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'Laugh and the "World Laughs WUhYou."

The Laughter of Angels and the Cachinnatlon of Devils—Dr. Talmagpe'a .,/ Sermon.

Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is now in Australia on his round the world journey, selected as the subject for his sermon through the press, last Sunday, "Laughter," the text being taken from Psaim cxxvi, 2, "Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and Psalm ii, 4, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh."

Thirty-eight times does the Bible make reference to this configuration of the features and quick expulsion of breath which we call laughing. Sometimes it is born of

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shine and sometimes the midnight. Sometimes it stirs the sympathies of angels, and sometimes the cachinnation of devils. All healthy people laugh.

Scene, an oriental tent occupants 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 become the ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sarah laughs in the face of God. She does not believe it. She is affrighted at what she has done. She denies it. She says, "I didn't laugh." Then God retorted, with an emphasis that silenced ail disputation. "But thou didst laugh!'' Mv friends, the laugh of skepticism, in all ages, is only the echo of Sarah laughter. God says he will accomplish a thing, and men say it can not be done. A great multitude laugh at the miracles. They say they are contrary to the laws of nature. What is a law of nature? It is God's way of doing a thing.

My friends, there is not a doctrine or statement of God's holy word that has not been derided by the skepticism of the da}r. I take up this book of King James translation. I consider it a perfect Bible, but here are skeptics who want it torn to pieces. And now, with this Bible in my hand, let me tear out a 11 those portions which the skepticism of this day demands shall be torn out. What shall go first? "Well," says some one in the audience, "take out all that about the creation and about the first settlement of the wprld." Away goes Genesis. "Now,' says some one, "take out all that about the miraculous guidance of the children of Israel in the wilderness." Awav goes Exodus. "Now." says some" one else in the audience, "there are things in Deuteronom}7 and Kings that are not fit to be read." Away go Deuteronomy and the Kings. "Now." says some one, "the Book of Job is a fable that ought to come out." Away goes the book of says some one, "those

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which imply the divinity of Jesus Christ ought to come out.'' Away jro the evangelists. "Now," says some one, "the book of Revelation— how preposterous! It represents a man with the moon under his feet

The next laughter mentioned

laughter." He got very much down sometimes, but there are other chapters where for tour or five times he sails upon the people to praise and exult. It was not a mere twitch of the lips. It was a demonstration that took hold of his whole physical nature. "Then was oui' mouth filled with laughter." My friends, this tvorld will never be converted to God until Christians cry less and laugh and sing more. The horrors are a poor bait. If people are to be persuaded to adopt our hohr religion it will be because they have made up their minds it is a happy religion. They don't like a morbid Christianity.

When Theodosius was put upon the rack he suffered very great torture at the first. Some one asked him how he endured all that pain on the rack. He replied: "When I was put on the rack I suffered a great deal, but very soon a young man in white stood by my side, and with a soft and comfortable handkerchief he wiped the sweat from my brow, and my pains were relieved. It was a punishment for me to get from the rack, because when the pain was all gone the angel was gone. Oh, rejoice evermore. You know how it is in the army—an army in encampment. If today news comes that our side has had defeat, and tomorrow another portion of the tidings comes, saying we have had another defeat, it demoralizes all the host. But if the news comes of victory today and victory to-morrow the whole '^?virmy is impassioned for the contest.

The next laughter mentioned in the Bible that I shall speak of is the fool's laughter, or the expression of sinful merriment. Solomon Was very quick at simile. When he makes a comparison, we all catch it. What is the laughter of a fool like? He says, "it is the crackling of thorns under a pot." The kettle^

passages in the New Testament apocalyptic vision, and when any -1"'- -c

swung, a bunch of brambles is put under it, and the torch is applied to t, and there is a great noise, and a bjg blaze, and a sputter, and a quick extinguishment. Then it is darker htan it was before. Fool's laughte

The most miserable thing on earth is a bad man's fun. There they are —ten men in a barroom they have at home wives, mothers, daughters. The impure jest starts at one corner of the barroom, and crackle, crackle, crackle, it goes all around. In 500 such guffaws there is not one item of happiness. They all feel bemeaned. if they have any conscience left. Have nothing to do with men or women who tell immoral stories. I have no confidence cither in their Christian character or their morality. So all merriment that springs out of the defects of others—caricature of a lame foot, or a curved spine, or a blind eye, or a deaf ear will be met with the judgments of God either upon you, or upon your children.

Twenty vears ago I knew a man who was particularly skillful in imitating the lameness" of a neighbor. Not long ago a son of the skillful mimic had his leg amputated for the very defect which his fafher had mimicked years before. I do not say it was a judgement of God. I leave you to make your own inference.

