Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-11-19

palatial city residence, when there
; are only $4,000 income, will NOT
pay; that the appropriation of trust
funds to ous own private speculation
will not pay. We had n great national
tumor, in the shape of fictitious pros.
perity. We called it national enlarge
ment; instead of calling it enlargement,
we might better have called it SWELL
ing. 1t has been tumor, and God is
cutting it out-has cut IL out, and the
nation will get we'll and will come back
to the principles of our fathers and
grandfathers when twice three make
six instead of sixty, and when the APP
just as good as the apples ON the top of
the barrel, and u silk handkerchief was
not half cotton, and n man who wore D
five-dollar coat paid for was more hon
ored than man who wore u 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 god. That is the way the golden
calf is made nowadays. A great many
housekeepers, not paying for the arti-
cles 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 capital
list, and we borrow, and borrow, and
borrow until the community is divided
into two classes. those who borrow and
those who are borrowed of; and
after awhile the capitalist wants
his money and rushes upon the whole
sale dealer, and the wholesale dealer
wants his money and rushes upon the
retailer, and the retailer wants his
money and rushes upon the customer,
and we all go down together. There is
many n man in this day who rides in
carriage and owes the blacksmith for
the tire, and the wheelwright for the
wheel, and the trimmer for the curtain,
and the driver for unpaid wages, and
the harness maker for the bride. and
the furrier for the robe, while from tho
tip of the carriage tongue clear back to
the tip of the shawl futtering out of
the back of the vehicle, everything is
paid for by notes that have been three
times renewed.
1t is this temptation to borrow, and
borrow, and borrow, that keeps the
people everlastingly praying to the
golden calf for help, and just at the
minute they expect the help the golden
calf treads on them. The judgments
of God, like Moses in the text, will rush
in and break up this worship; and say,
let the work go on till every man shall /
learn to speak truth with his neighbor,
and those who make engagements shall.
feel themselves bound tok keep them. and
n man who will not repent of his busi- |
ness iniquity, but goes on wishing to
satiate his cannibal appetite by devour-
ing widows houses, shall by the law of !
the land be compelled to exchange his
for Sing Sing. Let the golden
calf perish
But, my friends, if we have made this
world our god, when we come to die we
will see our idol demolished. How
much of this world are you going to
take with you into the next? viii you
have two pockets-one in each side of
your shroud? Will you cushion your
coffin with bonds and mortgages and
of stock? All. no. The
ferryboat that crosses this Jordan takes
no baggage-nothing heavier than a
spirit You may, perhaps, take $500
with you two or three miles, in the
shape of funeral trappings, to Green
wood, but you will have to leave
them there. 1t would not be safe for
you to lie down there with gold watch
Dr. diamond ring; it would be temp
tation to the pillagers. All, my friends!
f we have made this world our god,
when we die we will see our idol ground
70 death by our pillow, and we will
nave to drink it in bitter regrets for
,he wasted opportunities of n lifetime.
soon we will be gone. o! this is fleet
ng world, it is dying world. A man
Who had worshipped it all his days, in
llS uylHS LuOiIlSuJ ucsCTlucu hlulSSlL
when he said: Fool! fool! fool!.'
want you to change temples, and to
rive up the worship of this unsatisfy-
ng and cruel god for the service of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Here is the God
hat will never crumble. Here are
,anks that will never break. Here is
n altar on which there has been one
acrifice once for all. Here is God who
will comfort you when you are in
rouble, and soothe you when you are
ick, and save you when You die.
When your parents have breathed
heir last and the old, wrinkled
nd trembling hands can no more be
tut upon your head ior blessing, He
will be to you father and mother both,
living you the defense of the one and
ba ooY,,fOrk of tho othar. and xyhan