Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-14

| Further, every god must have not only
its temple, but its altar of sacrifice, and
this golden calf of the text is no exception
! It's altar is not made out of stone, as other
affairs, but out of counting room desks and
fireproof Safes and it is broad, a long, a
high altar. The victims sacrificed on it are
innumerable. What does this god care
about the groans and struggles of the vic
tins before It'll With cold, metallic eye it
looks on and yet let's them suffer- Oh,
heaven and earth, what an atari What
q sacrifice of body, mind and SOUL The
physical health Of great multitude ia
flung on this sacrificial altar They can
not sleep, and they take choral and NOR
phine and intoXicants.
Some of them struggle in nightmare
of stocks, and at one o'clock in the morning.
suddenly rise up shouting, "a Thousand
shares of railroad stock-one hundred and
eight and u half; take itP' until the whole
family is affrighted, and the spectators
fall back on their pillows and sleep until
| they are awakened again 10y IL corner or
Il sudden rise" in something else. Their
nerves gone, their digestion gone, their
brain gone-they die. The clergyman
comes in and reads the funeral service,
blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord" Mistake, They did not Idle ia the
Lord"-the golden calf kicked theml
The trouble Is when men sacrifice them
selves on this altar suggested in the tex
they not only sacrifice themselves, but
they sacrifice their families. If man by
an i'll course is determined to go to perdi-
ton, suppose you will have to let him so;
but he puts his wife and children in an equi-
page that is the amazement Of the avenues,
and the driver lashes the horses into two
whirlwinds, and the spokes flash in the
sun, and the golden hsadgcar of the har-
/ ness CLEANS, until Black Calamity takes
the bits of the horses and stops them, and
shouts to the LUMINOUS cccrnhnts IT NE
equlpage, Get out!' They get out. Ihey
get down. That husband and faCher flung
his family so hard they never got up again.
There was the mark on them for lfe-the
mark Of split hoof-the death dealing
hoof of the golden calf
Solomon offered in one sacrifice, on one
occasion, twenty-five thousand oxen and
one hundred and twenty thousand sheep;
but that was tame sacrifice compared
with the multitude Of men who are sacri-
fcing themselves on this altar of the gold
en- calf and sacrificing their families with
them. The soldiers of General IavelocS
blood of the "house OF massacre" where
two. hundred women and children had
been slain by the Sepoys; 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
The golden calf has none.
HEARTS BROKEN FOR GOLD.
. ho tzypr N
the devotees kneel and kiss the dust, and
count their golden beads, and cross them
selves with the blood of their own sacrl-
fee. The music rolls on under the arches;
it is made of clinking silver and clinkng
gold and the rafting specie of the banks
and brokers' shops and the voices of all
the exchanges. The soprano of the wor-
ship is carried 10y the timid voices Of men
! who have Just begun to speculate, while
the deep bass rolls out from those who for
ten years of inquity have been doubIy
damned. Chorus of voices rejoicing over
what they have made. Chorus OF voices
wailing over what they have lost.
The temple OF which speak stands open
dav and night, and there is the glitteripg
god with his four feet on broken hearts,
and there is the smoking altar OF sacrlhce,
new victims every moment on 1t, and there
are the kneeling devOtees, and the doXoL-
ocy of the worship rolls on, while death
stands with moldy and skeleton arm beat
ing time for the chorus-"Morel morel
| mOreN'
Some people are very much surprised vt
the actions OF folk on the Stock exchange.
Indeed il is "A scene sometimes that para
lives description, and is beyond the ima-l-
nation of any one who has never looked IN
What Swapping Of finger and thumb and
wild gesticuiation, and raying like hyena3,
and stamping like butlaloes, and swaylnS
to and fro, and running one upon another,
and dcafeuing uproar until the presdeu.
of the exchange strikes with his malI,y'
four or five times, crying, "Order! order"
And the astonishcd spectator goes out INTO
the fresh air feeling that he has ESCAPED
from paudemonum. What does 1t al
meanP | will tell you what it means. Tie
devotees of every heather temple cut them
selves to pieces and yell and gyrate. Ihs
vociferation and gyration of the Stock g.
| change is all appropriate. This is the woT-
! ship of the golden calf.
PLUToCRACY MUST PERISH.
! But my text suggests that this worship
! must be broken up, as the behavior oi
| Moses in my text indicated. There are
| those who say that this golden calf spoken
| OF in my text was hollow, and merely
plated with gold otherwise, they shy,
! Moses could not have carried it. do not
| know that, hut somehow, perhaps by the
/ assistance Of his friends, he takes up this
/ golden calf, which is an insult to God All
| man, and throws It into the fire, aud it IS
melted, and then it comes out and Is cooled
| of, ard by some chemical appliance, or 10y
| an old fashioned file, it is pulverized, and
! il is thrown into the brook, and rs pu.-
! ishmout the people are compelled to driuh
! the uauscating stuff,
! So, my hearers, you may depend upon 1t
/ that God will burn and he will grind to
pieces the golden calf of modern idolatry,
and he will compel the people in their
agony to drink it. II not before, il will be
so ON the last day. know not where t-.'
fire will begin, whether at the Battery
or Central park, whether at Brooklyn
/ bridge or at Bushwick, whether at Shore
ditch, London or West End, but it will be
! very hot blaze. All the government Sc
! vuYiucs c{ the United States and GTcpt