The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20

70 make small fortune every year to pay
their taxes. What fastens on our great in
dustries this awful loadf Crime, individual
and official. We have to pay the board Of
the villains who are incarcerated In our
prisons We have to take care of the
orphans Of those who plunged into their
graves through beastly indulgence. We have
TO support the municipal governments, which
are vast and expensive just in proportion as
the criminal proclivities ara vast and ire
mendous Who supports the almshouses and
police stations and all the machinery OF mu-
nicipal government The taxpayers.
And / tell you Republicans and you Demo
Gratis that if you do not let down the taxes
and let the people up, We VIII form new
party-anti excessiee taxation, anti-rum, anti
monopoly, observation-disclosures you who
have been fattening on the public spoils and
reckless Of the public virtue shall not have so
much as the wages Of q street sweeper.
But in the glorious time Of which / speak
grievous taxation viii all have ceased There
viii be no need Of supporting criminals. there
win be no criminals Virtue will have taken
the place Of vice. There viii be no orphan
asyluns, for parents VIII be able to leave a
competency to their children. There wiz be
no voting Of large sums Of moneys for some
municipal Improvement. which moneys, be-
fore they get to the Improvement, drop into
the pockets Of those who voted them. No
oyer and terminer kept up at vast expense to
the people. No imPaneling Of juTies to try
theft, and arson, and murder and SANDER,
ard blackmaiL Better factories, grander
architecture, fine equipage, larger fortunes,
richer opulence, better churches.
In that better time, also, coming to these
cities the church Of Christ viii be more
numerous. and they win be larger, and they
viii be more devoted 10 the churches Of Jesus
Christ, and they viii accomplish greater in
fuences for good Now, it is often the case
that churches are envious OF each other, and
| denominations collide with each other and
even ministers Of Christ sometimes forget the
bond Of brotherhood. But in the time of
which i speak, while there will he just as
many differences Of opinion as there are row,
there viii be no acerbity, no hypercriticism,
no exclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are not to-
| day large encuge to hold more than fourth
| of the population. The churches that are
| built-comparatively few of them are fully
| occupied The average attendance in the
churches of the United States to-day is not
| 400 Now, in the glorious time Of which
| speak there are going 10 be vast churches
| and they going to be all throDged with
| worshipers. ., what rousing songs they will
| singh o, what earnest sermons they viii
| preach! o, what ferYent prayers they will
| offerl Now, in our time, what Is called a
| fashionable church is place where a few
| people, having attended very carefully t.
their toilet, come and sit down-they do not
want to be crowded they like q whole seat tc
| themselyes--and then, if they have any time
| left from thinking of their store and from ex
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| they sit and listen to a sermon warranted Il
hit no mans sins, and listen to music which
| is rendered by a choir warranted to sing tunes
| that nobody lanowsi And then after an houl
and half of ndolent yawning they go home
refreshed. Every man feels better after be
has had a sleep
In many of the churches Of Christ in oul
| day the music is simply a mocker. have
| not cultivated ear, nor cultivated voice
yet no man can do my singing for me.
| have nothing 10 say against artistic music
| The 81 or - / pay TO hear any of the great
| queens of song is a good investment. Bu
| when the people assemble in religious convo
cation, and the hymn is read, and the angel
! Of God step from their throne to catch thu
| music on their wings, do not at us drive then
away by our indifference. have preached
in churches where vast sums of money wer,
| employed 10 keep up Jheif music, anu IL wa
as exquisite any heard on earth; but
thought at the same time, for all matter
| practical, | would prefer the hearty, out
breaking song of backwoods Methods
camp meeting.
Let one of these starveling fancy song
sung in church get up before the throne 0
| God How would it look standing amid tn
| great doxologies of the redeemed. Let th
finest operate air that ever went up from th
| church of Christ get many hours the start; j
will be caught and passed by the hosanna 0
the Sabbath school children. l know
church where the choir cid all the singing
save ono Christian man, who, through per
severance of the saints, went right on, am
afterward a committee was appointed I
wait on him and ask him il he would no
please to stop singing, as he bothered tn
choir.
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