Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18

numerous, and they will be larger, AM
| they will he moro devoted to the gospel G
/ Jesus Christ, and they will accomplish
/ greater influences for good. Now, it /
! often the case that churches are envious o
each other, and denominations collide witt
each other, and even ministers of Chris
sometimes forget tho bond of brotherhood
I But in. the time of which l speak, Will
there will be just as many differences o
opinion as there arc now, there will be II,
acerbity, no hypercriticism, no exclusive
ness.
People WIN Sing In Church.
In our great cities the churches are no
today large enough to hold more than
fourth of the population. The churche.
that are built-comparatively few Of then
are fully occupied. The average attend
ance in the churches of the United State:
today is not 400. Now, in the glorious
time of which speak there are going t.
be vast churches, and they are going to bC
all thronged with worshipers Oh, what
rousing songs they will singl Oh, what
earnest sermons they will preach! Oh
what fervent prayers they will offerl Now
in our time, what is called a fashionable
church is a place where few people, hay
come and sit dOwn-they do not want "a
be crowded; they like a whole scat to them
selves-ard 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
ranted to sing tunes that nobody knows.
And then after an hour and half Of indO-
lont yawning they 60 home refreshed Ey-
cry man feels better after he has had a
sleep.
In many of the churches of Christ in our
day the music is simply mockery. have
not Il cultivated ear, nor a cultivated voice,
yet no man can do my singing for me. l
have nothing to say against artistic music
The 81 or So pay to hear any Of tho great
queens of song is n good Investment
But when the people assemble in religious
conyocation, 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,
l have preached in churches where vast
sums of money were employed to keep up
the music, and it was as exquisite rs any
heard on earth, but I thought at the same
time that for all matters practical I would
prefer the hearty, outbreaking song of a
backwoods Methodist camp meeting.
Let one of these starvcling fancy songs
sung in church get up before the throne Of
God-how would 1t seem standing amid the
great doxologies of the redeemed? Let the
finest operate air that ever went up from
the church of Christ get many hours the
start; it will be caught and passed by the
hosanna of the Sabbath school children. l
know n church where the choir did all the
singing, save one Christian man, who
through perseverance of the saints, "
went right on, and afterward a committee
was appointed to wait on him and ask him
if he would not please stop singing, as he
bothered the choir
Let these refuse to sing
Who mover 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
In that time also of which 1 speak all
the haunts of iniquity and crime and
squalor will be cleansed ard will be illu-
minated How is it to be done? You say
perhaps by one influence Perhaps l say
by another 1 will tell you what is my
idea, and l know 1 am right in it, The
gospel of the Son of God is the only agency
that will ever accomplish this.
Rather Prep1sterOus.
A gentleman in England had theory
hat if the natural forces of wind and tide
md sunshine and wave were rightly APP |
llied and rightly developed it would make |
his whole earth paradise In book of |
great genius and which rushed from edi- |
ion to edition he said: "FellOw men. |
PROMISE to show the means of creating |
paradise within ten years where every
hing desirable for human life may be had
" every man in superabundance without
abor and without pay; where the whole
ace of nature shall be changed into tho
most beautiful farms and man may live
n the most magnificent palaces, in all I'M
ginable rofinements of luxury and in the
most delightful gardens; where he may ac-
omplish without labor in one year more
han hitherto could be done in thousands
f years From the houses to be built will
e afforded the most cultured views that
an be fancied From the galleries, from
he roof and from the trIrrets may be seen
ardens as far as the eye can see full of
ruits and flowers, arranged in the most
eautiui order with walks, colonnades,
queducts, canals, ponds plains, amphi-
heaters, terraces, fountains, sculptured
lorls, pavilions, gondolas, places of popu-
II amusement to lure the eye and fancy,
II this to be done by urging the water
he wind and the sunshine to their full de-
elopment "
He goes on and gives plates Of the ma
hinery by which this work is to be done,
nd he says he only needs at tho start
Dmpany in which the shares shall be SEQ
lch and 500, 600 CT 5000, 600 shall be
lised just to makca specimen community,
nd then, this being formed, the world
ill sec its practicability, and very soon
?, 600, 600 or So, 900, 600 can be obtained
nd in ten years the whole earth will be
unparalleled The plan is not so prepos-
,rous as some have heard of. But l will
Ike no stock in that company. do not
elieve that it will ever be done in that
ay, by any mechanical force or by any
iachinery that the human mind can put
Ito play 1t is to be done by the gospel
the Son of God-the omnipotent ma
linery of love and grace and pardon and
Ilvntion. This is to emparadise the ma
ons. Archimcdes destroyed feet of
lips coming mp the harbor You know
DIV be did it He lifted great sunglass,
story tells us, and when the fleet Of ships
INC up the harbor Of Syracuse he brought
bear this sunglass, and he focused tho
ms rays upon those ships. Now the sails
e wings Of fire. tho masts fall, the vessels
nix Oh my friends, by the sunglass of
&c gospel converging the rays of the sun ,
righteousness upon the sins, the wicked
sss of the world, we will make them
axe and expirel
The Changed City.
In that day Of which speak do you be-
Eve there will be any midnight carousal2 s
Ill there be any kicking off from the /
arble steps of shivering mendicants? viii {
ere be any unwashed, unfed, uncombed I
iildreng VIII there be any blasphemies in 4
70 strectsg VIII there be any inebriates
aggering past No. No wine stores. No q
Ger beer saloons. No distilleries, where {
icy make the three KS, No bloodshot {
e. No bloated check. No Instruments |
ruin and destruction. No fist pounded /
.ot,,,d rnbo ,,r., .ifIdron Of thot WON, I