The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-15

| BODY. mind and soul! The physical
health of a great multitude is flung on
this sacrihcial altar. They cannot sleep. |
and they take choral and morphine and
! intoxicants.
Some of them struggle III a nightmare
| of stocks and at one o'clock in the Eiorn
ing suddenly rise up shouting, "a tAoU-
sand shares of railroad stock-One hum
bred and eight and half; takeit until
the whole family is affrighted, and the
spectators fall back on their pillows ana
sleep until they are awakened again by
corner OF Il sudden rise in some
thing else. Their nerves gone, their Ill
gestion gone. their brain gone, they de.
| The clergyman COMES iIa and reads tae
funeral service, blessed are the dead
vino die III the Lord" Mistake. They
did not die in the Lord" the golden
calf kicked them!
ITS DREADFUL SACRIFICE.
The trouble is when men sacrifice
| themselves on this altar suggested Ill the
text they not only sacrifice themselves.
but they sacrifice their families. If 4
man by an i'll course is determined to -
to perditiOu l suppose you will have to-
let him so: but he puts his wife AID
children III an equlPage that IS Tn"
! anaZemeut of the avenues, and the
driver lasucS the horses into two wnlri-
( winds. and the spokes flash III the sun.
ana the golden hCadgear OF the harness
CLEANS. until Black Calamity takes re
lits Of the horses and stops them. and
shouts 10 the luxurious occupants Of TIC
equipage. Get oUtr' They get out.
They get down. That husband and
father flung his family so hard they
never get up again. There was the
mark on them for life-the mark of
split hoOf-the death dealing hoof Of
the golden cali.
Solomon offered III one sacrifice On one
occasion twenty-five thousand oxen and
one hundred and twenty thousand sheep;
l:ut that was tame sacrifice compared
with the multitude Of men who are sac
rificiug themselves on TINS altar Of the
golden calf and sacrificing their fam
lilies with them. The soldiers of General
Eaveluck IN India walked literally ankle
deem in the blood of the "hUuse of HIS
sacre." where two hundred women and
children had been slain by the Sepors:
bat the blood around about this alCar OF
the golden calf flows up TO the knee.
flows to the girdle. flows 10 the shoulder.
flows to the lip. Great God Of heaVel,
and earth, have mercy! The golden cali
Las none.
S;ii the degrading worship goes on,
and the devOtees kneel and kiss the dust.
and count their golden beads, ana cross
themselves with the blood of their own
. sacrifice. The music rolls on under the
, arches; it Is made of clinking silver and
cliuking 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 to
, Speculate, while the deep bass rolls out
!, from those who for ten years of iniquity
t have been dOubly damned. Chorus OF
/ voices rejoicing over what they have
made! Chorus of voices wailing over
/ what they have lost!
This temple of which speak stands
!, open day and night, and there is the
/ Cliuering god with his four feet or
| broken hearts. and there is the smoking
: altar Of sacrifice, new victims every mo-
t r.ent on il. and there are the kneeling
, dcvotees. and the doxology of the wor-
j ship rolls on. while death stands with
lnoldy aid skeleton arm beating tims
! for The chorus-''More! more. more
{ TIE CRAZE FOR GOLD.
$ Some ItcI,ie are vt:J- much surprised
, at the actions Of folk on the Stoc.; eX-
change. Indeed it Is a scene sometimes
HAT Taraly zcs description and Is beyond
, the imagination OF any one who has
; never looked III. What swapping Of I'm
? ger ana thumb and wild gesriculatiou,
/ ana raving like hyenas, and stamping
ike bufTaIoeS. and swaying to aid fro.
= 1E..f
/; enin.; Uproar, until the president of Tie
O exchange strikes with his lnallet four or
I five times. crying, "Order! ORDER and
z the astomished spectator goes out into
= the fresh air feeling that he has escaped
7 from pandemonium. What does II al
mean: l will tell you what it means.
The devotees of every heather temple
! cut themselves to pieces and yell and
5 gyrate. This vociferatiOn and gyrution
e of the Stock exchange is all appropriate.
! This Is the worship OF the golden calf.
! But my text suggests that this wor-
e ship must be broken up, as the be
hayior of Moses IL my text indicated.
r There arc those who say that this golden
= CALI spoken OF in my text was hollow
s al,! merely plated with gold: otherwise,
/ they say, Noses could not have carried
4 it. GO not know that; but somehow
Y perhaps by the assistance of his friends
I he takes up this golden calf, which Is a.
V open insult TO God and man. and throws
5 it into the fire, and it is melted, and the'
it comes out and is cooled OF. and hy
;. some chemical appliance or by an old
0 fashioned file it is pulverized. and IL !,
/. thrown into the brook, and as & punish
# ment the people are compelled to drink
2 the nauseatiny stuff.
c THE ROOT OF EVIL TO BE ROOTED OUT
/ So, my hearers, you may depend uqor
It il that God will burn and he viii grlnC
d to pieces tine golden calf of modern idol
IS airy. ana he viii compel the people II
5 their agony to drink it. II not before
e it will he 50 or the last day. know
e not where the FIRE viii begin, whether
= at the Bhttery or Central paw. wnetAel