased milk. — Philadel. phin Record. — By the last census there were 2000 Japanese in this country, Only RA then, | of God was | says that after all My sacrifice | with My dvine | : iy dyin | sald to eo of | | Throe tines { tare hard upon the pre “What is written in t Iw the | | Ho must be about His Father's | quietly submitted to Nazareth, and the oar | penter’s shop, and the hamble home He thinks | | like Joseph and Daniel, bat in greater meas. did alwa the Holy Spirit His great teacher, Col. 114, 16 ; Johan xiv,, SABBATH SCHOOL. ! INTERNATIONAL JULY LESSON 20. FOR Lesson Text: “The Youth of Jesus,” Luke 11, 40.52. Golden Text: Luke 11, HZ Commentary. 40, “And the ehild grew and waxed strong | In spirit, filled with wisd , and the grace | upon Him The previous verse | things written in the law had been performed for the child th turned to Nazareth, This first verse may ! ontain all we know ofthe first twalve years of His life, Bince John tl was filled with the Holy Spirit from his (Luke i., 155 we cannot ti otherwise Jesus, and that would explain His 1} “strong in spirit and filled with wisdot 41. “Now, His parents went to Js overy vear nt the a year nll ink commanded to apg Jerusaler , at the feast woeks and the | worn t r when ropreacn ship the Lord (7 42. “And when ) Je len of the ineldents ot the | 43. “And when they as they returned, the hind in J¢ mother knew not o pear to have hes Apoeryphn wou probably a qu wins more in H 80 absent n ‘ the least for He nov dead (II Cor 44. "But been in the and they soug and soquain working t hardly have great w Jerusalem netunlly los 46. “An turned i Him." W} russe ia He ns He unto vou i =; 10. We may tions would be ripe ! opis nn L We he law’ “How read 7” (Lake x., 203. His own answers alten Taare Ih The very words ‘of seriptare 5 And w amazed Son. why 18 : on they saw H they His mother sa be about M ay seek | H sce w Tr ways be f sarily Ina » He should word, I'hy Fath of human Hps the words } words of Jesus 50. “And they 1 which He spake unto them understood not, what wor ties afterward understood Iv helpless we all are, apart Spirit, to understand ti The things of God kn Spirit of God (1 Cor. 1 f Egypt and of Baby the dreams of their res; but a Joseph and a Daal wisdom and the Spirit i 51. “And He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was sabject untothem, but His mother kept all these sayings in her hoart.™ Yerse 40 covers the first twalve yonrs of His life, and this verse covers the next eighteen years, One has sald that sab. mission is the highest mission on earth, and we oortainly soe it In Jesus, He knew who He was, whenoe He came and what He came to do, yet for eighteen years after He sald husinoss He : weth 1 , 1 . . yf Gol ald : Thirty years, unknown, He trol Galilee 8 sequested sod, Bat His life was known to God, Dally work at Joseph's eall, Daily duties howe er small, Yot Ho was the Lord of al 82. “And Jesus loereased in wisdom and in statue and in favor with God and man.” Thjucally, He grow as other boys ; spiritual ly He besame filed with wislom from above, are. 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