Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-01-07

| cultivated voice, yet no ,na can do my
singing for me. l 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
! convocatiOns 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. l 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 [ thought at the same time,
for all matters practical, | would pre-
fer the hearty, outbreaking song of
the backwoods Methodist camp meet
ing.
| Congregational Singing.
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 re-
| deemed? Let the finest operate air
| that ever went up from the church of
Christ get many hours the start; it will
be caught and passed by the hosanna
Of the Sabbath school children. I know
church where the choir did all the
singing save one Christian man, who,
through perseverance of the saints,
went right on, and afterWard q COM
mittee was appointed to wait on him
and ask him if he would not please to
stop singing, as he 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 Lord. Let everything
with breath praise the Lord" In the
glorious time coming in our cities and
in the world hOsanna will meet hosan-
ma and halleluiah halleluah.
In that time also of which l speak all
the haunts of iniQuity and crime and
sQuaIor will be cleanSed and will be il
lumined. How is it to be done? You
say perhaps by one influence. Perhaps
[ say by another. | will tell you what
is my idea, and l know l am right in it.
The gospel of the Son of God is the
only agency that will ever accomplish
this.
Mr.. Ecsler of England had a theory
that if the natural forces of the wind
and tide and sunshine and wave were
rightly applied and rightly developed it
would make this whole earth para
disc. In a book of great genius and
which rushed from edition to edition
he said: Fellow men, | promise to
show the means of creating q paradise
within ten years where everything de-
sirable for human life may be had by
every man in superabundance without
labor and without pay, where the whole
face of nature shall be changed into
the most beautiful farms and man may
live in the most magnificent palaces in
all imaginable refnementS of luxury
and in the most delightful gardens,
where he may accomplish without Ia
Dor in one year more than hitherto
could be done in thousands of years
and may level a continent sink val
legs, create lakes, drain ponds and
swamps and intersect the land every
where with beautiful canals and roads
for transporting heavy loads of many
thousand tons and for travelling a thou
sand miles in p hours.
'From the houses to be built will be
afforded the most cultured views to be
fancied. From the galleries, from the
roof and from the turrets may be seen
gardens as far as the eye can see. full
of fruits and flowers, arranged in the
most beautiful order, with walks
colonnades. aqueducts, canals, ponds
plains. amphitheaters terraces, foun.
tains. sculptured works. pavilions, gOn-
dolas, places of popular amusement to /
tire the eye and fancy. All this to be
done by urging the water the wind
and the sunshine to their full develop |
ment."
The Ornnipotent Machine.
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 4 specimen community, and |
then, this being formed, the world will |
see its practicability and very soon two !
or three million dollars more will be |
obtained, and in ten years the whole |
earth will be unparalleled. The plan !
is not so Dreposterous as some l have
heard of. But l will take no stock |
in that company! | do not believe |
it will ever he done in that way, by |
any mechanical force, or by any ma
chinery that the human mind can put
into play. 1t is to be done by the !
gospel of the Son of God-the omnipo-
tent machinery of love and grace and
pardon and salvation. That is to en-
paradise the nations. Archimedes de-
stroyed a fleet of ships coming up the
harbor. You know how he did it? He |
lifted q great sunglass, history tells
us, and when the fleet of ships came up
the harbor Of Syracuse he brought to
bear his sunglass, and he copverged
the suns rays upon those ships. Now,
the sails are wings of fire the maStS