Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-09-19

taxes county taxes, state taxes, United
States tnxcs, stamp taxes, license taxes,
manufacturing taxes - taxes, taxes,
taxcsl Our business men have TO make
small fortune every year TO pay their
taxes What fustens On our great indus
tries this awful loadi Crime, individual
and official. We have to pay the board
of tho villains who are incarcerated in
our prisons. We have to take care of the
orphans of those who plunged into their
graves through sensual indulGences. We
have to support the municipal govern
ments, which are vast and expensive,
just in proportion as the criminal pro-
clivitics are vast and tremendous Who
support the nlmshouses and police sta
tons, and all the machinery OF munich
pal government? The taxpayers.
No More Crime.
But in the glorious time of which I
speak grievous taxation will all hnyo
ceased. There will be no need Of sup
porting criminals; there will be no
criminals. Virtue will have taken tho
place OF vice. There will be no orphan
asylums, for parents will BIO able to
loave competency to their children.
There will be no voting of large sums
of money for some municipal improve
mont, which money, before they get to
tho improvements, drops into the peck
cts of those who voted it. 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 blackmail. Better factories. Grand
er architecture. Finer equipage. Larger
fortunes Richer opulence- Better
churches.
Iii that better time, also, coming to
those cities, Christ's churches will be
more numerous, and they will be larger,
and they will be moro 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 denomi'
nations collide with each other, and
even ministers of Christ sometimes for
get the bond of brotherhood. But i'll the
time of which speak, while there will
be just as many differences of opinion
as there are now. there will be no acer-
bity, no hypercriticism, no exclusive
ness
In our great cities the churches are
not today large enough to hold moro
than fourth of the population. The
churches that are built-comparatively
few OF them are fully occupied. The
average attendance i'll the churches OF
the United States today is not 400.
Now, i'll the glorious timo Of which l
speak, there are going to be vast
churches and they are going TO be all
throneed with worshipers. Oh, what
rousing songs they will sing oh, what
earnest sermons they will preach! Oh,
what fcrvcnt prayers they will offer
Now, in our time, what is called a
fashionable church is place where q
few people, having attended very care
fully to their toilet, come and sit down
they do not want to be crowded; they
like whole seut to themsclvcs-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 q sermon
warranted to hit no mans sins and lis
ten to music which is rendered by o
choir warranted to sing tunes that no.
body knows. And then, after an hour
and half of indolent yawning, they go
home refreshed. Every man feels bot
ter after he has had sleep.
In many of the churches of Christ in
our day the music is simply mockery.
! have not cultivated ear nor culti-
waited voice, yet no man can do my sing
ing for me. have nothing to say
against artistic music. The 81 Or SO
l pay to hear any of the great
queens of song are a good Investment
But when the people assemble i'll reli-
gious convooation, 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 ! have preached in
churches where vast sums Of money
were employed to keep mp the music,
and it Was as exquisite as any heard on
earth, but thought, at the same time,
for all matters practical would prefer
the hearty, outbreakirg song of back
woods Methodist camp meeting.
Let one of these starveling fancy
songs sung in 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 operate air that
ever went up from the church of Christ
get many hours the start, it will be
caught ard passed by the hosanna Of
the Sabbath school children. l know
church where the choir did all the sing
ing, save one Christian man, who
through perseverance Of the saints,
went right on, and afterward 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 abroud.
PRAISE We the Lord. Let everything
with breath praise the Lord. - In the
glorious time coming i'll our cities and
in the world hosanna will meet hosan-
ma, and halleluiah, halleluiah.
How 1t VIII Be Done.
In that time also of which l speak
all the haunts of iniquity and crime and
squalor will be cleansed and will be IL
Illuminated. How is it to be done? You
say, perhaps by one influence. Perhaps
saw nv another. [ will tell you what