Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-09
TALMAGE.
What the Result m the Recent Election
Means

Politicians have been figuring
ever since the morning OF the 8th of
November as to what meant the
revolution in American politics.
In some cities and states 1t may
have had some meaning peculiar to
themselves, but Tell you what it
meant all over. 1t meant that the
people of the United States are in
furiated at the way the taxes are
kept up when they could be lower
ed. A hundred million dollars
extracted from the hard earnings of
the people to be stored up as temp
tatiOn to public officials. The only
way to keep public men from steal
ing from the treasury $50, 200, 900 is
not to have any treasury to steal.
During the coming session of con-
gress the republican party will have
another opportunity to take off the |
blood-suckers from the body-politic,
and if they fail to do it the verdict |
of the people in Massachusetts, and |
| New York is only a snowflake |
compared with what will be the |
avalanche of popular indignation. |
| If neither of the parties of the day |
| do the work of emancipation from |
taxes, then a new party will do il. |
If you republicans and you demo-
Gratis do not do your duty in this
regard, we will, after a while, form /
party of our own, and put men in |
position pledged to anti-excessive |
taxation, anti-rum, anti-dirt, anti
nuisances, anti-monopolies, and |
will give those of you who have
been so long feeding on public I
spoils, careless OF public morals, not
so much as the wages of street.
sweeper. In that good time COM
ing there shall be no exhaustive
taxation; no orphans homeless, for
parents will be able to leave their
children competency; no prisons,
for crime will have given place to
virtue. In the happy time coming
there will be no voting of public
money that on its way to some city
improvement falls into the pockets
of those who voted it. No courts of
Oyer and Terminer at vast expense
to the people. No impaneling of
juries to inquire into theft, arson,
murder, slander and black-mail.
In that day of redemption there
will be better factories, grander
architecture, finer equipages, larger
estates, richer opulence.
Again, when our cities are puri-
fed the churches will be multiplied,
purified and strengthened. Now
denominations and the individuals
of different sects are often jealous of
each other. Christians are not al
ways kindly disposed toward each
other, and ministers of the gospel
sometimes forget the bond of broth
erhood. In that day they will be
sympathetic and helpful. There
may be differences of opinion and
sentiment, but no acerbity, no
hypercriticism and no exclusive
ness. In that day all the churches
will be filled with worshippers.
We have not to-day in the cities
church room for one-fOurth OF our
population and yet there is a good
deal more room than the people
oncupy. The churches do not aver
age an attendance of 500 people. =
The vast majority do not attend
public worship. But in the day of I
which / speak there will be enough
church-room to hold all the people,
and the room will be occupied. In
that time what rousing songs will
be sung! What earnest sermons
will be preached What fervent
prayers will be offered In these
days fashionable church is place I
where, after a careful toilet, a few
people come in, sit down, and what j
time they can get their minds off
their stores or away from the new
style of hat in the seat before them,
listen in silence to the minister,
warranted to hit no mans sins, and
to the choir who are agreed to sing
tunes that nobody knows; and hav.
ing passed away an hour In dreamy
lounging, go home refreshed. j [
pronounce much of what is called {
church music in our day a mockery ]
and farce. Though have neith- q
no man shall do my singing. I
Nothing can take The place of artis- Y
tic music. The dollar that / pay |
to hear Miss Thursby or Miss Abb !
bott is far from being wasted. But l
when the hymn is read and the G
angels of God stoop from their l
thrones to bear up on their wings
the praise of the great congregation, Il
let us not drive them away with s
our Indifference. [ have preached a
in churches where fabulous sums of 0
money were paid to performers, and
the harmony was as exquisite as
any harmony that ever went from
any academy of music and yet, for >,
all the purposes of devotion, / -
would prefer the hearty, outbreak !,
ing song of backwOods Methodist q
When these fancy, :,
songs get up to the gate y
Of heaven, how do you suppose they -
look standing beside the great dox- q
0logies of the glorified? Let an &c :,
0peratic performance boating up y y
ward get many hours the start Of it, :, :,
and it shall be caught and passed " y
BY the hosanna of the Sabbath =
school children. know church :,
where there was no singing except :,
that done by the choir, save one old =
Christian man and they waited y
lpon him by committee and :
asked him if he would not stop 4.
singing, for he disturbed the choir! y
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