The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-11-24

sacrifice, and this golden calf ofthe
text rs no exception. Its altar is not
made out OF stone as other affairs,
put out q counting-ro ON desks and
tlre-proof safes, and it is q broad, Il
long, q high altar. The victims sac
rlnced on it are innumerable. What
does this god care about thegroans and
struggles OF the victims beforeit?1With
cold metallic eye it looks on, and yet
let's them suffer. Oh heaven and
earth, what an altar! WhatB sacrifice
OF body, mind and soul! The physical
health OF a great multitude is flung on
this sacrificial altar. They cannot
sleep, and they take choral and NOR
phlne and intoxlcants. Some of then
struggle in a nightmare Of stocks, and
at one clock in the morning sudden
y rise up shouting: "a thousand
shares OF railroad stock-1O8h take
i'll, until the, whole family is affrighted,
and the spectators fall back on their
pillows and sleep until they are awak-
enen again by a corner" ora sud-
rise in something else. Their nerves
gone, their digestion gone, their brain
gone, they die. The clergyman comes
in and reads the funeral service:
BLESSED are the dead who die in the
Lord. /" Mistake. They did not stdie2
in the Lord I; the golden calf kicked
themp'
The trouble is, when men sacrifice
themselves on this altar suggested in
the text, they not only sacrifice them
selves, but they sacrifice their families.
1t q man by an i'll course is determined
to go to perdition l suppose you
will have to let him go; but he puts
his wife and children in. an equip
age that is the amazement Of
the avenues, and the driver
lashes the horses into two whirlwinds,
and the spokes flash in the sun, and
the golden headgear of the harness
CLEANS until Black Calamity takes the
bits OF the horses and stops them and
shouts to the luxurious occupants Of
the equipage: '.Get outY They get
out. They get down. That husband
and father flung his family so hard
they never got up again. There was
the mark on them for life the mark
OF a split hoof-the death-dealing
hoof OF the golden calf.
Solomon offered in one sacrifice, on
one occasion, %, 900 oxen and l2O,-
600 sheep; but that was a tame sac
rifice compared with the multitude of
men who are sacrificing themselves on
this altar of the golden calf, and sac
rificing their families with them The
soldiers OF Gen. Havelock, in India,
walked literally ankle deep in the
blood OF the 'house Of massacre"
where 200 women and children had
been slain by the Sepoys; but the blood
around about half this altar OF the
golden calf flows up to the knee,
flows to the girdle, flows to the
shoulder, flows to the lip. Great God
of heaven and earth, have mercy!
The golden calf has none.
DEGRADING WORSHIP.
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 under the arches; it is made of
blinking silver and blinking gold, and
the rattling specie Of the banks and
brokers shops and the voices of all
the exchanges. The soprano OF the
worship is carried by the timid voices
of men who have just begun to specu-
late; while the deep bass rolls out
from those who for ten years ofiniqui-
ty have been doubly damned. Chorus
OF voices rejoicing over what they
have made. Chorus OF voices wailing
over what they have lost. This tenn
pie OF which | speak stands open day
and night, and there is the glittering
god with his four feet on broken hearts
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reEce, new victims every mo-
| ment on it, and there are
the kneeiing devotees; and the
doxology OF the worship rolls on,
while Death stands with mouldy and
skeleton arm beating time for the
chorus More! more! more!'
Some people are very much sur
prised at the actions of folk on the
Stock Exchange Indeed, it is a scene
sometimes that paralyzes description
and is beyond the Imagination OF any
one who has never looked in. What
swapping Of finger and thumb and
wild gesticulation, and raving like
hyenas, and stamping like buffaloes,
and swuying to and fro, and running
one upon another, and deatening up
roar until the President OF the Ex-
change strikes with his mallet four or
five times, crying, Order! order!"
the astonished spectator goes out in
to the fresh air feeling that he has es-
capped from nandensonium. What
does it all mean? Twill tell you what
it means. The devotees of every
| heather temple cut themselves to
! pieces and veil and gyrate. This vocif-
GRAFTON and gyration OF the Stock
Exchange is all appropriate. This is
| the worship OF the golden calf.
IT MUST BE BROKEN UP.
But my text suggests that this
worship must be broken up, as the be
ishavior OF Moses in my text Indicated.
There are those who say that this
golden calf spoke OF in my text was
| hollow, and merely plated with gold;
otherwise, they say Moses could not
have carried it. / do not know that;
but somehow, perhaps by the assist
ance ofhis friends, he takes up this
| golden cnlf which, On 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