Milford chronicle., 1892-11-18

one hundred and twenty thousand sheep;
4 gNut that was tame sacrifice compared
EFith the multitude Of men who are sacri-
Acing themselves on this alSsr of the gold
n u calf, and sacrificing their families with
IEeu. The soldiers Of General Haveloek
in India walked literally ankle deep in the
blood of the "house Of massacre" " where
two hundred women and children had
been s,ain by the Sepoys; but tie 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 BROKEN FOR GOLD.
Still the degrading worship goes on, and
the devotees kneel and kiss the dust, and
count their golden beads, and cross them
selves with the blood Of their own sacri-
flee. The music rolls on unde~ the arches;
it is made Of clinking 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 l speak stands open
dav and night, and there is the glittering
god with his four feet on broken hearts,
and there is the smoking altar Of sacrifice,
new victims every moment on it, and there
are the kneeling devotees, and the doxol-
ogv Of the worship rolls on. while death
stands with moldy and skeleton arm beat
ing time for the chorus-'Morel more!
more"
Some people are very much surprised at
the actions of fol on the Stock exchange.
Indeed it is a scene sometimes that para
lives 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,
and deafening uproar until the president
OF the exchange strikes with his mallet
four or five times, crying, "Order order!
And the astonished spectator goes out into
the, fresh air feeling that he has escaped
from pandemOnium. What does 1t all
meanS [ will tell you what it means. The
devotees of every heather temple cut them
selves to pieces and yell I'D 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. / dOnot
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 it comes out and is cooled Z
off, and by some chemical appliance, or by /
an old fashioned file, it is pulyerized and |
it is thrown into the brook, and as pun |
ishment the people are compelled to drink 4
the nauseating stuff.
So, my hearers, you may depend upon it /
that God will burn and he will grind to 1
pieces the golden calf of modern idolatry, |
and he will compel the people in their /
agony to drink it, If 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
a very hot blaze. All the government Sc
eurities Of the United States and Great
Britain will curl up In the first blast All
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 win burst
through the melted window glass and
into the street, but the flying population
will not stop to scoop it up.
The cry Of "Firer' from the mountain
will be answered by the cry Of Fire" in
the plain. The copfagyatien VIII burn
out from the continent toward thesea, 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.
thousand miles of conhagra
tionl The earth will wrap itself round and
round in shropa pf fame and lie down TO
perish. What then Will become of your
golden calf? 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. Moloeh I
down. Juggernaut down. Golden calf
down.
cops JUDGMENTS ARE NIGH.
But, my friends, every day is a day of
Judgment, and God is all the time grind
ing to pieces the golden calf. Merchants
Of Brooklyn and New York and London,
what is the characteristic Of this time in
which we livef "Bad," you say, Profes-
gional men, what is the characteristic of
the times in which we liver ''Bad,n you
say. Though / should he in a minority of
one. venture the opinion that these are
the best times we have bad, for the reason
that God is teaching the world as never
before that old fashioned honesty Is the
only thing that win stand. We have
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 only
thirty thousand dollars income, will not
pay; that the appropriation Of trust funds
10 our own private speculation viii not
pay.
We had great national tumpy Ia The
shape of fictitious prosperity, We called
It national enlargement, Instead Of call
Ag it enlargement we might better have
called it a swelling. It has been tumor,
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
when twice three made siS
Instead of sixty, and When the apples at
5he bottom of the barrel were just as good
IS the apples on the top Of the barrel, and
! silk handkerchief was not half cotton, and
l man who wore five dollar coat paid for
was more houored than man who wore q
fifty dollar coat not paid for.
The golden calf Of our day, like the one
# the text, is very apt to be made out Of
borrowed gold. These lsraelites of the
ext borrowed the earrings Of the Egyp=
ians and then melted them into god
That is the way the golden calf Is made
nowadays A great many housekeepers,
Tot paying for the articles they get, borrow
{ the grocer and the baker, and the butch
f, and the dry goods seller. Then the re-
ailer borrows Of the wholesale dealer.
Then the wholesale dealer horrows Of the
apitalist, and we borrow and borrow and
lorrOw until the community is divided
ntO two classes-those who borrow and
hose who are borrowed of-and after
while the capitalist wants his money
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