The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-03-11

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Still the degrading worship goes on,
and the devotees kneel and kiss the
dust, and count their golden beads, and
cross themselves with the blood of their
own sacrifice. The music rolls on undQr
the arches; it is made Of clinking silver
and clinking gold. and the rattling specie
of the banks and brokers shops, and the
voices of the Exchanges. A chorus OF
voices. This temple Of which l speak
stands open day and night, and there is
the glittering god wish his four feet on
broken hearts. and there is the smoking
altar of sacrifice, new Victims every mo-
ment on it, and there are the Rneelng
devotees; and the dOxology Of the wor-
ship rolls on, while Death stands with
moldy and skeleton arm, beating time
for the chorus-"More more /! more u
Some people are very much surprised
at the action of folks in the Stock Ex.
change, New York. Indeed, it used to
be a scene that sometimes paralyzed de-
sCription. What swapping Of finger and
thumb and wild gesticulation, and raw
ing like hyenas and stamping like buffa-
los, and swaying to and fro, and jostling
and running one upon another, and dea'
fening uproar, until the President of the
Exchange struck with his mallet and
cried, "Order ordel!" and the astonished
spectator went out into the free air, feel
ing that he had escaped from pandemo'
mum. What did it all mean? l will
tell you what it meant The devotees OF
every heathen temple cut themselves to
pieces, and yell and gyrate. This Vocif-
Grafton and gyration of the Stock Ex.
change was all appropriate. This is the
worship of the golden calf.
But my text suggests that this worship
must be broken up, as the behavior of
Moses in my text indicated. There are
those who say the golden calf spoken of
in my text was hollow, and merely pla-
ted with gold, otherwise, they say, Mo.
ses could not have carried it. l do not
know that; but somehow, perhaps by the
assistance of his friends, he takes up this
golden calf, which is an open insult to
God and man, and throws it into the fire
and it is melted, and then it comes out
and is cooled off, and by some chemical
appliance or by an old fashioned file, it
is pulverized and thrown into the brook,
and as q punishment, the people are COM
PEELED to drink this nauseating stuff. So
my hearers, you may depend upon it,
God will burn and grind to pieces the
golden calf of modern idelatry; and He
will compel the people in their agony to
drink it. If not before, it will be so on
the last day. / know not where the fire
will begin, whether at the Battery or
Central Park, or Fulton Ferry, or Bush.
wick, or at Sh6reditch, London, or West
End; but it will he very hot blaze. All
the Government securities of the United
States and Britain will curl up in the
first blast. All the money safes and de.
posting vaults will melta the first touch
The sea will burn like tinder, and the
will be abandoned forever; the
melted gold.in the broker's!window will
burst through the melted window glass
into the street; but the fleeing popula.
ton will not stop to scoop it up. The
cry of "Fire" from the mountain will be
answered by the cry Of Fire" from the
plain. The Conhagration will burn out
from the continent toward the sea, and
then burn in from the sea toward the
land. New York and London, with one
cut of the red sCythe of destruction, will
90 down. Twenty-Five thousand miles
Of destruction! The earth will wrap it.
self round and round in shroud of end.
flame and lie down to perish. What
hen will become Of your golden calf?
Who then 80 poor as to worship it? Mel
ed, or between the upper and neither
milestone of falling mountains ground to
powder. Dagon down. Moloch down.
] Juggernaut down. Golden calf down.
But my friends, every day is day of
and God is constantly grind.
ng to pieces the golden calf. Merchants
# New York and London, what was the
history of the last six years2 Bad"
ou say. Those were the best of years.
We learned during the last six or seven
ears, as never before, that forgeries will
lot pay; that spending $4,000 on count.
y seats and a palatial city residence,
7hen there are only $50, 000income, will
lot pay; that the appropriation Of trust
1nds to our own private speculation
1ill not pay. We had great National
lmor in the shape of fictitious prosper.
~. We call it National enlargement.
instead of calling it enlargement, we had
etter called it a swelling. 1t was tu.
lor and God was cutting it out-has cut
out, and the nation is getting we'll and
ill come back to the principles of our
.thers and grsndfathers, when twice
Tree made six instead of sixty, and
hen the apples at the bottom of the
arrel were just as good as those at the
'p, and silk handkerchief was not
alf cotton, and man who wore five
)llar coat paid for was. more honored
ian a man who wore a fifty dollar coat
Ot paid for. The golden calf of our
ny, like the one in the text, is very apt
be made out Of borrowed gold. These
jraelites Of the text borrowed the Jew.
ry of the Egyptians and then melted
into god. Agrest many housekeep-
g, not paying for the articles they get,
PROV of the baker, and the butcher,
I'd the dry goods seller Then the re.
II borrows Of the wholesale dealers and
10 wholesale dealer borrows of the cap
alist, and we borrow and borrow and
PROV, until the community is divided
to two classes, those who borrow and
iose who are borrowed of; and after
While the capitalist wants his money,
i'd he rushes upon the wholesale deal.
, and the wholesale dealer wants his
oney and he rushes upon the retailer.
i'd the retailer wants his mOney. and
} rushes ON the consumer, and we all
} down together. There is many q
an in this day who rides in carriage
I'd owes the blacksmith for the tire, and
10 wheelWright for the wheel, and the
INNER for the curtain, and the driver
r unpaid wages, while from the tin Of
le carriage tongue clear back to the
.mel's hair shawl, out of the back Of
10 vehicle, everything is paid for by
ties renewed two or three times. I
Il you, sirs, that in this country we will
sver get things right until we stop bor-
wing and pay as we go. It is this
imitation TO horrow and horrouv khak