The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-11-04


down the last fraudulent establishment, when
God shall put the keys of blsines; in the
hands OF the honest men what will all that
lmplyf The publication of business and
more business and grander business. 1t is
logical sequence. When that day comes-and
l am not talking about some guesSworS. /
am no: DEALING in an abstraction, but in
something positive and as true as that there
Is God and that He ever presented us the
bipe-ln that time in our cities all grievous
taxation will te gone, Now business men
ate IaNed Tor everything tax, county
tax, state tax, United States tax, license tax,
manufacturing tax-taxes, taxes taxes A
business man mnst make small fortune to
pay ms taxes. We have to pay the board of
al the Williams in our pententiares.
"o- nave to support the orphans of
those who plunged into their graves
through heastly indulgence. We hav We
to suppoit all the machinery Of city govern
ment which is vast and and expensive Just in
proportion as the criminal proclivities are
| vast and extensive Who pays for the station
houses! Who pays for the criminal courts,
The taxpayers. And say to you Republi-
cans and you Democrats who are sometimes
fattening on the public spoils while you are
doing nothing for the pubic welfare, that if
you do not lessen taxes, and do not let the
pc eonle up all over this land, we will after a
while form party anti-excessive taxation,
anti-rum, anti-monopoly, antt-abomi-
nation, and you who are living
| luxurious now at the public crib
shall not have as much as tho wages of
a street sweeper. Now in that time, that
time which is coming in al our cities, tne
time OF prosperity spoken of in my text, we
Will not have to support criminals. fer there
will be no criminals, and virtue will take the
place of vice. No more la"ge sums of money
voted for city improvements, which moneys
often before they reach the improvements go
down into the pockets of those who voted
them No more empaneling of juries to try
arson and murder and theft and slander
and blackmal Criminal courts abol-
ishei. Police stations abolished Aim
ity that will make for all the cities
and for all the land and for all the world In
that time spoken of in my text the church7s
of Jesus Christ will be eyertimg a mightier
influence for God Now churches are some
times envious of each other and denomina-
tions collide with each other, and even min
| lsters or religion sometimes forget their
bond of brotherhood. In the time OF which
speak there will be Just as much difference
| o. opinion as there is now, butno acsrhity. no
| bvp2rcriticsm, no eyclusivenesS. Why, the
churches of our cities could not hold one
fourth Of the population. The churches
| thnt are bIilt, only a few of the n are
fully occupied, and the average audience in
| America to-day is less than four hundred.
cl3ut in the glorious tine Of which sIenk
there will be vaster churches AID they will
all be thronged with worshipers. Oh, what
enthusiastic songs they will singl Oh, what
earnest prayers they will offer! Oh what
sermons they will preach! In our cities now
for the most part " hat is called a fash enable
church is place to which people cor-a a ter
very careful attention to toilet, and they sit
down for while in pew whore they want
plenty of room, nobody beside them, and
then if they have any time left from the
thipl-ipr nf hn of or-t ba cfr,lu nf hn
the apparel of the person seated before them
they listen to a sermon warranted to hit no
mans sins, or to music the tune of which no.
body knows, and then, after an hour and a
half of yawning, they go home refreshed
We all feel better after we have had good
| seepi Why, the music in many of the
churches is q mockery l have not a culti-
waited ear nor cultivated voice, but no man
can do my singing for me any more than he
can do my praying for me- l like artistic
music. think the dol ar or five dollars that
| pay TO hear some queen OF song is a good
! investment: but when on the Sabbath we are
assembled in religious convocati)n and the
hymn Is given out aud the angels of God
step from their throne TO catch the music on
their wings, do not let us drive them back
by Indifference | have been in churches
where vast sums of money were paid for the
music, and it was exquis .te, and it was ar
tistic to the very last point and yet for all
outbreaking song of a backwoods Methodist
camp-meeting. Let one of those artistic
songs that l have sometimes heard sung in
church arrive in heaven, and how mean
it would look beside one of the great
doxolories of the redeemed. Why, if
one of those operatic a rs that sometimes
goes up from church should get three hours
start it would be overtaken and passed BY
the hosanua of Sunday-school children. l
know church where the choir did all the
singing save one man, who in perseverance
of the saints went right on until a committee
waited on him and told him he bothered thu
choir!
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God!
But children of the Heavenly King
Should sreak His Joys abroad.
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the heavenly fields,
Or walk the golden streets.
Napoieon's army got stuck in the Alps and
they came TO him, ,and they said: Your Maj
esty, we cannot go any further. We can
not get the ammunition wagons over the
rocks He sad: "Send me the band mas
ter" The leader of the music came and Ma
poleon took TIE portfolio and rolled over the
leaves, and after awhile he came TO an espe-
cially grand march Nov" he said, let
them play that With full band they struck
into the music a"t over the rocSs went the
ammunition wagons. Oh, that tho church
of God all over America and all over
Christendom understood the power of
music. When all our churches shall
arise and rally for this holy service,
we will march right on from triumph
to Triumph. There is no such successful
way of preaching the gospel as singing the
gospel "Praise we the Lord; let everything
that hath breath praise His name" In t1s
good time coming sposen of in my text, in
the church aho the world hoSanna will meet
hosanna and hallelu ali halelIiah. Then,
in that time | am speaking of, all the halnts
of iniquity will lie broken up all city mi lui-
ties will be bani,had AMI abolished. You
say by the power of eiucaticn IL will not
be done in that way. You say, by human
tartan effort 1t will not BE- done in that
way. will tell you how it will be done
By the power Of tn, gospel of the Son
of God. Mr.. Es hler, of England, said
that in ten years this whole world
could be made a paradise il the reoDle would
follow out his idea He said that all that was
required was the natural forces of wind aud
sunshine and wave rightly deTeloped and
rightly applied, and in ten yea 5 this who,e
earth would be an Eden and in a book Of
great genius, which went from edition to
clifton he sets forth tle idea, in which he
SAYS
.'Fellow-man, promise to show the means
of creating paradise within ten years,
will be had by every man III superabundance,
without labor and without pay, when the
whole face of nature shall be changed into
the most beautiful farm. and man may live
in the most nagnificent palaces in all
Imaginable reinements OF luxury, and
in the most delightful garden, where
he may accomplish in one year more
than hitherto could be done i'll thou-
sands of years, and may level con
tinent, sink valleys, create lakes. drain lakes
and swamps and intersscE land eyerywhs:e
with beautiful canals and roads for trans
porting heavy loads of many thousand tons
and for travelling a tho1sa ID miles in twenty
four hours From the houses to be built VIII
be afforded the most beautiful yieY faleied,
from the roof turrets may be sen garden'
as far as the eve can sec, fun OF fruits and
flowers arranged in the most beautiful order
with walks. colonnades, aluetucts, ca1asS
ponds, amphitheatre5, terraces, fountains
sculptured works, gundolas, places of publ,
amusement to tire the ere AMI fan3j
this to lie done by urging waser, tic wind
, and the sunshine to their full e7eloone1t.'
And then in his book he gives US the piata
of sbp-x-if1er If Ia oil tn h