Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-12
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on earth or an angel IA heaven OF a devil
IN hell will dispute it. How do l know?
l know 1t just as certainly as God lives
and that this is holy truth. The old Bible
is full OF 1t. The nation is to be saved. 1t
makes great difference with you and
with me whether we are toiling on to-
ward defeat or toiling on toward a vie
tory.
s'0w, in this municipal elevation Of
which l speak, have 10 remark there
will be greater financial prosperity than
cur cities have ever seen. Some people
seem to have q morbid idea of the millen-
MUM, and they think when the better
time comes 10 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 speak, where now one fortune
is made there will he a hundred fortunes
made, We all know business prosperity
depends upon confidence between man
and man. Now, when that time comes of
'AiANAA HE''sANs AklN dlt hNuHtt NtNlAHEs AZ
dishonesty, and all fraud are gone out OF
commercial circles, thorough confidence
will be established, and there will be bet
ter business done and larger fortunes
gathered and mightier successes achieved
The great business disasters Of this
country have come from the work Of god
less spectators and infamous stock gam.
hlCrs. The great foe to business is
crime When the right shall have hurled
back the wrong, and shall have purified
the commercial code, and shall have
Numbered down fraudulent establish
ments, and shall have put into the hands
Of honest men the keys OF business, bless
ed time for the bargain makers, | am
not making guess. | am telling YOU
Gods eternal truth.
LesseninS the Burdens.
In that day OF which | 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, license taxes,
manufacturing taxes taxes, taxes,
taxes. Our business men have To make
small fortune every year to pay their
taxes. What faStens on our great indus
tries this awful load? Crime, individual
and official. We have to pay the hoard
of the villains who are incarccrated in
our prisons We have Ia take care of the
orphans Of those who plunged into their
graves through beastly indulgence. We
have TO support the municipal govern
meuts, which are expensive just in pro-
portion as the criminal proclivties are
vast and tremendous. Who supports the
almshouScs and police stations and all the
machinery OF municipal government? The
taxpayers.
But in the glorious time of which |
speak grievous taxation will al have
ceased. There will be no need of sup
porting criminals. There will he no Grim
inals. Virtue will have taken the place
Of vice. There will be no orphan asy-
lums, for parents will he able to leave
a competency to their children. There
will be no voting Of large SIMS Of moneys
for some municipal improvement, which
moneys, before they get to the improve
ment, 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
arson and murder and SANDER and black
mail. Better factories, grander archi-
lecture, finer cquipage. larger fortunes,
richer opulcnce--"a morning without
clouds
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 brotherhood. but in
the time Of which speak, while there
will be just as many differences of opin-
ion as there are now, there will he no
acerbity, no hypercriticism, no exclusive.
ness.
Churches Not Large Enough.
In our great cities the churches are nat
to-day large enough 10 hold more than n
fourth of the population. The churches
that are uilt--cOmparatively few Of
them are fully occupied. The average at
tendance 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 10 be all thronged with worship
ers. 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 a fashionable church is place
where few people, having attended very
carefully to their toilet come and sit
down-thcy do not want TO be crowded.
they like whole seat to thcmsclves-and
then. if they have any time left from
thinking Of their stores, and from cxaInin-
ing the style Of the 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 a choir warranted
to sing tunes that nobody knows And
then after an hour and a half of indo-
lent yawning they go home refreshed.
Every man feels better after he has had
Il sleep!
In many Of the churches Of Christ in
our day the music is simply mockcry.
have not a cultivated ear nor cultivat-
ed voice, yet no man can do my singing