The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-10-21


and sorrow and wretchedness in our cities,
and we see light streaming through from
the other side and we know we are on the
way to morning, more than that, on the way
TO "a morning without Clouds
want you to understand, all you who are
tolllng for Christ, that the castles of sin are
all going to be captured. The victory for
Christ in these great towns is going to be SO
complete that not a man on earth, or an
angel in heaven or devil in hell will dispute
it. How do l knowl l know Just as Ger.
tainly 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 all the cities are to be
saved, 1t makes great difference with YOU
and with me whether we are toiling on
toward defeat or toiling on toward a vic.
tory.
Now, in this municipal elevation of which
l speak, have to remark there will be
greater financial prosperity than our cities
have ever seen. Some people seem to have q
morbid idea of the millennium, and they think
when the better time cones to our cities and
the world, people will give up their time tc
psalm singing and the relating of their re-
hgious experience, and as all social life viii
be purified there will be no hilarity, and as
all business will be purified there will be nc
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 100 fortunes made. We all know
business prosperity depends upon confidence
between man and man. Now, when that
time comes of which Ispeak, and all double
dealing, al dishonesty and all fraud are gone
out of commercial circles, thorough conf.
dence will be established, and there will be
better business done, and larger fortunes
gathered, and mightier successes achieved
The great business disasters of this country
have come from the work of goddess specula.
tors 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 businesS-blessed time for the bargain
makers. am not talking an abstraction
am not making a guess. l am telling you
Gods eternal truth.
In that day in 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, manufacturing taxes
taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business men have
to make small fortune every year to pay
their taxes What fastens on our great in.
dustries this awful load? Crime, individual
and official. We have to pay the board OF
the villains who are incarcerated in oul
prisons We have to take care of the
orphans of those who plunged into theil
graves through beastly indulgence. Wehave
to support the municipal governments, which
are vast and expensive just in proportion as
the criminal procivities are vast and tire
mendous. Who supports the almshouses and
police stations and all the machinery of mu
nicipal government The taxpayers.
And tell you Republicans and you Demo
Gratis that if you do not let down the taxes
and let the people up, we will form a new
party-anti-eXcessive taxation, anti-rum, anti
monopoly, anti-abomination-and you who
have been fattening on the public spoils ant
reckless of the public virtue shall not have Sc
much as the wages Of a street sweeper.
But in the glorious time of which | speal
grievous taxation will all have ceased There
will be no need of supporting criminals; there
will be no criminals. Virtue will have takeI
the place of vice. There will be no orphan
asylums, for parents will be able to leave
competency to their children. There will b
no voting of large sums of moneys for SOM
municipal improvement, which moneys, be
fore they get to the improvement, drop int
the pockets of those who voted them. Nc
oyer and terminer kept up at vast expense tC
the people. No impaneling of juries to try
theft, and arson, and murder, and SANDER
and blackmail. Better factories, grandel
architecture, fine equipage, larger fortunes
richer opulence, better churches.
In that better time, also, coming to thesC
cities the church of Cfs'ist 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 in
fluences for good Now, it is often the cast
that churches are envious of each other anC
denominations collide with each other, anC
even ministers of Christ sometimes forget thu
bond of brotherhood. But in the time Of
which | speak, while there will be just a!
many differences of opinion as there are now
there WI be no acerbity, no hypercriticism
no exclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are not to
day large enCuge to hold more than a fourtl
of the population. The churches that arr
built-comparativey few of them are fully
occupied. The average attendance in thu
churches of the United States to-day is no
400. Now, in the glorious time of which
speak there are going to be vast churches
and they are going to be all thronged witt
worshipers. o, what rousing songs they vii
sing! O, what earnest sermons they viii
preach o, what fervent prayers they vii
offer! Now, in our time, what is called {
fashionable church is a place where a few
people, having attended very carefully t.
their toilet, come and sit down-they do no
want to be crowded, they like whole seat Il
themselves-and them if they have any TIM
left from thinking of their store and from ex
amining the style of the hat in front of them
| they sit and listen to a sermon warranted Il
hit no mans sins, and listen to music which
IS rendered by a choir warranted to sing tune
that nobody linows And then after an hou
and a half of indolent yawning they go hom
refreshed. Every man feels better after h.
| las had sleep.
In many of the churches of Christ in ou
day the music is simply mocker. hav,
not cultivated ear, nor a cultivated voice
vet no man can do my singing for me.
have nothing to say against artistic music
The 50 or s. pay to hear any of the grea
queens of song is good investment. Blu
when the people assemble in religious convo