Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-11-19

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DIR: TALMAeE THINKS THE GOLDEN
CALF is STILL WoRsHIPED.

Dr. ACMAGE Kinks The GOLDEN
CALF is STILL WoRSHIPED.
The Mad Folly of the Israelites md the
RIgo OF Moses-As the People Then
Were Punished So Are All Who Worship
the Golden Calf In These Lattor Days.
BRooKIYN. Nov. 1s.--The subject of
discourse. chosen by Rev. DIR. Talmage
for.his first sermon after the national
election was one peculiarly appropriate
IS the money making spirit of the times.
It was '.The Golden Calf" the text Sc
/ lessaaSs icing Exodus xxi, 20, "And he
took the calf which they had made and
burned 1t in the fire, and ground it to
powder and strewed it upon the water
and,made the children of Israel drink
of IT,
+. Faatple viii have u god Of some kind,
and sf1ey prefer one of their own max
ing. Hero comesthe Israelites, breaking
off. their golden carrings,the men as
wellsls the women, for in those times
there were masculine as well as femi-
nine decorations. Where did they get
these beautiful gold earrings, coming
up as they did from the desert2 On, they
Borrowed" them of the Egyptians when
they1left Egypt. These carvings are
piled up, into pyramid Of glittering
beauty: Any more earrings to, bring?'
says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled;
the earrings are melted and poured into
a mold, not of an eagle or u war charger,
but of a calf; the gold cools off; the
mold is taken away, and tho idol is set
upon its 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 gees
the dancing of these golden calf fanut-
les, and he loses his patience, and he
takes the two plates of stone on which
were written the Ten Commandments
and filings them SO hard against a rock
that they split all to pieces. When
man gets mad he is very apt to break all
tho Ten Commandments
/ Moses rushes, in and he takes this calf
god and throws it into Il hot fire until it
is melted all out of shape, and then pull
worries it-not by the modern appliance
of nitro-lnuriatic acid, but by theancient
appliance of inter, or by the old fash
toned file. He makes for the people
most nauseating draft. He takes this
pulverized golden calf and throws it in
the only brook which is accessible, and
the people are compelled to drink of that
brook or not drink at all.
FLOWED AROUND THE WORLD.
But they did not drink all the glitter
ing stuff thrown on the surface. Some
of il flows on down the surface of the
brook to the river, and then flows on
down to the river to the sea, and the sea
tax IS it up and bears tito the mouth of
all the rivers, and when the tides set
back the remains Of this golden calf are
carried up into the Hudson, and the
Easts river, and the Thames, and the
Clyde, and the Tiber, and men 60 out
snds.hey skim the glittering surface, and
the SDring it ashore, and they ,nGke an
other golden calf, and California and
Australia break off their golden earrings
to augment the pile. and;in the fires of
financial excitement and struggle all
these things are melted together, and
while we, stand looking and wondering
what will come of it, lol we find that
the golden calf of Israelitish worship
has become the golden calf Of European
and American worship.
shall describe to you thegod spoken
of in the text, his temple, his altar of
sacrifice, the music that is madein his
temple, and then the final breaking up
of the whole congregation of ido]aters.
Put aside this curtain, and you see the
golden calf Of modern idolatry. 1t Is
not like other idols, made out of stocks
or stone, but it has an ear SO sensitive
that it can hear the whispers on Wall
street and Third street and State street,
and the footballs in the Bank of Eng
land, and the hutter of Frenchnan's
heart on the Bourse. 1t has an eye SO
keen that it can see the rust on the farm
of Michigan wheat, and the insect in the
Maryland peach orchard, and the tram
pied grain under the hoof of the Russian
war charger.
ITS GORGEOUS TEMPLE.
Its so mighty that it swings any way
it will The worlds shipping. 1t has its
foot on all the merchantmen and the
steamers. It started the American civil
war and under God stopped it, and it
decided the Turko- Russian contest. One
broker in September, 1869, in New York,
shouted, Zone hundred and sixty for u
millionI" and the whole continent shiv:
cred. This golden calf of the text has
its right foot in New York, its left front
foot in Chicago, its right back foot in
Charleston, its left back foot in New
Orleans, and when it shakes itself IL
shakes the world. Oh, this is mighty
god-the golden calf of the worlds
worship!
But every god must have its temple,
and this golden calf of the text is no
exception. Its temple is vaster than st.
Paul's of the English, and st. Peters of
the Italians, and the Alhambra of the
Spaniards, and the Parthenon of the
Greeks, and the Tai Mahal of the Hin
docs, and all the other cathedrals put
together. Its pillars are grooved and
Auted with gold, and its ribbed arches
are towering gold, and its chandeliers
are descending gold, and its floors are
tessellated gold, and its vaults are
crowded heaps of gold, and its spires
and domes are soaring gold, and its or
gan pipes are resounding gold, and its
pedals are ramping gold, and its stops
pulled out are flashing gold, while
standing at the head of the temple, as
the presiding deity, are the hoofs and
shoulders and eyes and ears and nostrils
,oe +J,a GOLF Of oro1d