Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-18

Principal once, s9i Main St.. LOUISVILLE. NJ.
listen TO a sermon warranted TO hit no
mans sins, and listen to music which is
rendered by choir warranted to sing
tunes which nobody kuowsl And then,
after an hour aud half OF ludolent yawn-
ing, they 40 home refreshed. Every man
feels better after he has had n sleep
In many Of the churches of Christ in
our day, the music Is simply mockery.
have not cultivated ear, nor o Guild
waited voice, yet no man can do my sing
ing for me. have nothing 10 say against
artistic music. The two or Ave dollars |
pay to hear any Of the great queens Of
song, is n good Investment. Bat when
the people assemble In religious conyoca.
tion, 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 vasi
sums OF money were employed 10 keep ~
the music, and II WAS as exquisite AZ any
ON earth, but thought at the same time
for all matters practical, l would prefer
the hearty, outburstlng song OF a back
woods Methodist camp-meeting.
Let one OF these starveling fancy songs
sung In church get up before the throne
OF God, how would II look standing amid
the great doxologles OF the redeemed
Let the fiUest operate air that eve
went up from the church OF Christ, ge
many hours the start, 1t Will be caugh
aud passed by the huzt anna OF the Sabbath
school children. know church wherl
the choir did all the singing, save ont
Christian man, who, through persever
ance Of the saints, went right on, aud az
terward committee was appointed I,
walt ON him and ask him II he would no
please to stop singing, as he bothered tn,
choir.
Let those refuse TO Sing
who never knew our God,
But children VI the II, avenly King
Should speak their Joys abroad,
"Pralse ye the Lord; let eyerythin
with breath praise the Lordl" In Tn
glorious time coming in our cities, aud 4
| the world, hozanna will meet hozAnns
and halleluiah, hallelujsh.
| la that time, also, OF which speak, a
the haunts OF luiquity, and crime, an
squalor will be cleansed aud will b
! Illuminated How Is 10 to be done? Yo
say, perhaps, by one influences perhaps
say by another. l will tell YOU what
|
| The gospel OF the Son Of God Is
THE ONLY AGENCY
! that will ever accomplish this.
Mr.. Ecsler OF England has theoI
that II the natural forces OF wind and lid
and sunshine and wave were rightly M
Piled and rightly developed, It woul
make the whole earth paradise. In
book OF great genus, and which rushe
a.. al. 20 u ha oil
low men, promise TO show the means {
creating paradise within ten year
where everything desirable for huma
life may be had by every man In super
abundance, without labor and withoI
pay; where the whole face Of nature sha
be changed into the most beautiful farm
and men may live In the most maj
uiflcent palaces, In all imaginable r.
linements OF luxury, and In u
most delightful gardens--where he ms
accomplish without labor IN one yea
more than hitherto could he done IN thot
sands OF years, aud may level continen
sink valleys, create lakes, drain lakes AZ
swampe, and interseet the land ever
where with beautiful canals and roads 4
transporting heavy loads OF many tho
sand tons, and for travelling thousar
| inlltN III lWtnlN lbul ubhias
"From the houses 10 he built Will
, Afforded the most cultured views TO
fancied. From the galleries, from u
roof aud from the turrets, may be see
gardens as far as tho eye can see, full
! fruits and flowers, arranged In the mo
: beautiful order, with walks, colonnade
squeducts, canals, ponds, plains, ampf
} theaters, terraces, fountains, sculpture
II lola ala
D popular amusement TO tire the eye al
} fancy. All this to be done by urging 4
! water, the wind and the sunshine to the
r full development"
5 He goes on and gives plates OF the m
chinery by which this work Is 10 be dor
] and he says he only needs at the star
c company in which the shares shall be
| each, and hundred or two hundred the
; sand shall be raised just TO make = spe
0 men community, and then, this bel
= formed, the world will see It's practi'
blity, and very soon 100000 900
i $500, 900 600 can be obtained, and In
a years the whole earth
q WILL BE KMPARADIsED.
u The plan is not so preposterous
i some have heard of But will take
q stock in that company. | do not belle
:, IL will ever be done in that way, by a
{, mechanical force, or by any machine
d that the human mind can put into pll
II Is 70 be done by the gospel OF the s
OF God--the omnipoient machinery
/ love and grace aud pardon a
4 salvation That 10 10 empa
1 disc the nations. ATchimes
/. destroyed fleet OF ships coming up
y harbor. You know how he did M
o lifted great sun glass, history tells
o and when the feet Of ships came up
a harbor Of Syracuse ho brought to b
Il this sun-glass and he conveyed the So