Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-11-14

DIR. TALMAcE THINKS THE GOLDEN
3 CALF IS STILL. woRsHIPED.

The Mad Folly Of the IsraeIites and tn,
! Rage Of Moscs--As the People ThcI
Z Were Punished So Are All who WORSHIP
I the Golden Calf in These Latter Days.
4 BROOKLYN, Nov. 13.-The subject ol
discourse chosen by Rev. DR.. Talmagt
for his first sermon after the nationa
election was one peculiarly appropriate
to the money making spirit Of the times
1T was "The Golden Calf the text Sc
1ected being Exodus xxi, 20, "And he
took the calf which they had made and
burned it in the fire, and ground it tc
powder and strewed it upon the water
and made the children of Israel drink
of it"
People will have god of some kind
and they prefer one of their own max
ing. Here come the Israelites, breaking
off their golden earrings, the men as
well IS the women, for in those times
there were masculine as well as fenii.
nine decorations. Where did they get
these beautiful gold earrings, coming
up as they did from the desert? Oh, they
"borrowed" them Of the Egyptians when
they left Egypt. These earrings arc
piled up into pyramid of glitterine
beauty. "Any more earrings to bringT
says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled
the earrings are melted and poured into
d mold, not Of an eagle or war charger
but OF a calf; the gold cools off; the
mold is taken away, and the idol is SET
upon its four legs.
! An altar is built in front of the shining
calf. Then the people throw up their
arms and gyrate and shrek and dance
nightly and worship. Moses has been
six weeks on Mount Sinai, and he comes
back and hears the bowling and sees
the dancing Of these golden calf fanat-
les, and he loses his patience, and he
takes the two plates of stone on which
were written the Ten Commandments
and hings them SO hard against a rock
that they split all to pieces. When a
man gets mad he is very apt to break all
the Ten Commandments
! Moses rushes, in and he takes this calf
god and throws it into hot fire until it
is melted all out of shape, and then pull.
verizes it--not by the modern appliance
of nitro-muriatic acid, but by tho ancient
appliance of inter, or by the old fash
'ioned file. He makes for the people q
most nauseating draft. He takes this
'pulverized golden calf and throws it in
the only brook which is accessible, and
the people are compelled to drink of that
brook or not drink at all.
FLOWED AROUND THE WORLD.
! But they did not drink all the glitter.
ing stuff thrown ON the surface. Some
of it flows on down the surface Of the
brook to the river, and then flows on
down to the river to the sea, and the sea
takes 1t up and bears 1t to the mouth OF
all the rivers, and when the tides set
back the remains of this golden calf are
carried up into the Hudson, and the
East river, and the Thames, and the
Clyde, and the Tiber, and men go out
and they skim the glittering surface, and
they bring it ashore, and they make an
other golden calf, and California and
Australia break off their golden earrings
to augment the pile. and in the fires of
financial excitement and struggle all
these things are melted together, and
while we stand looking and wondering
what will come of it, lol we find that
the golden calf Of Israelitish worship
has become the golden calf Of European
and American worship.
shall describe to you the god spoken
|of in the text, his temple, his altar Of
sacrifice, the music that is made in his
temple, and then tho final breaking up
Of the whole congregation of idolaters.
Put aside this curtain, and You see the
golden calf of modern idolatry. 1t is
not like other idols, made out of stocks
or stone, but it has an ear so sensitive
that 1t can hear the whispers on Wall
street and Third street and State street,
and the footballs in the Bank of Eng
land, and the fiutter Of Frenchman's
heart on the Bourse. 1t has an eye SO
keen that it can see the rust on the farm
of Michigan wheat, and the insect in the
Maryland peach orchard, and the tram.
pied grain under the hoof of the Russian
war charger.
IT'S GORGEOUS TEhIPLE.
IT is so mighty that it swings any way
IL win the worlds shipping. 1t has its
foot ON all the merchantmen and the
steamers. 1t started the American civil
war and under God stopped it, and it
decided the Turko- Russian contest. One
broker In September, 1869, in New York.
Zone hundred and sixty for u
anillionr and the whole continent shiv-
cred This golden calf of the text has
its right foot in New York, its left front
foot in Chicago, its right back foot in
charleston, its left back foot in New
Orleans, and when 1t shakes itself il
shakes the world. Oh, this is mighty
god--the golden calf of the worlds
But every god must have its temple,
and this golden calf of the text is no
exception. Its temple is vaster than st.
Paul's Of the English, and st. Peters of
the Italians, and the Alhambra Of the
and the Parthenon of the
Greeks. and the Tai Mahal of the Hin
Iloos, and all the other cathedrals put
Eogether. lta pillars are grooved aud
|iutsd with gold, and It's ribbed arches
Are towering gold, and its chandeliers
are descending gold, and its floors are
'essellated gold, and its vaults ara
'rowded heaps Of gold, and It's spires
md domes are soaring gold, and its or
yan pipes are resounding gold, and its
,edals are tramping gold, and its stops
'ulied out are flashing gold, while
landing at the head Of the temple. as
be presiding deity, are tho hoofs and