Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-14
WORD OF THE LORD
Or. Ia mage Thinks the Golden
Calf is Still Worshiped.
MAD FOLLY or The ISRAELITES
AZ ths People Thea Were Punished So
Are AL WAC Worship ths Golden
CAT n Thzss Latter Days.

BRoozLys. Nov. ia.-Ths subject OF
discourse chosen By Rev. Or. Talmsgs
rs his iins sermon after thu national
election was enc peculiarly appropriate
10 she money making spirit Of the times.
Il wss The Golden Calf" the text SCI
iecred bang Exodus xxxii, %. ..And he
TOOK Tie ea1 which they had made and
burned 10 IN the ire, and ground il TO
powder ana srreved II upon the water
and made the children Of Israel drink
Of It."
Psorie win have goa OF some kind,
and they prefer one OF their own max
ing. Hers come tAs IsTaelites. breaking
on their golden earrings. the men "a
vel "a tho women, for IN those times
there we're masculine as wen as fe.-i-
nins decorations. Where did they get
these beautiful gold earrings, coming
up a. they did from the dsserrs On. they
borrowed them Of the Egyptians when
they LETT Egypt. These earrings are
piled up into pyramid OF glittering
beauty. ''Any more earrings 10 BRING
says Aaron None. Fire Is kindled;
tao earrings are melted and poured into
= mold, Dot OF an eagle or war charger,
bat of a calf; the gold cools off; the
mold "a taken away, and the idol is set
upon is four legs.
An altar Is built in front Of the shining
calf. Then the people throw up their
arms and gyrate and shrek 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-
les. aud Re loses his patience. and he
takes the two plates Of stone on which
were written the Ten Commandments
and hings them SO hard against rock
that they split al 10 pieces When a
man gets mad he Is very apt 10 break al
TIE Ten Commandments.
Moses PUSHES. IN aud he takes this calf
god and throws it into hot fire until it
Is melted ell out Of shape, and then pull
verizes it--nct BY the modern appliance
Of niEro-muriatic acid, bat by the ancient
appliance OF inter. or by the old fash
iOned die. he makes for the people
most naussatIng draft. He takes this
pulverizsd golden calf and throws il in
the only brook which Is accessible, and
the people are compelled TO drink of that
brook or not drink &C all.
FLOWED AROUND THE WORLD.
But they did not drink all the glitter
ing stuff thrown on the surface. Some
Of - lows on down the surface Of the
brook To tho river. and then flows on
down 70 the river 70 the sea, and the sea
takes it up and bears il TO the mouth Of
al tho 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 Tbsr. and men go out
and they skam the giittering surface, and
they bring is ashore, and they make an
other golden calf, and California and
Australia break or their golden earrings
10 augment the pile. and IN the fires OF
financial excitement and struggle oil
these things are melted together, and
while We stand looking and wondering
what viii como Of is, iol we find that
the golden calf Of Israslitish 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, no music that is made IN his
temple. and then the hnai breaking up
Of the whole congregation Of idolaters.
Put aside this curtain, aud you see the
golden calf Of modern idolatry. 1t Is
not ike other idols. made out OF stocks
or stone, but IL has an ear SO sensitive
that it can hear the whispers ON Wall
street and Third street and State street.
aud the footballs in the Bank Of Eng
land, and the fiutter Of Frenchnan's
heart on the Bourse. It has an eye SO
keen that IL can see the run ON the farm
q Michigan wheat, and the insect In the
Mary Land peach orchard. and the tram
pied grain under the hoof Of The Russian
war charger.
rs GORGEOUS TEMPLE
Il Is 50 mighty thai II swings any way
Il All the worlds shipping. It has It's
foot on ali the merchantmen and the
steamers. It started tho American civil
war aud under GOd stopped II. aud it
decided the Turzo- Russian contest. One
broker ia September. 1910. in New York.
shouted, zone hundred and SIXTY for q
miIiiong~ and the whole continent shiv-
cred. THIS golden calf OF the text has
its right foot IA New York. its left front
foet IN Chsea9p, lts right back foot IN
Charieston. It's left back foot IN New
Orleans. and when IL shakes itself it
shakes the world. Oh. this Is mighty
god-she golden calf Of The world.
worship
Bat every god must have TIA temple,
aud tisis gelden calf of the text - no
exception Ets temple II va<ter than 81.
Panrs q the English, and ST. Peters II
the Ttsiians, and she Aihamhrs of lie
epauiar.ss. sid he Partbsnen Of the
Csrsssrss. ard sbe raj Mahai Of The Hin
docs. and al the other estkedra1s put
to<s.sllsr. Is p1iars are grooved snd
futsa wssh gid. and It's ribbed xrchss
ara lowering gold. md its chandeliers
sr- descending gold. and its aoors srs
te~-enssed x0id. and rs waits ara
crowded haans Of gold aud its spsres