The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-18
AT THE TABERNACJ
DIR. TAlMAGE THINKS THE O."
CALF is STILL WORSHIP,

Were Punished So Are All
the Golden Calf in These ''' ""s''
BROOKLYN, Nov. 1s,-Tsun1ec' Oh
discourse chosen by Re, i"iin"ss
for his first sermon aft 'ne n"'ion''
election was one pecu,F appiop'i"'e
, to the money making i.o AZ. ene 'i,ios'
1t was "The Golden -, a eno 'eAt ~,
: lected being ExoduA Ai' ~ Anu nc
took the calf whicbey hau iiieoe anu
burned it in the o. anu slouiiu !. 70
powder and strew IL upon the water 7
and mada tba o,lren of Israel drink
of it," |
People will Re god OF some kind,
and tbev nras one of their own max.
inc. Here 90, the Israelites, breaking
off their zen earrings, the men as
well So the 'omen, for in those times
|, there werediascuiine as well as femi.
! nine deco tions. Where did they get !
these beitiful gold earrings, coming
: nm as W did from the desert? Oh, they !
rborrced" them of the Egyptians when
thew it Egypt. These earrings are
pileeup into a pyramid of glittering
bea.y. "Any more earrings to bring9' |
ga, Aaron. None. Fire is kindled; |
n earrings are melted and poured into |
mold, not of an eagle or a war charger,
ut of a calf; the gold cools off; the
mold is taken away, and the idol is set
upon its four legs.
An altar is built in front of the shining
calf. Then the people throw up their
arms and gyrate and shrek and dance
nightly and worship. Moses has been
six weeks on Mount Sinai and he comes
back and hears the bowling and sees
the dancing of these golden calf fanat- |
les, and he loses his patience, and he
takes the two plates of stone on which
were written the Ten Commandments
and filings them so hard against rock
that they split all to pieces. When
man gets mad he is very apt to break all
the Ten Commandments!
Moses rushes, in and he takes this calf
god and throws it into a hot fire until it
is melted all out of shape, and then pull
verizes it-not by the modern appliance
of nitro-muriatic acid, but by the ancient
appliance of inter, or by the old fash
toned file. He makes for the people
most nauseating draft. He takes this
pulverized golden calf and throws it in
thu only brook which is accessible, and
the people are compelled to drink of that
brook or not drink at all
FLOWED AROUND THE WORLD.
But they die not drink all the glitter
ing stuff thrown Oh the surface. Some
of it flows on down the surface of the
brook to the river, and then flows on
down to the river to the sea, and the sea
takes it up and bears it to the mouth of
all the rivers, and when the tides set
back the remains of this golden calf are
carried up into the Hudson, and the
East river, and the Thames, and the
Clyde, and the Tiber, and men go out
and they skim the glittering surface, and
they bring it ashore, and they make an
other golden calf, and California and
Australia break off their golden earrings
to augment the pile, and in the fires of
financial excitement and struggle all
these things are melted together, and
while we stand looking and wondering
what will come of it, lo we find that
the golden calf of Israelitish worship
has become the golden calf of European
and American worship.
shall describe to you the god spoken
of in the text, his temple, his 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. 1t 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 footballs in the Bank of Eng
land, and the hutter of Frenchman's
heart on the Bourse. 1t has an eye so
keen that it can see the rust on the farm
of Michigan wheat, and the insect in the
Maryland peach orchard, and the tram
pied grain under the hoof of the Russian
war charger.
ITS GORGEOUS TEMPLE.
tits so mighty that it swings any way
it will the worlds shipping. 1t has it's
foot on all the merchantmen and the
steamers. 1t started the American civil
war and under God stopped it, and it
decided the Turko- Russian contest. One
broker in September, 1862 in New York,
I shouted, Zone hundred and sixty for
millionv' and the whole continent shiv-
cred. This golden calf of the text has
, Its right foot in New York, its left front
/ foot in Chicago, its right back foot in
! charleston, its left back foot in New
/ Orleans, and when it shakes itself it
f CT, fba ,t,n,.ll Oh tl,is &c
god-the golden calf of the worlds
I worship!
( But every god must have its temple,
and this golden calf of the text is no
exception. Its temple is vaster than st.
lPaul's 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. Its pillars are grooved and
futed with gold, and its ribbed arches
are lowering gold, and its chandeliers
are descending gold, and its floors are
tessellated gold, and its vaults are
crowded heaps Of gold, and its spires
and domes are soaring gold, and its or
| gan pipes are resounding gold, and its
pedals are tramping gold, and its stops
pulled out are flashing gold, while
standing at the head of the temple, as
the presiding deity, are the hoofs and
shoulders and eyes and ears and nostrils
of the calf of gold.
Further, every god must have not
only its temple, but its altar of sacrifice,
and this golden calf of the text is no ex-
ceptiop. Its altar is not made out of
stone as other affairs, but out of count-
ing room desks and freproof safes, and
it is a broad, long, a high altar. The
victims sacrificed on it are nnunerable.
What does this god care about the groans
and struggles of the victims before it
With cold, metallic eye it looks on and
yet lets them suffer. Oh, heaven and
earth, what an altar, what sacrifice ct
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