Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1901-01-24


! business will be purified there will be no
enterprise. There is no ground for such
an absurd anticipation. In the time of
which I speak, where now one fortune is
| made there will be a hundred fortunes
made. We all know business prosperity
| depends upon confidence between man
and man. Now, when that time comes of
which I speak, and all double dealing, ALI
| dishonesty and all fraud are gone out Of
| commercial circles, thorough confidence
will be established, and there will be bet
ter business done and larger fortunes
| gathered and mightier successes achieved.
| The great business disasters OF this
country have come from the work of god
less spectators and Infamous stock gamb-
| When the right shall have hurled back
the wrong, and shall have purified the
commercial code, and shall have thun-
4 dered down fraudulent establishments.
and shall have put into the hands of hon
est men the keys of business, blessed
time for the bargain makers. I am not
! talking an abstraction; l am not making
a guess; am telling you Gods eternal
| truth.
| In that day of which speak taxes will
be mere nothing. Now our business men
| are taxed for everything; city taxes, coun-
| ty taxes, State taxes, United States taxes,
stamp taxes, license taxes, manufacturing
taxes-taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business
men have to make small fortune every
year to pay their taxes. What fastens on
our great industries this awful load?
Crime, Individual and official. We have
to pay the board of the villains who are
incarcerated in our prisons; we have to:
take care Of the orphans Of those who
plunged into their graves through beastlv
! indulgence; we have to support the mum
| cipal governments, which are expensive
| just in proportion as the criminal proclvi-
ties are vast and tremendous. Who sup
ports the almshouses and police stations
and all the machinery of municipal gov
ernment? The taxpayers.
| But in the glorious time of which t.
speak grievous taxation will all have
ceased. There will be no need of support
ing criminals; there will be no criminals, ;,
| Virtue will have taken the place of vice ;.
There will be no orphan asylums, for pa
rents will be able to leave q competency,
to their children; there will be no votingi
of large sums of moneys for some munici-l
pal improvement, which moneys, before
they get to the improvement, drop intoi
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
tunes; richer opuience. "a morning with:
out Clouds"
In that better time also coming to these
cities the churches of Christ will be morei
numerous, and they will be larger, andl
they will be more devoted to the servicel
of Jesus Christ, and they will accomplish!
greater influences for good. Now it is:
often the case that churches are enviousi
of each other, and denominations collide;
with each other, and even ministers of
Christ sometimes forget the bond Of
brotherhood. But in the time of which Il
speak, while there will be just as many;
differences Of opinion as there are now, ;;
there will be no acerbity. no bypercriti-|
cisIn, no exelusiveness.
Three hundred and sixty bells rang in
Moscow when one prince was married,
but when Righteousness and Peace kiss
each other in all the earth, ten thousand,
times ten thousand bells shall strike the,
jubilee. Poverty enriched. Hunger fed
Crime purified. Ignorance enlightened.
All the cities saved. Is not this q cause
worth working in?
Gods love will yet bring back this
ruined world to holiness and happiness
An ininite Father bends over it in sym
pathy. And to the orphan He will be a.
Father. and to the widow He will be al
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-;
| nation, crying for mercy, He will be an:
all pardoning Redeemer.
The rocks will turn gray with age, the
forests will be unmoored in the hurricane.
the sun will shut its fiery eyelid, the stars
will drop like blasted figs, the sea will:
heave it's last groan and lash itself in ex.
prlng agony. the continents will drop like
anchors in the deep, the world will wrap
itself IN sheet of fame and leap on the
funeral pyre OF the judgment day, but
Gods love will never die. It shall kindle-
It's suns after all other lights have gone
out. 1t will be a billowing sea after all
other oceans have wept themselves away.
1t will warm itself by the blaze of con-
suming world. It will sing while the.
archangeps trumpet peals and the air is
filled with the crash of breaking sepul-
chers and the rush of the wings of the
rising dead. Oh, commend that love to
all the cities and the morning without
clouds will come!
know that sometimes it seems hope
less task You toll on in different spheres,
sometimes with great disbursement.
People have no faith and say: 1T does
not amount to anything. You might as
well quit that" Why, when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red Sea it
| did not seem to mean anything especially
| People came out, l suppose, and said
"Aha!" Some of them found out what he
/ WoAtCu W w. ne wanted Cne sea parted
1t did not amount to anything, this
stretching out of his hand over the sea.
But after awhile the wind blew all night
from the east, and the waters were gath
cred into a glittering palisade on either
side, and the pillows roared as God pulled
back on their cry-tal bits Wheel into
line. Q Israel! March, march! Pearls
crashed under feet, flying spray gathers
into rainbow arch of victory for the con-
querors to march under, shout of hosts on
the beach answering the shout of hosts
amid sea, and when the last line of the
Israelites reach the beach the cymbals
clap. and the shields clang. and the waters
rush over the pursuers, and the swift
fingered winds on the white keys of the
foam play the grand march of Israel deliv-
cred and the awful dirge of Egyptian over
throw.
So You and go forth, and all the peo-
pie of God go forth, and they stretch their
hand over the sea, tae boiling sea of crime
and sin and wretchedness. "It doesn't
amount to anything" people say. Doesn't
it? Gods winds Of help will after awhile
begin to blow. A path will be cleared for
the army of Christian philanthropists.
| The path will he lined with the treasure