The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-10-21


business prosperity depends upon confidenc'
between man and man. Now, when tina
time comes of which speak, and all doubl.
dealing, all dishonesty and all fraud are gon,
| out of commercial circles, thorough conf
dence viii be established, and there will b,
better business done, and larger fortune
| 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 grea
| foe to business in New York and Brooklyn i:
| crime. When the right shall have hurled
| back the wrong, and shall have purified the
commercial code, and shall have thundereC
down fraudulent establishments, and shall
have put into the hands of honest men the
keys of business-blessed time for the bargain
makers. I am not talking an abstraction, ]
am not making guess. am telling you
Gods eternal truth.
In that day in which speak taxes viii 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, taxesl Our business men have
to make a 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 our
prisons. We have to take care of the
orphans of those who plunged into their
graves through beastly indulgence. Wehave
to support the municipal governments, which
are vast and expensive just in proportion as
the criminal proclivities are vast and tre-
mendous. Who supports the almshouses and
police stations and all the machinery of mu-
nicipal governments 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 viii form a new
party -anti-excessive taxation, anti-rum, anti
monopoly, anti-abomination- you who
have been fattening on the public spoils and
reckless OF the public virtue shall not have so
much as the wages of a street sweeper.
But in the glorious time of which speak
grievous taxation will all have ceased. There
win be no need of supporting criminals; 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
competency to their children. There will be
no voting of large sums of moneys for some
municipal Improvement, which moneys, be-
fore they get to the improvement, drop into
the pockets of those who voted them. No
oyer and ter1niner kept up at vast expense to
the people. No impaneling of juries to try
theft, and arson, and murder and SANDER
and blackmaiL Better factories, grander
architecture, fine equipage, larger fortunes,
richer opulence, better churches,
In that better time, also, coming to these
cities the church 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 viii accomplish greater in
fluences 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 / speak, while there will be just as
many differences of opinion as there are now,
there will be no acerbity, no hypercriticism,
no exclusiveness.
Ia our great cities the churches are not to-
day large enouge to hold more than fourth
of the population. The churches that are
few of them are fully
occupied The average attendance in the
churches of the United States to-day is not
400. 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. o, what rousing songs they will
singl o, what earnest sermons they will
preachl O, what fervent prayers they will
offerl Now, in our time, what is called
fashionable church is place where few
people, having attended very carefully to
their toilet, come and sit down-they do not
WdnC 10 Do CTOWO6Q, Il6y ike d HuOle SedG 10
themselves-and then, if they have any time
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 TO
hit no mans sins, and listen to music which
is rendered by choir warranted to sing tunes
that nobody Bpowsl And then after an hour
and a half of indolent yaWning they go homo
refreshed. Every man feels better after he
has had sleep.
In many of the churches of Christ in our
day the music is simply a mocker. have
not cultivated ear, nor a cultivated voice,
yet no man can do my singing for me. 1
have nothing to say against artistic music.
The 81 or IS pay to hear any of the great
queens of song is a good investment. But
when the people assemble in religious conyo-
cation, 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 haye preached
in churches where vast sums OF money were
employed to keep up their music, and it was
as exquisite as any heard an earth; but l
thought at the same time, for all matters
practical, I would prefer the hearty, out
breaking song OF a backWoods Methodist
camp meeting.
Let one of these starveling fancy songs
sung in church get up before the throne of
God. How would it look standing amid the
great doxologies of the redeemed. Let the
finest operatic air that ever went up from the
church of Christ get many hours the start; it
viii be caught and passed by the hosanna of
the Sabbath school children. I know
church where the choir did all the singing,
save one Christian man, who, through per-
severance of the saints, went right on, and
afterward a committee was appointed to
wait on him and ask him if he would not
please to stop singing, as he bothered the
choirl