Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-14
THE GOLDEN CALF.
IENUMERABLE LIVSS SACRIFICED at THE
ALTAR OF MAMM0N.
The S.ock Exchange Scored By the Great Brooklyn
Divine Yss,rtaY-Gol Win Burn the Cold
On Calf Of Modern holatry sai Compel
The People to Drink Of l.


tional election. was one peculiarly APP
propriate 90 the mOney-makiUg spirit
of the times 10 was the The Golden
Calf" the text selected being Exodus
1920, "And he took the calf which they
had made and burnt it ia the fire, and
ground 10 intO powder and strewed lt
upon the water and made the children
OF Israel drink of it.
People will have q god OF some kind,
and they prefer one OF their own max
ing. Here come tue ISraeliteS, break
ing of their golden earrings, the men.
as we'll as the women, for in those
times there were masculine as we'll as
feminine decorations Where did they
get these beautiful. gold earrings, com
Ing no as they did from the desert?
Oh, they borrowed" them of the Esyp-
tiaus vixen they lefJ Egypt. These ear
rings are piled up into a pyramid
OF glittering beauty. ANY
more earrings Co bring - says
Aaron. None. Fire is kudled; the
earrings are melted aud poured into a
mold, not Of au eagle or a war charger,
but of o calf; the gold coos OF; the
mold is taken away, and the idol is set
upon It's four legs. An altar is built Ia
front OF the shining calf. Then the
people throw up their arms, and gyrate,
aud shrek, aud dance mRght.iy, and
worship. Moses has been six weeks on
Mount Sanai, and he comes back and
hears the bowling and sees the dancing
OF these golden-caf fanatics. aud he
loses his patience, and be takes the two
Dlates OF stone on which were written
the Ten Commandments and filings them
80 hard againsta rock that they split all
70 pieces. When a man gets mad he Is
veryiapt to break all the
TEN COMMANDMENTS!
Moses rushes in and be takes this calf
sod aud throws 10 into a not fire, until
it is melted all out Of shape, and then
pulvarizes it-nOt by the mOdern appli-
ance OF nitrO-muriatic acid, but by the
ancient appliance of nitric, or by the
oId-fashiOned file. He makes for the
people q most nauseating draught. He
mikes this puIverized golden calf and
throws il ia the only brook which is ac-
csssibe, and the people are compelled
todrink o! that brook or not drink 40
all. But they did not drink all the
uHtterlng stuff thrown on the surface.
Some of it flows on down the surface OF
the brook 20 the river, and then lows
on down the river to the sea, aud the sea
takes it up and bears It TO the mouth Of
all the rivers, aud when the tides set
back, the remains of this golden calf
are carried up into the Hudson. aud the
East River, and the Thames, and the
Clyde, and the T6er, and men go out
and they skim the glitterlng surface,
and they briug it ashore and they make
another golden calf, and California AID
Australia break of their golden car
rings to augment the pile, and n the
fires of financial excitement ar. Strug-
gle all these things are melted together,
and while we stand looking aud Won
dering what will come o. it, 10. we iud
hat Ihs golden calf Q FGsrealitisb wOr-
ship RS G1ccJm6 the golden calf Of
EurODean AID American worship.
shall describe 20 you the god spoken
OF In the text, his temple, the altar Of
sacrifice, the music that is made in his
temple, and then the final breaking up
Of the whole congregation Of idolaters.
PUT ASIDE THIS CURTAIN
and you see the golden calf of modern
idolatry. It IS not like other idols,
made out of stocks or stone, but it has
an ear so sensitive that it can hear the
whispers on Wall street and Third
street and State street, and the foot
falls in the Bank of England, aud the
fiatter Of q Frenchman's heart on the
Bour5e. IL has an eye so keen that It
can see the rust on the farm Of Michi-
gan wheat aud the insect ia the Mary
land peaCh-orchard, and the tramp.od
grain under the hOOf of the Russian
war charger. 1t is so mighty that 10
swings any way Il will the worlds ship
ping. To has its foot on ell the mer-
chantmen and the steamers. 1t started
the American Civil War, and under God
stopped it, aud iJ decided the Tur6o-
Russian contest. One broker in Sep
TENDER. 1869, in New York, shouted:
"One hundred and sixty for million.
and the whole continent sbivered. This
golden calf Of the text has its right
front foot in New York, its left front
foot ia Chicago, It's right back foot 10
Charleston, it's left back foot In New
Orleans, aud when It shakes itself 70
shakes the world. Oh! this is a mighty
god-the golden calf OF the worlds wOr-
ship.
But every God must have It's temple,
and this golden calf Of the text Is no eX-
ceptiOn. It's temple is vaster than st.
Paufs of the English, and St Peters OF
the Italians, and the Alhambra of the
Spaniards, and the Parthenon Of the
Greeks. and the Tai Mahal OF the Hin
docs, and all the other CathedralS put
together. It's pillars are grooved and
futed with gold and its ribbed arches
are lowering gold, and its chandeliers
ere descending gold, and it's floors are
tesselated gold, aud its vaults are crowd
ed heaps Of gold, and its spires and
dOmes are soaring sold, and It's Orgaa
pipes are resounding gold, and its pedals
are trsmDing gold, and its stops pulled
out are iathinQ gold, while standing at
the head Of the temple, as the presiding
diety, are the hOois aud shoulders aud
epes and ears and nOstrils.
or THE CALF or GOLD.
Further: every god must have not
only it's temple, but it's altar Of sacri-
fee. and this golden calf Of the text is
no exception. It's altar is not made out
of stone as other affairs, but out OF
eounting-room desks and ire-proOi
safes, and 10 is a broad, long, high
altar The victims sacrificed on it are
inuumerable. What does this god care
about the groans and struggles Of the
victims before il? With cold, metallic
eye it looks on and lets them suffer.
Oh! heaven and earth, what an altar!
what a sacrifice Of body, mind and
soull The physical health Of 3
great multitude is flung on this
sacrifclal altar They cannot sleep,
and they take choral and NOR