The weekly Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 1882-188?, 1886-11-04
THE SUNDAY PULPIT.
REV DIR TaLN 'GE ON TIE nARk
SHADOWS OF TuE CITY.
The Foes TO be Met aud Gzard-d af faIr-i
On All ~td ..

DR.. Talmage discoGIscd 10 a great
throng, Is usual, Sunday, his text being
And the streets of the city shall bc ful
of boys and girls Playing in the streets
thereof" Lscharia, viii: ).
Printing presses and prophets are now
chiefly busy IN describing the condition
of the present tim +; bur will it not be
heaithful this morning for all Christian
workers, and all Tnen and women who
ars trying 70 mzke ,h,e- world better :,
and there are thousands of them here =
If we look forward 10 the time when our
cities shall be completely revolutionisei
by the Gospel OF the Son Of God, and all
sin and all sorrow and ali suffering shall
forever be done away, "Lnd the streets
Of the city shall be iull of boys aud girls,
playing in the streets thereof ~ The
kingdoms Of this world are going to be
come the Kingdoms of our Lord Jesus
Christ. There is a great difference
whether you are toilinC on toward de
feat, or toiling on toward a victory.
Now. in the glorious time spoken of in
my text, and which viii come Just as
YOU are there and ] am here in that
time there will be larger financial pros
|
morbid idea about the millennium. rs
though when it comes we will do moth
ing but give ourselves up to psalm sing
ing, and, all society being purified there
will be no hilarity, and as all business
will be ,,uritied there will be no enter
prise My friends. there is no founda-
tion in common sense or in the Bible for
such an absurd anticipation. Where not
one fortune is made there will be a hun
| dred fortunes made. You know that
confidence betw cen man and man is the
| founda ion of all successful business.
| Now, when all dishonesty is gone and
all double dealing is gone, and all un
! fairness is gone, there will be complete
! confidence betwc en- man and man. Does
not that imply larger business, richer
| Opuience, grander architecture, finer
eGuipage. grandcr and more magnificent
prosperity You know that business is
injured by the infamous stock gamblers
and by the goddess spectators. You
know tnat the worst foe of business in
Brooklyn and New York, and in every
city, is crime, indi yidual and official
crime. Now when God shall purify the
commercial code, when God shall thun-
der down the last fraudulent establish
ment, when God shall put the keys of
business in the hands of honest men,
what will that imply2 The publication
of business and more Gu mess and
grander business. 1t is logical Sc
quence. When that day comes-and
am not talking about some guesswork,
/ am not dealing in an abstraction, but
"a "a sfzset ,s1sii3rs;s :, as tl.e z. -
there is God and that He ever present
ed us this Bible : in that time in our
cities all grievous taxation will be gone.
| Now business men are taxed for every
thing-city fax, county tax, State tax,
United States tax, license tax, maRufac-
turing tax taxes, taxes, taxes. A
business man must make a small fortune
to pay his taxes. We have to pay the
board of all the Williams in our peniten-
tiaries. We have to support the orphans
of those who plunged into their graves
from beastly indulgence. We have to
support all the machinery of city gov
ernment, which is vast and expensive
just IN proportion as the criminal pro
civities are vast and extensive. Who
pay for the station houses2 Who pay
for the criminal courts2 The tax pay
ers. And say to you Republicans and
you Democrats, who are sometimes fat
tening on thc public spoils, while YOU
are doing nothing for the public well
fare, that if you do not lessen taxes, and
do not let the peop.e up all over thi:
land we will after while form a party
anti excessive taxation, anti rum, ant
, monopoly, anti abomination, and yot
who are living in luxury now at the
public crib, you shall not have as much
, as the wages of a street sweeper. Now
,, in that time, that time which is coming
in all our cities, the time of prosperit,
, spoken of in my text, we will not have
to support criminals, for there will b.
no criminals. Virtue will take the plac
of vice. No more large sums of none,
voted for city improvements, whicl
moneys often before they reach the I'm
, provements 90 down into the pockets o
those who vo ed them. No more i'm
l panneling of iurics to try arson and mur
der and theft and SANDER and blackmall
: Criminal courts abolished. Police station
: abo ished. Almshouses abolished. Oh
!, what prosperity that will make for a
the cite, and for all the world. In tha
; time spoken of in my text the churche
of Jesus Christ will be more numerou
and they will be exerting a migbtie
influence for God. Now, churches AZ
Il sometimes enylous of each other an
: denominations collide with each otn(
> band even ministers of religion sometime
u forget their bonds of b otherhood.
: the time of which | speak there will |
5 Just as much difference OF opinion {
. there is now, but no accrbity, no hype
criticism, no exclusiveness Why ii
churches of our cities could not hOl
! one-fourth of the population. I'll
: churches that arc built. only few
s them are fully occupied and the avcra1
o audience ia America to day is less iha
a four hundred Duj in the glorious tin
n of which l speak there will be vast
= churches and they will all he throngc
8 with worshippers. oh, what enthnsia
tic songs they will sing! Oh! what "a
nest prayers they will oTer. Oh, win
sermons they will preach in our cii i
now for the most part wha, j. called
% fashionable church is place 20 whie
# peop'e come after very careful attcnti'
/ to toilet, and they sit down for viii
n in q pew where they want plenty
ts. room. nobody beside them, and then
70 they have any time left from the tn
{. ing of the store or the studying of 1,
a apparel of tie person seate! before the
nj they listen TO IL sermon warranted II
" no mans sins, or to music the tune
# which nobody knows, and then, aft
10 an hour and half OF yawning. they
10 home refreshed. We all feel better
II ter we have had n good sleep. VII
er the music in many Of the churches is
:. mockery. / have not q cultiaatcd {
10 or a cultivated voice, but no nan C
i do my singing for he any more than
70 can do my pra! ing for me. | like /;
e1 tistic music l think the dollar r
e. dollars pay to hear some queen of so
Il is a good invesi ment, but when on I
q Sabbath we are assembled in rclieit
he convocation, and the HYMN is given c
s. and the angels OF God step from tn
% throne to catch the music on th
Is wings, do not let us drive them back
of indifference / have been in cSsci
as where vast sums of money were paid
%. the music,s and it was exquisite and
was artistics to the very last peint a