The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-09-25

tunes made. We all know business
prosperity depends upon conn-
dence between man and man.
Now when that time comes OF wnlch
/ speak, and when all double dear
ing. all dishonesty, and all fraud are
zone out of commercial cities. thor
ouph confidence will be esta blished,
and there will be better business done,
and larger fortunes gathered, ana
mightier successes achieved.
The o. reat business disasters OF this
country have come from the work OF
goddess spectators and infamous
gamblers. The great foe to business
is crime. When the right shall nave
hurled back the wrong, and shall nave
nurified the commercial code, ana
shall have Numbered down fraudulent
establishments, and shall have put
into the hands of honest men the
KEYS of business, blessed time for the
bargain makers. / am not talking an
abstra ction, am not making a guess.
am telling you Gods eternal truth
In that day of which l speak taxes
will be a mere nothing. Now our
business men are taxed for everything.
CITY taxes, county taxes, state taxes
United States taxes, stamp taxes, license
taxes, manufacturing taxes-taxes'
taxes. taxes! Our business men have
to make a small fortune every year to
nav their taxes. What fastens on our
great industries this awful load9
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
lust in proportion as the criminal pro-
clivities are vast and tremendous. VINO
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 competency to their
children. There will be no voting OF
large sums of money for municipal
improvement, which moneys, before
they get to the improvements, drop
into the pockets of those who voted
them. No oyer and terminer kept up
at vast expense to the people. NO
impaneling of juries to try theft and
a rson and murder and SANDER and
blackmail. Better factories. Grander
architecture. Finer equipage. Larger
fortunes. 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 brother
hood. But in the time of which l
speak, while there will be just as
many differences of opinion as there
are now, there will be no acerb1ty, no
hypercriticism, no exclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are
not to-day large enough to hold a
fourth of the population. The
churches that are built, comparatively
few of them are fully occupied. The
average attendance in the churches OF
the United States to-day is not 400
Now, in the glorious time of which l
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 offer
Now, in our time what is called fash.
| ionable church is a place where a few
| people. having attended very carefully
| to their toilet, come and sit down
| they do not want to be crowded; they
| like a whole seat to themselves-anc
then, if they have any time left from
| thinking of their store, and from ex
amining the style of hat in front o.
them, they sit and listen to sermon
warranted to hit no mans sins, anc
listen to music which is rendered by 6
choir warranted to sing tunes that no
body knows! And then, after an houl
and half of indolent yawning, they
go home refreshed. Every man feel
better after he has had a sleepl
Let one of these starveling fame.
songs sung in church get up befor'
the throne of God, how would it seen
standing amid the great doxologies o
the redeemed? Let the finest OPERATE
air that ever went up from the Churcl
of Christ get many hours the start, !
will be caught and passed by the he
\ sauna of the Sabbath-school children