The next laughter that I shah mention as being in the Bible is the laugh of God's condemnation. "He that sitteth in the condemnation will laugh at him." Again. "I will laugh at "his calamity." With such demonstration will God greet every kind of sin and wickedness. But men build up villainies higher and higher. Good men almost pity God, because he is so schemed against by men. Suddenly a pin drops out of the machinery of wickedness, or a secret is revealed, and the foundation begins to rock. Finally, the whole thing is demolished. What is the matter? I will tell you what the matter is. That crash of ruin is only the reverberation of God's laughter.

Rome was a great empire she had Horace and Virgii among her poets she had Augustus and Constantino amon«r her emperors. But what mean the defaced Pantheon, and the Forum turned into a cattle market, and the broken walled Coliseum, and the architectural skeletons of her great aqueducts. What was .that thunder? "Oh," you say, "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 were the outburst of omnipotent laughter from the defied and insulted heavens. Rome defied God and He laughed her down. Nineveh defied God, and He langhed her down. Babylon defied God, and He laughed her down.

There is a great difference between God's laugh and his smile. His smile is eternal beatitude. He smiled when David saner, and Miriam clapped the cymbals, and Hannah made garments for her son, and Paul preached,and John kindled with

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Away goes the book of Revelations. may it never fall on us! It is a con-, began fattening them on his hig Now there are a few pieces left. What shall we do with them? "Oh," says some man in the audience. "I ilon't believe a word in the Bible, from one end of the Bible to the other." Well, it is all gone. Now vou have put out the last light for the nations. Now it is pitch darkness of eternal midnight. How do you like it?

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The next laughter mentioned in The other laughter mentioned in ,, 7 •~,7r the Bible is David's laughter, or the the bible—the only one I shall speak the stuff up to the orchard near le .n-.,I •. l„-n,.-, house, where it was spread about as ,„pression of spiritual exultation. of—is heaven's laughter, or the ex'Then was our mouth filled with pressionof eternal triumph. Christ said to his disciples, "Blessed are ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh."

That makes me know positively

that we are not to spend our day in heaven singing long meter psalms. The formalistic and stiff notions of heaven that some people have would make me miserable. I am glad to know that heaven of the bible is not only a place of holy worship, but of I magnificeut sociality.

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. It shall be a laugh

according to th^, book of Revelation 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 your heart beat quickly at the thought of the great jubilee upon which we are sooti to enter?

pray God that when we get through with this world and are leaving 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 the letter "W" meant. "Oh, that stands for welcome," he said. And so raav it be when we quit this world. "W" on the gate, "W" on the door of the mansion, "W" on the throne. Welcome! Welcome! I

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well His smile! Why, it is the he could offer was 83 cents a barrel, 15th of May. the apple-orchards in the top market price. The old man full bloom it is morning breaking I couldn't stand such a drop as that, on a rippling sea it is heaven at: so he had the shipment returned, hirh noon, and the bells beating the paying freight charges both ways. hand." marriage peal, but his laughter— Purchasing forty fine young, pigs, le

demnation for our sin it is a wast-j grade sauer kraut. All went well inn- away. We may let the satirist for a few days, but the porkers soon lau'dit at us. and all our companions tired of the diet and began to run mav laurh at us, and we may be from it. The pile grew high, and a made the target o? merriment of of the stronger pigs jumped the earth and hell, but God forbid that fence and ran awav, while the other we should ever come to the fulfill ment of the prophesy against the rejectors of the truth, "I will laugh at your calamity."

snau iau^n. .it Miiui ue lau^u r,--—- —.7 :,: of reassociation. It is just as nat- l°nelv and disappointed old feuto a. trin fo»»m nnn it. tunc oil f\\ro ural for us to laugh when we meet a friend we have not seen for years as anything is possible to be natural' When we meet our friends from whom we have been partec\ ten or twenty or thirty years, will it not be with infinite congratulations? Ohr perception quickened, our knowledge improved, we will know each other at a flash. W'c will hp.ve to talk over all that has happened since we have been separated, the one that has been ten years in heaven telling us all that has happened in the ten years of his heavenly residence, and we telling him in return all that has happened during the ten years of his absence from earth Ye shall laugh.

You know how the Frenchmen cheered when Napoleon came back from Elba. You know how the En' glishmen cheered when Wellington came back from Waterloo. You know how Americans cheered when Kossuth arrived from Hungary. You know how Rome cheered when Pompev came back victor over nine hundred cities. Every cheer was laugh. But, oh, the mightier greeting, the gladder greeting, when the now-white cava.ry troop of heaven shall go through- the streets, and,

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sermon with five prayerful wishes that you might see what a mean thing is the laugh of skepticism^ what a bright thing is the laugh of spiritual exultation, what a hollow tiling is the laugh of condemnation, what a 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. ye shall laugh.'

