The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-11-16
and they take chloral and morphine and

in the morning suddenly rise up shout
ing: "a thousand shares Of railroad
hundred and eight and a
half take itr 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" in something else. Their
nerves gone, their digestion 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 "die in
the Lord;" the golden calf kicked them!
The trouble is, when men sacrifice
themselves on this altar suggested In
the text, they not only. sacrifice them
selves, but they sacrifice their families
II man by an i'll course is determined
to go to perdition, suppose you will
have to let him go; but 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 flash 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 to the luxurious occupants OF
the equipage, "Get outp 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 a
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 tame
sacrifice compared with the multitudes
Of men who are sacrificing themselves
on this altar Of the golden calf, and
sacrificing their families with them.
The soldiers Of Gen. Havelock 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 this golden
calf flows up to the knee, flows to the
girdle, flows to the shoulder, flows tn
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 theiu
own sacrifice The music rolls on under
the arches; it is made Of clinking silver
and clinking gold, and the rattling spe
Gle of the banks and bro lers' shops anc
the voices of all the exchanges The
soprano Of tho worship is carried by thC
timid voices of men who have just begun
to speculate; while the deep bass rolls
out from those who for ten years OF in
iquity have been doubly damned. Cho
rus OF voices rejoicing over what they
have made. Chorus of voices wailinG
over what they have lost This temple
of which l speak stands open day ant
night, and there is the glittering goC
with his four feet on broken hearts, ant
there is the smoking altar Of sacrifice
new victims every moment on 1t, an'
there are the loneeling devotees; and tn
doxology OF the worship rolls on, Will
Death stands with moldy and skeleton
arm beating time for the chorus
"Morel morei more" .. r.
Some people are very much surprise
at the actions of folk on the stock ex
change. Indeed, it is scene sometime
that paralyzes description, and Is be
yond the imagination Of anyone VIII,
has never looked in. What swapping Q
finger and thumb and wild gesticulu
ton, and raving like hyenas, an
stamping like buffaloes, and swaying (
and fro, and running one upon another
and deafening uproar until the pres
dent Of the exchange strikes with hi
mallet four or five times, crying, "Ol
derl order" and the astonished spect;
tor goes out into the fresh air feclin
that he has escaped from pandemonium
What does IL all mean? will tell yo
what IL means The devotees Of ever
heather temple cut themselves TO piece
and yell and gyrate. This vociferatio
and gyration Of the stock exchange
all appropriate. This is the worship {
the golden calf
But my text suggests that this wo
ship must be broken up, as the behaviC
of Moses in my text indie ated. TheI
are those who say that this golden ca
spoken Of in my text was hollow, au
merely. plated gold; otherwise, they So,
Moses could not have carried 1t. II
not know that; but somehow, perhal
; by the assistance Of his friends,
: takes up the golden calf, which is q
: open insult to God and man, an
throws it into the fire, and II is meltet
; and then 1t comes out and is cooled OF
and by some chemical appliance, or |
an old-fashioned file, IL is pulverize,
and it Is thrown into the brook, and, I
q punishment, the people are con
PEELED TO drink the nauseating stui
So, my hearers, you may depend upo
, II that God will burn and he will grin
D to pieces the golden calf OF moder
4 idolatry, and he will compel the peop
5 in their agony to drink. II not befor
I IL will be so on the last day. l kno
Z not where the Gre viii begin, wheth,
. at the Battery" or Central par
whether at Brooklyn bridge
at iBushwicl6, whether at Shor
$ ditch, London or West End; bv
3 It will be very hot blaze. All Il
g government securities Of the Unit
9 States and Great Britain will curl l
S in the FIRE blast. All the money saf
: and depositing vaults will melt und
8 the first touch. The SEQ will burn III
8 finder, and the shipping will be aba
2 doned forever. The melted gold In Il
9 brokers' window will burst through u