Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-11-24

text is no exception. It's altar is not
made out OF stone as other affairs,
but out of counting-room desks and
fire-proof safes, and it is broad, Il
long, a high altar. The victims sac
ritice on it are innumerable. What
does this god Gaze about the groans and
struggles OF the victims heforeit? With
cold metallic eye it looks on, and yet
let's them suffer. Oh heaven and
earth, what an altar! What a sacrifice
Of body, mind and soul! The physical
health of great multitude is flung on
this sacriicial altar. They cannot
sleep, and they take chloral and NOR
phine and intoxlcants. Some of them
struggle il, nightmare OF stocks, and
at one o'clock in the morning sudden
ly rise up shouting: "a thousand
shares OF railroad st ock-1O8h take
it," until the whole family is affrlghted,
and tn spe ulators fall back on their
pillows and sleep until they are awak-
enen again by q corner or q sudden
''rise' in somethingelse. Their nerves
gone, their digestion gone, their brain
gone, they die. The clergyman comes
in and reads the funeral service:
"Bl-ssed are the dead who die in the
Lord" Mist AXE They did not "die
in the Lord; the golden cali kicked
them!"
The trouble is, when men sacrifice
themselves on TINS altar suggested in
the text, they not only sacrifice them
selves, but they sacrifice their families.
Ii a man by an illcourse is deter mined
to 60 to perdition l suppose you
will have to let hun go; but he puts
his wife and children in an equip
age that IS the amazement Of
the avenues, and the driver
lashes the horses int o two whirlwinds,
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 opsthem and
shouts to the luxurious occupants of
the eqn page: Get out!" They get
out. They get down. That husband
and father flung his family so hard
they never got up again. TIL, re was
the mark on them for life-the mark
OF split hoof-the death-dealing
hoof of the golden calf.
Solomon offered in one sacrifice, on
one occasion, $4,000 oxen and l2O,-
900 sheep; but that was u tame sac
riIice compared wit III he multitude of
men who are sacrificing themselves on
this altar OF the golden CALI and sac
rifcing their families with them. The
soldiers OF Gen. Havelock, 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 half 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.
DEGRADING WORSHIP.
Still the degrading worship goes on,
and the devotees kneel and kiss the
dust, and count their golden beads,
and cross themselves with the blood
of their own sacrifice. The m ,sic rolls
on under the arches; it is made OF
clinking 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 to specu-
late; while the deep bass rolls out
from those who for ten years of iniqui-
ty have been doubly damned. Chorus
OF voices rejoicing over what they
have made. Chorus OF voices wailng
over what they have lost. This tenn
pie OF which speak stands open day
and night, and there is the glittering
god with his four feet on broken hearts
and there is the smoking altar OF sac
reEce, new victims every mo-
ment on it, and there are
the knee ing devotees; and the
doxology of the worship rolls on,
while Death stands with mouldy and
skeleton arm beating time for the
chorus" More! more! moren'
Some people are very much sur
Stock Exchange. Indeed, it is scene
sometimes that paralyzes description
and is beyond the imagination OF any
one who has never looked in. What
swapping OF finger and thumb and
wild gesticulation, and raving like
hypnas, and stamping like buffaloes
and swaying to and fro, and running
one upon another, and deatening up
roar until the President of the Ex-
change strikes with his mallet four or
five times, crying, 'Order! order!"
the astonished spectator goes out in
to the fresh air feeling that he has es-
capped from pander,onium. What
does it all mean? will tell you what
it means. The devotees of every
heather temple cut themselves to
pieces and yell and gyrate. This vocif.
Grafton and gyration of the Stock
Exchange is all appropriate This is
the worship of the golden calf.
IT MUST BE BROKEN UP.
But my text suggests that this
worship must be broken up, as the be.
havior Of Moses in my text indicated.
There are those who say that this
golden calf spoke 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 assist
ance OF his friends, he takes up this
golden calf which is an open insult to
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