St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1901-02-09

time up to psalm singing and the re-
iating of their religious experience,
and a. 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 I speak, where now one
fortune is made there will be hun
dred fortunes made. We all know
business prosperity depends upon con.
ndence 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
snail have hurled back the wrong, and
snail 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
Tor the bargain makers. I am not
making q guess. 1 am telling you
Gods eternal truth.
In that day of which I 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, Ii
cense taxes, manufacturing taxes
taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business men
nave 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 VIII
lains who are incarcerated in our
prisons. We have to take care of the
orphans of those who plunged into
their graves through beastly indul-
gence. We have to support the mu-
nicipal governments, which are tx
pensive just in proportion as the GRIM
inal proclivities are vast and tremen-
dous. Who supports the almshouses
and police stations and all the ma
chinery of municipal government?
The taxpayers.
But in the glorious time Of which I
speak grievous taxation will all have
ceased. There will be no need Of sup
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 q competency to their children.
There will be no voting of large sums
Of moneys for some municipal inn
provement, which moneys, before they
get to the improvement. drop into the
pockets Of those who voted them. No
oyer and terminer kept up at vast ex-
pense to the people. No impaneling
of juries to try theft and arson and
murder and SANDER and blackmail.
Better factories, grander architecture.
finer equipage, larger fortunes, richer
opulence -" - 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 infiu-
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
I 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 fourth of the population. The
churches that are built-comparative-
" few Of them are fully occupied. The
average attendance 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 worshipers. Oh, what
rousing songs they will sing! Oh,
what earnest sermons they will preach!
Oh, what fervent prayers they will Of
fer! Now, in our time, what is called
fashionable church is a place where
a 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 in front
of them, they sit and listen to SER
mon warranted to hit no mans sins.
and lisen to music which is rendered
by choir warranted to sing tunes
that nobody knows! And then after
an hour and half Of indolent yawning
they go home refreshed. Every man
feels better that he has had sleep!
In many of the churches of Christ in
our day the music is simply mockery.
have not a cultivated ear nor culiva-
ted voice yet no man can do my singing
for me. have nothing to say against
artistic music. The two dollars or five
dollars pay to hear one of the great
queens of song is good investment.
But when the people assemble in re-
ligious 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. have
preached in churches where vast sums
Of money were employed to keep up
the music, and it was as exquisite as
any heard on earth, but I thought at
the same time, for all matters practi-
cal, would prefer the hearty. out
breaking song Of backwoods Metho-
dist camp meeting.
Let one of these starveling fancy
songs sung in church get up before the
throne of God, how would it look
standing amid the great doxologies
Of the redeemed! Let the finest oper-
attic air that ever went up from the
church Of Christ get many hours the
start It will be caught and past by the
of the Sabbath school children.
7 Lnow a church where the choir did