Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-14

gan pipes 2<o fesounGl1g goRds and llS
pedals ara tranpiny gold, and It's stops
pulled cut are flashing gold. while
standing sE the head of the temple, as
the presiding deity. are the hoofs snc
shoulders sna eyes and ears and nostriis
OF the calf Of geld.
Further. every god must have not
Sslly Us temple. but It's altar OF saer1hce,
and tals golden cssf II the text Is no ex-
ception. rs altar Is not made out Of
stone IS other affairs, but out OF coaut-
I ing room desks aad frepreof safes, and
II 5 . broad, long, high altar. The
F --sn45rss sarrifcsd on II are innDmarahlA
" hat does this god care about the gToans
snd struggles Of the victims before IL
With cold, metallic eye il looks on and
sec lets them suffer. Oh, heaven and
earth, what al altar. what sacrifice Of
body. mind and soul. The physical
health OF a great multitude Is fang on
This sacrifcial altar. They cannot sleep,
ana they take choral and morphine and
/ lnt0xicants.
Some OF them struggle In nightmare
I Df stocks, and at one o'clock in the morn
/ Ing suddenly rise up shouting. "A thou
sand shares of railroad stock-one hun
ared and eight and half; take i'll" until
/ the whole family is affrighted, and the
Spectators fall back on their pillows and
sleep until they are awakened again by
corner" or sudden rise" III some-
| thing else. Their. nerves gone, their d.
gestion gone, their brain gone, they die.
/ The clergyman comes in and reads the
/ funeral service, blessed are the dead
who die in the Lord" Mistake. They
did not Idle in the Lord" the golden
calf kicked them,
IT'S DREADFUL SACRIFICE.
The trouble is when men sacrifice
themselves On this altar suggested IN the
| text they not only sacrifice themselves,
but they sacrifice their families II
man by an Ill course is determined 70 go
10 perdition suppose you viii have TO
let him go; bat he puts his wife and
children in an equipage that is the
amazement of the avenues, and the
| driver lashes the horses into two whirl-
winds. and the spokes fash In the sun,
and the golden headgear of the harness
| CLEANS, until Black Calamity takes the
bits Of the horses and stops them, and
| shouts 70 the luxurious occupants of the
eguipage, "Get outw They get out.
They get down. That husband and
father flung his family so hard they
never got up again. There 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 twenty-five thousand oxen and
one hundred and twenty thousand sheep;
but that was q tame sacrifice compared
with the multitude of men who are sac
rificing themselves on this altar of the
golden calf, and sacrificing their fam
lies with them. The soldiers of General
Havelock in India walked literally ankle
deep In the blood of the ''house of mas
sacre," 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.
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 music 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
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 lostl
This temple of which l 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 sacrifice, new victims every mo-
ment on it, and there are the kneeling
devotees, and the doxology of the wor-
ship rolls on, while death stands with
Inoldy and skeleton arm beating time
for the chorus-"Morel morel moreF'
rHR CRAZE FOR GOLD.
Some people are very much surprised
Mt the actions Of folk on the Stock ex-
change. Indeed il is scene sometimes
that paralyzes description and is beyond
the imagination of any one who has
never looked in. What swapping of fin
ger and thumb and wild gesticulation,
and raving like byenas. and stamping
like bufaloes, and swaying to and fro,
and running one upon another. and deaf
ening uproar. until the president of the
exchange strikes with his mallet four or
five times. crying. 'Orderl orderl' and
the astonished spectator goes out into
the fresh air feeling that be has escaped
FROM pandsmoniam. What does 1t all
meant | Will tell you what it means.
The devotees OF every heather temple
cut themselves TO pieces and yell and
gyrats. This vociferstion and gyration
Of The Stock exchange Is all appropriate.
This il the worship Of the golden calf.
Bat my text suggests that this wor-
ship must be broken Gp, rs tho be-
havior OF Moses ia 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
IL. DO not know that; but somehow
perhaps By the assistance OF bis friends,