The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-11-18

done, anu larger fortunes SdIuefet, anu
mightier successes achieved.
The great business disasters of this coun-
try have come from the work of goddess
SPECTATORS and infamous stocks gam
blers. 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 Numbered down the
fraudulent establishments, and shall have
put into the hands of honest men the keys
of business-blessed time for the bargain
makers. am not talking an abstraction,
am not making guess. I am telling you
Gods eternal truth.
In that day of which I speak taxes will be
| mere nothing. Now, our business men are
taxed for every thing. City taxes, county
taxes, State taxes, United States taxes,
stamp taxes, license taxes, manufacturing
| taxes-taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business
| men have to make a small fortune every
| year to pay their taxes. What fastens on
our great Industries this awful load2
Crime, individual and official We have to
pay the board of the villains who are near
| eerated in our prisons. We have to take
care of the orphans of those who plunged
into their graves through beastly indul-
| gence. We have to support the municipal
| governments, which are vast and expen-
sive, just in proportion as the criminal pro-
clivities are vast and tremendous. Who
supports the almshouses and police stations
and all the machinery of municipal govern
menta The taxpayers.
And tell you Republicans and you DEM
| ocrats that if you do not let down the taxes
| and let the people up, we will form new
| party-anti-eXcessive taxation, anti-rum,
| anti-monopoly, Northumberland 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 have ceased.
There will be no need Of supporting GRIM
inals; there will be no criminals Virtue
will have taken the place of vice. There
| will be no orphan asylums, for parents will
be able to leave competency to their
| children. There will be no voting of large
sums of moneys for some municipal i'm
| provement, to drop into the pockets of those
who voted them. No oyer and terminer
kept up at vast expense to the people. No
| impaneling of juries to try theft, and
| arson, and murder, and SANDER and black
mail. Better factories, grander architect
ure, finer equipage, larger fortunes, richer
opulence, 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 influences for good. Now, it is
| often the case that churches are envious of
each other, and denominations collide with
1 oh oil
sometimes forget the bond of brotherhood
But in the time of which speak, while
there will be just as many differences of
opinion as there are now, there will 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
that are built-comparatiy few of them
| are fully occupied. The average attendance
in the churches of the United States to day
is not four hundred. Now, in the glorious
time of which speak there are going to be
vast churches, and they are going to be all
thronged with worshipers. Oh, what
rousing songs they will singh Oh, what
earnest sermons they will preachi Oh.
what feryent prayers they will offerl Now,
II our time, what is called fashionable
| church is place where few people, having
| attended very carefully to their toilet, come
and sit down-they do not want to be
crowded, they like 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 sermon warranted to hit
no mans sins, and listen to music which is
rendered by choir warranted to sing tunes
that nobody knows! 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 mockery. / have
not cultivated ear, nor a 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 / paw to
hear any OF the great queens of song is a
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 us drive them away
by our indifference. 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
ouo euouSub DIT Lie same time, 1Or all
matters practical, l would prefer the
hearty, outbreaking song Of backwoods
Methodist camp-meeting.
Let one of these starveling, 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
finesto peratic air that ever went up from the
church of Christ get many hours the start
it will be caught and passed by the Hozan-
ma OF the Sabbath-school children. know
church where the choir did all the sing.
ing save one Christian man, who, through
perseverance of the saints, went right on.
and afterward committee was appointed
to wait on him and ask him if he would not
please to stop singing, as he bothered the
choirl
Praise ye the Lord let every thing
with breath praise the Lord'' In the elori
Gus time in our cities, and in the world.
hosanna will meet hosanna and halleluiah,
halleluiah.
In that time, also, of which speak. MI
the haunts of iniquity and crime and soual.
or will be cleansed and will be illuminated
How is it to be donea You say perhaps by
one influence. Perhaps I say by another
will tell you what is my idea, and know
| am right in it. The Gospel of the Con OF
God is the only agency that will ever az.