Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-12-03

changes. The soprano OF the worship IS
carried by the tinid voices OF men who have
just begun to speculate, while the deep bass
rolls out from those who for ten years OF mi.
guilty have been doubly damned. Chorus OF
rejoicing over what they have made:
Chorus OF voices wailing over what they
have lost
n. temple OF which 1 spaaK stands open
day and night, and there is the giltterin2
1oI win his tour feet on broken hearts,
and there is the smoking altar OF sacrlhce,
new victims every moment on it. AMI there
are the kneeing devoteas, and the doxology
of the worship rolls on, while deato stands
with moidy and ske.e:on arm beating time
for the horus-'Morei more more"
Some people are very much surprised at
the actions Of folk on the Stock Exchange,
Indeed it is a scene sometimes that para
lyzes description, and is beyond the imag-
NATION Of any one who has never looked In.
What swapping of finger and thumb and
widest gesticulation, and raving like hyenas,
and stamping like bufaioes, and swaying
to and fro. and running one upon another.
and deafeniny uproar uatii tae President
Of the exchange strikes with his mailet four
or five times, crying. Order. order"
And the astOni she'd spectator goes out into
the fresh aE feeling that he has escaped
from p~andernontun. What does 1t all
mean? | will tell you wat it means. The
tSot'E6 VI 2 tAfA~ - S0~NA E
selves - pieces a..d yell and gyratA. This
vociferation and:gvrario1 Of the Stock ex-
change is all appropriate. This is tho wor-
ship Of the golden car.
But M text suggests that this worship
must be broken no, as tn behavior OF Moses
in my text indicated. There are those who
say that this golden cllS spoken OF in my
text was hollow, and merely plated with
gold: otherwise, they say. Moses could not
Nc ,ya ,ca pix. ~ In not know that hnt
somehow, perhaps by the as.i,tancs Of bis
friends, he tax ) up t1is golden calf, which
is an insult to Goa and man, AMI throws it
into the fire, and it Is ~ineltej, AMI then it
comes out AMI IS coolat off. ant by sons
chemical appliance, or by al Oil fashioned
file, it is puiverze1, AMI 1t is thrown into
the brook.fand as Il punishment the people
are compelled to drina tae nauseating stuff.
So, my hearers, you may depend UPON it
TINT God will burn AMI He will grind to
pieces the golden c,lf OF modern ldolatry.
10 arlnK It, II not perore, It viii be 50 on
the last day. | know not where the fire will
begin, whether at the Battery or Central
PARK, whether at Brooklyn Bridge or at
Bushwick. whether at ~Shoreditch, London
or West End, but it will be a 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 depos.
iting vaults will 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 window glass and into
the street, but the flying population will not
stop to scoop it up.
The cry of Fire" from the mountain
will be nswer by the cry Of Fire in the
pialn. The conf1agration will burn 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 tho red scyths
OF destruction will go down. Twenty-Five
thousand miles Of confagration, The earth
will wrap itself round and round in shrouls
OF flame AMI liz down to perish. What then
will become OF your golden calf? Who then
50 poor as to worship it? Melted or between
the upper and the neither milestone Of falling
mountains ground to powder. Dagon uown.
Molocn down. Juggernaut down. Golden
calf down.
Judgment, and Gol is ali the time grin ling
TO pieces the golden calf. Merchants OF
Brooklyn and New York and London. what
Is the characte ristic of this time in which
we live? Bad" you say. Professional
men, what is the characteristic Of the times
in which we live? Bad" you say. Though
| should be in 81 minority Of one,
] venture the opinion that these are the
best times we fave hal. for the reason
that God Is 'eaching the world as never be-
fore that old fashioned honesty is thu only
thing that will stand. We have learned as
never before tnat forgeries will not pay;
that the spending OF Fifty thousand dollars
on country seats and a palatial city resi-
deEce, when there are only thirty thousand
dollars income, will not pay; that the ap.
preparation OF trust funds to our own pri.
vat speculation will not pay.
We had n 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 1T out-has cut it out-an6 the
nation will get we'll and will come back to
tue principles OF our fathers and grand
fathers, when vice three made six instead
OF sixty. and when the apples at the bottom
OF the barrel were just as gooi as the apples
on the top OF the barrel, and a silk hand
kerchtei was not half cotton, and a man who
wore u five dollar coat paid for was more
honored than Il man who wore a fifty dollar
coat uot paid for.
The golden cali of our day. ike the one OF
the text. Is very apt t. be made out Of Dor
rowed golt. These ISr2elites Of the text
borrowed the earring of the Egyptians
and then melted them into a god. Thai
Is the way the golden calf is made nowadays.
\ great many housekeepers, not BAY
Ing for tn articles they get, borrow of tn.
grocer. ana the baker. aud TIE butcher.
and tie dry goods seller. Then the re
taller tOrruws OF the Wholesale dealer,
Then tbs wholesale ,lea.er borrows OF the
capitalist, and We borrow AMI borrow and
borrow until the community Is divided into
two Necessities, who borrow and thos,
who ere borrowed of-and after awhile the
capitalist wants his money an he rushes
upon the wholesale dealer, and the wholesale
dealer want his money and he rushes upon
the retailer. AMI the retailer wants hi:
money ami he ruSheS upon the cousu ner
AMI we all so acwn - ,etaer.
There Is many a man III tuls day wAo ride!
IN a carriage an the blacksmith TO.
the tire, and the w~aHe!wr.ght for the wheel
and the trimmer Tor the curtain, AMI tn
driver for anpall wages. ani tue harnes
maker for the Ira Ne, an the furrler for th
robe, while from the tn OF the carriay
tongue clear BACK II tIe tip OF the shaw
ruttering out OF the back OF the vehlci
everything Is pail %. Nv notes that hav
been three tIIuaS rhue 80.
1t Is tins temptation II borrow all Dor
row AMI borrow that keeps the people ever
IaStlneiy rraV.n@ - the golden calf 70,
help, AMI JUS a the N ,lte they expect tn
help the golden calf treats on them. Til
Judgements q Gol. Ike nose, III the tax.
viii rdsA III ana break up this worship: an
l say, lei the WORK - on until every ma,
snail learn IN ~ra : rrt,.D tr3%b Nj ro:-LA-