The Monitor-register., 1896-09-18

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cts of those who voted it. No over and
termlner kept up at vast expense to the
people. No i%mpaneling of iuries to FRY
theft and arson and murder and Islander
and blackmail. Better factories Grand
er architecture. Finer equipage. Larger
fortunes. Richer opulence. Better
churches. srtI
In that better time, also, coming TO
those cities, Christ's churches will be
more numerous, and they will be larger.
and they will be more devoted TO the !
gospel of Jesus Christ, and thew will |
accomplish greater influences for good.
Now, 1t is often the case that churches
are envlous of each other, and denomi-
nations collide with each other. and
V ministers of Christ sometimes for
get the bond OF brotherhood. But in the
time of which l speak, while there will |
be just as many differences of opinion
- NSAO AS hONB UiiCIS WILL UG no dCer- |
blty, no hypercriticism, no exclusive |
ness.
In our great cities the churches are
not today large enough to hold more
than a fourth of the population. The
churches that are built-comparatively |
few of them are fully occupied. The
average attendance in the churches of
the United States today is not 400.
Now, in the glorious time of which I
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 a place where a
few people, having attended very care
fully to their toilet, come and sit down
they do not want to be crowded they
like a whole seat to themselves-and
then, if they have any time left from
thinking of their store and from exam
lining the style of the hat in front of
them, they sit and listen to a sermon
warranted to hit no mans sins and lis
ten to music which is rendered by a
choir warranted to sing tunes that no.
body knows. And then. after an hour
and a half Of indolent yawning, they go
home refreshed. Every man feels bet
ter after he has had a sleep.
In many of the churches of Christ in
our day the music is simply a mockery.
| have not a cultivated ear nor a cult
waited voice, yet no man can do my sing
ing for me. l have nothing to say
against artistic music. The So or So
1 pay to hear any of the great
queens of song are a good investment.
But when the people assemble in reli-
gious convocation, and the hymn is read,
and the angels of God step from their
throne to catch the music Oh 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 the music,
and it was as exquisite as any heard on
earth, but l thought, at the same time,
for all matters practical l would prefer
the hearty, outbreaking song of a back
woods Methodist camp meeting.
Let one of these ~starveling fancy
songs sung i'll church get up before the
throne of God, how would it seem stand
ing amid the great doxologies of the re-
deemed? Let the finest operatic air that
ever went up from the church of Christ
get many hours the start, it will be
caught and passed by the hosanna of
the Sabbath school children. l know a
church where the choir did all the sing
ing, save one Christian man, who,
through perseverance Of the saints, "
ven right on, and afterward a COM
mittee was appointed to wait on him
and ask him if he would not please stop
singing, as he bothered the choir.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But children of the heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
praise We the Lord. Let everything
with breath praise the Lord" In the
glorious time coming in our cities and
in the world hosanna will meet hosan-
ma, and halleluiah, halleluiah.
How 1t Will Be Done.
In that time also of which I speak
all the haunts of iniquity and crime and
gqualor will be cleansed and will be IL
Illuminated. How is it to be done? You
say, perhaps by one influence. Perhaps
l say by another. L will tell you what
is my idea, and l know l am right in it:
The gospel of the Son of God is the only
agency that will ever accomplish this.
A gentleman in England had a theory
that If the natural forces of wind and
tide and sunshine and wave were rightly
applied and rightly developed it would
make this whole earth a paradise. In a
book of great genius, and which rushed
from edition to edition, he said: Eel
low men, l promise to show the means
of creating a paradise within ten years,
where everything desirable for human
life may be had by every man in super
abundance without labor and without
pay-where the whole face of nature
shall be changed into the most beautiful
farms, and man may live in the most
magnificent palaces, in all imaginable
reinements of luxury, and in the most
delightful gardens-where he may &C
complish without labor in one year
more than hitherto could be done IN
thousands of years. From the houses to
be built will be afforded the most cul-
tured views that can be fancied. 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
flowers, arranged in the most beautiful
order, with walks, colonnades, aque-
ducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphithea-
tiers, terraces, fountains, s~culptured
works, pavi1ions, gondolas, places OF
popular amusement, to lure the eye and
fancy. All this to be done by urging the
water, the wind and the sunshine to
their full development" I5rt
He goes on and gives plates OF the
machinery by which this work is to be
done. and he says he only needs at the
start a company in which the shares
shall be $40 each, and 500, 900 or
5000, 900 shall be raised just to make
a specimen community, and then, this
being formed, the world will see its
practicability, and very soon 50, 900, 900
or So, 900, 900 can be obtained, and in
ten years the whole earth will be en-
paradised. The plan is not SO %preposter-
GUS as some l have heard of. But l will
take no stock in that company. do not