The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-11-03

commercial code. when God shall thunder
down the last fraudulent establishment, when
GGd shall put the keys of business in the
hands of the honest men, what will all that
implya The publication Of business and
more business and grander business. 1t is q
logical sequence When that day comes-and
an net talking about some guesSworS.
am not dealing in an abstraction, but in
something positive and as true as that there
is God and that He ever presented US the
Bib'e-in that time in our cities all grievous
taxation will lie gone. Now business mon
are taved for everything-city tax, county
tax, State tax, United States tax, license tax,
manufacturing tav-taXes, taxes, taxes. A
business man mnst make small fortune to
pay his taxes We have to pay the board OF
all the Williams in our penitentarles.
We have to support the orphans Of
these who plunged into their graves
through beastly indulgence. We ha We
to support all the machinery Of city govern
ment which is vast andand expensive Just in
proportion as the criminal proc.ivities are
vast and extensive. Who pays for tho station
The ' taxpayers n pA' And I say to you Repabli:
cans aud you Democrats who are sometimes
fattening on the public spoils while you are
doing nothing for the public welfare, that if
You do not lessen taxes, and do not let the
people up all over this land, we will after a
while form party anti-excessive taxation,
naton and rn''%1n0pV1B yo1 %Bo ars a'"nS Sing
luxurious now at the public crib
shall not have as much as the wages OF
street sweeper. Now in that time, that
| time which is coming in all our cities, tne
time Of prosperity spoken of in my toxt, we
will not have to support criminals, for there
will be no criminals, and virtue will take the
place Of vice. No more large 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 aad murder and theft and slander
and blackmaiL Criminal courts abol-
ishel. Police stations abolished. Aim.
houses abolished. Oh, what prosper
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 churrh's
of Jesus Christ will be elerting a mightier
influence for God. Now churches are some
times envious Of each other and denomina-
tions collide with each other, and even min
listers of religion sometimes forget their
bond of brotherhood. In the time Of which
/ speak there will b, Just as much difference
OF opinion rs there is now, but no acsrbity no
bvp!rcriticism, no exclusiveness Why, the
churches Of our cities could not hold one
fourth Of the population. The churches
| that are built, only few of them are
fully occupied, and the average audience in
America to-day is less than four hundred.
But in tho glorious time Of which ] speak
there will be vaster churches aud they will
all be thronged with worShipers. Oh, what
enthusiastic songs they will sing! Oh, what
earnest prayers they win offer Oh, what
sermons they will preach! In our cities now
for the most part what is called a fashionable
church is place to which people come after
very careful attention to toilet, and they sit
down for while in a rev where they want
plenty of room, nobody beside them, and
then if they have any time left from the
thinking of the store, or the study OF the
the apparel of tho person seated before them
they listen to q sermon warranted to his no
mans sins, OF to music the tune Of which no
body knows, and then. after an hour and a
half of yawniny, they go home refreshed
We all feel better after we have had good
sleep! Why, the music in many Of the
churches is mockery have not a culti-
waited ear nor a cultivated voice. but no man
can do my singing for me any more than he
can do my praying for me- like artistic
music think the dollar or five dollars that
pay to hear some queen OF song is good
investment: but when on the Sabbath we are
assembled in religious convocation and the
hymn is given oIt, and the angels Of God
step from their thr one to catch thu music on
their wings, do not lat Us drive them back
bv Indifference. I have teen in churches
where vast sums of money were paid for the
mwsic. and it was exqus to- and it was ar
tstic to the very last point, and yet for all
religious purposes would rather have the
outbreaking song of q backwoods Methodist
camp-mecting. Let one Of those artistic
son IS that l have sometimes heard sung in
church arrive in heaven, aud how mean
doxologie; of the redeemed. Why, If
one of those operate a'rs that sometimes
goes up from n church should get three hours
start it would he oyertaken and passed by
the hosanna of Sunday-school children.
know church where the choir did all the
singing save one man, who in perseverance
of the saints went right on until a committee
choiri
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our Godt
But children of the Heavenly King
Should sreak His joys abroad
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets
Before we r"ach the heavenly fields,
Or walk the golden streets.
Napoleon's army got stuck in the Alps and
they came to him, and they said: "Your Maj
esty, we Cannot 20 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 the portfolio and rolled over the
leaves, and after awhile he came to an espe-
cially grand march. "Now," he said, "let
them play that" With full band they struck
into the music and over the rocks went the
ammunition wagons Oh, that the 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 sucn successful
way Of preaching the gospel as singing the
gospel "Praise ye the Lord; let everything
that hath breath praise His name" In the
good time coming spoken Of in my text, in
The church and the world hosanna will meet
hosanna and halleu ;ah hallelujah. Then,
in that time | am speaking Of, all the haunts
of iniquity will lie broken up, all city iniGui-
ties will be bani>hed and abolished You
say, by the power of education 1t will not
tartan effort It will not b, done in that
way. l will tell you how it will be done.
By the power Of thu gospel of the Son
of God. Mr.. Es hler, of England, said
that in ten years this whole world
could be made a paradise if the people would
follow out his idea. He said that all that was
required was the natural forces OF wind aud
rightly applied, and in ten years this whole
earth would be an Eden. and in book Of
great genius, which went from edition to
clifton, he sets forth the idea, in which he
says
'Fellow-man, promise to show the means
of creating a paradise within ten years,
when everything desirable for human life
will be had by every man in superabIndance,
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 magnificent palaces In all