Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-11-24

MS Iamily - haru they never BOt up AGAIN
There was the mark on them for lifs-ths
mark Of q split hsof-ths death dealing
hoof Of the golden calf
Solomon offered in one sacrifice, on one
occasion, twenty-five thousand oxen and
one hundred and twenty thousand sheep;
but that was q tame sacrifice compared
with the nultituds Of men who are sacri-
hcing themselves on this altar Of the gold
en- calf, and sacrificing their families With
them. The soldiers Of General HRvsloek
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 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.
HEARTS DRoKES FOR GOLD.
Still the degrading worship goes on, and
the dsvotees kneel and kiss the dust, and
count their golden beads, and cross them
selves with the blood OF their own sacri-
fee. The music rolls on under the arches;
it is made Of clinkiug silver and clinking
gold and the rattling specie OF the banks
and brokers' shops and the voices Of all
the exchanges. The soprano Of the wor-
ship 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 doubly
damned. Chorus of voices rejoicing over
what they have made Chorus Of voices
wailing over what they have lost.
The temple of which speak stands open
day and night, and there is the glittering
Qod with his four feet on broken hearts,
and there is the smoking altar OF sacrifice,
new victims every moment on 1t, and there
are tho kneeling devotees, and the doxol-
o0y of the worship rolls on, while death
stands with moldy and skeleton arm beat
ing time for the chorus-"Morel morel
moreW
Some people are very much surprised at
the actions of folk on the Stock exchange.
Indeed it is a scene sometimes that para
lyzes description, and is beyond the imagi-
nation of any one who has never looked In.
What swapping Of finger and thumb and
wild gesticulation, and raving like hyenas,
and stamping like buffaloes, and swaying
to and fro, and running one upon another,
ara deafening uproar until the president
of the exchange strikes with his mallet
four or five times, crying, "Ordcrl orderp'
And the astonished spectator goes out into
the fresh air feeling that he has escaped
from pandemonium. What does it all
mean? 1 will tell you what it means. The
devotees OF every heather temple cut them
selves to pieces and yell and gyrate. This
vociferation and gyration of the Stock ex-
change is all appropriate. This is the wor-
ship Of the golden calf.
PLUToCRACY MUST PERISH.
But my text suggests that this worship
must be broken up, as the behavior OF
Moses in my text indicated. There are
those who say that this golden calf spoken
of in my text was hollow, and merely
plated with gold; otherwise, they say,
Moses could not have carried it. / do NOT
know that, but somehow, perhaps by the
assistance of his friends, he takes up this
golden calf, which is an insult to God and
man, and throws it into the fire, and it is
melted, and then 1t comes out and Is cooled
OF, and by some chemical appliance, or by
an old fashioned file, it is pulverized, and
it is thrown into the brook, and as pun
ishmsnt the people are compelled to drink
| the nauseating stuff.
So, my hearers, you may depend upon it
| that God will burn and he will grind to
pieces the golden calf Of modern idolatry,
and he will compel the people in their
agony to drink it. II not before, it will be
SO on the last day. know not where the
fire will begin, whether at the Battery
or Central park, whether at Brooklyn
bridge or at Bushwick, whether at Shore
ditch, London or West End, but it will be
q very hot blaze. All the government Sc
curities of the United States and Great
Britain will curl up In the first blast. AL
the money, safes and depositing vaults
will melt under the first touch. The sea
will burn like tinder, and the shipping
will be abandoned forever. The melted
gold in the brokers window will burst
through the melted window glass and
into the street, but the flying population
will not stop to scoop it up.
The cry of "Firep' from the mountain
will be answered by the cry of "Firer in
the plain. The confagration will burr
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 ths
red scythe of destruction will go down
Twenty-Five thousand miles of confagra
tion! The earth will wrap itself round anG
round in shroud of fame and lie down tt
perish. What then will become of youl
golden calfs Who then so poor as to wor
ship it? Melted or between the upper ant
the neither millstone of falling mountains
ground to powder. Dagon down. Molocl
down. Juggernaut down. Golden cal
down.
GODS JUDGMENTS ARE NIGH.
But, my friends, every day is day o
Judgment, and God is all the time grind
ing to pieces the golden calf Merchant
of Brooklyn and New York and London
what is the characteristic of this time il
which we live? Bad" you say. Profes
sional men, what is the characteristic O
the times in which we liver Bad" 20,
say. Though should be in a minority O
one, venture the opinion that these ar
the best times we have had, for the reasol
that God is teaching the world as neve
before that old fashioned honesty is tn
only thing that win stand. We hav
learned as never before that forgeries will
not pay; that the spending of fifty thou
sand dollars on country seats and a pala
tial city residence, when there are onl
thirty thousand dollars income, will no
pay; that the appropriation Of trust fund
to our own private speculation will no
pay.
We had q great national tumor in tn
shape of fictitious prosperity. We calle'
it national enlargement. Instead Of call
ing it enlargement we might better hav
called 1t swelling. 1t has been a tumoI
and God is cutting it out-has cut it OUT
and the nation will get we'll and will com
back to the principles Of our fathers an
grandfathers, when twice three made 81.
instead of sixty, and when the apples a
the bottom of the barrel were just as goo
as the apples on the top of the barrel, an
silk handkerchief was not half cotton, an
man who wore five dollar coat paid 70
was more honored than a man who wore
fifty dollar coat not paid for.