The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-09
hoofs and shoulders and eyes and ears
and nostrils of the calf of gold.

and nostrils of the calf of gold.
Further, every god must have Kot
only its temple, but its altar of sacri-
fee, and this golden calf of the text
is no 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, long, a 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 sacrifice of mind, body and
soul! The physical health of great
multitude is flung on to this sacrificial
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 Stake i'll" 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 die
=, H. Toad Tho no1den calf kick ed
them!
The trouble is when men sacrifice
themselves on this altar suggested in
the text they not only sacritic 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
flash 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:
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 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, it
is a scene sometimes that paralyzes
description and is beyond the imag-
nation 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 malet four or five times, crying:
Order, order!" ard the astonished
spectator goes out into the fresh air
feeling that he has escaped from pan
demonium. What does it all mean?
/ will tell you what it 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 APP
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 are those who say
that this golden calf spoken of in the
text was hollow and merely plated |
with gold. otherwise loses could not |
have carried it. | do not know that, |
but somehow, perhaps by the assist
ance of his friends, he takes up this
golden calf, which is an Internal in
suit to God and man, and throws it ,
into the fire and it is melted, and then |
it comes out and is cooled off, and by |
some chemical appliance or by an
old-fashioned file it is pulverized, and |
it is thrown into the brook, and as a |
punishment the people are compelled |
to drink the nauseating stuff. So |
you may depend upon it that God will |
burn and he will grind to pieces the
golden calf of modern idolatry, and |
he will compel the people in their ag-
ony to drink it. If not before, it will |
be so on the last Day. l know not |
where the fire will begin, whether at
the Battery" or Lombard street,
whether at Shoreditch or West End,
but it will be a very hot blaze. All the
government securities of the United
States and Great Britain will curl up
in the first blaze. All the money
safes and deposit vaults will melt I'M
der the first touch. The sea will burn