The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-12-22
CHRISTMAS SERVICES.
A Twentieth Century Song and Ser
mon, Reported by Phon0graph.

treasury by the Chief Apostle Of Mammon, the Rev.
Greedie Goldbug, Of the Church Of Moloch.
Hear ye nll who can show up Ave aces in the Game
Of Life-hear the proclamation and the commendation
Of the Chief High Priest of the Religion Of Mammon
theocracy Of Moloch:
1t s time for all who worship the sacred shrine Of
gded hypocrisy to bow the knee the sacred Hollow
Nockery and give thanks to his Gloried Beastiness
for all ye have received.
In the name of the Great Groversk Csar Of Aineri
kof, summon you to the altar. Assemble ye in the
churches where the velvet spendors and the marble
whienes attest the contrast between thee and the tenn
pie. Down upon your knees ye thirty thousand sa-
traps and count your millions in the of the sable
monarch, Moloch.
Behold the columns which support the system under
which thou hast prospered There is Hunger with his
pnohed and painful paunch Next is Cold ehverng up
the shirtless spines of penniless paupers.
Those elegant futed pillars scattered over the land
Suicides where the brokenhearted beat out their
brains.
This matchless beauty in variegated marbles from
Val Arno, Ialys farest quarry, is Crime, where de-
sire fed it's feverish soul on the fatness Of Folly.
And here-there, everywhere-is the painted and
garnshed column of Drinkinto which come the bleared
and boated victims OF your violence, to drown their
woes in wckedness.
Those pillars, grouped gracefully, and inter-
twined, are Perjury, Blasphemy, Bribery Gambling,
"
dear Mammon for the worship of his precious Holiness
Moloch. Behold how the Pillar of Poverty worketh un
to Ignorance-andIg Ignorance unto Slavery Slavery
unto Cowardice-and Cowardce unto the masterfu and
beautiful doctrine OF Content.
Assemble, We thirty thousand miionaires. Close
your ears to the cries of fifty millions who have lost
what thou hast gained in twenty years Let not your
eyes behold the Thousand who are mere
footpads, tramps, preying upon mperilled society
And Obi tho al n
echo not the fantest cry the homeless and the hope
less.
Come unto me, your pastor, all ye children of the
summer day, and will recount to ye what we have
DONE Behold that fallen ibusterer of 10 centuries
agone-called the ancient Christ and then look upon
this glded cross, the emblem of the modern Savior.
Behold, they crucifed the ancient anarchist who
should have been sent to the stone-pe for having mo
visible means of support upon cross of wood. See
how much holier we, and mbued with that neces-
sary hypocrisy part called Charity, for we have
crucifed him on cross OF gold y
Yes we have crucifed him-and have made nuga-
tory all his miserable and blasphemous doctrines. He
came for the poor-so have And we got 'em. He
came for the sufferng-and furnish him all he
wants. He came to drive the bankers and interest,"
gatherers out of the temple-and have thrust them
back again. and driven him out. He bade the sinless
one alone to throw stone at the fallen woman-and
provide fallen enough to keep the sinful busy
He said to give the least Of his drink Of water
we have given them fire and water in the cup.
All his fooldoctrnes we have laughed out of exis-
tence in secret scOrn
than camel could go through the gate called Needles
Eye" All right, we have heaven here and let the
poor devils take their chances of future heaven amid
the splendid columns have builded-PovertY, Hun
ger Crme Drink Cold and the group Of Perjury, Brib
ery Hatred, Passion and Lust.
I, Greedie Goldbug, Apostle Of Mammon here, in
front of the Church of Mooch proclaim here and for
ever, that the Churches buded to that carpenter of
Nazareth and decorated with golden cross shall
seized and confscated. We want 'em. We've got 'em.
Well keep 'em! We will sanctfy them with the tears Of
countless millions Wen baptise them with the crimson
tide of all the hosts Of pawns and sers who have shed
their rich red blood to make the purpleborn the arbi
tors Of human We will remove the .ross place
thereon the three-ban emblem OF misson-crucify
the past-glorify the present down the future.
Should any of the FOOLS who have squandered their
manhood to gorication quote those old fooLbooks
written by the fishermen Of Gallee and the tanner,
turn up your nose and tell them that those fellows we're
insane and would have been arrested in this country
for anarchists and tramps.
Quote their doctrines from their silly teachings and
tell them how have knocked the everlasting stuang
ont of such nonsense Tell them that any man who
would teach that interest Is criminal is insane and is
promptly sent to the insane asylum Any man who
pretends to love his enemies is eiezed conspator
the thing being SO unusual that it Is disordery. Any
man who sells all he has and follows Christ Is furnished
guardian, and the goods brought back replevin
Mpow, ye thirty thousand millionaires, have got
your yibutD sneking boa1S n coumts1 81 - -
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