The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-14


voting of large sums of money for some
municipal Improvement which moneys, be-
fore they get to the improvements, drop
into the pockets of those who voted them.
No oyer and terminer kept up at vast
expense to the people. No empanelling
of juries to try theft and arson and muir
der and SANDER and blackmail. Better
factories. Grander architecture. Finer
equipage. Larger fortunes. Richer opu-
lence. Better churches.
In that better time, also, coming to
those cities, Christs churches win be
more numerous. and they will be larger,
and they VIII be more devoted to the Cos
pei of Jesus Christ, and they Will accom-
pllsh greater influences for good. Now,
it is often the case that churches are en-
vious Of each other. and denominations
collide with each other, and even minis
tiers Of Christ sometimes forget the bond
of brotherhood. But in the time of which
speak, while there will be just as many
differences Of fopinion as there are now,
there will be noiacerbity, no hypercriu-
csm, no exclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are not
to-day large enough to hold more than
fourth of the population. The churches
that are built-comparatively few Of them
are fully occupied. The average attend
ance in the churches of the United States
to-day is not four hundred. Now, in the
glorious time of which l speak. there are
going to be vast churches, and they are
going to be all thronged with worship
pers. Oh, what rousng songs they will
singl Oh, what earnest sermons they will
| preachi 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
carefully to their toilet, come and SIT
down-they do not want to be crowded;
| they like a whole seat to themselves
| and then, II they have any time left from
! lfrxf of nd ava
| lining 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 a choir
warranted to sing tunes that nobody
| knowsi And then after an hour and a
half of indolent yawning they go home
| refreshed. Every man feels better after
he has had a sleepl
In many of the churches of Christ in
our day the music is simply a mockery.
have not cultivated ear, nor cult
| waited voice. yet no man can do my sing
ing for me. / have nothing to say against
artistic music The two or FIVE dollars
| pay to hear any of the great queens of
song are 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. / have
| preached in churches where vast sums II
money were employed to keep up the
music, and 1t was as exquisite any
heard on EARTH but l thought al the
same time, for all matters practical
would prefer the hearty. outbreaking song
of a backwoods Methodist camp-meet-
ing
Let one Of these starveling fancy songs
sung in church get up before the throne
of God, how would 1t seem standing amid
the great doxologies of the redeemed? Let
/ "a IN nil hot
from the church of Christ get many hours
the start it will be caught and passed by
| the hosanna of the Sabbath school chill
dren. / know church where the choir
| did all the singing, save one Christian
man, who, through perseverance of the
saints" went right on, and, afterward, a
committee 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 hosanna, and hallelu-
jah, hallelujah
the haunts of iniquity and crime and
squalor will be cleansed and will be illu.
minated. How is il to be done? You say
perhaps, by one influence. Perhaps l say
by another. / will tell you what is ms
idea, and l know | am right in it: The
Gospel Of the Son of God is the only
agency that will ever accomplish this.
gentleman in England had a theory
that If the natural forces of wind and It'd,
and sunshine and wave were rightly ap
piled and rightly developed it would max,
this whole earth a paradise In a book o
4 ORC nd WI fph oh fr~pf a1i
ton TO edition, he said: Fellow men,
promise to show the means of creating
paradise within ten years, where every
thing desirable for human life may b'
, had by every man in superabundanc,
without labor and without pay-where tn,
whole face of nature shall be changed
! into the most beautiful farms, and maj
! may live In the most magnificent palaces
! in all imaginable refinements of luxury
and in the most delightful gardens-wher
l he may accomplish without labor in on
! year more than hitherto could be done IL
I thousands of years. From the houses L
I be built will be afforded the most culture,
! views that can be fancied. From the gal
! leries, from the roof and from the turrets
may be seen gardens as far as the ey
I can see, full of fruits and flowers ar
Q ranged in the most beautiful order wit
a walks, colonnades, aqueducts, canals
Q ponds, plains amphitheaters, terraces
+ fountains, sculptured works. pavilions
Q gondolas, places OF popular amusement
e to lure the eye and fancy. All this to b
g done by urging the water. the wind an
= the sunshine to their full development"
! He goes on and gives plates of the ma
II chinery by which this work is to be done
o and he says he only needs at the start
n company in which the shares shall b
h twenty dollars each, and hundred or tw
:, hundred thousand shall be raised Jus
:. to make specimen community, and Their
g this being formed the world will see II
!. practicability and very soon two or tire
L million dollars can be obtained, and 4
i ten years the whole earth will be empar
L adised. The plan Is not so preposterous a
: some have heard of. But will take n
II stock in that company / do not believ
: that II will ever be done In that way. b
8 any mechanical force, or by any machiner
that the human mind can put into play
+ 1t Is to be done by the gospel of the So
= Of God--the omnipotent machinery Of Low
5. and grace and pardon and salvation. Thi
n is to emparadise the nations. Archmede
g destroyed a feet OF ships coming up tn
i harbor. You know how he did it2 II
q fffad q great gun-glagS history tails N,