The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-11-02

does this god care about the gro,ns
ana struggles of the victims beforeit2
With cold. metallic eye it looks on sud
vet let's them suffer. What an Altar?
What a sacrifice of mind, body md
soul The physical health Of a great
multitude Is flung ON to this sacrifial
altar. They cannot sleep. aud they AXE
choral and morphine and intoNicsnts.
Some OF them struggle i'm a nightmare
of stocks aud at one o'clock In the
morning suddenly rise up. shoui ng:
"a thousand shares of New York en-
tral-l0SH -take i'll" until the mole
family is afrrighted. and the spe,ula-
tors fan back on their pillow aud } eep
until they are awakened again ~ a
corner" in Pacific Mail or SUDDEN
rise" of Rock Island. Their neyes
gone. their digestion gone. their b,ain
gone, they die. The gowned eccle, as
tic comes in and reads the funeral s,ry-
ice: blessed are they who die IN the
Lordl" Mistake. They did not die
in the Lord The golden calf kicsed
them!
The trouble Is when men sacr fee
themselves ON this altar suggest in
the text they not only sacritc uem-
selves. bat they sacrifice their mi
lies. If a man by wrong course de-
termined to 40 TO perdition. sup ose
YOU will have TO let him go. Bu he
puts his wife and children in an ecuip-
age that is the amazement of IN, av-
enues. and the driver lashes the HOSES
into two whirlwinds. and the 80 kes
fash in the sun. and the golden D sad-
gear OF the harness CLEANS until ! ack
calamity takes the bits OF the h,rses
and stops them and shouts to the AK
uriant occupants Of the equiplge:
Get Quit" They get out. The, gei
down. Thachusband and father flung
his family so hard they never go up.
There was the mark on them for he
the mark Of split hoof--the dsath-
dealing hoof of the golden calf.
Solomon offered in one sacrifes on
one occasion $4,000 oxen and ~ 900
sheep. but that was a tame sac fee
compared with the multitude OF men
who are sacrificing themselves on Ibis
altar Of the golden calf and sacrif -.ng
their families with them. The solder
Of Gen. Havelock. in India. Wake iii-
orally ankle deep in the blood Of The
house Of massacre" where 200 white
women and children had been sian by
the Sepoys but the blood about his
altar Of the golden calf flows up q the
knee. flows up 10 the girdle. flows up 10
the shoulder. flows up 10 the lip. Great
God of Heaven and earth. have mfrcy
on those who immediate themselves on
this altar! The golden calf has
none.
Still the degrading worship goe' on.
and the devotees kneei 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. II is mac OF
blinking silver and blinking gold and
the rafting specie Of the banks aud
brokers shops and the voices OF nl The
exchanges. The soprano of the VIZ hip
Is carried by the timid voices smen
who have just begun 10 speculate, Nhile
the deep bass rolls out rom those
who for ten years have beef STEPPED in
the seething caldron. Chorus OF
voices rejoicing over wha they have
made; chorus Of voices Nailing over
what they have lost. The temple OF
which | speak stands open day and
night, and there Is a glittering god
with his four feet on broken hearts,
and there is the smoking altar OF sac
rihce. new victims every moment on
IL. and there are the kneeling deyo-
tees; and the doNology Of the worship
rolls on. while death stands with
moldy and skeleton arm beating time
for the chorus-"More, more, morcl'
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 paralyzes
description and is beyond the mag
ination OF anyone who has never
looked in. What swapping OF finger
and thumb and wild gesticulation and
raving like hyenas and stamping like
buffaloes and swaying TO and fro and
jostling and running one upon anoth-
er. and deafening uproar, until the
president OF the exchange strikes with
his mallet four or five times, crying:
"Order. orderi" and the astonished
spectator goes out into the fresh air
feeling that be has escaped from pan
demonium. What does IL all mean
! will tell you what IL means The
devotees OF every heather temple cut
themselves TO pieces and yell and
gyrate. This vociferation and gyra-
ton Of the stock exchange is all ap.
propriate. This is the orship Of the
golden calf.
But my text suggests that this wor-
ship has TO be broken up, as the be-
havior of Moses on this occasion indi.
Gated. There ere those who say
that this golden calf spoken Of in the
text was hollow and merely plated
with gold, otherwise doses could not
have carried IL. ! do not know that
but somehow. perhaps by the assist.
ance of his friends. he takes OF this
golden calf. which is an internal In.
suit 10 God and nan, and throws II
into the fire and 1t Is melted. and then
II comes ont and is cooled of. and By
some chemical appliance or by an
old-fashioned file it is pulverized, and
il is thrown into the brook. and as O
punishment the people are compel.ed