The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-10-28

taXes-taxes, taxes, taxesl Our business
men have to make small fortune every
year to pay their taxes. What fastens on
our great industries this awful load
Crime, individual and official We have tc
pay the board of the villains who are lncar-
cerated 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 cTirainal pro.
clvities are vast and tremendous. Who
supports the alUshuuses and police stations
and ali the machinery Of municipal govern
mentl 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, anti-abomination-an 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
I 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 a 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 slander 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
each other, and even ministers of Christ
sometimes forget the bond of brotherhood.
| But in the time of which l 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-comparative 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 singl Oh, what
| earnest sermons they will preach! Oh,
what fervent prayers they will offer! Now,
| in our time, what is called a 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 ttse;n-
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 a sermon warranted to hit
no mans sins, and listen to music which is
| rendered bya 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 a 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. l
| have nothing to say against artistic music.
| The two dollars or five dollars l pay to
hear any of the great queens of song is
| 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. 1 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;
but / thought at the same time, for all
| matters practical, l would prefer the
hearty, outbreaking song of a baclwoods
| 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 wentup 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
| q 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
| choir9
"Praise ye the Lord; let every thing
| with breath praise the Lord" In the glori-
Gus time in our cities, and in the world,
hosanna will meet hosanna and hallelujah,
| hallelujah.
In that time also, of which speak, all
the haunts Of iniquity and crime and squal-
or will be cleansed and will be illuminated.
How is it to be donel You say perhaps by
one influence. Perhaps 1 say by another.
/ will tell you what is my idea, and know
/ am right in it. The Gospel of the Son Of
| God is the only agency that will ever ac-
complish this.
Mr.. Eesler, of England, had theory that
| if the natural forces of wind and tide and
sunshine and waves were rightly applied
| and rightfully developed, it would make
this whole earth paradise. In book Of
great genius, and which rushes from edi-
ton to edition, he said: "Fellow-men, l
promised to show the means of creating q
paradise within ten years, where every
thing for human life may be had by every
man in superabundance without labor and
without pay-where the whole face Of nat
ure shall be changed into the most beauti-
full forms, and man may live in most mag
nifcent palaces, in all imaginable refine
ments of luxury, and in the most delightful
gardens-where he may accomplish with
out labor IN one year more than hitherto
could be done in thousands of years, and
may level a continent, sink valleys, create
lakes, drain lakes and swamps and inter-
sect the land everywhere with beautiful
canals and roads for transporting heavy
loads Of many thousand tons, and for trav.
cling q thousand miles in twenty-four
hours.
'"From the houses to be built will be af-
forded the most cultured views to be fan
cied. From the galleries, from the roof
and from the turrets may be seen gardens
as far as the eye can see, full Of fruits and
l an1rnra n,.rannad in the most haantifnl