DISPERSED UK SAL^UKIUUT.

The Peculiar Cause of All the Children Quitting tne Old Home.

They were talking about the desertion of farms by the younger generation for the alluring charms of the cities how the young men and women left the home nest in the country as soon as they felt any confidence in themselves and flocked to the paved streets and brick walls of' urban life in the hope that work would not be so hard and money would come easier. "Our family furnishes a case in point," said a young German who has latterly appeared in minor roles in Twentyfourth ward Democratic politics. "We're all in the city now except the old folks, who stick to the farm, and are doing pretty well. Our reasons for abandoning the farm, however, were not those usually given, and I doubt if a parallel case can be found." Then he told his story:

With two brothers and three sisters he lived on a farm 100 miles from Chicago, and they all aided a phlegmatic old father in operating the place. It was a fine piece of land and the family was happy aud prosperous. But dark disaster came one day in the shape of a cabbage crop. The Chicago, market then showed a strong demand for sauerkraut arid the farmer decided to go in for a profitable crop. With the three boys he planted several acres in cabbage with excellent results. The crop was cut up and packed and there were 350 barrels of the finest sauerkraut made.

Communicating with a friend in the grocei business on the North Side the farmer received an order for ten barrels. A few days later announced that the best

sickened aud grew weak from starvs ation. It was a puzzler for the old man but he was determined to 'derive some benefit, and the boys lugged

house, where it was spread about as a fertilizer. By this time the entire family grew turbulent at the mere mention of sauerkraut, and when the sun poured its hot rays on the pickled cabbage the girls rebelled. The farmer was obdurate, an$ the three girls packed their effects and came to the city. The kraut became so powerful that even the old man could not Stand it, and the bovs were instructed to cart it down to a distant field and spread it. The bovs had been on the verge of mutiny several times and this settled it'. They all "lit out" f?r Chicago and have been here ever since. The girls are in service, and once in a great while they all meet with the

on the farm. When it was all over the Chicago sauerkraut market went booming a^ain.

A Physiological Faet.

New Albany Ledger.

There are some people that it takes about four generations of riches to produce a boy without freckles and a girl of just the right tone in'color. It is a refining process, and not money at all the work of blood and not of bonds.

Wanned Over.

Life.

Wife (at breakfast)—Henry, will you ask a blessing? Henry (examining hash)—We've blessed everything here before.

The VeryEal of the Earth. Jiily Century. At Nerano there is a break in the cliffs, and the overhanging hills slop^ more gently dovyn to the water's edge. Above, in the shouldef of the mountain, below the sharp-peaked Santo Constanzo, lies a little village calied Termini. The fishermen say and believe that Christy when he had walked over the whole earth with his disciples, reached this point,and declared that it was the end of th€ world hence the names

THE CAMPAIGN.

Causes of the Panic -An Unreconstructed Rebel—A Georgia View.

The Cleveland Panic.

The great panic of 1893-94, which swept over the country like a cyalone, except that its track was as broad as the country itself, carrying ruin wherever it went and leaving devastation behind—this greatest of social and commercial convulsions on record has been called the Cleveland panic. Is this mere political claptrap, a campaign epithet, or is it really appropriate?

It is almost universally agreed by those who have attempted to account For the panic that it was due to one of two causes, or to both combined, viz., first, Jhe prospect of the repeal :f protection to American industries and, second, lack of confidence. Undoubtedly,, these two causes were the main factors in producing the panic. Overtrading and the undue expansion of credit may have operated as a remote cause, but that alone would not have brought on the oanic. The country would easily nave recovered from that, and business would not have experienced any naterial interruption or shock had it not been for the threatened change :n our tariff laws and the consequent uncertainty and lack of confidence that dried up the sources of trade md overturned the very foundations )f business. As these causes are correlative and both traceable to the success of the Democratic party, there is eminent fitness in calling the great commercial convulsion of 1893-94 the Cleveland panic.

