Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-07


know we are on the way to morn
lng-T1Ore <han that, on the way to ga
morning without Clouds"
l want you to understand, ali you
who are toiling for Christ, that the cas-
ties of sin are all going to be captured.
The victory for Christ in these great
towns is going to be so complete that
not 4 man on earth, or an angel in
heaven, or a devil in hell will dispute
it. How do l know? l know it just as
certainly as God lives and that this is
holy truth. The old Bible is full of it.
The nation is to be saved; of course all
the cities are to be saved. It makes a
great difference with you and with me
whether we are tOiling on toward q de-
feat or toiling on toward Il victory
Now, in this municipal elevation of
which 1 speak I have to remark there
will be greater financial prosperity
than our cities have ever seen. Some
people seem to have a morbid idea of
the millennium, and they think when
the better time comes to our cities and
the world people will give their time
up to psalm singing and the relating of
their religious experience, and as all
social life will be purified there will be
no hilarity, and as all business will be
purified there will be no enterprise
There is no ground for such an absurd
anticipation. In the time of which [
there will be a hundred fortunes made.
We all know business prosperity de-
ponds upon confidence between man
and man. Now. when that time comes
Of which | speak, and all double deal
ing, all dishonesty and all fraud are
gone out of commercial circles, thor
ough confidence will be established,
and there will be better business done
and larger fortunes gathered and
miShtier successes achieved.
The great business disasters of this
country have come from the work of
goddess spectators and infamous stock
gamblers. The great foe to business is
crime. When the right shall have hurl-
ed back the wrong, and shall have puri-
fed the commercial code. and shall
have Numbered down fraudulent es-
adjustments, and shall have put into
the hands of honest men the keys of
business. blessed time for the bargain
makers. | am not talking an abstrac-
ton: | am not making a guess; | am
telling you Gods eternal truth
In that day of which l speak taxes
will be mere nothing. Now our bust
ness men are taxed for everything
city taxes, county taxes, state taxes.
United States taxes. stamp taxes. IL
cense taxes. manufacturing taXes-taX-
have to make a 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 tn" board of the villains who
are incarcerated in our prisons: we
have to take care of the orphans of
those who plunged into their graves
beastly indulgence; we have
to support the municipal governments,
which are expensive just in proportion
rs the criminal proclivities are vast
and tremendous. Who supports the
and police stations and all
the machinery of municipal govern
ment? 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: there will be no
criminals. Virtue will have taken the
place of vice. There will be no orphan
aSylumS, for parents will be able to
leave a competency to their children:
there will be no voting of large sums of
moneys for some municipal improve
ment, which moneys, before they get
to the Improvement. drop into the peck
cts 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 arson and murder and
SANDER and blackmail: better factn-
ries: grander architecture; finer eQui-
page: larger fortunes: richer opulence.
"A morning without Clouds
Church Music.
In that better time also coming to
these cities the churches of Christ will
be more numerous. and they will be
larger. and they will be more devoted
TO the service 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 |
speak, while there will be just as many
differences of opinion as there are now.
here will be no acerbity, no hypercrit-
cism, no eXclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are
not today large enough to hold more
han a fourth of the population. The
churches that are built-comparative
few Of them are fully occupied. The |
average attendance in the churches of |
he United States today is not 400. |
Now. in the glorious time of which | |
speak there are going to be vast
churches. and they are going TO be |
LII thronged with worshipers. Oh, i