Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14


will burn like finder, 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 1t up.
The cry of "Firel' from the mountain
will be answered by the cry of "FireW in
the plain. The confagration will burn
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 the
red scythe of destruction will go down.
Twenty-Five thousand miles of confagra.
toni The earth will wrap itself round and
round in shroud Of flame and lie down to
perish. What then will become Of your
golden calfp Who then so poor as to wor-
ship it, Melted or between the upper and
the neither milestone of falling mountains
ground to powder. Dagon down. n oloch
down. Juggernaut down. Golden calf
| down.
GODS JUDGMENTS ARE NIGH.
But, my friends, every day is day of
| Judgment, and God is all the time ~rind-
| ing to pieces the golden calf Merchants
of Brooklyn and New York and Ialdon,
| what is the characteristic of this time in
which we liver Bad" you say. Profes-
| sional men, what Is the character lc of
the times in which we liver bad you
say. Though l should be in minority of
one, venture the opinion that these are
the best times we have had, for the reason
that God is teaching the world as never
before that old fashioned honesty s. the
only thing that win stand. We have
learned as never before that forgerie will
not pay; that the spending of fifty JAou-
sand dollars on country seats and a pala-
tial city residence, when there are only
thirty thousand dollars income, will not
pay; ssststhe appropriation Of trust funds
to GU Town private speculation will not
pay.
We had great national tumor in the
shape of fictitious prosperity. We allied
it national enlargement. Instead OF call
ing it enlargement we might better have
called it a swelling. 1t has been a tImor
and God is cutting it out-has cut it out
and the nation will get well and will come
back to the principles of our fathers and
grandfathers, when twice three made six
instead of sixty, and when the APP rs at
the bottom of the barrel were just a, good
as the apples on the top of the barre, and
silk handkerchief was not half cotton, and
man who wore five dollar coat paid for
was more honored than man who " ore a
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 lsraelites of the
text borrowed the earrings of the E9yp-
tians and then melted them into o god.
That is the way the golden calf is made
nowadays. A great many housellC Fers,
not paying for the articles they get, borrow
Of the grocer, and the baker, and the batch
er, and the dry goods seller. Then the re-
taller borrows of the wholesale dealer.
Then the wholesale dealer borrows O. the
capitalist, and we borrow and borrQy and
borrow until the community Is divided
into two classes--thosc who borrow and
those who are borrowed of-and after
awhile the capitalist wants his money
and he rushes upon the wholesale Ccaler,
and the wholesale dealer wants his money
and he rushes upon the retailer, aDi the
retailer wants his money and he PUSHES
upon the consumer, and we all go down to-
gether.
There is many man in this day who
rides In a carriage and owes the black
smith fer the tire. and the wheelWripht
Tor the wheel. and the trimmer Tor 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 1uttcring out az the
back Of the vehicle every thing is p7id for
by notes that have been three times re-
newed.
1t Is this temptation to borrow and Dor.
row and borrow that keeps the }eople
everlastingly praying to the golden calf
for help, and just at the minute they eX-
pect the help the golden calf tre9.,s on
them. The judgments Of God, like Hoses
in the text, will rush in and break % this
worship; and say, let the work go un-
til every man shall learn to speak ruth
with his neighbor, and those who make
engagements shall feel themselves ound
to keep them, and when n man VII will
not repent of his business iniquit., but
goes on wishing to satiatc his cauni Il APP
petite by deyouriug widows house shall
by the law of the land be compelled 70 eX-
change his mansion for Sing Sing. ct the
golden calf persist
LAY UP TREASURE IN HEAVEN.
But, my friends. if we have nude this
| world our god, when we come to le we
will see orr idol demolished. How much
of this world are you going to tax. with
you into the nextY WIN you hay' two
poctets-onc in each side of your -Oudf
VIII you cushion your coffin with ponds
ana mortgages ard certificates OF .0ckY
All, moi The ferryboat that crosse this
Jordan takes no baggage nothing "yier
than spirit. You may perhaps ta five
hundred dollars with You two o" three
miles in the shah of funeral traf Jugs,
to Greenwood, hJt you will have To- leave
them there. 1t Npuld not be safe for you
to lie down there kyith a gold wat or
| diamond ring; it you'd lie a temple ION to
the pilaEers.
All, my friendship we have mad this
world our god, wIg we die we u see
our idol ground toiieces by our .illow,
and we wIil have totink it in hi cr re-
Rrets for the wasted Opportunities life
time, Soon we will beSone. Oh, tnis is
fleeing world; it is a dying world 4 man
who had worshiped it an his day. in his
dying moment Described himself 'wle' he
said, Fool fooll fool"
want you 20 change temples, md TO
give up the worship of this unSat tying
and cruel god for the service of the Lord
Jesus Christ Here is the gold Tint will
never Cvumble Here are secur,t's that
will never fail. Here are banks t.Ir will
never break. Here is an altar ou which
there has been one sacrifice once Tor all.
Here is a God who will comfort you when
you are in trouble, aud soothe you when
| you are sick, and save you when you die.
VIM your parents hayp breatiIrd r1efr