But there is another reason why the designation tits. The election of any Democratic President on the Chicago platform would probably aave been followed by the tariff agitation and a panic. But Mr. Cleveand has personally and distinctly contributed to the public alarm and oss of confidence, which is one of the recognized causes of tk'e panic. \To President and no candidate for President c^er expressed as many ~r as pronounced communistic sentiments as Mr. Cleveland. No other public man outside of the Populist jarty, with the possible exception )f Senator Voorhees, has delivered is many incendiary utterances. Mr. Cleveland alone of all our Presidents las repeatedly given expression to sentiments calculated to inflame the

popular mind, creato antagonism bo-!lived'

tween labor and capital, and array the poor against the rich and arouse a feeling of sullen d:scontent among svorkingmen. In his Madison Square speech in New York city he made a demagogical reference to the Homestead troubles and charged, in effect, that they were the outcome of protection. The evident object of the statement was to play upon the prejudices of the ignorant and turn popular passion into political capital. At other times in his public utterances Mr. Cleveland has used such expressions as "the communism of ombined wealth and capital "a

I -oiuing from the President of the

United States, they carry great iveight. Capital is proverbially :imid. When attacked or threatened it runs away or hides. It scents danger from afar, and makes laste to get beyond the reach of ^arm. Capitalists and business lien read the papers, watch the )ourse of legislation and scan and iveigh th3 Utterances of public men. Dan any person believe that Mr. Cleveland's communistic uttermces have escaped their notice or lave not excited their alarm? In short, can any person doubt that he ias personally, directly and distinctcontributed in' no small degree to he lack of confidence which has ieen so painfully apparent in this :ountry for two vears past? What

Coxeyism? What is the common.veal movement? What are the socalled armies straggling towards Washington? What are the great abor strikes and the growing disontent of workingrnen? What are

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I they all but natural results of the jteachings of Grover Cleveland? If such demonstrations have a tendency to alarm capital and cause a lack of confidence among business men. then there is eminent proprietv ill calling the great panic of 1893.-94 the Cleveland panic.

scheme perpetrated for the purpose "nu iw iicuuxi! )f exacting tribute from the poor for against the rank ana file oi tno the benefit of the rich oppressed G^eclerate army, .whose valor, poverty and toil "the gulf

Rosser's Rant.

Indianapolis Journal. -I

Gen Thomas L. Rosser is one of those men who, after being educated at the expense of the United States government, and after making oath time and again to be loyal to the Nation and its Constitution and laws, committed perjury and joined the rebellion, where he became a distinguished cavalry officer. General Rosser, after his four years of treason preceded by perjury, applied for restoration to citizenship, which was granted him by the generosity of a Republican Congress and President upon taking an oath of allegiance. A large part of the time since his pardon for treason and his restoration to citizenship he has been employed as an engineer by railroads building by the aid of Congressional land grants, so that since, as before the war, he has eaten bread which the United Slates has furnished. On Memorial Day this Once perjured General Rosser was one of the speakers at the dedication of a monument :n Richmond, Va,, in honor of the rank and file of the confederate army, and said: "I despise the man who gives United States money to a pensioner. This country can't stand when it makes one citizen support another. I shall never vote for a Congressman who is in favor of government pensions. I would say to Massachusetts, you pay your pensioners as Virginia pays hers."

General Rosser then went on to assail the Grand Army of the Republic as men banded together to rob the Treasury, and that he never desired to see them the guests of a Southern city. The denunciation oi Union veterans as pension thieves is so common on the part of papers like the New York Times and magazines like the Forum that the fiery confederate cannot be singled out for censure for repeating what he reads in Northern papers, but there was no occasion for him to make an ass of himself by concluding his address with the following declaration, inspired by idiocy and rage: "We unveiled a'monument to the greatest general that ever lived. Today we unveil a monument to the greatest private soldiers who ever "in time we will unveil

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like import*. .Such expressions, R°ss.er fpeak, even in egac\l to coming from a cross-roads politician Pi°uslon:=-

New York Sun.

A MIRACLE IF

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Confederacy. But we are mocked a', in the North, and will live to see th3 Yankee array march a.ufain through the South and pull down our monuments. I don't know what sort o! stuff the rising generation is mada of, but if you and I are living there will ,,be t^ood^hed when that is done.*

The idea that a Yankee army will ever be sent South to pull down its monuments is too preposterous ta be repeated. On Memorial day, far as one can gather from, the reports of addresses, there was not an unkind word spoken regarding the Southern people, and particular

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ginia district, running against Mr. Turner Democrat, who u*as elected to fill the vacancv occasioned by th(! resignation of Governor O'Ferrall. This fact may account for his idiotic rant about pensions aud the North. Still, many people in the North would like to know how extensive is the bitter feeling expressed by Populist Rosser in the South against the North, and if all of his partv in the South are as hostile to pensions I as are the Democrats of the South and the special Cleveland organs of the North.

Pieces to Say

Books of "recitations"' still sell in this town, and every dealer ii: second-hand books makes it a point to keep many such on hand. They are bought by young persons, anc it would surprise the really metropolitan New Yorker to know how popular amateur recitation is in some social circles.

SURVIVES.

Cleveland—I want to leave the Democratic party better than

ound it. y. Dr. David Hill—And I'm .going to maice it lively for tha Democratic )arty just so long As it keepg that man for head physician.!

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