Connecticut western news., 1892-11-17
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR. TAlMAGE THINKS THE GOLDEN
 CALF IS STILL WORSHIPED.


 CALF IS STILL WORSHIPED.
 The Mad Folly of the Israelites and the
 Rage of Moses-As the People Then
 Were Punished So Are All Who Worship
 the Golden Calf in These Latter Days.
 BROOKLYN, Nov. 18.-The subject of discourse chosen by Rev. Dr. Talmage for his first sermon after the national election was one peculiarly appropriate to the money making spirit of the times. It was "The Golden Calf," the text se- lected being Exodus xxxii, 20, "And he took the calf which they had made and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder and strewed it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink of it."
 People will have god of some kind, and they prefer one of their own mak- ing. Here come the Israelites, breaking of their golden earrings, the men as well as the women, for in those times there were masculine as we'll as femi- nine decorations. Where did they get these beautiful gold earrings, coming up as they did from the desert? Oh, they borrowed" them of the Egyptians when they left Egypt. These earrings are piled up into a pyramid of glittering beauty. "Any more earrings to bring?" says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled; the earrings are melted and poured into a mold, not of an eagle or war charger, but of calf; the gold cools off; the mold is taken away, and the idol is set upon it's four legs.
 An altar is built in front of the shining calf. Then the people throw up their arms and gyrate and shriek and dance nightly and worship. Moses has been six weeks on Mount Sinai, and he comes back and hears the bowling and sees the dancing of these golden calf fanat- ics, and he loses his patience, and he takes the two plates of stone on which were written the Ten Commandments and filings them 80 hard against rock that they split all to pieces. When man gets mad he is very apt to break all the Ten Commandments!
 Moses rushes, in and he takes this calf god and throws it into hot fire until it is melted all out of shape, and then pull verizes it-not by the modern appliance of nitro-muriatic acid, but by the ancient appliance of hitter, or by the old fash toned file He makes for the people most nanseating draft. He takes this pulverized golden calf and throws it in the only brook which is accessible, and the people are compelled to drink of that brook or not drink at all
 FLOWED AROUND THE WORLD.
 But they did not drink all the glitter ing stuff thrown on the surface. Some of 1t flows on down the surface of the brook to the river, and then flows on down to the river to the sea, and the sea takes it up and bears it to the mouth of all the rivers, and when the tides set back the remains of this golden calf are carried up into the Hudson, and the East river, and the Thames, and the Clyde, and the Fiber, and men go out and they skim the glittering surface, and they bring it ashore, and they make an- other golden calf, and California and Australia break off their golden earrings to augment the pile. and in the fires of financial excitement and struggle all these things are melted together, and while we stand looking and wondering what will come of it, lol we find that the golden calf of Israelitish worship has become the golden calf of European and American worship.
 shall describe to you the god spoken of in the text, his temple, his altar of sacrifice, the music that is made in his temple, and then the final breaking up of the whole congregation of idolaters
 Put aside this curtain, and you see the 1~.- Ill -A :. 11 TI :1 not like other idols, made out of stocks or stone, but it has an ear so sensitive that it can hear the whispers on Wall street and Third street and State street, and the footballs in the Bank of Eng land, and the flutter of Frenchman's heart on the Bourse. It has an eye so keen that it can see the rust on the farm of Michigan wheat, and the insect in the Maryland peach orchard, and the tram pied grain under the hoof of the Russian war charger.
 sf ITS GORGEOUS TEMPLE.
 It is so mighty that it swings any way it will the worlds shipping. It has it's foot on all the merchantmen and the steamers. It started the American civil war and under God stopped it, and it decided the Turko- Russian contest. One broker in September, 1869, in New York, shouted, "One hundred and sixty for millionp and the whole continent shiv- cred. This golden calf of the text has it's right foot in New York, it's left front foot in Chicago, it's right back foot in Charleston, it's left back foot in New Orleans, and when it shakes itself it shakes the world. Oh, this is a mighty god-the golden calf of the worlds worshipi
 But every god must have its temple, and this golden calf of the text is no exception. Its temple is vaster than St. Pauls of the English, and St. Peters of the Italians, and the Alhambra of the Spaniards, and the Parthenon of the Greeks, and the Tai Mahal of the Hin- doos, and all the other cathedrals put together. Its pillars are grooved and huted with gold, and its ribbed arches are lowering gold, and its chandeliers are descending gold, and its floors are tessellated gold, and its vaults are crowded heaps of gold, and its spires and domes are soaring gold, and its or gan pipes are resounding gold, and it's pedals are tramping gold, and it's stops pulled out are flashing gold, while standing at the head of the temple, as the presiding deity, are the hoofs and shoulders and eyes and ears and nostrils of the calf of gold.
 Further, every god must have not < only it's temple, but it's altar of sacrifice, and this golden calf of the text is no ex- caption. Its altar is not made out of stone as other altars, but out of count ing room desks and freproof safes, and it is 8 broad, long, high altar. The victims sacrificed on it are ianumerable