Connecticut western news., 1901-01-10

There Is no ground for such an absurd In the time of which l speak, where now one fortune is made there will be hundred fortunes made. We all know business prosperity de bends upon confidence between man and man. Now, when that time comes of which I 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 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 hurl- ed back the wrong, and shall have puri- fled the commercial code, and shall have thundered down fraudulent es- tablishments, and shall have put into the hands of honest men the keys of business, blessed time for the bargain makers. I am not talking an abstrac- tion; I am not making guess; I am telling you Gods eternal truth.
 In that day of which I speak taxes will be mere nothing. Now our busi- ness men are taxed for everything city taxes, county taxes, state taxes, United States taxes, stamp taxes, li cense taxes, manufacturing taxes-tax- cs, taxes, taxes! Our business men 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 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 governments, which are expensive just in proportion as the criminal proclivities are vast and tremendous. Who supports the almshouses 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 SUD- 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 i; 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 pock- 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 islander and blackmail; better facto- ries; grander architecture; finer equf- 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, there will be no acerbity, no hypercrit- icism, no exclusiveness.
 In our great cities the churches are not today large enough to hold more than a fourth of the population. The ol, ,I,, few of them are fully occupied. The average attendance in the churches of the 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 all thronged with worshipers. 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 a few people, having attended very carefully to their toilet, come and sit down-they do not want to be crowded, they like a whole seat to themselves-and then, If they have any time left from thinking of theil store, and from examining the style of the hat In front of them, they sit and listen to the sermon warranted to hit no mans sins, and listen te music which Is rendered by a choil warranted to sing tunes that nobody knows! And then, after an hour and n half of indolent yawning. they gc home refreshed. Every man feels bet ter after he has had a sleepi
 In many of the churches of Chris In our day the music is simply a mock cry. I have not a cultivated ear nor ( cultivated voice, yet no man can do my singing for me. I have nothing to say against artistic music. The g or g
 I pay to hear one of the great queens
 of song is a good investment. But ! when the people assemble in religious conversations and the hymn Is rea6
 and the angels of God step from theil throne to catch the music on theil wings, do not let us drive them away by our indifference. I have preached
 in churches where vast sums of money were employed to keep up the music
 and it was as exquisite as any heard or earth, but thought at the same time for all matters practical, would pre- | fer the hearty, outbreaking song o, the backwoods Methodist camp meet ing.
 | Congregational Singing.
 Let one of these starveling fanc,
 songs sung in church get up before tn, | throne of God. How would it look stand
 ing amid the great doxologies of the re | deemed? Let the finest operatic al
 that ever went up from the church O | Christ get many hours the start; 1t will
 be caught and passed by the hosann,
 of the Sabbath school children. I know
 church where the choir did all tn,
 singing save one Christian man, who
 through perseverance of the saints
 went right on, and afterward a com
 mittee was appointed to wait on hin
 and ask him if he would not please t,
 stop singing, as he bothered the choir. | At thAao af,, .I,