The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-30

TO pieces the golden calf of modern
idolatry, and He will compel the people
In their agony TO drink IT. IL not before,
II will be so on the last day. know
not where the fire will begin, whether
ut the Battery" or Central park.
whether at brooklyn bridge or at Bush
wick, whether at Shoreditch, London,
or West End; but II will be very hot
blaze. All the government securities
OF the United States and Great Britain
will curl up in the first blast. All the
money safes and depositing vaults viii
melt under the first touch The sea
will burn like finder, and the ship
ping will be abandoned forever. The
melted gold in the brokers window
will burst through the melted win
dow glass and into the street; but the
flying population will not stop To scoop
IL up. The cry of Fire" from the
mountain will be answered by the cry
OF Fire" ia the plain. The confagra-
ton will bum out from the continent
toward the sea, and then burn in from
the sea toward The land. New York
and London with one cut of the red
scythe of destruction will go down.
Twenty-Five thousand miles OF confia-
grafton! The earth will wrap itself
round and round in flame, and lie down
TO perish. What then will become of
your golden calf? Who then so poor as
to worship it2 Melted, or between the
upper and the neither milestone of fall
ing mountains ground to powder
Dagon down, Moloch down, Jugger-
naut down, Golden calf down. t
But, my friends every day is day OF
Judgment and God is all the time
grinding to pieces the golden calf.
Merchants of Brooklyn, New York and
London, what is the characteristic OF
this time in which we liver bad" you
say. Professional men, what is the
characteristic of the times in which
we live? Bad" you say. Though
should be in minority of one,
venture the opinion that these are
the best times we have had for the
reason that God is teaching the world,
as never be fore, that old-fashioned
honesty is the only thing that will
stand. We have learned, as never
before, that fo-geries will not pay;
that the spending of $50, 900 on coun-
try seats and a pslatial city residence,
when there are only $40, 900 income, will
not pay; that the appropriation Of trust
funds to their own private speculation
will not pay. We had great national
tumor, in the shape of fictitious pros
perity. We called it national enlarge
ment; instead of calling it enlargement
we might have called it a swelling. II
has been a tumor, and God is cutting 1t
out-has cut it out-and the nation will
get well and come back to the princi-
pies of our fathers and grandfathcrs,
when twice three made six instead of
sixty, and when tho apples at the bot
tom of the barrel were just as good as
the apples on the top Of the barrel, and
silk handkerchief was not half cot
ton, and a man who wore a five-dollar
coat paid for was more honorcd than n
man who wore fifty-dollar coat not
paid for.
The golden calf of our days, like the
one of the text, is very apt to be made
out of borrowed gold. These Israelites
of the text borrowed the ear rings of
the Egyptians and then melted them
calf is made nowadays. A great many
housekeepers, not paying for the arti-
cles they get, borrow of the grocer, and
the baker and the butcher and the dry
goods seller Then the retailer bor-
rows of the Wholesale dealer. Then
the wholesale dealer borrows of the
capitalist, and we borrow, and borrow,
and borrow until the community is di-
vided into two classes, those
who borrow and those who are
borrowed of; and after a while
the capitalist wants his money,
and he rushes upon the wholesale deal
err, and the wholesale dealer wants his
money and he rushes upon the retailer,
and the retailer wants his money and he
rushes upon the consumer, and we oil
go down together.
There Is many a man in this day who
rides in a carriage and owes the black
smith for the tire, and the wheelwright
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 10 the tip OF the
shawl fluttering out of the back OF the
vehicle everything is paid for by notes
that have been three times renewed.
Ii Is this temptation to borrow. and
borrow. and borrow that keeps the peo-
pie everlastingly praying to the golden
calf for help, and just at the minute
they expect the help the golden calf
treads on them. The judments of God,
like Moses in the text, will rush in and
break up this worship; and say, let
the work go on until every man shall
learn TO speak truth with his neighbor,