Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-09-17

taXeS-taSeS, taxes, taxesl 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 in
carcerated in our prisons. We have to take
care of the orphans of those who plunged
into their graves through sensual indul.
gences We have TO support the municipal
governments, which are vast and expen-
| sive just In proportion as the criminal pro-
clivities are vast and tremendous Who
support the almshouses and police stations,
and all the machinery of municipal govern
ments The taxpayers
But in The glorious time CT which l
speak grievous taxation Will all have
ceased. There will be no need of support
ing criminals; there will be no criminals.
| Virtue will have taken the place of vice.
| There will be no orphan asylums, for par
ents will be able to leave competency TO
their children. There will be no voting of
| Urge sums of money for some municipal
improvement, which money, before they
| get to the Improvements drops into the
pockets of those who voted it No oyer
and terminer kept up at vast expense to
| try theft and arson and murder and slander
and blackmail Better factories. Grander
architecture. Finer equipage. Larger for
| tunes. 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 denominations collide with
| each other, and even ministers of Christ
sometimes forget the bond of brotherhood.
But in the time of which speak, while
there will be Just as many differences of
opinion as there are now, there will be no
| acerbity, no hypercriticism, no exclusive
ness.
People Will Sing In Church.
In our great cities the churches ere not
today large enough to hold more than a
| fourth of the population The churches
| that are built-coLnparati few of them
| are fully occupied. The average attend
ance in the churches of the United States
today is not 400. Now, In the glorious
time of which 1 speak there are going to
be vast churches. and they are going to be
all thronged with worshipers Oh, what
rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what
earnest sermons they will preach! Oh,
what fervent prayers they will offerl Now,
| in our time, what is called fashionable
church is place where few people, hav-
ing attended very carefully to their toilet,
come and sit down-they do not want to
be crowded; they like whole seat to them
selves-and then, if they have any time
left from thinking of their store, and from
examining the style of the hat in front of
them, they sit and listen to sermon war
ranted to hit no mans sins, and listen to
music which Is rendered by choir war
Eanted to sing tunes that nobody knows.
And then after an hour and half of indo-
lent yawning they go home refreshed. Ev-
cry man feels better after he has had a
sleep.
In many of the chulrchesof Christ In our
day the music is simply a mockery. have
not cultivated ear, nor a cultivated voice,
yet no man can do my singing for me.
have nothing to say against artistic music,
The 81 or S5 pay to hear any of the great
queens of song Is a good Investment.
But when the 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 1t was as exquisite as any
heard on earth, but thought at the same
time that for all matters practical 1 would
prefer the hearty, outbreaking song of a
hac or
Let one of these starveling fancy songs
sung in church get up before the throne of
God-how would it seem standing amid the
great doxologies of the redeemed? Let the
finest operatic air that ever went up from
the church of Christ get many hours the
start; 1t will be caught and passed by the
hosanna Of the Sabbath school children
know church where the choir did all the
singing, save one Christian man, who,
through perseverance of the saints,
went right on, and afterward q committee
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 we the Lord Let everything
with breath praise the Lord" In the
glorious time coming in our cities and in
the world hosanna will meet hosanna and
halleluiah, halleluiah.
In that time also of which speak all
the haunts of iniquity and crime and
squalor will be cleansed and will be illu-
minated. How isit to be done? You say
perhaps by one influence. Perhaps say
by another 1 will tell you what is my
idea, and I know am right in 1t. The
gospel of the Son of God is the only agency
that will ever accomplish this
Rather Preposterous.
A gentleman in England had theory
that If the natural forces of wind and tide
and sunshine and wave were rightly ap-
piled and rightly developed it would make
this whole earth paradise. In book OF
great genius and which rushed from edi-
tion to edition he said: "Fellow men,
promise to show the means of creating
paradise within ten years where every
thing desirable for human 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 magnificent palaces, in all i'm
aginable refinements Of luxury and in the
most delightful gardens; where he may ac-
complish without labor in one year more
than hitherto could be done in thousands
of years. From the houses to be built will
be afforded the most cultured views that
can be fancied. From the galleries, from
the roof and from the turrets may be seen
gardens as far as the eye can see full of
fruits and flowers, arranged in the most
beautiful order, with walks, colonnades.