Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1892-11-19
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the.whole- family is affrighted, and tn
spectators fall back on their pillows ant
sleep until they are awakened-again b,
o CORNER" or g sudden "rise" in some
thing else. Their nerves gone, their di
gestion gone, their. brain gone, they die
The clergyman comes in and reads tn,
funeral service, BLESSED are the, deat
who die in the Lord" Mistake The,
did not "die in the Lordi% the colder
calf kicked them!
ITS DREADFUL SACRIFICE
The trouble is when men sacrifc,
themselves on this altar suggested in thu
text they not only sacrifice themselves
but they sacrifice their families. If {
man by an i'll course is determined to e.
to perdition suppose you will have tt
let him go; but lie puts his wife ant
children in an equipage that is, til;
amazement of the avenues, and ths
driver lashes the horses into two 3whirl
winds, and the spokes fash i'll tho sun
and The golden leadgear Of tile harness
CLEANS, until Black Calamity takes III
lifts of the horses and stops them, ant
shouts to the luxurious occupantsof The
equipage, SECT outI' They get ont
They get down. That husband ant
father flung his family so hard they
never got. up again. There was tht
mark on them for life-the markof ,
split hoof-the death dealing Eoof cl
the golden calf.
Solomon offered in one sacrifice on ono
occasion twenty-five thousand oxen and
one hundred and twenty thousand sheep
but that was a tame sacrifice compared
with the multitude of men who are sac
rifcing themselves on this altar of tho
golden calf, and sacrificing their fam
lilies with them. The soldiers of General
Havelock i'll India walked literally an:;la
deep in the blood of the "houso of mas,
sacre," 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 Sirdle, flows to the shoulder,
flows to the lip. Great God of heaven
and earth, lave mercyi The golden calf
has none.
Still the degrading worship goes on,
and the devotecs kneel and kiss the dust,
and count their golden beads, and cross
themselves with the blood of their own
sacrifice. The music rolls OH under the
arches; it is made Of cli1king silver and
climbing gold and the rafting specie of
the banks and brokers' shops and tie
voices of all the exchanges. Tbe.soprano
of the worship is carried by the simid
voices of men who have just begun to
speculate, while the deep bass rolls ont
from those who for ten years of iniquit!.
have been doubly damned Chorus of
voices rejoicing over what they have
made! Chorus of voices wailing over
what they have lostl .
This temple Of which speak stands
open day and night, aud there is the
glittering god with his four feet on
broken hearts, and there is TIE smoking
altar of sacrifice, new victims every mo-
ment on it, and there are the Ineeling
devotees, and the do1ology of the wor-
ship rolls on, while death stands;with
moldy and skeleton arm beating time
for the chorus More! more! morew
THE CRAZE FOR GOLD.
Some people are very much surprised
at tho actions Of folk on the Stock cxs
change. Indeed it is D scene sometimes
that paralyzcs description and is beyond
the imagination of any one who has
never looked in. What swapping of fin
ger and thumb and wild gesticulation,
and raving like hyenas, and stamping
like buffaloes, and swaying to and fro,
and running one upon another, and'deaf-
ening uproar, until the president of the
exchange strikes with his mallet four or
five times, crying, "Orderl orderw .and
the astonished spectator goes out into
the fresh air feeling that he has escaped
from pandemonium. What does it all
mean? I will tell you what it means.
The devotees Of every heather temple
cut themselves to pieces and yell and
gyrate. This vociferation and eyratioo
of the Stock exchange is oil appropriate.
This is the worship Of the golden calf.
But my text suggests that this wor-,
ship must be broken up, as tho be-
havior of 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 say, Moses could not have carried
it. do not know that; bnt somehow,
perhaps by the assistance of his friends,
be takes up this golden calf, which isiln
open insult to God and man, and throws
it into the fire, and it is melted, and then
it comes out and is cooled off, and by
some chemical appliance or@by an. old
fashioned file it is pulverized, and it is
thrown into the brook, and as a punish
ment the people are con PEELED to drink
the nauseating z..nfff.
THE ROOT OF EVIL r. BE ROOTED OUT.
So, my hearers, you may depentfupon
it that God will burn and hewill grind
to pieces the golden calf of modern idol
airy, and he will compel the people in
their agony to drink it. If not before,
it will be SO on the last 0ay. i know
not where the fire will be gin, whether
at the Battery or Central ark, whether
at Brooklyn bridge or sc Bushwick,
at Shoreditch, Lo,don, or West
End, but twill DO vesy hot blaze.
ALI the government securities of the
United States and Great Britain will
curl up in the first blast. Ill the money
safes and depositing vaults will melt un-
Ter the first touch. Tie STA will. burn
ike finder, and the shipping will be
forever. The melted. gold in
he brokers' window will barst through
;he melted window glass and into the
street, but the flying population will
not stop to scoop it up. q
The cry of "Firer' from tue mountain
Till be answered by the cry If . FireH i'll
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