The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-01-12

gooless speculators n infamous
stock gamblers The great foe to
business Is crime. When the right
shall have hurled back the wrong, and
shall have purified the commercial
code, and shah have Numbered down
fraudulent establishments. aud shall
have put into the hands Of honest
men the keys Of business, blessed time
for the bargain makers. I am not
making q guess l am telling you
Gods eternal truth.
In that better time also coming TO
these cities the churches of Christ will
be more numerous, and they viii be
larger. and they will be more devoted
to the service Of Jesus Christ, and
they viii accomplish greater iniu-
sncss for good. Now Il is often the
ease 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
I speak. while there will be Just az
many differences Of opinion as there
are now, there viii be no acerbity, no
hyperoritleism. ne exelusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are
not to-day large enough TO hold more
thar 4 fourth OF the population. The
churches that are built-comparativs-
~ few Of them are fully occupied. The
average attendance In the churches Of
the United States today IL not 200.
Now, In the glorious time Of which l
speak, there are going TO be vast
churches, and they are going 10 be all
thronged with worshipers. Oh, what
rousing songs they will singl Oh,
whstearnsst sermons they will preschl
Oh, what fsrvsnt prayers they will Of.
feri Now, In our tins. what IL called
a fashionable church Is = place where
q few people having attended very care
fully to their toilet, come and sit
down-they do not want 10 be crowded,
they like a whole seat 10 thsmselves-
and then, II they have any time left
from thinking Of their store, and from
Examining the style Of the hat in front
Of than, they ait and listen 10 q ser
mon warranted 10 hit no mans sins,
and lisen to music which 10 rendered
by . choir warranted to sing tunes
that nobody knowsi And then after
an hour and q half Of indolsnt yawnlng
they 70 home refreshed. Every mar
feels better that he has had a aleepi
In many Of the churches OF Christ In
our day the music !. simply a mockery.
l have not a cultivated ear nor a culiva-
ted voice jet nc man can do my singing
for me, I have nothing to say against
artistic music. The two dollars or Ave
dollars | pay 10 hear one Of the great
queens Of song lie q good investment.
But when the people assemble in re-
llgious c~onyocation, 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 mi indifference.
Mr.. Eeslsr, Of England. had a theory
that II the natural forces OF the wind
and tide and sunshine and wave were
rightly applied and rightly developed
IL would make this whole earth a
Paradise. In . book Of great genius
and which rushed from edition 10 edi-
ton he said: Fellow men, l promise
TO show the means Of creating a Para
disc within ten years, where every
thing desirable for human life may
be had By every man in superahund.
ancs without labor and without paw
where the whole face Of nature ghall
be changed into the most beautiful
farms. and man may live in the most
magnificent palaces, In all imaginable
reinements Of luxury, and In the
most delightful gardens-where he
may accomplish without labor in one
year more than hitherto could be
done in Thousands OF years. and may
level q continent. sink valleys, create
lakes, drain ponds and swamps and
intersect the land everywhere with
beautiful canals and roads for trans
porting heavy loads OF many thou.
sand tons and for travelling q thou
sand miles in "a hours.
From the houses to DE built will
be Afforded the most cultured views
10 be fsncisd. From the galleries,
from the roof and from the turrets
may be seen gardens as far as the eye
can zee. full Of fruits and flowers, ar
ranged In the most beautiful order,
with walks, eolonnades, a~queducts,
canals, ponds, plains, amphitheaters,
terraces, fountains, sculptured works,
p~ayilionh gondolas. places of popular
amusement to tire the eye and
fancy.
He goes Oh and gives plates Of the
machinery by which this work Is TO
be done. and he says he only needs
at the start q company in which the
.hares shall be $40 each, and a hun
bred or two hundred thousand shall
be raised just 10 make . specimen
community, and then, this being
formed, the world will see It's practl-
eabllity, and very oon 100000 or
100000 can be obtained, and in ten
years the whole earth will be empara-
di'ed. The plan IL not 70 prepokter-
Gus ss some / have heard Of. Int 7 vm
take no stock In that company. I do
not believe il will eyer he ions In that
way by any mechanical force or by
any machinery that the human mind
can put into play. II ia 10 he done nv
the Gospel OF the Son of God-the ON.
nlpotent machinery Of love and yAce
and pardon and salvation. Areblm.
edes DESTROYED a feet Of sbIps com.
ing up the harbor. You know how he
did II? He lifted a 1reot ~,unOlass.
history tells ms. and when the Aeet
OF ships came nm the barbor az svr..
cuse he brought to bear hi. sup0iass
and he eouverred the AIMS raw, nnor
those ships. Now. the ,ails are wing,
OF Are. the masts fall. the vessels sinh.
Oh. my friends he az. n snnn,... :,
the Gospel converging the rays Of the
Sun OF Righteousness upon the sins,
the Wickedness Of the world, we will
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