Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-09-17


drop into the pockets of those who
voted them. No oyer AMI tcrmincr
kept up at vast expense To the people.
No cmpancling of juricS To try theft
and arson AMI murder and Islander and
blacNmliL Better factories, grade:'
architecture, finer cquipagc, larger
fortunes, richer upulcncc, better
churches.
In that better time. also, coming 10
Those cities Christ's churches will he
more numerous. and they will bc larger,
and they will hr more devoted td Ia
Gospel Of Jesus Christ. and they VIII
accomplish greater influences for goo !.
Now, 1t is often the ease that church -
are cnviouS of each other, and demon
nations collide with each other, an |
even ministers of Christ sometimes for
get the bond Of brotherhood I1ut In
the time Of which | speak. while there
will he just as many differences of
opinion as there are now, there will be
no accrbity, no hyp,rcritieism, no eN-
clusivcncsS.
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 attendance in the churches of
the United States to-day is not 400
Now, in the glorious time of which !
speak, there are going to BE- vast
churches, and they are going To be all
throngcd with worshippcrs. oh, what
In. I.,,- IN, bnt
earnest sermons they will preach. Oh,
what fcrvcnt prayers they will Offer.
Now, in our time, what is called Il
fashionable church is place where n
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 ex-
aiming 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
choir warranted to sing tunes that
nobody knows! And then, after an
hour and half of indolent yawning,
they go home refreshed. Every man
feels better after he has had a sleep!
In many of the churches of Christ in
our day the music is simply a mocllcry.
| have not a cultivated ear, nor cul-
tivatcd voice, yet no man can do my
singing for me have nothing to say
against artistic music. The s. or 81
pay to hear any of the great queens of
! song is a good investment. But when
the good 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 of money
were employed to keep up the music,
and it was rs exquisite as any heard on
earth, but thought at the same time
! for all matters practical | would prefer
| the hearty, outhrcalling song of n
bacllwoods Methodist camp meeting.
Let one of these starycling fancy
! songs sung in church get up before the
| throne 81 God, how would it seem
standr 'mid the great doXologies of
the redeemed? Let the finest opcrat e
| air 'Ng ~. went up from the Church
of ,,,.ls. get many hours the start, ii
will 'r caught and passed by the ho-
SruLl e. tn. Sabbath-SchOol children.
| i-t. ~ a church where the choir did
| all tn singing, save one Christian man,
who, Through perseverance of the
saints" went right on, and afterward
a comIhittcc was appointed to wait OF
him az ask him if he would not please
SIP aging, as he bothered the choir.
tho refuse II sing
t,uC aCvn. '.aew orr Col;
/ re; Cai.s.,vA-1he Heavenly King
~.t-lsss reak their Joys abroad"
/ 'Irais' se the Lord; let everything
I with hr"a y praise the Lord" In the
| gi1rIous thine coming in our cities, and
in the world, hosanna will meet hosan'
ma, and hallelujah, hallelujah.
In that time also of which speak, all
the haunts of iniquity and crime and
| squalor will be cleansed and will be
Illuminated. How is it to be done:
You say, perhaps, Ivy one influence.
Perhaps say By another. | will tell
you what is my idea, and | know | am
right in it: The Gospel of the Son oil
God is the only agency that will ever
accomplish this.
A gentleman in England had a the
DRY 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 para
| disc. In n book of great genius, and
which rushed from edition to edition.
he said: "Fellow-men, | promise to
show the means of creating a paradise
within ten years, where everything de
| sirablc fer haman life may be had by
every man in superabundance 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 magnitice mt
palaces, in all imaginable refinements
of luxury, and in the most delight
| full gardens-whcre he may accom-
plish without labor in one year
more than hitherto could be d me
| in thousands of years. From the
houses to be built will be afford
ed the most cultured views that can
| BE- fancicd. From the galleries. from
| the roof, and from the turrets, may be
|
| full of fruit and flowers, ar
ranged in the most beautiful
order, with walks, colonnad,,s,
aquedncts, canals, ponds, plains
amphitheaters, terraces, fountains
sculpturcd work, pavilions, 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
lie 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 company in which the shares
shall be so each, and hundred OF
two hundred thousand shall be raised
! just to make specimen community, and
then, this being formed, the world will
see its practicability, and very soon
| two or three million dollars can be
obtained, and in 10 years the whole
earth will be cmparadiscd. The plan
is not SO preposterous as some | have
/ heard of. But | will take no stock in
J that company! | do not believe that il
! will ever be done in that way, by any
mechanical force, or by any machinery
| that the human mind can put into
play. 1t is to be done by the Gospe