Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-14

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avenues, aud the driver lashes the
horses into two whirlwinds, and the
spokes fash 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 equipage:
Get out! They get out. They get
down. That husband and father flung
his family so hard that they never got
I'D again. There was the mark on them
for life-the mark OF split hoof-the
death-dealing hooi OF the golden calf.
Solomon offered in one sacrifice, on
one occasion, twenty-five thousand OK
en- and one hundred and twenty thou
sand sheep; but that was tame sacri-
fee compared with the multitude OF
men who are sacrificing themselves On
this altar Of the golden calf, and sacri-
icing their families with them. The
soldiers OF General HavelOck, In India,
walked literally ankle deep in the blood
OF the 'hOuSe Of massacre" where two
hundred women and Children had been
slain by the SepOyS; but the blood
around about this altar OF the golden
calf flows up 70 the knee, flows to the
girdle, flows to the shoulder, flows to
the liz. Great God of heaven and earth,
have mercy The golden calf has none.
STILL THE Degrading WORSHIP
goes on, and the deyOtees kneel and kiss
the dust, and count their golden beads,
aud cross themselves with the blood OF
their own sacrifice. The music rolls on
l.. - n nj - z
ing silver and clinking gold, and the
rafting specie of the banks and broE-
ers' shops and the voices OF all the eX-
changes. The soprano Of the worship
is carried by the timid voices OF men
who have just begun to speculate, while
the deep bass rolls out from those who
for ten years of iniquity have been
doubiv damned. Chorus of voices re-
ioicing over what they have made.
Chorus OF voices waiing over what they
have lost. This temple Of which | speak
stands open day and night, aud there is
the glittering god with his four feet on
broken hearts, and there is the smoking
altar OF sacrifice, new victims every mo-
ment on it, and there are the kneellng
devotees; and the doXo!ogy OF the wor-
ship rolls on, while death stands with
mouldy and skeleton arm beating time
for the chorus-"M0re! more! mOre."
Some people are very much surprised
al the actions of folk on the Stock tx
change. Indeed, 10 is scene some
times that paralyzes description, and Is
beyond the Imagination OF any one who
has never looked in. What swapping
OF finger and thumb and wild geStcu-
l2tiOp. and raving like hyenas, and
stamping like bulfalOeS, and Swaylng 10
and fro, and running one upon another,
and daafening upTOar until the presl-
dent Of the Exchange strikes with his
mallet four or five times, crying "Order!
order!" and the aStoniShed spectator
goes out into the fresa air feeling that
he has escaped from pandemOnium.
What does it all mean? | will tell you
what IL means. The devoteeS OF every
heather temple cut themselves to
pieces, aud yell and gyrate. This vo-
alteration and CyratiOn OF the Stock ES-
change 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 indi-
Gated. There are those who say that
this goldeo calf spoken Of In my text
was hollow, and merely PLATED with
gold; otherwise, they say, Moses could
not have carried it. l do not know
that; but somehow, perhaps by the as
siStanCe of his friends, he takes up this
golden calf, which is an open insult TO
God and man, and throws ii into the
FIRE, and it is melted, and then it comes
out and is cooled or, and by some chem
zeal appliance, or by an Old-faShiOned
file, is pulveriZed, and is thrown into
the brook, aud, as punishment, the
people are compelled TO drink the nauS-
eating stuff. So, my hearers, you may
depend upon 10 that God will burn and
he will grind to pieces the golden calf
of modern idOlatry, and he will compel
the people 10 their 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 the Bat
terry" or Central Park, whether
at Brooklyn bridge or at Bushwick,
whether Ut Shoreditch, London, or West
Fad; but il will be a 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, aud the shipping will
be abandoned forever. The melted gold
in the brokers' window will burst
through the melted window glass and
-. hr,t no Hrin a
ton will not stop TO scoop it up. The
cry Of "Fire" from the mountain will
be answered by the cry of "Flre" in the
plain. The condsgration 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 de-
structiOn, will go down. Twenty-Five
thousand miles of confagration! The
earth will wrap itself round and round
in g ShrOud OF flame, and lie down to per-
ISL. What then will become OF your
golden calf? Who then so poor as to
worship il? Melted, or between the
upper and the neither milestone Of fall
Ing mountains, ground to powder.
Dagon down. Moloch down. Jugger-
uaut down. Golden calf down.
But, my friends, every day is a day
OF Judgment, and God is all the 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 live? bad, 8"
you say. Professional men, what is the
characteristic Of the times in which we
live? bad" you say. Though l
should be in a minority OF one, ven
ture the opinion that these are the best
times we have had for the reason that
God is teaching the world. as never be-