Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-01-09
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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 be a hundred fortunes
made. We all know business prosperity
depends upon cor fdenee between man
! and man. Now, when that time comes Of
| which l speak, and all double dealing, all
dishonesty. and all fraud are gone ont 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
biers. The great foe to business is
crime. When the right shall have hurled
back the wrong, and shall have purified
the numerical 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 a guess. | am telling you
Gods eternal truth
Lessening the Burdens.
In that day of which / speak taxes
viii be a 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 heir
taxes. What faStens ON our great indus
tries this awful load? 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 into their
graves through beastly indulgence. We
have to support the municipal govern
ments. which are expensive just in nro-
portion as the criminal procliyities are
vast and tremendous. Who supports the
almshouses and police stations and all the
machinery of municipal 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. There will be no Grim
inals. Virtue will have taken the place
of vice. There viii be no orphan asy-
lums, for parents viii be able to leave
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 termner
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 equipage. larger fortunes,
| richer opulenee-"a morning without
clouds"
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
win 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 l speak, while there
will be just as many differences of opin-
ion as there are now, there will be no
acerbity, no hypercriticism, no exclusive
ness.
Churches Not Large Enough.
In our great cities the churches are not
to-day large enough TO hold more than a
fourth of the population. The churches
that are built-eomparatively 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 to be all thronged with worship-
ers Oh what rousing songs they will
sing. Oh, what earnest sermons they
will preach. Oh, what feryent PRAYERS
they will offer! Now, in our time. what
is called fashionable church is place
where few people, having attended very
carefully to their toilet, come aud sit
down-they do not want to be crowded.
they like whole seat to themselyes-and
then, if they have any time left from
thinking of their stores, and from examin-
ing the style of the hat in font of them.
they sit and listen TO a 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 half of indo-
lent yawning they go home refreshed.
Every man feels better after he has had
a sleep,
In many of the churches Of Christ in
our day the music is simply a moekery
have not a cultivated ear nor cultivat-
ed voice, yet no man can do my sin ging
for me- / have nothing to say against
artistic music. The 50 or s. Jay 20
hear one of the great queens OF
song is good investment But wien the
people assemble in religious conyocation.
and the hymn is read. and the angels OF
God step from their throne to catch the
music on their wing, do not let us drive
them away by our indifference. | have
preached in churches whore vast sums Of
money were employed to keep MP the
music. and it was as exquisite as any
heard on earth, but thought at the same
time for all matters practical, / would
prefer the hearty. outbreaking song Of
backwoods Methodist camp meeting.
Praising God in song.
Let one OF these starveling fancy songs
sung N church get up before the throne
of God, how woula :, look standing amid
the great doxologies Of the redeemed.
Let the finest operate air that ever went
up from the church Of Christ get many
hours the start, it will De caught Gnd pass
ed by the hosanua Of the Sabbath school
children, j know a church where the
choir did all the singing, say one Chris
tian man who, through perseverance Of
the saints. went right on, and afterward
a committee was appointed 10 wait on
him and ask him if be would not please
TO stop singing, as he bothered the choir
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