Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-18

are tolling for Christ, that the castles of
| sin are all going TO be captured. The VIC
tory for Christ in these great towns is
going TO be so complete that not man on
| earth, or au angel in heaven, or a devil IN
hell will dispute it. How do | knowe l
know just AS certainly as God lives and
that this is holy truth. The old Bible is
full OF it. II the nation is to be saved, OF
course all the cities are to be saved. 1t
makes a great difference with you and
with me whether we are :oiling on TO.
ward defeat or toihng on toward vic
tory.
Now, in this municipal elevation OF
which l speak, l have to remark there
| Will be greater financial prosperity than
| our cities have ever seen. Some people
seem to have a NOR bid idea of the millen-
mum, and they think when the better time
comes to our cities and the world, people
| will give their time up to psalm-singlng
and the relating of their religious expert
ence, and as all social lie will be purified
there will be no hilarity, and as all busi-
| ness will be purified there will be no en-
| terprise. There is no ground for such an
| absurd anticipation. In the time OF which
| L speak, where now one fortune is maze,
there will be a hundred fortunes made.
| We all know business prosperity depends
| upon confidence between man and man.
| Now, when that time comes OF which
| speak, ana all double.dealing, all dis
| honesty, and all fraud are gone out OF
| commercial circles, thorough confidence
will be established, and there will be bet
| ter business done, and larger fortunes
| gathered,s and mightler successes
| achieved.
The great business disasters OF this
country nave come from the work OF god
| less specu ators and infamous stock 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
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. L am telling
you Gods eternal truth.
In that day of which | speak taxes will
be mere nothing. Now, our business
| men are taxed for everything. City taxes,
| county taxes, State taxes, United States
taxes, stamp taxes, license taxes, manu-
| featuring taXes-taXes, taxes, taxes! Our
business men have to make a small for
| tune every year to pay their taxes. What
| fastens on our great Industries this awful
load? Crime, individual and official. We
have to pay the board of the villains who
are ircarcerated in our prisons. We have
| to take care Of the orphans of those who
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| indulgence. We have TO support the
municipal governments, which are vast
| and expensive just in proportion as the
| criminal pTOclIvities are vast and tre-
| mendsus. Who supports the almsnouses
| and police stations and all the machinery
| of municipal government? The tax
| payers.
And l tell you Republicans and you
| Democrats that If you do not let down the
| Iakk No. Ia
\ a new party, ant[eXcessive taxation,
anti-rum, anti-mOnOpoly, anti-abomina-
| ton, and You who have been fattening on
| the public spoils and reckless of the pub
| lie virtue shall not have so much as the
| wages OF a street sweeper.
But in the glorious time Of which l
| speak grievOus taxation will all have
| ceased. There will be no need of sup
| porting criminals; there will be no crimi-
nails. Virtue will have taken the place
OF vice. There will be no orphan asylums,
| for parents will be able to leave COM
| potency to their children. There will be
| no voting of large sums of moneys for
some municipal improvement, which
moneys, before they get to the improve
ment, drop into the pockets of those who
| voted them. No Oyer and Terminer kept
up at vast expense to the people. No
empanneling OF juries to try theft, and
| arson, and murder, and SANDER, and
| blackmail. Better factories. Grander
architecture. Fine equipage. Larger tor
tunes. 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, il is often the case that churches
| are enviOus OF each other, and denomIna-
| tions collide with each other, and even
| ministers of Christ sometimes forget the
| bond of brotherho cd. 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 acerOity, no hyper
| criticism, no eXclusiVeness.
In our great cities the churches are not
| to-day large enough 10 hold more than q
fourth of the population. The churches
that are built-comparatively few of them
are fully occupied. The average attend
ance 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 worshiper
| o, what rousing songs they will sing!
o, what earnest sermons they Will
| preach! o, what ferVent prayers
they Will offer! Now, in our time, WI at
is called a fashionable church is place
| WDFlt u lew ptOplSs having alSuueu very
carefully to their toilet, come and sit down
they do not want to be crowded, they like
aw mole seat 10 themselves-and then, If
they have any Time left from thinking of
their store, and from examining the sly lie OF
the hat in front OF them, they sit and listen
TO a sermon warranted to hit no man 4
sins, and listen to music which is rem
dered by a choir warranted TO sing tunes
that nobody knowsl And then after an
hour and half OF INDECENT yawning they
go home refreshed. Every man feels bet
ter after he has had sleep!
la many Of the churches of Cnrist In
our day the music is simply a mockery. |
have not a cultivated ear, nor cuti.
waited voice, vet o mau can do my singing
for me. l have nothing TO say against
artistic nIusic- The two or FIVE dollars
. pay to near any of the great queens o
: song is n good investment. But wnen
the people assem- bic in religious convo
cation, and the hymn is read, and the
angels OF God step from their throne Il
eaten tho music on their wings do not To-
, us drive them away by our Indifference
/ have preached in churches where vas
r sums OF money were employed to keep III
. the music, and IL Was as exquisite as any
, heard aa earth, but | thought at the same
time, for all matters practical, 1 would
prefer the be arty outbreaking song OF &
: backwoods Methodist camp meeting.
Let one OF these starveling fancy song