Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-26

v;c,on,, gong 10 be captured. The
on;Mn ,y a1r Christ in these great towns is
so..g 70 oe SO complete that not man on !,
hall n' Sr I'M angel in heaven or devil ia |
Inn a 9all dispute it. How do know? / |
fhnt ~ US! US certainly as God lives AMI
fnls . ~ .fi :. Is neiy truth. The old Bible Is
au., oI II. 1t the nation is TO ce saved, of
course, all the cities are to be soyedS &
makes great difference with YOU and With
eae. whether We are toiling on toward a de-
Aeaso UT toiAlng on toward victory.
No"' Ia this municipal elevation of which
SPEAK there will be greater financial
piospefaty than our cities have ever seen.
oene people seem to have merbid idea
~ sle millennium, and they think when
.he netter time comes to our cities and the
world people will give their time nm to
psalm singing and the relating of their
teMglous experience, and, as all social life
wal be purified, there will be no hilarity;
anu as all business will be purified, there
Will be no enterprise. There is no ground
10. 10: soch an absurd anticipation. In the
.lme OF which speak where now one
fortune is made there will be q hundred
fortunes made. We ali know business
prosperity depends upon confidence be-
tween man and man. Now. when that
TIME comes of which 1 speak, and all
double dealing, all dishonesty, and all
fraud are gone out of commercial circles.
thorough confidence will be established,
and there will be a better business done.
and larger fortunes gathered, and mightier
successes achieved
The great business disasters of this
| country have come from the work Of god
less Spectators and infamous stock gam
blers. The great foe of business in New
York and Brooklyn is crime. When the
right shall have hurled back the wrong,
and shall have purified the commercial
state, and shall have thundered down
fraudul ent 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: J.
am not making a guess. am telling
| you Gods eternal truth.
In that day Of which speak taxes will
| be a 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 small fortune
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 in
| generated in our prisons. We have to
| take care of the orphans Of those who
plunged into their graves through beastly
indulgence. We have to support the
municipal governments, which are vast
and expensive just in proportion as the
| criminal proclivities are vast and tremen-
| dous. Who supports the almshouses and
police stations and all the machinery of
| municipal government? The taxpayers.
And l tell you Republicans and you
nanonnrofo fhOf if 1n lat fbo
taxes and let the people up, we will form a
new party, anti-excessiye taxation. anti
rum, anti-monopoly, INSTRUMENTATION,
| and 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.
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 comparatively few Of them
are occupied. The average attendance III
the churches efthc United States to-day is
not four hundred. Now, in the glorious
time Of which speak, they are going to
be vast churches, and they are going 10 be
all thronged with worshipers. Oh, what
rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what
earnest sermons they will preach! Oh,
! what fervent prayers they will offer. Now,
in our time, what is called fashionable
church is place where q few people, hav-
ing attended very carefully to their toilet,
come and sit dewn--they do not like to be
crowded, they like whole seat to them
selves-and then, it they have any time
left from thinking of their store. and from
examining the style OF the hat in front of
them, they sit and listen to sermon, war
ranted to hit no mans sins, and listen to
music which is rendered by choir war
ranted to sing tunes that nobody knows.
And then. after an hour and q half of in
| dolent-yawning, they go home refreshed.
! Every man feels better after he has had q
sleep.
| In many Of the churches OF Christ in on,
day the music is simply mockery.
| I have not a cultivated ear, nor cult
| waited voice, yet no man can 90 my singing
for me. have nothing to say against ar
tistic music. The - or s. ] pay 10 hea,
any Of the great queens of song is Il good
investment, But when the people assem-
BILE in rcli9 ious convocation, and the hymn
| is read, and the angels OF God step from
! their throne to catch the music on thei1
wings, do not let us drive them away by
our indifference. I have preached III
churches where vast sums of money were
employed to keep up the music, and it was
as exquisite rs any heard on Garth. but
thought at the same time, for all matter:
practical, would prefer the hearty. ont
breaking song of - backwoods Methods
camp meeting.
Let one of these starveing fancy song
sung in church get up before the throne O
God: how would it look standing amid thu
great doxologies Of the redeemed! Let tn
finest operate air that ever went up iron
the Church of Christ got many hours tn
start, it will be caught and passed by tn
hosanna of the Sabbath-scnoel children
know church where the choir did all tn
singing save one Christian man. who
through perseverance, OF the saints. Wen
right on, and afterward committee wa
appointed to wait on him and ask him
he would not please to stop singing, as Ia
bothered the choir.
LET those refuse to sing
Who never knew OF COD:
But children OF the Heavenly king
She ull speak their joys abroad.
"Praise ye the Lord; let everything %lt
breath praise the Lord" In the glor1ou
time coming in our cities and in the wor
hozanna will meet Lozanna, and haileluja
halleluiah.
In that time, also. Of which speak, al
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