Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-01-18

s the board OF the villains VIZ are
hfcerated in our prisons, we bVe TO
te care of the orphans of tho,e VINO
hinged into their graves through beastly
dulgence; we have to support she NUM-
pal governments, which are expensive
Eist in proportion as the crimiTl prochvi-
lies are vast and tremendous Who sup
borts the almshouses and pdice stations
and all the machinery of Municipal gov
Iernmentf The taxpayers.
AeBut in the glorious tiIfe of which 1
ak grievous taxation Erill all have
I ased. There will be no heed Of support
l/na criminals. there will/be no criminals.
Virtue will have taken The place of vice.
There will be no orphsh asylums, for pa
rents will be able to Iave a competency
to their children; thee will be no voting
of large sums of moneys for some munich
pal improvement, 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 expense
to the people, no impaneling of juries to
try theft and arson and murder and SLAM
der and blackmail; better factories; grand
er architecture; finer equipage; larger for
out 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 influences 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
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speak, while there will be just as many
differences of opinion as there are now,
there will be no acerbity, no hypercriti-
cism, no exclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are not
fourth Of the population. The churches
are fully occupied. The average attend
ance in the churches of the United States
to-day is not 400. Now, in the glorious
time of which I speak there are going to
be vast churches, and they are going to be
rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what
earnest sermons they will preachl Oh,
what fervent prayers they will offer! Now,
in our time what is called fashionable
church is place where few people, hav-
ing attended very carefully to their toilet,
come and sit down-they do not want to
be crowded, 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 the
sermon warranted to hit no mans sins,
and listen to music which is rendered by
choir warranted to sing tunes that no.
body knows! And then, after an hour
and half of indolent yawning, they go
home refreshed. Every man feels better
after he has had sleep!
But all these wrongs are going to be
righted. / expect to live to see the day.
think I hear in the distance the rum
bling of the Kings chariot Not always
in the minority is the church of God
going to be, or are good men going to be.
The streets are going to be filed with re-
generated populations.
What will you do with those who fleece
that young man, getting him to purloin
large sums of money from his employer
the young man who came to an officer of
my church and told the story and franti-
cally asked what he might doY Nothing.
Gods love will yet bring back this
ruined world to holiness and happiness.
An infinite Father bends over it in SYM
pathy. And to the orphan He will be a
Father, and to the widow He will be a
husband, and to the outcast He will be a
home, and to the poorest wretch that to-
day crawls out of the ditch of his abom-
sS, crying for mercy, He will be an
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