The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-01-12


of the warm spring day that viii
come, or in the dark winter night we
look up and we see the northern
lights, the windows Of Heaven IL
lumined by some great victory, just
so we look up from the night of suf
fering and sorrow and wretchedness
in our cities, and we see light
streaming through from the other
side, and we know we are on the way
to mornng-more than that, on the
way to "a morning without Clouds"
l want you to understand, all you
who are toiling for Christ, that the
castles of sin are all going to be cap
tured. The victory for Christ in these
great towns is going to be so COM
plete that not a man on earth or an
angel in Heaven or devil in hell will
dispute it. How do / know? / know
it just as certainly as God lives and
that this is holy truth. The old Bible
is full of it. The nation is to be
saved. 1t makes great difference
with you and with me whether we are
toiling on toward defeat or toiling
on toward n victory.
Now, in this municipal elevation of
which speak, 1 have to remark there
will be greater financial prosperity
| than our cities have ever seen. Some
people seem to have morbid idea Of
the millennium, and they think when
the better time comes to our cities
and the( world people will give their
time up to psalm singing and the re-
lating of their religious experience,
and as 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 speak, where now one
| fortune is made there will be hun
| dred fortunes made. We all know
business prosperity depends upon con-
| fidence between man and man. Now,
| when that time comes of which l
| 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
shall have hurled back the wrong, and
SHAH. shay y. purified the. commercial
code, and SHIFT have numbered down
fraudulent establishments, and shall
have put into the hands of honest
men the keys of business, blessed time
for the bargain makers. /. am not
making guess. l am telling you
Gods eternal truth.
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
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-
ly 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
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. Irr'(
from thinking Of their store. a1s[tront
examining the style of the hstsy,'a SER
of them. they sit and Isfssonan's sins.
mon warranted to hixh is rendered
and lisen to musis,ed 10 sing tunes
by choir wssss~s! And then after
that noboSys8alf of indolent yawning
an hour ssoine refreshed. Every man
theysxetter that he has had a sleep!
III many of the churches Of Christ in
our day the music is simply mockery
I have not 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 a 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
Mr.. Eesler, of England, had theory
that II the natural forces of the wind
and tide and sunshine and wave were
rightly applied and rightly developed
1t would make this whole earth a
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