Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-01-17

business VIII be purlhed there wiz oe ~
enterprise There Is no ground Tor sucn
an absurd anticipation - 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 confidence between man
and man. Now, when that time comes OF
which | speak. and all double dealing, all
dishonesty and all fraud are gone out OF
commercial circles, thorough commence
will be esta blished. and there VIII De pet
ter business done and larger fortunes
Gathered and michtier successes achieved.
The great business disasters OF TINS
country have come from the work OF god
less speculators and Infamous stock gafnD-
lers The great foe to business IL crime
When the right shall have hurled back
the wrong and shall have purifled the
commercial code. and shall have thun-
dered down fraudulent establishments,
and Shall have put into the hands of hon
est men the keys OF business, blessed
time for the bargain makers, | am not
talking an abstraction: 1 am not making
a guess; | am telling you God 5 eternal
truth.
In that day OF which [ speak taxes Will
be a mere nothing. Now our business men
are taxed Tor everything; city taxes coun-
" taxes. State taxes, United States taxes,
stamp taxes, license taxes, manufacturing
taxes-taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business
men have to make a small fortune every
wear to pav their taxes. What fastens on
our great industries this awful load!
Crime. individual and official. We have
to pay the board OF the villains who are
intarcerated IN our prisons: we nave 10
take care of the orphans OF those VINO
plunged into their graves through beastlV
indulgence; We have to support the NUM-
cipal governments, which are expensive
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ties are vast and tremendous, Who sup
ports the almshouses and police stations
and all the machinery Of municipal gov
eminent? The taxpayers.
But in the glorious time OF which L
speak grievOus taxation will all have
ceased There will be no need or support
ing criminals; there will be no CRIMINALS.
Virtue will have taken the place OF wee.
There will be no orphan asylums, for pa
rents will be able to leave a competency
to their children; there Will be no voting
of large sums of moneys for some munich
pal Improvement which moneys, before
they get to the improvement, drop INTO
the pockets of those who voted them; no
over and terminer kept up at vast expense
to the people, no lmpanehng OF Jurtes to
try theft and arson and murder and SLAM
der and blackmail; better factories; grand
architecture; finer equlpage; larger Tor
tunes; richer opulence. "A morning with
out Clouds
In that better time also coming to these
cities the churches OF Christ viii 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 denomnat tons 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 many
differences of opinion as there are now,
there will be no acerbity, no hypercriti-
cism, no exclusiveness.
Three hundred and sixty bells rang in
Moscow when one prince was married,
but when Righteousness and Peace kiss
each other IN all the earth. ten thousand
times ten thousand bells shall strike the
Jubilee Poverty enriched. Hunger fed.
Crime purified. Ignorance enlightened.
All the cities saved. Is not this a cause
worth working in?
Gods love will yet bring back this
ruined world to holiness and happiness.
An infinite Father bends over it in sym
pathy. And to the orphan He will be a
Father. and to the widow He will be a
husband, and to the outcast He will be a
home, and to the poorest wretch that to-
day crawls out of the ditch OF his abom-
lnatlOn, crying for mercy, He will be an
all pardoning Redeemer.
The rocks will turn gray with age, the
forests will be unmoored in the hurricane.
the sun viii shut It's fiery eyelid the stars
viii drop like blasted figs, the sea will
heave It's last groan and lash itself in ex-
pIrlng agony, the continents will drop like
anchors IN the deep, the world will wrap
itself i'll sheet of fame and leap on the
tuneral pyre of the Judgment day. but
Gods love will never die. 1t shall kindle
It's suns after all other lights have gone
out. 1t will be a billQwing sea after all
other oceans have wept themselves away.
1t will warm itself by the blaze of a con-
Stunning world. 1t will sing while the
archangers trumpet peals and the air is
hlled with the crash of breaking sepul-
cheers and the rush of the wings of the
rising dead. Oh, commend that love to
ali the cities and the morning without
clouds will come
l. know that sometimes it seems a hope
less task You toll on In different spheres.
sometimes with great discouragement.
People have no faith and say: 1t does
not amount to anything. You might as
well quit that" Why. when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red Sea it
DID not seem to mean anything especially.
feopie came out, | suppose and said.
Ana! Some or them found out what he
wanted to do. He wanted the sea parted.
1t did not amount to anything. this
stretching out OF his hand over the sea,
But alter awhile the wind blew all night
from the east. and the waters were gath
cred Anto gltterng palisade on either
side. and the pillows roared as God pulled
back on their crystal bits Wheel into
ine, Israel! March. march. Pearls
crashed under feet. flying spray gathers
INTO RAINBOW arch of victory Tor the con-