Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-10-02
SERMON
INTERESTING THEME BY THE
WASHINGTON PREACHER.
Subject, "The Coming Redemption"


Glimpses Of our cities redeemed Now.
boys and girls who play in the streets run
such risks that multiiudes Of them end iu
ruin. But. in the coming time spoken Of.
our cities will be so moral that lads and
lasses shall he rs safe in the public thorough
fares as in the nursery.
Pulpit and printing presses Cor the most
part In our day are busy in discussing the
condition Of the cities az this time; but would
II not be beautifully encouraging TO all
Christian workers. and to all who are toll
ing 10 make the world better, II We should
for a little while look forward 10 the time
when our cities shall be rCyOlutiOnized hy
the Gospel OF the Son Of God, and all the
darkness OF sin and trouble and crime and
suffering shall Zoe gone from the world?
Every mau has "A pride in the city OF his
nativity or residence, If Il be a city dstin-
guished for any dignity OF proves. Caesar
boasted Of hisnaiive Rome, Virgil OF Mlntua,
Lycurgus Of Sparta, Demostnenes OF Athens,
Archimedes of Syracuse and Paul Of Tarsug.
| should have suspicion Of observation-disclosures
in a man who had no especial interest in the
city of his birth or resiteuce-no exhilara-
tion Of the evidence OF its prosperity or its
artistic embellishments or its intellectual adj
vancemeut.
have noticed that a man never likes a
city where he has not behaved we'll. People
who have had free ride in the prison van
never like the city that furnishes the vehicle.
When find Argos and Rhodes and smyrna
trying to prove themselves the birthplace Of
Homer, / conclude at once that Homer be-
haved we'll. He liked them and they liked
him. We must not war on laudable city
pride, or, with the idea Of building ourselves
up at any time, try TO pull others down.
Boston must continue to point TO its Faneuil
Hall and to its Common, and to its superior
educational advantages. Philadelphia must
continue 10 point to its Independence Hall
and its mint and its Girard College. Wash
ington must continue 10 point 10 its Won
drOus CaptOline buildings. Ill should ind
man coming from any city, having no
pride in that city, that city having been tho
place of his nativity, or now being the place
of his residence, | would feel like asking;
"What mean thing have You done there?
What outrageous thing have you been guilty
OF that you do not like the place.
I think we ought-and l take II for
granted you are interested in this great work
of eyangelizng the cities and saving the
world-we ought to toll with the sunlight in
our faces. We are not lighting in q mser-
able Bull Run Of defeat. We are on our way
to final victory. We are not following the
rider on the black horse leading Us down to
death and darkness aud doom, but the Rider
on the white horse, with the moon under
His feet and the stars Of heaven for His tiara.
Hail, COuquerOr, hail!
know there are sorrows, and there
are sins, and there arc sulferin,s all around
about rs; but a. in some bitter, cold winter
day, when We are threshinE our arms around
US to keep our thumbs from freezing. we
think Of the warm spring day that will after
awhile Gomez or in the dark winter nj ht we
I look up and see the northern lights, the VIM
dows OF heaven illuminated by some great
Nictorv-ius so we look up from the night
( Of suffering and sorrow and wretcheln4ss
/ in our cities, and we see light streaming
I through from the other side, and we know
/ we are on the way to mOrninE--mure than
that on the way to "a morning without
clouds"
l want you to understand. all you who are
tOiIing for Christ, that the castles of sin are
all going to he 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 n devil in hell will dis
pute it, How do | know? l know just as
certainly rs God lives and this is holy truth
The old Bible is full Of ii. II the Nation is
to be saved, Of course all the cities are to be
saved. II makes a great difference with You
and with me whether we are tOiting on to-
ward a defeat, or toillng on toward a VIC
tory
/ Now in this municipal elevation Of which
! speak, | have to remark there will be
greater financial prosperity than our cities
/ have ever seen. Some people seem to have
| morbid idea OF the millennium, and they
, think when the better time comes to our
cities and the world people will give their
time up to psalm-singing and the relating Of
/ their religious experience, and. as all social
life will be purified, there will be no hilarity,
and. as all business will be purified. there
will be no enterprise. There Is no ground
for such an absurd anticipation. In the
time Of which speak where now one for.
"a 10 ayrrfn ha ht,V,l r,l to-
tunes made. We all know business pros.
perity depends upon confidence between
man and man. Now when that time comes
of which speak, and when all double deal
ing, all 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,
Thegreat business disasters of this country
have come from the work of goddess specu.
lators and infamous stock gamblers. The
great foe to business is crime When the
right shall have hurled back the wrong, and
shall have purified the commercial code, and
shall have Numbered down fraudulent estab'
lishments, and shall have put into the hand:
Of honest men the keys of business blessed
time for the bargain makers am not talk.
Ing an abstraction, am not makinga guess.
lam telling you Gods eternal truth.
In that day of 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 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 o
the villains who are incarcerated in our pris
ons. We have to take care of the orphans o,
those who plunged into their graves through
sensual indulgencies. We have to support
the municipal governments, which are vasi
and expensive Just in proportion as the Grim,
inal proclivities are vast and tremendous
Who support the almshouses and police sta.
tiOns, and all the machinery of municipal
government The tax payers.
But in the glorious time OF which l speak
grievouS taxation will all have ceased. There
will be no need of supporting criminals there
will be no criminals. Virtue will have taken
the place of vice. There will no orphan asy.
lums, for parents will be able to leave q com
potency to their children. There will be nc
voting of large sums of money for some
municipal Improvement, which moneys be.
fore they get to the improvements drop i'm O
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 Islander
and blackm0il. Better factories. Grand ar
chltecture, Finer equipage. Larger for.
tunes. Richer opulence. Better churches.
In that better time, also, coming to those
cities, Chrlst's churches will be more nu-
merous and they will be larger, and they be
more devoted to the Gospel 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 de-
nominations 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 ascerbity, no hypercriticism
no eXclusiveness.
In that day of which l speak, dc