The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-01-11

pockets OF those VINO VOteu tnem No
oyer and terminer kept up at vast ex-
pense to the people. No impaneling OF
| jurios to try theft and arson and MUIR
der and SANDER and blackmall. Bet
ter factories, grander architecture,
finer equipage, 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 a 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 today is not 400.
Now, in the glorious time Of which l
speak, there are going to be vast
churches, and they are going to Ia 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 place where
few people, having attended very
carefully to their toilet. come and sit
down-they do not want to be crowsed,
they like a 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 listen 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 after he has had a sleep!
In many of the churches of Christ in
our day the music is simply mockery.
l have not cultivated ear nor a cult
waited voice, yet no man can do my
singing for me. / have nothing to say
against artistic music. The 81 or So
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. 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
on earth, but l thought at the same
time, for all matters practical, |
would prefer the hearty, outbreaking
song of a 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
Of the Sabbath school children. know
a church where the choir did all the
singing, save one Christian man who,
through perseverance of the saints,
went right on, and afterward a 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 Cod
But children of the heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad"
praise We the Lord; let everything
with breath praise the Lord" In the
glorious time coming in our cities and
in the world hosanna will meet ho-
sauna and hallelujah hallelujah.
The Machinery of Love.
He goes on and gives plates Of the
machinery by which this work Is to be
done, and he says he only needs at the
start a company in which the shares
shall be 500 each, and hundred or
two hundred thousand shall be raised
Just to make specimen community,
and then, this being formed, the world
will see it's practicability, and very
soon 100000 or $4,000, 900 can be oo-
tanned, and in ten years the whole
earth will be unparalleled. The plan
is not so preposterous as some l have
heard of, but l will take no stock in
that company. l do not believe 1t will
ever be done in that way by any me-
chanical force or by any machinery
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
lions. Archimedes destroyed fleet of
ships coming up the harbor. You
know how he did it? He lifted great
sunglass, history tells us, and when the
feet of ships came up the harbor Of
Syracuse he brought to bear his sun
glass, and he converged the suns rays
upon those ships. Now, the sails are
wings of fire, the masts fall, the YES
sells sink On, 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!
Gods Omnipotent Love.
Gods love will yet bring back this