The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-11-30

| ing: "A thousand shares of railroad
stock-one hundred and eight and a
| half! take it, until the whole family is
affrighted, and the SPECTATORS fall back
on their pillows and sleep until they
are awakened again by corner or a
sudden rise" ia something else. Their
nerves gone, their digestion gone, their
brain gone, they die. The clergyman
comes in and reads the funeral service:
Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord" Mistake. They did not die in
the Lord" the golden calf kicked them,
The trouble is, when men sacrifice
themselves on this altar suggested in
the text, they not only sac rifice them
selves, but they sacrifice their families.
If a man by an i'll course is determined
to go to perdition, ] suppose you will
have to let him go; but he puts his wife
and children in an equipage that is the
| amaZement of the avenues, and the
driver lashes the horses into two whirl-
winds, and the spokes flash in the sun,
and the golden headgear of the harness
CLEANS until Black Calamity takes the
|
shouts to the luxurious occupants of
the equipage, 'Get out" They get out.
They get down. That husband and
father flung his family so hard they
never got up again. There was the
mark on them for life-the mark of a
split hoof-thr death-dealing hoof of
the golden calf.
Solomon offered in one sacrifice, on
one occasion, twenty-five thousand
oxen and one hundred and twenty
thousand sheep: but that was tame
sacrifice compared with the multitudes
of men who are sacrificing themselves
on this altar of the golden calf, and
sacrificing their families with them.
The soldiers of Gen. Havelocll in India
walked literally ankle deep in the blood
of the "house of massacre" where two
hundred women and children had been
slain by the Sepoys; but the blood
around about this altar of this golden
calf flows up to the knee, flows to the
girdle, flows to the shoulder, flows to
the lip. Great God of heaven and earth,
nave mercy! The golden calf has none.
Still the degrading worship goes on,
and the devotees kneel and kiss the
dust, and count their golden beads, and
cross themselves with the blood of their
own sacrifice. The music rolls on under
the arches; it is made of blinking silver
and blinking gold, and the rafting spe-
Gle of the banks and bro kers' shops and
the voices of all the exchanges. The
soprano of the worship is carried by the
timid voices of men who have just begun
to speculate; while the deep bass rolls
out from those who for ten years of in
iquity have been doubly damned. Cho-
rus of voices rejoicing over what they
have made. Chorus of voices wailing
over what they have lost This temple
of which speak stands open day and
night, and there is the glittering god
with his four feet on broken hearts. and
there is the smoking altar of sacrifice
new victims every moment on it, and
thers are the kneeling devotees; and the
doxology of the worship rolls on, while
Death stands with moldy and skeleton
arm beating time for the chorusy.
More! more! more!"
Some people are very much surprised
at the actions of folk on the stock eX
change. Indeed, it is scene sometimes
that paralyzes description, and is be-
You'd the imagination of anyone who
has never looked in. What swapping Of
finger and thumb and wild gesticula
ton, and raving like hyenas, ant
) stamping like buffaloes, and swaying, t
and fro, and running one upon another
and deafening uproar until the presi
dent of the exchange strikes with hi
mallet four or five times crying, "Or
der! order!' and the astonished specta
tor goes out into the fresh air feeling
that he has escaped from pandemonium
What does it all mean? l will tell you
what it means. The devotees of every
heather temple cut themselves to pieces
and yell and gyrate This vociferatiol
and gyration of the stock exchange il
all appropriate. This is the worship O
the golden calf
But my text suggests that this wor
ship must be broken up, as the behavio
of Moses in my text indie ated. TheY,
! are those who say that this golden cal
spoken of in my text was hollow, anc
merely plated gold; otherwise, they say
Moses could not have carried it. d,
+ not know that; but somehow, perhaps
, by the assistance of his friends, h
r takes up the golden calf, which is al
t open insult to God and man, anC
t throws it into the fire, and it is melted
5 and then it comes out and is cooled off
t and by some chemical appliance, or b,
( an old-fashioned file, it is pulverized
t and It is thrown into the brook, and, a
! a punishment, the people are com
/ PEELED to drink the nauseating stuff
So, my hearers, you may depend upol
, it that God will burn and he will grint
. to pieces the golden calf of moder,
4 idolatry, and he will compel the peopl
$ in their agony to drink. If not before
{ it will be so on the last day. ! know
f not where the fire will begin, whethe
e at the Battery or Central park
t whether at Brooklyn bridge O
/ at Bushwiclt, whether at Shore
S ditch, London or West End: bu
S it will be very hot blaze. All tn
e government securities of the Unite,
e States and Great Britain will curl u
5 in the fire blast All the money safe
: and Gepositing vaults will melt unde
$ the first touch. The sea will burn lik
S finder, and the shipping will be aban
e doned forever. The melted gold in tn
S brokers' window will burst through tn
d melted window glass and into tn