Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-11-25

soldiers OF Genaral HaveIocx in India
! walked literally ankle deep in ths blood OF
| tee ".lousa OF massa ere" where two hun
! dred women and children hal been slain by
| the Sspoys: but the blood around about
this altar Of thu golden calf flows up TO the
| knee, flows TO the girdIe, flows % the
! shoulder, flows TO the lip. Great God OF
J heaven and earth, have mercy. the golden
/ calf has none.
/ Still the degra ding worship goes on and
| the devotees Enesl AMI kiss the dust and
count their golden beads, and cross them
| selves with the blood OF their own sacrifc9
! The music rolls on under the arches; it is
| made OF clinkiag silver and cInking gold
| and the rafting specie OF tia banks AMI
| brokers shops and the voices OF all the ex-
| changes The soprano OF the worship Is
| carried by the tiu1id voices o. ms who have
| just begun to speculate, while the deep bass
: rolls out from taose who for ten years of mi
! guilty have been dou6iy damned. Chorus OF
| voices rejoicing over what they have made.
Chorus OF voices wailing over what they
have lost
The temple OF which I speak stands open
day and night, and there Is the guttarlng
god with his fur feet on broken hearts
and there Is the smoking altar o. sacrifice,
new victims every moment on 1t, AMI there
are the kneeing devotees, AMI the doxology
OF the worship rolls on, while death Stands
with moldy and ske'e5On arm beating Tina
for the chorus More: more! mora"
Some people are very much SURPRISED at
the actions OF folk on the STOCK Exchange,
Indeed it is scene sometimes that para
lyzes desert ptiOn, AMI is beyon1 the lmig-
nation Of any one who has naver looked ill.,
What swapping of fin 5er AMI thun0 AMI
widest gesticutation, and ravlog like hTenas,
and stamping like auHraiOeS, and svayinS
TO and fro, and running one upon another,
and deafening upro IT until the President
Of the exchange strikes with his mellat fol-
or five times, crying, "'Order! order"
And the astonished spectator goes out into
the fresh air feeling that be has escaped
from pandemOn!um. What does 1t all
mean? | will tell you what it means. The
devotees of every heather temple cut them
selves to pieces AMI yell AMI gyrate. This
vociferation AMI gyratioa Of th9 Stock ex-
change is all appropriate. This is the wor.
ship of the golden calf.
But my text suggests that this worship
must be broken 10, as the behavior OF Mo'es
in nv text indicated. There are those who
say that this golden cllf spoken OF i'll fny
text was hollow, and merely plated with
gold; otherwise, they say. Moses could not
have carried it. | do hot know that, but
somehow, perhaps by the assistance of his
friends, he takes up this golden calf, wlicn
is an insult to God and man. and throws it
into the fire and it is ma1tet, AMI then it
comes out AMI is cooled OFT, AMI by soma
chemical appliance, or by an Old ia shione
file, it is pulvertzsd, and 1t Is tarown into
the brook, and as punishment the people
are compelled to drink the nauseatiug stuf.
So, my hearers, you may depend upon it
that God will burn and He will grin l to
pieces the golden calf of modern 1dolatry.
and He will compel the people in their agony
to drink it. If not before, it will be 50 on
the last day. know not where thu fire will
begin, whether at the Battery or Central
Park, whether at Brooklyn Bridge or at
Bushwick, whether at Snoreditch, London
or West End but it will be very hot blaz9
All the Government securities of the United
States and Great Brit lin will curl up in the
first blast. All the money, safes and depos-
iting vaults will melt under the first touch.
The sea will burn like finder, and the shio-
ping will be abandoned forever The melted
gold 10 the brokers' window will burst
through the melted win low glass and into
the street, but the flying population will not
stop to scoop it 10.
The cry of Fire from the mountain
will be answered by the cry of Fire" in the
plain. The confa grafton will burn ous 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 scyth9
Of obstruction will go dowa. Twenty-Five
thousand miles of conf agration! The earth
Will wrap itself round AMI round in shrou Is
OF flame and lie down to perish. What then
Will become OF your golden calf? Who then
SO poor as to worship it? Melted or between
the upper and the neither milestone offalliny
mountains ground to powder. DAgon down.
Moloch down. Juggernaut down. Golden
calf down
But, my friends every day is day OF
judgment and God is all the time grin ling
70 pieces the golden calf Merchants Of
Brooklyn AMI New York aud London, what
is the characteristic Of this tina in whcl
we live? Bad" you say. Professional
men, what is the characteristic OF the times
IN which we live? Bad" you say. Though
l should be in minority Of one,
L venture the opinion taat 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 forgeries will not pay;
that the spending Of fifty thousand dollars
on country seats and palatiaI city resi-
dence, when there only thirty thousand
dollars income, will not pay; that the ap-
preparation of trust funds to our own phi
vate speculation will not pay.
We had q great national tumor in the
shape of fictitious prosperity. We called it
national enlargement. Instead OF calling it
enlargement we might better have called it
a swelling. 1t has been a tumor, and God is
cutting it out-has cut it out-an1 the
nation will get well aud will come back to
the princi pies OF our fathers and grand
fathers when twice three made six instead
OF sixty, and when the apples at the bottom
OF the barrel were just as good as the apples
on the top Of the barrel, and a silk hand
kerchief was not half cotton, and man who
wore five dollar coat paid for was more
honored than a man who wore fifty dollar
coat not paid for.
The golden calf OF our day. like the one OF
the text, is very apt to be made out Of Dor
rowed gold These Israelites Of the tex
borrowed the earrings Of the Egyptians
and then melted them into a god. That
is the way the golden calf is made nowadays.
A great many housekeepers not pay
ing for the articles they get, borrow of the
grocer and the baker and the butcher