Connecticut western news., 1896-09-17
No More Crime.

But in the glorious time of which speak grievous taxation will all have ceased There will be no need of SUD- porting 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 money for some municipal improve ment, which money, before they get to the improvements, drops into the pock- 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 CT architecture. Finer equipage. Larger fortunes. Richer opulence. Better churches.
 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 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 in the time of which I speak, while there will be just as many differences of opinion as there are now, there will be no acer- pity, 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-comparativel 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 preachi Oh, what fervent prayers they will offerl Now, in our time, what is called 8 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 ming the style of the hat in front of them, they sit and listen to a sermon warranted to hit no mans sins and is- ten to music which is rendered by a choir warranted to sing tunes that mo- body knows And then. after an hour and half of indolent yawning. they go l~nI RonIo 1,<ak- ter after he has had a sleep
 In many of the churches of Christ in our day the music is simply mockery. I have not a cultivated ear nor 8 culti- vated voice, yet no man can do my sing ing for me. I have nothing to say against artistic music. The a or s5 I pay to hear any of the great queens of song are 8 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 on their wings, do not let us drive them away by our indifference. I 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 I thought, at the same time. for all matters practical 1 would prefer the hearty. outbreaking 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- deemedf Let the finest operatic air that kl1o r1 ,f rtck get many hours the start. it will be caught and passed by the hosanna of the Sabbath school children. I know a church where the choir did all the sing ing. save one Christian man, who, through perseverance of the saints, went 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 ye 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- utas huu udllclulhu, udAAcluldll-
 How It VIII Be Done.
 In that time also of which speak all the haunts of iniquity and crime and squalor will be cleansed and will be it. luminated. How Is it to be donei You say, perhaps by one influence. Perhaps say by another. will tell you what is my idea, and know am right in 1t: The gospel of the Son of God is the only agency that will ever accomplish this A gentleman in England had 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 paradise. In a book of great genius, and which rushed from edition to edition, he said: Eel low men, promise to show the means of creating 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 refinements 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