The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-09-19

NWMN MHM should Tor n llJtle
REV. TALMAGE. while look forward
to the time when our cities shall be
revolutionized by the gospel of the Sor
of God, and all the darkness of sin and
trouble and crime and suffering shall
be gone from the world?
Every nan has a pride in the city OF
his nativity or residence, if it lie n city
distinguished for any dignity OF
Caesar boasted of his native
Rome, Virgil of Mantau, Lvcurgus of
Sparta, n~emosthenes of Athens, Ar
chimedes of Syracuse, and Paul OF
Tarsus. / should have suspicion OF
base ~heartedness in n man who had no
especial interest in the city of his birth
or residence-no exhilaration at the
evidence of its prosperity or its artistic
embellishments or its intellectual adj
vancement.
1 have noticed that man never likes
a city where he has not behaved well!
People who have had a free ride in the
prison van never like the city that
furnishes the vehicle. If / should find
a man coming from any city, having
no pride in that city, that city having
been the place of his nativity, or now
being the place of his residence, l
would feel like asking: What mean
thing nave you done there? What out
rageous thing ave you been guilty of
that you do not like the placer"
1 think we ought-and / take it for
granted you are interested in this great
work of evangelizing the cities and
saving the world-we ought TO toll
with the sunlight in our faces. We are
-4N E-hffn1 in n rniGnf-a hln Rnll KIM
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 and doom,
but the rider on the white horse. with
the noon under His feet and the stars
of Heaven for His tiara. Hail, Con-
queror, hail!
1 know there are orrows, and there
are sins, and there are ~sufferings all
around about us; but as in some bitter,
cold winter day, when we are thrash
ing 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 night we
look up and see the northern lights,
the windows of Heaven illuminated by
some great victory-just SO we look up
from the night of suffering and sor-
row and Indebtedness in our cities,
and we see a light streaming through
from the other side, and we know we
are on the way to morning-more than
that, on the way to a morning with
out clouds"
L want you to understand, all you
who are toiling for Christ, that the
castles of sin are all going to be
captured. The victory for Christ in
these great towns is going to be SO
complete hat not a man on earth or
an angel in Heaven Or a devil in hell
will dispute it. How do l know? 1
know just as certainly as God lives n
that this is holy truth. The old Bible
is full of it. If the nation is to be
saved, of course all the cities are to
be saved. 1t makes a great difference
with you and with me whether we are
toiling on toward a defeat, or toiling
toward a victory.
Now, in this municipal elevation of
which 1 speak / have to remark there
will be greater financial prosperity
than our cities have ever seen. Some
people seem to have a morbid idea of
the millennium, and they think when
the better time comes to our cities and
the world people will give their time
to psalm-singing and the relating of
their religious experiences, and, as all
social life will be purified there will
be no hilarity, and, as all BUSH
ness will be purified, there will
be no enterprise. There is no
ground for such an absurd anticipa-
ton. In the time of which l speak,
where now one fortune is made, there
will be a hundred fortunes made. We
all know business prosperity depends
upon confidence between man and
man. Now, when that time comes of
which l speak, and when all double
dealings, all dishonesty, and all frauds
are gone out of commercial circles,
thorough confidence will be estab-
Iished, and there will be better BUSH
ness done, and larger fortunes gath
cred, and mightier successes achieved.
The great business disasters of this
country have come from the work of
goddess spectators and infamous stock
gamblers. The great foe to business
is crime. When the right shall nave
hurled back the wrong and shall have
purified the commercial code, and shall
Numbered down fraudulent establish.
HcuLS anu bhGSlh pun AhbO ~ hhd Vi
honest men the keys of business, blessed
time for the bargainmakers. am not
talking an abstraction. / am not max
ing a guess 1 am telling you Gods
eternal truth.
In that day of which l speak, taxes
will be O mere nothing. Now our
business men are taxed for everything.
City taxes, county taxes, state taxes,
United States taxes, stamp taxes, Ii
n 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 Industries this awful load?
Crime, individual and official. We have
To pay the board of the villains who
are incarcerated in our prisons. We
have 10 take carr of the orphans of
those who plunged into their graves
through sensual indulgences. We
have to support the municipal govern
ments, which are vast n expensive
just in proportion as the criminal pro-
clivities are vast and tremendous. Who
supports the almshouses and police sta
tions, and the machinery of municipal
government? The taxpayers.
But in the glorious time of which !
speak grievous taxation will all have
ceased. There will be no need of sup
porting criminals; there will be no
criminals. Virtue will nave taken the
place of vice. There will be no orphan
asylums, for parents will be able to
leave a competency to their children.
There will be no voting of large sums
of money for some municipal improve
ments, which moneys before they
get to the improvements, drop into the
pockets of those who voted them. No
oyer and terminer kept up at vast ex-
pense to the people. No impaneling of
juries to try theft and arson and muir
der and SANDER and blackmail. Better
factories; grahder architecture; finer
equipage; larger fortune; richer opu-
lencei better churches.