St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-11-07

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ceased. There viii b no need Of sup
porting criminals Virtue will have
taken the place Of vice. There viii be
NO orphan asyluma. for parents will
be able to leave = competency tg their
child IN. 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 tsrminer kept up
Int vast expense to the PEI pie. No
impaneling Of juries to try theft and
arson and murder and Islander and
'blackmail. Better factories. Grander
architecture. Fir<r equipage Larger
fortunes. Richer opulence. Better
In that better time. also, coming "a
those cities, Christ's churches will be
more numerous, and they will be
larger. and they will b moro devoted
to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and they
| will accomplish greater Influences for
good. Now. it 10 often, the ease that
churches are envious Ct 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
speak. while there will b. Just as
many differences Of opinion a there
are now, there will be no acerbity, no
NV
In our great cities tho churches are
not to-day large enough to hold .
fourth of the population. The
churches that are built, comparatively
few of them are fully occupied. Tho
average attendance in the churches Of
the United States to-day is not 400.
Now. in the glorious time of which
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 place where . few
people. having attended very carefully
to their toilet, come and sit down
they do not want to be crowded; they
like . whole seat to themselves-and
then. II they have any time left from
thinking of their store, and from ex-
aiming the style of hat in front of
them, they sit and listen to . sermon
warranted to hit no mans sins. and
listen to music which is rendered by q
choir warranted to sing tunes that mo-
body knows! And then. after IN hour.
and half of indolsnt yawning, they
go home refreshed. Every man feels
better after he has had sleep! 3.
In many Of the churches Of Christ
in our day the music is simply . mock
cry. have not 4 cultivated ear, nor
. cultivated voice. yet no man can do
my singing for me. have nothing to
say against artistic music. The q or
: 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
was as exquisite rs any heard on
earth, but I thought. at the same
time, for all matters practical, IL
would prefer the hearty, outbroken
song of . backwoods Methodist camp
meeting.
Let one Of these starvelinR fancy
songs sung in church get up before
the throne Of God. how would it seem
standing amid the great doxologies of
the redeemed7 Let the finest operate
air that ever Nent up from the Church.
OF Christ getsWapy hours the start, it
will be caught and passed by the ho-
sauna Of the Sabbath-school children.
| know = churol, where the choir did
all the singing, save one Christian
man. who. through .'perseverance Of
the saints" went riG1Eop. and after
wait on him and ask him if he would |
not please stop singingSas he bothered
the choir.
Let hose i refuse to slnss :" 8 -
VINO hevef knew OR God: .a.
But chudEel,of the HeaRenly Kirg
Should speak their Joys abroad.
"Praise W the Lord! let everything |
With breath praise theaxord." In the
glotioas time coming :G0ur cities, and
in the world, hosanna will meet
hosanna. and h.llelpjsh, hallelpjah.
Ii that time 81 which 1 speak,
all the haaKtsl ~ 'iliquity hnJi' 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. Twill tell
you wha: is my idea, and 1 know l am
right in it: Tie Gospel of the Son of
God is the ONLY agency that will ever
this.
A gentleman in England had . the
Dry that If the natural forces OF wind
md tide and sunshine and wave were
lightly applied and rightly developed,
t would make this whole earth a nara
iise. In book of great genius, which
'ushed from edition to edition, he said:
'Fellow.men, I promise to show the
means of creating paradise within
,en years. where everything desirable
or human life may be had by every
nan in superabundance without
Dor and without pay-where the
whole face of nature shall be changed
INTO the most beautiful farms, and
nan may live il the most magnificent
palaces, in all imaginable refinement
md luxury. aad in the most delightful
Eardens-where he may accomplish
without labor in one year: more than
hitherto could be done il thousands Of
'ears. From the houses 70 b built will
Ne Afforded the most cultured views that
an be fancied. From tho galleries,
rom the roof, and from the turrets,