Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-28

| Pufihed tne cOmmercial COLE, ana shall bav
thundefed down fraudulent establishments
and shall have put into the hands OF homes
men the keys OF business blessed time for tn
bargain makers. l am not talking an alb
straction, am not making guess. am tell
ing you Gods eternal truth.
| Ia that day Of which 81 eak taxes will b,
mere nothing Now, our business men ar,
taxed for cveryth ng CITY taxes, count,
taxes, state taxes, United States taxes stamJ
taxes, license taxes, manufacturing taxes
taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business men have
to make a small fortune every year to pa,
their taxes, What fastcns on our great in
dustries this awful loaii 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 beast.
| y indulgence. We have to support the
municIpai governments, which are vast and
expensive just in proportion as the criminal
| proclivities are vast and tremendous.
NO TAXATION NEEDED THEN.
Who supports the alnshouscs and police
| stations AMI all the machinery Of munici pa
| government! The taXpa, crs. And | tell YOU
! republicans and YOU democrats, that II you do
| not let down the taxes and let the people up
| we VIII form new party, anti-eXcessiye tax
| alton, antirum, anti-monopol,, anti-abomina-
| ton, and YOU who have been fattcniDp on
the public spells and reckless of the public
| virtue shall not have so much as the wages of
| a street sweeper.
But in the glorious time Of which speak
! grievious taxa, lon will al have ceased. There
| Will bc need Of supporting criminals. there
will be no criminals Virtue will have taken
| the place of vice. There will be no orphan
| asylums, Tor parents viii be able TO leave a
competency TO their children. There will be
| no voting of large sums of money for some
| municipal Improvement, which MONEYS, be-
fore they get to the Improvement, drop into
| the PACKETS Of those who voted them. No
| oyer and tcrminCr kept up at vast expense to
| the people. No impanelng of iliries to try
| theft, and arson, aud murder, and SANDER,
| aud blac,Ina Better factories; grander
| architecture; finer equpages; larger fortunes:
| richer opuencc: better churches.
In that better time also coming TO these
| cities the churches of Christ will be more
numerous, and they will be larger, and they
| will be more devoted to the churches of Jesus
Christ, and they will accomplish greater infu-
cnces for good. Now it is often the case tina:
churches are cnviOus OF each other, and de-
nominations Collide with each other, and even
ministers of Christ sometimes forget the bond
of brotherhood. But in the time of which |
speak, while there will be Just as many differ
cnces of opinion as there are now, there will
be no acerbty no hypercriticism no exclu-
sivencss
THE CulGiCuEs OF THE FUTURE.
In our great ci.ies the churches are not to.
day large enough to hold more than fourth
OF the population. The churches that are
built-comparat,c ely few of them are fully oc-
cupicd. The Average attendance in the
churches Of the United States to-day is not
400. Now, in the glorious time Of which /
speak, there arc going to be vast churches,
aud they are gong to be all thronged with
wOrshipers, o, what rousing songs they will
sing! D, what earnest sermons they will
preach! o. what feryent prayers they will
offer! Now, in Our time what is called a fash
ionablc church Is n place where few people,
having attended very carefully to their toilet
npWu--tbny In N, Ia.
crowded, they like a whole seat to themselves
and then, ii they have any time left from
thinking of their store, and from examining
the style of the hat in front Of them, they sit
and listen to n sermon warranted to hit no
mans sins, and listen TO music which Is rem.
dcred by Il choir warranted TO sing tunes that
nObOd, knows! And then, after IN hour and
a half of indolent yawning, they go home re-
frcshcd. Every man feels better after he has
had a slcepl
In many Of the churches of Christ in our
day, the music is simply mockery. have
not cultivated car. nor a cultivated voice,
yet no man can do my singing for me. have
nothing to say against artistic music. The
two or five dollars | pay to hear any of the
great queens Of song Il a good investment
But when the people assemble in religious
cOnyoCatOn and the hymn is read. and the
angels of God step from their throne to catch
the music on their wings, do not let us drive
them away our indifference.
