Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-11-17

whirwinds, and the spokes flash in the
sun, and the golden headgear of the har-
ness CLEANS, until Black Calamity takes
| the bits of the horses and stops them. and
shouts TO the luxurious occupants OF the
equipage, get outw They get out. They
get down. That husband and father flung
his family so hard they never got upagain
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 a tame sacrifice compared
with the multitude of men who are sacrl-
ficing themselves on this altar of the gold
en- calf, and sacrificing their families with
them. The soldiers of General Havelock
in India walked literally ankle deep in the
blood of the "house Of massacre, y where
two hundred women and children had
been slain by the Sepoys; but the blood
around about this altar of the golden call
flows up to the knee flows to the girdle'
flows to the shoulder, flows 10 the lip.
Great God Of heaven and earth, have mercy!
The golden calf has none.
HEARTS BROKEN FOR GOLD.
the devotees kneel and kiss the dust, and
count their golden beads, and cross them
selves with the blood of their own sacri-
fee The music rolls ON under the arches'
it is made of clinlSing 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 wor-
ship is carried by the timid voices Of men
20 Cpagulafa 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 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 1t, and there
are the knceling devotees, and the doXol-
ogy Of the worship rolls ON, while death
stands with moldy and skeleton arm beat
ing time for the chorus-"More! more'
morel"
Some people are very much surprised at
the actions Of folk on the Stock exchange.
Indeed IL Is a scene sometimes that para
lives description, and is beyond the lmagl-
nation of any one who has never looked IN.
What swapping Of finger and thumb ana
wild gesticulation. and raving like hyenas,
and stamping like butfaloes, 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 II an
mean? / will tell you what it means. The
devotees OF every heather temple cut them
selves to pieces and yell and 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. do not
know that. hut somehow, perhaps by the
assistance of his friends, be takes up this
golden calf which is an insult TO God and
man. and throws it into the fire, and II Is
melted, and then it comes out and Is cooled
off, and by some chemical appliance, or by
an old fashioned file, it is pulverized, and
it is thrown into the brook, and as pun
ishment the people are compelled TO drink
the nauseating stuff.
SO, my hearers, you may depend upon it
that God will burn and he will grind to
pieces the golden calf Of modern idolatry,
and he will compel the people in their
agony to drink it. II 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
curities 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 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 it up.
The cry Of "Firer from the mountain
will be answered by the cry of Fire. 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 win 20 down.
Twenty-Five thousand miles OF cOnfagTt-
ton! The earth viii wrap itself round and
round in shroud of flame and lie down 10
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. Moloch
down. Juggernaut down. Golden calf
down.
cons JUDGMENTS ARE NIGH.
But, my friends, every day is 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 lives "Bad. " You say. PROBES
sional men, what is the characteristic of
the times in which we liver bad. " you
say. Though should be in a 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