Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-01-09

lights, the windows of Heaven H.
lumined by some great vict,rv inst
so we look up from the night Of snf-
fering and sorrow and wretchadr.ss
| in our cities, and we see "a Hab+
streaming through from the otner
| side. and We know we are ON the wov
to morning-more than that, on tis
way to IA morning without clouds"
| want YOU to understand, all YOU
who are toiling for Christ. that the
castles of sin are all going to be cap
tured The victory for Christ in these
great towns is going to be so COM
plete that not man on earth or an
angel i'm Heaven or devil in hell will
dispute it. How do L know? / know
il 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. 1t makes n great difference
with you and with me whether we are
toiling on toward a defeat or toiling
on toward victory.
Now, in this municipal elevation of
which L speak, l 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 re-
lating 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
| nh Mt; oi, In
time of which / speak, where now one
fortune is made there will be a hun
dred fortunes made. We all know
business prosperity depends upon con-
fdence between man and man. Now,
when that time comes of which /
speak, and all double dealing, all dis
honesty and all fraud are gone out Of
commercial circles, thorough conf
dence will be established, and there
will be better business done and
larger fortunes gathered and mightier
| 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 hurled back the wrong, anI
shall have purified the commercial
code, and shall have Numbered down
fraudulent establishments, and shall
have put into the hands of honest
men the keys of business, blessed time
for the bargain makers. l am not
making a guess. L am telling you
Gods eternal truth.
In that better time also coming to
Cff he H., Il,
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 influ-
ences 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 opinion as there
are now, there will be no acerbity, no
hypercriticism, no eXclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are
not to-day large enough to hold more
than Il fourth of the population. The
churches that are built--comparativ tive
ly few of them are fully occupied. The
average attendance in the churches OF
the United States to-day is not 800.
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
VIVA earnest sermons they will preach
Oh. what fervent prayers they will Of
-
a fashionable church is a place where
few people having attended very care
fully to their toilet. come and sit
down-they do not want TO be crowded
they like whole seat TO themselves
and then, if they have any time left
from thinking of their store. and from
Examining the style Of the hat i'm front
Of them. they sit and listen to a ser
mon warranted TO hit no mans sins
and lisen TO music which is rendered
by a choir warranted to sing tunes
that nobody knows! And then after
an hour and a half ofindolent yawning
they go home refreshed. Every man
feels better that he has had sleep!
In many Of the churches of Christ in
our day he music is simply a mockerv.
! have not q cultivated ear nor a culiva-
ted voice yet no man can DO my singing
for me. / have nothing 10 say against
artistic music. The two dollars or five
dollars ] pay 10 hear one Of the great
queens OF song is a good investment
But when the people assemble i'm re.
.igious 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 indifference
Mr. Eesler. of England had a theory
that If the natural forces of the wind
and tide and sunshine and wave were
/ rightly applied and rightly developed
it would make this whole earth n