Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-19

pockets of those who voted them No
oyer and terminer kept up at vast ex-
pense to the people. No fmpaneling of
juries to try theft and arson and muir
der and SANDER and blackmaiI- Bet
ter factories, grander architecture,
finer equfpage, larger fortunes, richer
opulence-"a morning without clouds"
Churches Not Large Enough
In our great cities the churches are
not today large. enough to hold more
than fourth of the population The
churches that are buiIt-comparative
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 1
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
feri 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 whole seat to themselves
and then, if they have any time left
from thinking of their store, and from
examining the style O. the hat in front
of them, they sit and listen to ser
mon warranted to hit no mans sins,
and listen to music which is rendered
by choir warranted to sing tunes
that nobody knowsi And then after
an hour and a half of indo1ent 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 mockery.
have not cultivated ear nor culti-
waited voice, yet no man can do my
/ singing for me. I have nothing to say
| against artistic music. The 81 or IS
pay to hear one of the great queens of
song is a good investment. But when
| the people assemble in religious con-
vocation, 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 1 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 in church get up before the
throne of God how would it look stand
ing 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 be caught and past by the hosanna
| nft Col h oh
a church where the choir did all the
singing, save one Christian man who,
through perseverance of the saints,
went right on, and afterward COM
mittee was appointed to wait on him
and ask him if he would not please to
| stop singing, as it bothered the
choir.
LET those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But children of the heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad
Praise We the Lords let everything
with breath praise the Lord" In the
glorious time coming in our cities and
in the world hosanna will meet no.
sanna and hal1elujah haIlelujah.
4 The Machinery of Love.
He goes on and gives plates of the
4 machinery by which this work is to be
done, and he says he only needs at the
start company in which the shares
shall be $40 each, and a hundred or
two hundred thousand shall be raised
just to make a specimen community.
and then, this being formed, the world
will see its practicabiIity, and very
soon 81 900 900 or S., 900 GOO can be OBJ
tanned, and in ten years the whole
earth will be emparadised. The plan
is not SO preposterous some 1 have
heard of, but / will take no stock in
that company. / do not believe it will
ever be done in that way by any me-
that the human mind can put into play.
It is to be done by the gospel of the
Son of God-the omnipotent machinery
of love and grace and pardon and sal
walton. That is to emparadise the ma
tions. Archimedes destroyed fleet of
ships coming up the harbor. You
know how he did it? He lifted a great
sunglass, history tells us, and when the
fleet of ships came up the harbor OF
Syracuse he brought to bear his sun
glass. and he eonverged the suns rays
upon those ships. Now, the sails are
wings of fire, the masts fall, the ves-
sells sink. Oh. my friends, by the sun
glass of the gospel converging the rays
of the Sun of Righteousness upon the
, sins, the wickedness of the world. we
will make them blaze and expire!