The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-10-01
REV. DR.. TAIN AGE.
The Eminent HiNin,'> Sermon De.
livered in Washington.
Subject: "The Coming Redemption -

TEXT: "And the streets Of the city shall be
full OF boys and girls playing In the streets
thereof. viii, S.
Glimpses OF our cities redeemed, Now,
boys and girls who play in the streets run
such risks that multitudes of them end In
ruin. But, in the coming time spoken of,
our cities will be SO moral that lads and
]asses shall be as safe in the public thorough
farts as in the nursery.
Pulpit and printing presses FOR the most
part in our day are busy in discussing the
condition OF the cities TT this time; but would
1t not he henthfully encouraging to all
Christian workers. and to all who are toll
ing to make the world better, II we should
for little while look forward to the time
when our cities shall be revolutionized by
the Gospel Of the Son of God, and all the
darkness OF sin and trouble and crime and
suffering shall be gone from the world?
Every man has Il p1ide in the city OF his
nativity or residence. if 1t be city distin-
Suished 70" any dignity or proves. Caesar
boosted OF his native Rome Virgil of Mautua,
Lycurgu5 OF Sparta. DemOstneneS OF Athens.
ArchlmedeS Of Syracuse, and Paul OF TarSIls.
l should have suspicion OF base-heart ednrss
in man who had no especial interest in the
city Of his birth or resi- tence-no e1hilara-
| ton Of the evidence of its prosperity or its
artistic establishment. or its intellectual adj
vancement.
| have noticed that a man never likes a
city where be has not behaved well! People
who have had free ride in the prison van
never like the city that furnishes the vehicle
When 1 find Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna
trying to prove themselves the birthplace OF
Homer | conclude at once that Homer be-
haved well. He liked them and they liked
him. We must not war on lsudnblo city
pride. or. with the idea OF building ourselves
up at any time try to pull others down.
Boston must continue to point to its Faneuil
Hall and to its Common, and to its superior
educational advantages. Philadelphia must
continue to point to its Independence Hail
and its mint, and its Girard College. Wash
| 1ngton must continue to point to its Won
drous CapitoIine buildings. Ill should lind
II 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, | would feel like asking:
/ "What mean thug have you done there?
| What outrageous thing have you been guilty
| OF that you do not like the place."
| think we Ought-and | take 1t for
! granted you ar" interested in his great Wort;
OF evangelizing the cities and saving thu
| World-we ought 10 toll with the sunlight in
! our faces. We are not fighting in mlser-
| able Bull Run 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 moon unler
| His feet and the stars Of heaven for His tiara.
Hail, Conqueror, hail.
[ know there arc sorrows, and thUrr
are sins, and there are sufferinys all around
about us; but as in some bitter, cold winte:
day, when we are threshing our arms around
us to keep our thumbs from freezing, VT
| think OF the warm spring day that will after
| awhile come; or in the dark winter night We
| a fha rth E,ph%c %Ia
| dows Of heaven illuminated by some great
! victorv-just so we look up from the night
OF suffering and sorrow and Wretchednesc
| in our cities, and We see a light streamin4
through from the other side, and we know
we are on the way to morning--more 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 art
all going to be captured. The victory 70:
! Christ in these great towns is going to be s.
! complete that not man on earth or ar
angel in heaven, or devil in hell will dis
pute it. How do I know? 1 know just is
certainly as God lives and this is holy truth
The old bible is full Of it. II the Nation i.
to be saved, OF course all the cities are to ht
saved. It makes great difference with yot
and with me whether we are toiling on to
ward defeat. or toillng on toward a vic
tory.
Now. In this municipal elevation OF whicl
l speak. I have to remark there will bt
greater financial prosperity than our cite
have ever seen. Some people seem to hay,
Il morbid idea of the millennium, and the,
think when the better time comes to m
cities and the world people will give thej
time up to psalm-singing and the relating Q
their religious experience. and, as all socia
life will be purified. there will be no hilaritv
and as all business will be purified, Ihert
will be no enterprise. There is no grounC
for such an absurd anticipation. In thu
time of which l speak, where now one for
tune is made there will be hundred for
tunes made. We all know business pros
perity depends upon confidence betweet
man and man. Now when that time come
Of which | speak, and when all double dea!
ing, all dishonesty, and all fraud are gon,
out OF commercial circles, thorough conf
dence will be established and there will b.
better business done, and larger fortune
gathered. and mightier successes achieved
The great business disasters OF this country
have come from the work of goddess specu
lators and Infamous stock gamblers. Th
great foe to business is crime. When til
right shall have hurled back the wrong, an
shall have purified the commercial code. an,
shall have Numbered down fraudulent estab
lishments, and shall have put into the hand
Of honest men the keys OF business, blesset
ing an abstraction, am not making guess
lam telling you Gods eternal truth.
In that day Of which I speak, taxes will b
mere nothing. Now, our!bus!ness men az
taxed for everything. City taxes. count
taxes, State taxes, United States taxes STAN
taxes license taxes, manufacturing taxes
taxes. taxes, taxes! Our business men hav
to make a small fortune every year to pa
their taxes. What fastens on our great liz
dustries this awful load? Crime individut
and official. We have to pay the board {
the villains who are incarcerated in our pris
ons. We have to take care Of the orphans {
those who plunged into their graves throug
sensual indulgencies. We have to supper
the municipal governments, which are vas
and expensive just in proportion as the erin
lnal proclivities are vast and tremendou!
Who support the amshOuses and police ST;
tons, and all the machinery Of muncipa
government? The tax payers.
But in the glorious time Of which SPEAK
greyous taxation will all have ceased. Their
will be no need disappearing criminals there
will be no criminals. Virtue will have take
the place of vice. There will no orphan as,
lums, for parents will be able to leave a con
potency TO their children. There will be IL
voting OF large sums of money for som
municipal improvement. which moneys bt
fore they get to the improvements drop I'M,
the pockets Of those who voted them. \
Oyer and Terminer kept up at vast expens