The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-14

golden calf has none.
Still the degrading worship goes on, and
the devotees kneel and Kiss the dust and
count their golden beads. and GROSS them
selves with the blood of their own sacrifice.
The music rolls on under the arches: H. ia
made of blinking silver and clinkipe gold,
and the rafting specie of the banks and
brokers' shops and the voices of all the ex-
changes. The soprano of the worship is
carried by the timld voices of men who
have just began TO speculate; while the deep
bass rolls out from those who for ten years
of iniquity have been doubly damned.
Chorus OF voices rejoicing over what they
have made. Chorus of voices wailing
over what they have lost. This temple OF
which | speak stands open day and night,
and there is the glittering god with his four
feet on broken hearts, and there is the
smoking altar of sacrifice, new victims
every moment on ii, and there are the
kneelIng devotees, and the doxology OF the
worship rolls on, while death stands with
moldy and skeleton arm beating time for
the Chorus-"More morel moren
some people are very much surprised at
the actions Of folk on the stock exchange
Indeed, tits 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, aud raving like hyenas, and
stamping like buffaloes, and swaying TO aud
/
| deafening uproar until the president of the
| exchange strikes with his mallet four or
| i've times, crying, "Order! order" and the
! astonished spectator goes out into the fresh
| air feeling that he has escaped from pande-
monium. What does it all meant / will
| tell YOU what 1t means. The devotees of
/ every heather temple cut themselves to
pieces, and yell and gyrate. This vooifera-
ton and gyration of the stock exchange is
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 arc
those who say that this golden calf spoken
of in my text was hollow, and merely plated
with gold; other wise, they say, Moses could
not have carried it. / 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 1t 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 it is
| thrown into the brook, and, as a punish
ment, the people are compelled to drink the
/ nauseetlng stuff, So, my hearers, you may
depend upon it that God will burn and he will
grind to pieces the golden calf of modern
idolatry, and he will compel the people in
their agony to drink it. II not BEFORE it
UAiA 70 oO Ob VIC A1eb uhY' KNOW uOJ W1eEe
the fire will begin, whether at the Battery
or Central park whether at Brooklyn bridge
| or at Bushwick, whether at Shoreditch
London, or West End; but 1t will be very
hot blaze. All the government securities of
the United States and Great Britain will
| curl up in the first blast All the money safes
| and depositing vaults will melt under the
first touch. The sea will burn like finder,
and the shipping be abandoned forever.
! The melted gold in the brokers window
| will burst through the melted window
glass and into the street; but the flying pop
ulation will not stop to scoop It up.
The cry Of Fire" from the mountain will
be answered by the cry Of Fire in 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 conflagra-
toni The earth will wrap itself round and
round in shroud of flame and lie down to
perish. What then will become of your
golden calfl Who then so poor as to wor-
ship itl Melted, or between the upper and
the neither milestone of falling mountains
ground to powder. Dagon down. Moloch
down. guggernaut down. Golden calf
down.
But, my friends, every day Ia day of
| Judgment, and God is all tho time grinding
to pieces the golden calf. Merchants OF
| Brooklyn and New York and London,
| what is the characteristic of this time in
which we livea "Bad," you say. Profess
| sional men, what is the characteristic of
the times in which we liver Bad" you
say. Though l should be in a minority of
one, venture the opinion that these are
| the best times we have had for the reason
that God is teaching the world, as never
before, that old-fashioned honesty is the
only thing that will stand. We have learned
as never before that forgeries will not pay
that the spending Of fifty thousand dollars
on country seats and palatial city resi-.
dence, when there are only thirty thousand
dollars income, will not pay; that the
appropriation Of trust funds &
our own private speculation will
not pay. We had a great ma
tional tumor In the shape of fictitious OF os.
perity. We called 1t national enlargement
instead Of calling it enlargement, we might
better have called 1t swelling. 1t has beer
tumor. and God is cutting it out-has cu
1T out, and the nation will get well aud will
come back to the principles Of our father.
and grandfathers when twice three made
six instead Of sixty, and when the apples Al
the bottom of the barrel were just as good
as the apples on the top of the barrel. and q
silk handkerchief was not half cotton, and Z
man who wore five-dollar coat paid fol-
was more honored than a man who wore
fifty-dollar coat not paid for.
The golden calf of our day, like the one
of the text, is very apt to be made out OF
borrowed gold. These Israelites Of the text
borrowed the earrings OF the Egyptians
and then melted them into a god. That Is
the way that the golden calf is made nova.
days. A great many housekeepers, not paw.
ing for the articles they get, borrow
OF the grocer, and the baker
and the butcher and the dry goods
seller. Then the retailer borrows Of the
wholesale dealer. Then the wholesale dealer
borrows of the capitalist, and we borrow
and borrow, and borrow until the com.
munity is divided into two classes, those
who borrow and those who are Dor
rowed of; and after awhile the capitalist
wants his money and he rushes upon the
wholesale dealer, and the wholesale dealer
wants his money and he rushes upon the re-
taller, and the retailer wants his money and
he PUSHES upon the consumer. and we all &c
down together. There is many a man in
this day who rides In carriage and owes
the blacksmith for the tire, and the Wheel
wright for the wheel, and the trimmer for
the curtain, and the driver for unpaid
wages. and the harnessmaker for the bIidle
and the furrier for the robe, while from the
tip of the carriage tongue Gear back to the
tip Of the shawl fluttering out OF the back of
the vehicle, everything is paid for by notes
] that have been Chraa tima9 ranewad