The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-12-06
BENTON, LOUISIANA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1900.
hoofs and shoulders and eyes and ears
and nostrils of the calf of gold.

hoofs and shoulders and eyes and ears
and nostrils of the calf of gold.
| Further, every god must have not
only its temple, but its altar of sacri-
flee, and this golden calf of the text
is &c exception. Its altar is not made
out of stone, as other affairs, but out
of counting-room desks and fireproof
safes, and it is broad, a long, high
altar. The victims sacrificed on it are
the Swartouts and the ketchams and
the Fisks and 10000 other people who
are slain before this golden calf. What
does this god care about the groans
and struggles of the victims before it?
With cold, metallic eye it looks on and
yet let's them suffer. What an altar?
What a sacrifice of mind, body and
soul! The physical health of great
multitude is flung on to this sacriticial
altar. They cannot sleep, and they take
choral and morphine and intoxicants.
Some of them struggle in nightmare
of stocks and at one o'clock in the
morning suddenly rise up, shouting:
"a thousand shares of New York Cen
tral-1OsH-takei it," until the whole
family is affrighted, and the specula-
tors fall back on their pillow and sleep
until they are awakened again by a
corner" in Pacific Mail or sudden
'rise" of Rock Island. Their nerves
gone, their digestion gone, their brain
gone, they die. The gowned ecclesias-
tic comes in and reads the funeral serv-
ice: blessed are they who die in the
Lord!" Mistake. They did not Idle
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 sacrific them
selves, but they sacrifice their fami-
lies. If man by wrong course is de-
termined to go to perdition, suppose
you will have to let him go. But he
puts his wife and children in an equip
age that is the amazement of the av-
enues. and the driver lashes the horses
into two whirlwinds, and the spokes
fash in the sun, and the golden head
gear of the harness CLEANS until black
calamity takes the bits of the horses
and stops them and shouts to the lux
uriant occupants Of the equipage:
SECT out!" They get out. They get
down. That husband and father flung
his family so hard they never got up.
There was the mark on them for life
the mark of a split hoof-the death
dealing hoof of the golden calf.
Some people are very much sur
prised at the actions of people in the
stock exchange, New York. Indeed, il
is a scene sometimes that paralyze.
description and is beyond the imag
ination Of anyone who has never
looked in. What swapping of finger
and thumb and wild gesticulation ant
raving like hyenas and stamping lik'
buffaloes and swaying to and fro ant
jostling and running one upon anoth
er, and deafening uproar, until th'
president of the exchange strikes will
his mallet four or five times, crying
"Order, order!" ard the astonishet
spectator goes out into the fresh al
feeling that he has escaped from pan
!, demonium. What does it all mean
will tell you what it means. Th
devotees of every heather temple Gu
, themselves to pieces and yell ant
, gyrate. This vociferation and gyra
tion of the stock exchange is all ap
propriate This is the worship of tn
) golden calf.
But my text suggests thai this wor
ship has to be broken up, as thS tbe
havior of Moses on this occasion Ind
Gated. There are those who sa
that this golden calf spoken of in tn
. text was hollow and merely plate
with gold, otherwise .ioses could no
o have carried it. / do not know thai
but somehow, perhaps by the assist
: ance of his friends, he takes up thi
; golden calf, which is an internal il
!. suit to God and nan, and throws
into the fire and it is melted, and the
n it comes ou: and is cooled off, and b
r some chemical appliance or by a
). old-fashioned file it is pulverized, an
. it is thrown into the brook, and as
/ punishment the people are compeLe
h to drink the nauseating stuff.
r you may depend upon it that God wi
r. burn and he will grind to pieces til
y golden calf of modern idolatry, an
S he will compel the people in their a.
3 ony to drink it. If not before, it wi
i be so on the last d-y. ! know nj
d where the fire will begin, whether ;
/. the Battery" or Lombard stree
" whether at Shoreditch or West En-
= but it will be very hot blaze. All tt
l. government securities of the Unite
e States and Great Britain will curl I
! in the first blaze. All the none
IS safes and deposit vaults will melt u
# der the first touch. The sea will bul
" like tinder, and the shipping will
it abandoned forever. The melting go
v in the brokers' window will bur
3 through the melted window glass in
the street, but the flying populate
e. will not stop to scoop it up. The CT
"a Of "Fire!" from the mountain will
n answered by the cry of "Fire!" in Il
d plain. The confagration will bu1
"a out from the continent toward Il
N sea and then burn in from the s.
Of toward the land. New York and Lo