Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-18

greal victory-just so we look up from tht
night of suffering and sorrow and wretch
edness in our cities, and we see light
streaming through from the other side,
and we know we are on, the way to &
morning without clouds"
want you to understand, all You who
are tOiling for Christ, that
THE CASTLES OF SIN
are all going to be captured. The victory
for Christ in these great towns Is going tC
be so complete that not man on earth
or an angle in heaven, or devil in hell
will dispute it. How do I know? / know
Just as certainly as God lives and that this
is holy truth. The old Bible is full Of it
If the nation is to be saved, of course, al
the cities are to be saved. 1t makes a
great difference with you and with me
whether we are toiling on toward defeat
or toiling on toward victory.
Now in this municipal elevation of which
speak, have to remark there will be
greater financial prosperity that our cities,
have ever seen. Some people seem to have
a morbid idea of the millennium, and they
think when the better time comes to OuI
cities and the world, people will give their
time up to psalm singing and the relating
of their religious experience, and as all
social life will be purified there will be no
hilarity, and as all business will be puri-
| fled, there will be no enterprise. There is
no ground for such an absurd anticipation.
In the time of which speak, where now
one fortune is made, there will be hun
dred fortunes made. We all know busl'
ness prosperity depends upon confidence
between man and man. Now when that
time comes, of which | speak, and all
double dealing, all dishonesty, and all
| fraud are gone out of commercial circles,
thorough confidence will be estab-
lished, and there will be better business
done, and larger fortunes gathered, and
mightier successors achieved.
The great business disasters of this coun-
try have come from the work Of goddess
speculatOrs and infamous stock gamblers.
The great foe to business in New York and
Brooklyn is crime. When the right shall
have hurled back the wrong, and shall
have purified the commercial code, and
shall have thundered down fraudulent
establishments, and shall have put into
the hands of honest men the keys of busi-
ness blessed time for the bargain makers.
| am not talking an abstraction, am not
making a guess ! am telling You Gods
eternal truth.
In that day of which speak
TAXES WILL BE A MERE NOTHING.
Now, our business men are taxed for eve
rything. City taxes, county taxes, State
taxes, United States taxes, stamp taxes
license taxes, manufacturing taxes, taxes,
taxes, taxes. Our business men have to
make Il small fortune every year to pay
their taxes. What fastens on our great
industries this awful load? Crime, indi-
vidual and official We have to pay the
board OF the Williams who are incarcerated
in our prisons. Wehave to take care OF
the orphans of those who plunged into
their graves through beastly indulgence.
We have to support the municipal govern
mentS, which are vast and expensive just
in proportion as the criminal proclivities
are vast and tremendous. Who supports
the almShouscS and police stations and all
the machinery of the municipal govern
ment. The taxpayers.
And | tell
YOC REPUBLICANS AND DEMO; RATS,
that il you do not let down tue taxes and
let the people up, we will form new par
ty, antt-excessive taxation, anti-rum,
anti-monopoly, anti-abOmination and
YOU WHO have been fattening
on the public spoils and reckless of the
public virtue shall not have SO much as
the wages of street sweeper.
But in the glorious time of which |
speak, grievOus taxation will all nave
ceased. There will be no need of support
ing criminals; there will be no criminals
Virtue will have taken the place OF vice.
There will be no orphan asylums, for par
ents will be able to leave a competency to
their children. There will be no votingoi
large sums of money for some municipal
improvement, which moneys, before they
get TO the improvement, drop into the
pockets of those who voted them. No
Oyer and Terminer kept up at vast eX-
pense to the people. No empanel!ug Of
iuries to try theft, and arson, and murder,
and slander, ard blackmail. Better tactO-
ries. Grander architecture. Fine equip
age. Larger fortunes. Richer opulence.
Better churches.
In that better time, also, coming to
these cities. the
CHURCHES OF CHRIST WILL BE MORE NJ
MEROUS,
and they will be larger, and they will be
more devoted TO the churches OF Jesus
Christ, and they will accomplish greater
influence for good. Now, it is often the
case that churches are enviOus Of each
other, and even ministers of Christ some
times forget the bond of brotherhood.
But in the time of which speak, while
there be Just as many di!ierencesOf opinion
as there are now, there will be no acerbity,
no hypercriticism, no exclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are not
to-day large enough to hold more than q
fourth of the population. The churches
t hat are built-comparatively few of them
are fully occupied. The average attend
ance in the churches of the United States
is not four hundred. Now, in the glorious
time of which l speak, there are
going to be vast churches, and they are go
ing to be all thronged with wOrshippers.
0, what rousing songs they will sing! .,
what earnest sermons they will preach!
o, what fervent prayers they will offer.
Now, III our tllue, NLal ID SdiiSu a lash
ionable church is place where few peo-
pie, having attended very carefully to
their toilet come and sit down-they do
not want to be crowded they like q whole
seat to themselves-and then, if they have
any time left from thinking of their stores,
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 renderd by a
choir warranted to sing tunes that nobody
knows. And then after an hour and half
of indolent yawning they go home refresh
ed. Every man feels better after he has
had sleep.
In many of the churches Of Christ in
our day,
THE MUSIC Is SIMPLY A MoCKERY.
l have not cultivated ear, nor a culti-
vated voice, yet no man can do my singing
for me. l have nothing to say against ar
tistic music. The two or five dollars pay
to hear any of the great queens ofsong, 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