Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-11-19
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4 never UeIOr6 CudU IOTBcTl6S Will uOL pGy
that the spending Of fifty thousand dol
lars on country seats and palatial city
residence, when there are only thirty
thousand dollars income, will not pay
that the appropriation of trust funds te
our own private speculation will not pay.
We had a great national tumor in the
shape Of fictitious prosperity. We called
it national enlargement. Instead ofcall-
ing it enlargement we might better have
called it q swelling. It has been q tu-
NOR, 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 apples at the bottom of the
barrel were just as good as the apples
on the top of the barrel, and a silk hand.
kerchief was nothalf cotton, and a man
who wore q five dollar coat paid for was
moro honored than a man who wore ii
1 fifty dollar'coat not paid for.
THE RAGE FOR SPECULATION.
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 u
god. That is the way the golden calf is
made nowadays. A great many house
keepers, not paying for the articles they
get, borrow of the grocer, and the baker,
hand the butcher, and the dry goods seller.
Then the retailer borrows of the whole
sale dealer. Then the wholesale dealer
borrows of the capitalist, and we borrow
and borrow and borrow until the COM
lnunity is divided into two elasses-those
who borrow and those who are borrowed
of. And after awhile the capitalist
wants his money and he rll5hes upon the
wholesale dealer, and the wholesale
dealer wants his money end he rushes
upon the retailer, and the retailer wants
his money and he rushes upon the con-
sumer, and we all go down together.
There is many q man in this day who
rides in carriage end owes the black
smith for the tire, ard the wheelwright
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 b. notes that have
be en- three times renewed.
PULvERIz1NG CALF AND woRsH1pERs.
1t is this temptation to borrow and
borrow and borrow that keeps the peo-
pie 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 1 say, let the
work go on until every man shall learn
to speak truth with his neighbor, and
those who make engagements shall feel
themselves bound to keep them, and
when man who will not repent of his
business iniquitys but goes on wishing
to satiate his scannibal appetite by de-.
youring widows houses, shall by the
law of the land be compelled to ex-
change his mansion for Sing Sing. Let
iheegoidsnoilf 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 next2 Will you have two
pockets-one in each side of your shroud?
Will you cushion your coffin with bonds
and mortgages and certificates of stock?
All, mol The ferrybest that crosses this
Jordan takes no baggage nothing heav-
Ter than q spirit. You may perhaps take
five hundred dollars with you two or
three miles, in the shape of funeral trap
pings, to Greenwood, but you will-have
to leave them there.
1t would not be safe for you to lie
down there with gold watch or dia-
mond ring. 1t would be 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 regrets for the wasted oppor-
tunities of lifetime. Soon we will be
gone. Oh, this is a fleeting world; it is
dying world! A man who had wor-
SHIPPED it all his days, in his dying mo-
ment described himself when he said,
"Fool! fool! fool!'
THE NEVER FADING TREASURE.
/ want you to change temples, and to
give up the worship of this unsatisfying
and cruel god for the service of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Here is the gold that will
never crumble. Here are securities 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 God who will comfort you
when you are in trouble, and sooths 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 blessing, he will be to you
father and mother both, giving you the
defense of the one and the comfort Of
the other; and when your children go
away from you, the sweet earnings, yCs.
will not kiss them goodby forever. He
only wants to hold them for>you a littlr
while. He will give them back to yoii
again, and lie will have them all waitin"
for you at thelgates of eternal welcome.
Oh, whata God heis! 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 viii
lows of heaven will be hoisted to let the |
redeemed look out and see the spectacle
of rejoicing father and returned
prodigal locked in glorious embrace.
Quit worshiping the golden calf, and
bow this day before him in whose pres
ence we must all appear when the worli
has turned to ashes and the scorchet;
of the sky shall be rolled &c |