Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-11-19

Bushwick whether at Shoreditch. London
or West End, but it will be very hot blaze
All the Government securities Of the United
States and Great Britain win curl up in the
first blast. All the money, safes and depos.
iting vaults will melt under the first touch,
The sea win burn like finder, and the ship
ping viii be abandoned forever. The melted
gold in the brokers' window will burs,
through the melted window glass and into
the street, but the flying population will not
stop to scoop it up.
The cry OF Fire from the mountain
will be answered by the cry of '1Firen 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
AMI London with ons cut OF the red scyths
II destruction will go dow1. Twenty-Five
thousand miles of conf lgrationi The e1rth
will wrap itself round AMI round Id shrou Is
u fame and He down to perish. What then
VIII become OF your golden calf? Who then
70 poor as to worship it? Melted or between
the upper aud the neither milestone of falling
mountains ground to powder. Dagon down.
Moloch down. Juggernaut down. Golden
salf down.
But my friends evary day is day OF
Judgment and God is ali the time grin ling
. pieces the golden calf. Merchants OF
Brooklyn and New York and London, what
Is the characteristic of this time In which
we liver BAD" you say. Professional
men, what Is the characteristic of the times
N 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 hal, for the reason
that God is teaching the world as never bs.
fore that old fashioned honesty is the only
thing that viii stand. We have learned as
never before that forgeries will not pay;
that the spending OF fifty thousand dollars
On country seats and a palatial city resi-
ienee, when there are only thirty thousand
soliars income, will not pay; that the APP
preparation OF trust funds to our own pri-
'ate speculation will not pay.
We had great national tumor in the
ihape OF fictitious prosperity. We called it
NATIONAL enlargement. Instead OF calling 1t
Enlargement we might better have called it
swelling. 1t has been a tumor, and God is
:utting it out--has cut it out--and the
lation will get well and will come back to
sae principles o. our fathers aud grand
fathers, when twice three made six instead
,f sixty and when the apples at the bottom
IL the barrel were just as good as the apples
sn the top Of the barrel, and silk hand
lerchief was not half cotton, and :. man who
wore a five dollar coat paid for was mora
IGNORED than man who wore fifty dollar
:oat not paid for.
NO SOtuOh SAit w Out udJ, lihc Tue OuS VI
he tex, is very apt to be made out OF Dor
owed gold These Israelites of the text
borrowed the earrings of the Egyptians
ind then melted them into a god. That
the way the golden calf is made nowadays.
4 great many housekeepers, not pay.
ng for the articles they get, borrow of the
grocer, aud the baker. AMI the butcher,
md the dry goods seller. Then the re-
:aiIer borrUws of the wholesale dealer:
IL L q
capitalist; and we borrow and borrow and
borrow until the community is divided into
.wo classes-thoss who borrow and those
Who are borrowed of-and after awhile the
capitalist wants his money an / he rushes
Upon the wholesale dealer, AMI the wholesale
'ealer wants his money and he rushes upon
le retailer and the retailer wants his
money and he rushes upon the consun er,
I'd we all go down together.
There is many man in this day who rides
n a carriage an / owes the blacksmith for
the tire, and the wheelwright for the wheel,
and the trimmer for the curtain, and the
1river for unpaid wages, and the harness
maker for the bride, and the furrier for the
robe, while from the tip of the carriags
tongue clear back to thu tip of the shawl
dutteTing cut of the back of the vehicle
avery thing is paid for by notes that have
been three times renewed,
1t is this temptation to borrow aud bor-
row and borrow that keeps the people ever
lastingly 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 thu text,
will rush in an break UP this worship, and
say, let the work go on until every man
shall learn to SPEAK truth with his neiyhbor,
and those who maze engagements shall feel
themselves bound to keep them, and when
a man VINO will not repent OF his business
iuiquity, but goes on wishing to satiate his
cannibal appetite by devouring widow
houses. shall by the law Of the lal1 bs con-
PEELED TO exchange his mansion for Sing
Sing. Let the golden calf 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 next? Will you have two pockets-on
in each side OF your shroud? Will you
cushion your coffin with bonds and mort
cages and certificates Of stock? All, moi The
ferryboat that crosses this Jordan takes no
baggage--nothing heavier than spirit.
You may perhaps take five hundred dollars
with YOU two or three miles, in the shape of
funeral trappings, 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 diamond ring, 1t woui1 be a
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 opportunities OF lifetime. Soon We
will be gone. Or, this is f.etns world
it Is dying worlol A man who had wor
sliped it ali his days, in his dying moment
described himself when he said, FOOL fool
fooi!
want you to change temples and to give
up the worship of this uusatisfying and CRUZ
got for the service of the Lord Jesus Christ
Here is the gold that will never crumble
Here are securities that will never fail. Hers
ara banks that will never break. Here is an
altar on which there has bsen one sacrifice
once for all. Here is God who will com
fort you when you are in trouble, and sooths
you when you are sick, and save you when
you die.
When your parents have breathsi their
last. and the old, wrinkle1 and trembling
hands can no more bs put UPON yo1r head
for blessing, He will be to you father and
mother both, giving you the defense of the
ons and the comfort OF the other, and when
your children go away from yoa, the sweet
darliu2s, you will not kiss them good BY
forever. He only wants to hold them for
you little willie. He will give them back
W you aSdtH, du4 ne Will nave tuem all
waiting for you at the gates of eternal
welcome.
Oh, what God He is, He will allow you
to CO ne SO close this morning that you can
put yolr arms around His neck, while He in
response will put His arms around your
neck, AMI all the windows OF heaven will be
hoiste to let the redeemed look out and see
the spectacle of a rejoicing father and re-
turned pro1igal locked in glorious embrace.
Quit worshiping the golden calf, and bow
this day before Him in waoss presence We
must all appear when the world has turneI
to ashes aud the scorchei parchment of thu