The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-22

who have been fattening on the public spoils
and reckless of the public virtue shall not
have so mach as the wages Of street
sweeper.
But in the glorious time Of which speak
frievous taxation viii all haEe ceased. /
There win be no need Of supporting Grim
tnals; there viii be no criminals. Virtue
win have taken the place of vice. There
win be no orphan asylums, for parents viii
BIS able to leave competency TO their
There viii be no voting Of large
Sums of moneys for some municipal inn
prOvement, to drop into the pockets of those
who voted them. No oyer and terminer
kept mp at vast expense to the people. No
impanehng OF juries to try theft, and
arson, and murder, and Islander and black
n. all Better factories, grander architect
ure, finer eQuipage, larger fortunes, richer
optlence, better churches.
In that better time also, coming to these
cities the churches of Christ viii be more
numerous, and they will be larger, and
they Svi.l be more devoted to the churches
Of jesus Christ, and they will accomplish
greater influences for good. Now, it is
often the Gaze that churches arc envious of
each other, and denominations collide with
each other. AMI even ministers Of Christ
sometimes forget the bond of brotherhood.
But in the time of which ] speak, while
there win be just rs many differences of
opinion as there are now, there win be no
acerbity, no hypercriticism, no exclusive
ness.
In our great cities the churches are not
to-day large enough to hold more than a
fourth Of the population. The churches
5hat sFe built-comcparativ few of them
are fully occupied. The average attendance
in the churches Of the United States to-day
is not foaF hundred. Now, in the glorious
time Of Vvfgaeh / speak there are going to be
vast CHURCHES, and they are going to be all
thronged with wOrshipers. oh, what
rousing songs they will singl On, what
earnest sermons they viii preachl Oh,
what fervent prayers they VIII offer. Now,
in our time. what is called fashionable
churchis a place where few people, having
attended very carefully tt' their toilet, come
and sit doRn-they do not want to be
crowded. they like a whole seat to them
selves-and then, if they have any time left
from thinking of their store and examining
the style OF the hat in front of them, they
sit and listen TO q sermon warranted to hit
no name sins, and listen to music which is
rendered by 3 choir warranted to sing tunes
that nobody lxnOwsl And then after an
hour and half of indOlent yawning they
go home refreshed. Every man feels bet
ter after he has sleep
In many of the churches of Christ in our
day the music is simply a mocloery. have
not a cultivated ear, nor cultivated voice,
yet no man can do my singing for me. i
have nothing to say against artistic music.
The two dollars or five dollars 1 pay to
hear any of the great queens of song is
good investment. But when the people
assemble in religious cOnvOcatiOn, and the
hymn is read, and the angels of God step
from their throne to catch the music on
their wings, do not let as drive them away
by our indifference. i have preached in
churches where vast sums Of money were
employed to keep up their music, and it
was as exquisite as any heard on earth
but 1 thought at the same time, for
matters practical, I would prefer the
hearty, outbrcaking song OF backwoods
Methodist camp-meeting.
Let one of these starveGng, fancy songs
sung in church get up before the throne of
God. How it would look standing amid the
great doxolOgies of the redeemed. Let the
fnesto peratic air that ever went up from the
church of Christ get many hours the starts
il will be caught and passed by the Hozan-
ma Of the Sabbath-schOOl children. / know
a church where the choir did all the sing
ing save one Christian man, who, through
! perseverance of the saints, went right on,
and afterward a committee was appointed
to wait on him and ask him if he would not
please TO stop singing, as he bothered the
chOirl
Praise We the Lord; let every thing
with breath praise the Lord" In the glori
! GUS time in our cities, and in the world,
/ hosanna win meet hosanna and hallelujah,
| hallelujah
/ In that time, also, Of which I speak, all
/ the haunts of iniquity and crime and squat
/ or will be cleansC~l and will be illuminated.
| How is it TO be dOuea You say perhaps by
| one influence. Perhaps 1 say by another.
/ l will tell you what is my idea, and l know
/ am right in it. The Gospel of the Son Of
/ God is the only agency that will ever &C
/ complish this.
i Mr.. Eesler, of England, had a theory that
/ if the natural forces of wind and tide and
| sunshine and waves were rightly applied
and Iightfully developed, it would make
this whole earth n paradise. In a book OF
| great genius, and which PUSHES from edt
lion to edition, he said: 'Fellow-men,
promised to show the means of creating
! paradise within ten years; where every
thing for human life may be had by eve
man in superabundance, without labor anc
without pay-yvhere the whole face of nat
ure shall be changed into the most beaut
| ful forms. and man may live in most mag
nificent palaces, in all imaginable refine
ments of luxury, and in the most delightful
gardens-where he may accomplish with
out labor III one year more than hitherto
could be done in thousands Of years, ant
may level a continent, sink valleys, create
lakes, drain lakes and swamps and inter
sect the land everywhere with beautiful
canals and roads for transporting heavy
loads of many thousand tons, and for trav
cling a thousand miles in twenty-fou
hcurs.
oFrom the houses to be built will be at
forded the most cultured views to be ian
cied. From the galleries, from the roo
and from the turrets may be seen garden
as far as the eve can see, full Of fruits AM
flowers arranged in the most beautiful
order. with walks, colonnades, aqueducts
canals, ponds, plains, amphitheaters, tel
races, fountains, sculptured works, pavlu
ions, gondolas, places of popular amuse
/. / ment TO tire the eye and fancy. All this
be done by urging the water, the wind an
the sunshine to their full development"
] He goes on and gives plates of the ms
Chinery by which this work is TO be done
and he says he only needs at the start
company in which the shares shall b
twenty dollars each, and one hundred thou
sand or two hundred thousand dollars sha
be raised Just to make a specimen commC
nifty, and then this being formed the worl
will see it's practicabilty, and very 500
two or three million dollars can be OF
, tanned, and in ten years the whole cart
will be in paradisei The plan is not so pre-
I pOsterous as some 1 have heard Of But
win take no stock in that company, I do nc
believe that it viii ever be done in tina
way, by any mechanical force or by any ms
chinery that the human mind can put int
Z I play. 1t is TO be done by the Gospel of the SO
of God. the omuipotGnt machinery of low
and grace and pardon and salvation. That
to emparadise the nations. ArchimcdC
destroyed fleet of ships coming up II
j I harbor Yoa. know how he did it, 4
lifted q great sun-glass, history tells u
and when the feet of ships came up Il
harbor at Syracuse he brought to bear tn
u glass and he conveyed the SUMS ray
! / upon those ships. Now, the sails arc wins
of fire, the masts fall the vessels sin
Oh my friends, by the sun-glass Of Il
Gospel converging the rays of the sun
s. Righteousness upon the sins, the wiCke