NO PAD SINGERS THERE.
| have preached in churches where vast
sums of money were employed to keep up the
music, and it was rs exquisite as any heard
on earth. but thought at the same time, for
all matters practical, would prefer the
hearty, Oulbrcakiug song of a backwoOds
Methodist Csmp-mccting. Let one of these
starveng fancy songs sung in church get up
before the throne Of God, how would il look
standing amid the great dOVOlgcS of the re-
Deemed Let til" finest operate air that ever
went up from the church of Christ get many
hours the start, it will be caught aud passed
b. the hOsuuna Of the Sabbath school chill
drcn. | know a church where the choir did
all the singing save one Christian man who
through perseverance OF the saints went
right on, and alterward a committee was APP
pointed to wait on him and ask him if h.
would not please to stop singing as he both,
cred the choir
Let those r-'pse to sing
Who meyer knew our God;
But chill OF the heavenly king
Should speak their joys abroad.
'Praise We the Lord: let everything with
breath praise the Lord In the glorious time
coming in our CITIES, and in the world, ho-
sauna will meet hosanna and hallelujah, hal
leluiah.
In that time, also, of which speak, all the
haunts of inIquity, and crime, and squalOr will
be cleansed and will be Illuminated. How is it
to b" done: You say perhap, By one influence.
Perhaps say by another. | will tell you what
is my idea and know that am right in it.
The gospel of the Son of God is the only agen-
cy that will ever accomplish this.
MR. ECsLEK's GLOWING PICTURE.
Mr.. Ecser OF England had a theory that If
the natural forces of wind and tide and sun
shine and wave were rightly applied and right
ly developed, 1t would make this whole earth a
paradise. In book of great genius, and which
rushed from edition to edition, he said: Eel
low men, | promise to show the means of crea-
ting paradise within ten wears, where every
thing desirable for human life may be had BY
every man in superabundance without labor
and without pay-where the whole face of ma
ture shall be changed into the most beautiful
farms and man may live In the most magnti-
cent palaces. in all imag nable rcfnements Of
luxury and in the most delightful gard ems
where he may accomplish without labor in one
year more than thrrto could be done in thou
sands of years, and may level a continent sink
valleys, create lakes, drain lakes and swamps
and mtersect the land everywhere with beau
tilul canals and roads for transporting heav,
loads of many thousand tons and for travelling
thousand miles in twenty-fOur hours.
From the houses TO be built will be afforded
the most cultured views to be faucied. From
the galleries, from the roof, and from the tur-
rets may be seen gardens Is far as the eve can
see full of fruits aud flowers, arranged in the
most beautiful order, with walks, cOlOnades,
aqueducts, canals, PONDS, plains, amphtheat-
ers, terraces, fountains sculptured works,
pavilions. gOndolas. places Of popular amuse-
ment to tire the eye and fancy. All this 10 be
done by urging the water, the wind, and the
sunshine to their full development" He goes
on and gives plates Of the machinery by which
this work is to be done, and he says he only
needs at the start company in which the
shares shall be So each, and a hundred or
| two hundred thousand shall be raised just to
make specimen communitr, and then, this
| being formed, the world will see its practical
| blity and very soon two or three million
| collars can be obtained, and in ten years the
| whole earth will be emparadised. The plan is
not so prepostcrous as some have heard Of.
| THE GOSPELS GREAT POWER.
| But will take no stock in that company.
| do not believe that it will ever be done In
that way, by any mechanical force, or by any
machinery that the human mind can put into
play. 1t is to be done by the gospel of the
Son Of God-the omnipotent machinery Of the
| love and grace and pardon and salvation.
| That is to emparadse the nations. Archi-
medes DESTROYED feet of ships coming up
the harbOr. You know how he did 1t, He
lifted great sun glass, history tells us, and
when the fleet Of ships came up the harbor
Of Syracuse he brought to bear this sun glass
and he conveyed the suns RAYS upon those
ships. Now, the sails are wings of fire. the
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