The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-25

In the morning suddenly rise up shou,
ing: "a thousand shares OF railroa,
stock-onc hundred and eighty and
half take itw until the whole famil,
Is affrightened, and the SPECTATORS fai
back on their pillows and sleep unit
they are awakened again by a corner
or n sudden rise In something else
Their nerves gone, their digestion gone
their brain gone, they die. The clergy
man comes In and reads the funera
service: blessed are the dead who di,
In the Lord" Mistake. They did no
'dicin the Lord" the golden calf kicked
theml
The trouble Is, when men sacrifice
themselves ON this altar suggested II
the text they not only sacrifice them
selves, but they sacrifice their families.
II a man by an III course Is determined
to go TO perdition I suppose you will
hGve TO let him go; but he puts his wife
and children in nm equipage that Is the
amazemcnt OF the and the
driver lashes the horses into two whirl.
winds, and the spokes fash 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 equipagc: 'Get out!' 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
n split hoof-the death-dealing hoof of
the golden calf.
Solomon offered In one sacrifice, on
one occasion, 2s, 600 oxen and 12s, 900
sheep; but that was u tame sacrifice
compared with the multitude of men
who are sacrificing thems elves on this
altar OF the golden calf, and sacrif cling
their families with them. The soldiers
OF Gen. Havclock, in India, walked lit
orally ankle deep in the blood Of the
house OF massacre" where 200 VIC men
and children had been slain by the Sc.
poys; but the blood around about this
altar OF the golden calf flows up TO the
knee, flows to the girdle, flows to the
shoulder. flows to the lip. Great God
OF Heaven and earth. have mercy! Tho
golden calf has none.
Still the degrading worship goes on,
and the dcvotees knecl and kiss the
dust, and count their golden beads, and
cross themselves with the blood of
their own sacrifice. The music rolls on
under the arches; It IL made Of blinking
silver and climbing gold, and the rat
Ting specie of the banks and brokers'
shops and the voices Of all the X
changes. The soprano Of the worship
is carried by the timid voices of men
who have just begun to speculate; while
the deep bass rolls ont from those who
for ten years Of iniquity have been
doubly damned. Chorus Of voices re-
1oicing over what they have made.
Chorus OF voices wailing over what they
have lost This temple Of which I
speak stands open day and night, and
there Is the g~littering god with his four
feet on broken hearts, and there Is the
smoking altar OF sacrifice, new victims
every moment on It, and there are the
kneeling devotees, and the doxology Of
the worship rolls on, while Death
stands with moldy and skeleton arm
beating time for the chorus-"More!
Morei More"
Some people are very much surprised
at the actions of folk on tho stock OK.
Indeed, it Is q scene some.
times that paralyzes description and. is
beyond the imagination Of one who has
never looked In. What swapping OF
and thumb, and wild gesticula-
tion, and raving like hyenas, and
like ~buffaloes, and swayinu
to and fro, and running one upon an
other, and ~dcafening uproar. until the
president Of the exchange strikes with
mallet four or five times, crying
Order! Order!" and tho astonished
spectator goes ont into the fresh air
that he has escaped from PAN
What does It all mean? I
will tell you what 1t means. The dew
OF every heather temple cut
themselves to pieces and yell and
This vociferation and gyration
the stock exchange Is NIL appropriate.
This Is the worship Of the golden calf.
But my text suggests that this wor-
ship must be broken up, as the behavior
OF Moses In my text indicated. There
are those who say that this golden calf
OF In my text was hollow, and
merely plated with gold; otherwise, they
Moses could not have carried IL. l
do not know that; but somehow, per.
haps by the assistance Of his friends, he
takes mp this golden calf, which is IN
open insult to God and man, and throws
into the fire, and II Is melted. aud
then II pine out and Is cooled off, and
by some chemical appliance. or by an
old.fashioned Ale, it Is pulverixed, aud
1t Is thrown into the brook, and,
u punishment, the people are
compelled to drink the n~auseating
stuff. So my hearers, you may de-
pend upon 1t that God will burn and
he will grind to pieces the golden calf
OF modern idolatry aud he will compel
the people In their agony to drink it.
II not before, II will be SO on the last
day. i know not where the fire will
begin, whether ut the BATTERY" or
Central park, whether at Brooklyn or
Bnshwick, whether ut ~Shorcditch, Lon
don or West End; but it will be q very
hot blaze. All the securities of the
United States and Great Britain will
up in the first blast. All the money