The Globe-republican., 1892-12-02

they die The clergyman comes in and
reads the funeral service. blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord" Mistake.
They did not die in the Lord'-the
golden calf kicked them!
The trouble Is when men sacrifice them
selves on this altar suggested in the text
that they not only sacrifice themselves,
but they sacrifice their families. II q
man by an III course is determined to 20
to perdition. l suppose you will have to
let him go; but he puts his wife and chill
dren in an equipage that is the amaze
ment OF the avenues, and the driver
lashes the horses into two whirlwjnds.
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 equi-
page, Get QUIT" They get out They
get down. That husband and father
flung his family so hard they never got
up again. There was the marx on
them for life-the mark of split hoof
the death dealing boof of the golden
! calf.
Solomon offered In one sacrifice, on one
occasion. 22, 900 oxen and i2O, 600 sheep;
but that was tame sacrifice compared
! with the multitude of men who are sacri-
6cing themselves on this altar of the
golden calf, and sacrificing their families
| with them. The soldiers of Gen. Have
lock 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 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.
Still the degrading worship goes on,
and the devOtees kneel and kiss the dust.
and count their golden beads. ard cross
themselves with the blood of their own
sacrifice. The music rolls on under the
arches; 1t Is made of blinking silver and
clinking gold and the rafting 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 tc
speculate, while the deep ba 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
The temple of which l speak stands
open day and night. and there is the
9littering god with his four feet on bro
ken hearts, and there is the smoking al
tar OF sacrifice, new victims every mo-
ment on it, and there are the kneeling
devotees, and the doxolOgy of the wor-
ship rolls Oh, while death stands with
moldy and skeleton arm beating time for
the chorus-''More! more! more!'
Some people are very much surprise at
the actions of folk on the Stock ex-
change. Indeed it is a scene sometimes
that paralyzes description, and is be-
yOnd the imagination of any one who
has never looked in. What swapping of
finger and thumb and wild eesticulation,
and raving like hyenaS. and stamping
like buffalOes, and swaying to and fro,
and running one upon another, and deaf |
ching uproar until the president of the !
exchange strikes with his mallet four or |
five times, crying, 'Order! order!'' And |
the astOnished spectator goes out into |
the fresh air feeling that he has escaped |
from pandemOnium. What does 1t all |
mean? 1 will tell you what it means
The devotees of every heather temple
cut themselves to pieces and yell and
gyrate. This vociferation and gyration
of the Stock exchange is all appropriate.
This is the worship of the golden calf.
But nv text suggests that this worship
must be broken up, as the behavior of
Moses in my text indicated. There are
those who say that this golden calf spoken
of in my text was hollow, and merely
plated with gold; otherwise, they say,
Moses could not have carried it. I do
not know that, but somehow, perhaps by
the assistance of his friends. he takes up
this golden cali, which is an insult to God
md man, and throws 1t into the fire, and
It is melted. and then it comes out and
IS cooled of, and by some chemical ap-
pliance, or by an old fashioned file. it is
pulverized, and it is thrown into the
brook, and as punishment the people
ire compelled to drink the nauseating
stuff.
So, my hearers, you may depend upon
Il that God will burn and He will grind
20 pieces the golden calf of modern idola-
Try, and he will compel the people in
heir agony to drink it. II not before, it
will be so on the last day. l know not
where the fire will begin, whether, at
he Battery or Central park, whether at
bridge or at Bushwick, whether
It Shoredltch, London or West End, but
t will be q very hot blaze. All the Gov
.rnment securities of the United States
md Great Britain will curl up in the first
'last. All the money, safes and deposit
ng vaults will melt under the first touch.
The sea will burn like finder, and the
hipping will be abandoned forever. The
Melted gold in the brokers' window will
'urst through the melted window glass
nd into the street, but the flying poDu-
alton will not stop to scoop 1t up.
The cry Of "Fire!" from the mountain
vill be answered nv the cry Of ..Eirai0