The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-11-02
|TALMAGE'S SERMON.
TELLS OF OREED'S BLIGHTING
EFFECT ON MANKIND.
penunciation of Those Who worship
the Golden Calf of Modern Idolatry
and Sacrifice Themselves and Their
Families.


Copyright, 1900, Louis Blopsch, n. "
Washington, Oct. 28.-ln this dis
course DR.. Talmage shows how the
spirit OF greed destroys when it takes
possession OF a maR and that money
got in wrong ways is a curse. Text:
Exodus. xxxii, 20, and he took the
calf which they had made and burnt
it in the fire, and ground 1t to a pow
der. and strewed it upon the water,
and made the children of Israel drink
of it,.
People viii have a god of some kind
and they prefer one OF their own
making. Here come the Israelitss,
breaking off their golden earrings, the
men as well as the women, for in those
times there WAS masculine as woll as
feminine decoration. Where did they
get these beautiful gold earrings. COM
ing up as they did. from the desert?
Oh, they borrowed them OF tao Egyp-
tians when they left Egypt. These
earrings are piled up into pyramid
of glittering beauty. ANY more ear
rings to hriDg?" says Aaron. None.
Fire is kindled, the earrings are melt
ed and poured into a mold, not Of an
eagle, or a war charger, but of a soilly
calf The gold cools down, the mold
is taken away, and the idol is set up
on its four legs. An altar is built in
front OF the shining calf. Then the
people throw UP their arms and gyrate
and shrek and dance vigorously and
worship.
Moses has been six weeks on Mount
Sinai, and he comes back and hears
the bowling and sees the dancing OF
these golden CALF fanatics, and he loses
his patience, and he takes the two
plates Of stone on which were written
the Ten Commandments! Moses rush
es in, and he takes this calf god and
throws it into a hot fire until it is
melted all out of shape and then pull
veriZes it, not by the modern appli-
ance of nitromuriatic acid, but by the
ancient appliance OF inter or by the
old fashioned file He stirs for the
people a most nauseating draft. He
takes this pulverized golden calf and
throws it in the only brook which IS
accessible, and the people are compell-
ed to drink of that brook or not drink
at all.
Modern Golden Calf.
Pull aside this curtain, and you see
the golden calf of modern idoatry.
It is not, like other idols, made out
Of stocks or stone, but it has an ear so
sensitive that it can hear the whis-
pers on Wall street, and Third street
and State street and the footballs in
the Bank of England, and the flutter
Of a Frencbman's heart On the Bouyse.
II has an eye so keen that it can sec
the rust on the farm of Michigan
wheat and the insect in the Maryland
peach orchard and the tramDled
grain under the hoof of the Rusaian
war charger. 1t is so mighty that il
swings any way 1t will the world
shipping. It has its foot on all the
merchantmen and the steamers. II
started the American civil war and
under God. it stopped it, and it decid-
cd the Turko-Russian contest. One
broker in September, 1859, in New
York, shouted, "Ore hundred and six
ty for a millionn and the who'e con-
tinent shivered. The golden calf o.
the text has, as far as America is con-
cerned, its right front foot in New
York, its left front foot in Chicago
its right bark foot in Charleston, it;
left back fg~)t in New Orleans, ana
when it shakes itself 1t shakes the
world. On, this is a mighty god-thC
golden calf of the worlds worship.
It's Altar of sacrifice.
Further, every god must have not
only its temple, but its altar of sacri.
flee, and this golden calf Of the text is
no exception. It's altar is not madc
out of stone as other affairs, but out Of
counting room desks and freproo.
safes. The victims sacrificed on il
are the Swartouts and the Ketcham:
and the Fisks and 10000 other peoal;
who are slain before this golden calf
What does this god care about tht
groans and struggles of the victims
before it? With cold. metallic eye i
looks on and yet lets them suffer
What an altar! What a sacrifice o
mind, body and soul The phys,ca
health Of a great multitude is fiuRl
on to this sacrifical altar. They can
not sleep and they take chloral an,
morphine and intoxicants. Some o
them struggle in nightmare o
stocks and at 1 o'clock in the morning
suddenly rise up, shouting. "A thou
sand shares OF New York Central
1Os1h-take IT." untn the whole FAINT!
is affrighted, and the spectators fal
back on their pillows and sleep unit
they are awakened again by "eor
ner" in Pacific Mail or a sudden rise
of Rock Island Their nerves gone
their digestion gone, their brain gone
they die. The gowned ecc,es.asti
comes in and reads the funeral service
blessed are the dead who die in tn
Lord!" Mistake. They did not "dii