The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-26

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establishments, and shall have put
into the hands of honest men the
keys OF business, blessed time for the
bargain makers. ! am not talking al
abstraction, l am not making guess.
l am telling you Gods eternal truth.
In that day of which l speak taxes
will be mere nothing. Now our
business men are taxed for everything.
Citytaxcs, county taxes, state taxes,
United States taxes, stamp taxes, license
taxes, manufacturing taxes-taxes,
taxes, taxes! Our business men have
to make 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 to take care of the orphans
of those who plunged in their graves
through sensual indulgences. We
have to support the municipal govern
ments, which are vast and expensive
just in proportion as the criminal pro-
clivities are vast and tremendous. Who
support the aims houses and police
stations, and all the machinery of mu-
nicipal 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. Virtue will have
taken the place of vice. There will be
no orphan asylums, for parents will
be able to leave n competency to their
children There will be no voting of
la nf IN. al
Improvement, which moneys, before
they get to the improvements, drop
into the pockets of those who voted
them. No oyer and termincr kept up
at vast expense to the people. No
| impaneling of juries to try theft and
rson and murder and SANDER and
| blacllmail. Better factories. Grander
architecture. Finer eQuipage Larger
| fortunes. Richer opuienee. Better
| churches.
In that better time, also, coming to
those cities, Christ's churches viii be
| more numerous, and they will be
larger. and they will DC more devoted
to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. and they
! will accomplish greater influences for
! good. Now, it is often the ease that
! churches are envious OF each other,
aud denominations collide with each
other, and even ministers Of Christ
| sometimes forget the bond of brother
hood. Bat in the time. Of which l
/ speak, while there will be just as
| many differences % opinion rs there
! are now, there VIII be no acerbity, no
| Approximation, no e:,tlusiyeuess.
In our great cities the churches are
( not to-day large enough To holl a
fourth Of the population The
| churches that are built comparatively
J few OF them are tally occupied. The
average attendance in the churches of
! the United states to-day is not 400.
Now, in the glorious tiIuo of which
( speak there are going 70 he vast
| churches, and they are going to be all
throngcl with worshipers. On, what
i rou5iug songs they will sing! Oh. what
! earnest sermons they will preach! On,
what fervent prayers they will otferl
| Now. in our time what is called fash
ionablo church is n place where . few
! people. having attended very carefully
| 10 their toilet, come and sit dowa-
! they do not want to be crowded; they
! like II whole seat to themsclves-and
then, if they have any time left from
! thinking of their store, and from ex-
amiuing the style of hat in front of
them, they sit and listen to u sermon
warranted to hit no mans sins. and
| listen To music which is rendered by a
| choir warranted to sing tunes that no.
body knows! And then, after an hour
| and a half of indolent yawning, they
go home refreshed. Every man feels
better after he has had sleep
In many of the churches of Christ
in our day the music is simply mock
| cry. l have not a cultivated ear, nor
n cultivated voice, yet no man can do
my singing for me. have nothing to
| say against artistic music. The 81 or
SIS | pay to hear any of the great
queens OF song are good investment.
But'when the people assemble in re-
ligious 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 indiffer-
ence. ] have preached in churches
where vast sums of money were en-
ployed to keep up the music, and it
earth, but l thought, at the same
time, for all matters practical,
would prefer the hearty, outbroken
song of backwoods Methodist camp
meeting.
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, by one influence.
Perhaps l say by another. l will tell
you what is my idea, and know 1 am
right in it: The Gospel of the Son of
God is the ONLY agency that will ever
accomplish this.
A gentleman in England had a the
DRY that IL 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 book of great genius, which
rushed from edition to edition, he said:
"Fellow.men, promise to show the
means of creating a paradise within