The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-15


miles Of conhagration! The earth will
wrap itself round and round in shroud
of flame and lie down to perish. What
then will become of your golden calf?
Who then so poor as TO worship 1t:
Melted or between the upper and the
neither milestone of falling mountains
ground 10 powder. Dagon down. No
loch down. JUSgeraaut down. Golden
calf down.
But, my friends, every day is a Cay Of
Judgment. and God is AL the time
grinding 70 pieces the golden calf.
Merchants OF Brooklyn ana New York
and London. what is the characteristic
Of this time in which we live: Bad"
you say. professional men, what is
the characteristic of the times IL which
we live? Bad" YOU say. Though l
should uc in minority of one. venture
the opinion that these are the best times
we have lad. for the reason tLat God Is
teaching tie world, as never before. thai
old fashioned honesty Is the Ouly thing
that Will stand. We have learned Us
never before that for@eries Will Lot pay:
that the spending of fifty thousand dol
lars on country seats and Il palatial city
;
thousand dollars income, will not pay;
that the appropriation Of trust funds TO
our own private speculation Will uoUpay.
We had great national tumor III the
shape Of fictitious prosperity. We called
it national enlargement. Instead Of call
ing it eularg we might better nave
called it d swelling. 1t has been u tn
NOR. and God Is cutting it out-has cut
/; out-;.ud the milton VIII get well and
Will come back to the principles of our
fathers ana grandfatLers when twice
three made six instead of sixty, and
when the apples at the bottom of the
barrel We're just rs good as the apples
Oh the top Of the barrel, and silk hand
kerchief was not half cotton, and q man
vino wore a five dollar coat paid for was
more EOuOred than a man who Wore u
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
god. That Is the way the golden calf l.
made nowadays A great many house
keepers, not paying fcr the articles they
get, borrow of the grocer. and the baker,
and 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
munity is divided into two claSses-tIose
who borrow and those who are borrowed
of. And after awhile the capitalist
wants his money and he rushes upon the
wholesale dealer, and the wholesale
dealer wants his money and he rushes
upon the retailer. ami the retailer wants
his money and he PUSHES upon the con-
sumner, and we all go down together.
There is many a man i'll this day who
rides in a carriage and owes the black
smith for the tire, and the wheelwri"ht
! 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
! futteriug out of the back OF the vehicle
! everything i paid for by notes that have
! been three times renewed.
FULVEEiZING CALF AND WORSEIPTG&.
1t i this temptation to borrow and
/ borrow and borrow that keeps the peo-
I pie everlastincly praying 10 the golden
calf for help, and just at the minute
they expect the help the golden calt
treads on them. The judgments q God,
like Noses in the text, viii rush IN and
break up this worship; and l say, let the
work go % until every man shall learn
TO speak truth with MS TeighUor, and
those who make engagements snail feej
themselves bound TO keep them, and
when a man who viii not regent Of his
business iuiquity. but goes OF wishing
to satiate his canniDal appetite ~ de-
voUring widows houses, shall 10y the
law of the land be compelled to cx-
change 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-oue in each SIDE of your shroud:
viii You cushion your cofiiia With bonds
and mortgages and certificates of stock:
All, no! The ferryboat that crosses this
Jordan takes no baggage-nothlng heav-
Ter than spirit. 1Ou may perhaps take
five hundred dollars with you two or
three miles. III TIE shape of funeral trap
Iings. to Greenwood, but You viii have
to leave them there.
1t would not be safe for you to lie
down there with gold watch or I, dia-
1nond ring. 1t would be a temptation
to the pillagers. All, my friends, if we
Lave 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 he
gone. Oh, this is a fleeing world; it Is
a dying world! A man who had wor-
shipped it all his days, i'll his dying mo
ment described himself when he said
Fool! fool! fool"'
TIE NEVER FADING TREASURE.
want you to change temples. and tc
give up the worship of this Unsatisfyin2
and cruel god for the service Of the LORD
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