Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18

1 think wo uught-and 1 take It for
| granted sou are interested in this great
work of cvangelizing the cities and saving
| the world-wo ought to toll with the sun.
| light in our faces. We are not fighting in
a miserable Bull Run Of defeat. We are on
our way to final victory. We are not fol
| lowing the rider on the black horse, lead
ing us down to death and darkness and
doom, but the rider on the white horse,
with the moon under his feet and the stars
of heaven for his tiara Hail, Conqueror,
hail
know there AFRO sorrows, and there are
sins, and there are suffcrings all around
about us, but as in some bitter cold win
ter day, when we are thrashing our arms
around us to keep our thumbs from freez-
ing, We think of the warm spring day that
will after awhile come, or in the dark win
ter night we look up and see tie northern
lights, the windows of heaven illuminated
by some great victory, just so we look up
from tho night Of suffering and sorrow and
wretchodncss in our cities, and we see q
light streaming through from the other
side, and we know we arc on the way to
morning-morc than that, on the way to
"a morning without clouds.
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 that not a man on earth or
an angel in heaven or devil in hell will
dispute it. How do / know? / know just
as certainly as God lives and that this is
holy truth Tho old Bible is full of it. If
the nation is to be saved, of course all the
cities arc to lie saved. 1t makes great
we are toiling on toward a defeat or toll
ing on toward victory.
Now, in this municipal elevation of
which l speak, 1 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 up to psalm singing and the
relating Of their religious experience, and
as all social life will ba purified there will
be no hilarity, and as all business will be
purified there will be no enterprise There
is no ground for such en absurd anticipa-
ton In the time of which l speak whore
now one fortune is made there will be
hundred fortunes made. We all know
business prosperity depends upon conf
dence Letwcen man and man. Now, when
that time comes Of which 1 speak, and
when all double dealing, all dishonesty
and all fraud are gone out of commercial
circles, thorough confidence will be cstab-
lished, and there will DO better business
done, and larger fortunes gathered, and
mightier successes achieved
The great business disasters of this
country have come from the work of god
less SPECTATORS and infamous stock gam
blers The great foe to business is crime.
When the right shall have hurled back tie
wrong, and shall have purified the c0m-
mercial code, and shall have Numbered
down fraudulent establishments, and shall
have put into tho hands of honest men the
KEYS of business, blessed time for the bar
gain makers am not talking an abstrac-
ton. I am nor making guess. lam tell
ing you Gods eternal truuh.
Taxes viii Bo Low.
In that day of which speak taxes will |
be a mere nothing. Now our business men !
arc taxed for everything City taxes, coun- |