The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-11-25

OCNn d tuunOTs anu 0Ou Is CuttInX III
out-has cut it out, and the nation will
get well and will come back to the prin.
ciples of our fathers and grandfathers
when twice three made six instead Of
sixty, and when the apples at the bot
tom of the barrel were just as good as
the apples on the top of the barrel, and
silk handkerchief was not half cot
ton, and man who wore five dollar
coat paid for was more honored than
man who wore fifty dollar coat not
paid for.
The golden calf of our day, like the
one of the text, is very apt to be made
out of borrowed gold. These Israelites
of the text borrowed the earrings of
the Egyptians and then melted them
into god. That is the way the gold
en- calf is made nowadays A great
many housekeepers, not paying for the
articles they get, borrow of the grocer
and the baker and the butcher and the
dry goods seller. Then the retailer
borrows of the wholesale dealer. Then
the wholesale dealer borrows of the
capitalist, and we borrow, and borrow
and borrow until the community is di-
vided into two classef, those who bor-
row and those who are borrowed of;
and after awhile the capitalist wants his
money and he rushes upon the whole
sale dealer, and the wholesale dealer
wants his money and he rushes upon
the retailer, and the retailer wants his
money, and he rushes upon the con-
sumner, and we all go down together
There is many man in this day who
rides in carriage and owes the black
smith for the tire, and the wheel-wright
for the wheel, and the trimmer for the
curtain, and the driver for unpaid
wages, and the harness-maker for the
bride, and the furrier for the robe,
while from the tip of the carriage
tongue clear back to the tip of the
shawl futtering out of the back of the
vehicle everything is paid for by notes
that have been three times renewed.
1t is this temptation to borrow, and
borrow, and borrow, that keeps the
people everlastingly praying to the
golden calf for help, and just at the
minute they expect the help the golden
calf treads on them. The judgments
of God. like Moses in the text, will
rush in and break up this worship; and
| say, let the work go on until every
man shall learn to speak truth with
his neighbor, and those who make en-
gagements shall feel themselves bound
to keep them, and when a man who
will not repent of his business iniquity,
but goes on wishing to satiate his cam
nible appetite by devouring widows
houses shall. by the law OF the land,
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for Sing Sing. Let the golden calf
perish!
But, my friends, if we have made this
world our god, when we come to die we
Will see our idol demolished. How
much of this world are you going to
take with you into the next? VIII you
have two pocl1ets-one in each side of
your shroud? VIII you cushion your
coffin with bonds and mortgages and
certificates of stock? All! no. The
ferry boat that crosses this Jordan takes
no baggage-nothing heavier than a
spirit. You may, perhaps, take five
hundred dollars with you two
or three miles, in the shape
of funeral trappings, to Greenwood,
but you will have to leave
you to lie down there with gold
watch or diamond ring; it would be
a temptation to the pillagers. All, my
friends! if we have made this world
our God, when we die we will see our
idol ground to pieces. by our pillow, and
we will have to drink it in bitter re-
prets for the wasted opportunities of a
lifetime. Soon we will be gone. o.!
this is a feeting world, it is dying
world. A man who had worshiped it
all his days, in his dying moment de-
scribed himself when he said: "Fool!
fooll fool!'
want you to change temples, and to
give mp the worship of this unsatisfy-
ing and cruel god for the service of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Here is the gold
that will never crumble. Here are Sc.
curities that will never fail Here are
banks that will never break. Here is
an altar on which there has been one
sacrifice once for all. Here is a God
who will comfort you when you are in
trouble, and soothe you when you
are sick, and save you when you die.
When your parents have breathed their
last, and the old, wrinkled and
trembling hands can no more be put
upon your head for a blessing, He will
be to you father and mother both. Civ.
ing you the defense of the one and the
comfort of the other; and when your
children go away from you, the
sweet darlings, you will not kiss them
good-by forever. He only wants to
hold them for you little while. He
will give them back to you again and
He will have them all waiting for you
at the gates of eternal welcome. Oil
what God He is! He will allow you
to come so close this morning that you
can put your arms around His neck,
while He, IN response, will put His
arms around your neck and all the
windows of Heaven will be hoisted
to let the redeemed look out and
see the spectacle of rejoicing father
and returned prodigal locked in glOr.
ious embrace. Quit worshiping the
golden calf and bow this day before
Him in whose presence we must all ap
pear when the world has turned tc
ashes and the scorched parchment OF
the sky shall be rolled together like an
historic scroll.
Carrier Pigeons in Ancient Times.