The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-11-02

from those who for ten years have
have been stepped in the seething
caidron. Chorus OF voices rejoicing
over what they have made; chorus OF
voices wailing over what they have
lost This temple OF which l speak
stands open day and night, and there
is the glittering god with his four feet
on broken hearts, and there Is the
smoking altar of sacrifice, new vic
Tins every moment on it, and there
are the kneeling devotees; and the
doxology OF the worship rolls on,
while death stands with moldy and
skeleton arm beating time for the che
rus-"More, more, more!"
Some people are very much surpris-
ed at the actions of people in the
Stock Exchange, New York. Indeed,
it is a scene sometimes that paralyzes
description and is beyond the imagi-
nation Of any one who has never look
ed ia. What swapping OF finger and
thumb and wild gesticulation and raw
ing like hyenas and stamping like
hgnllCes and swaying to and fro and
ios;liEg and running one upon the
other and dealening uproar, until the
president Of the exchange strikes with
his mallet four or five times, crying,
Order, order!" and the astoIished
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 gy-
rate. This vociferation and gyratlon
Of the Stock Exchange is all appropri-
ate. This is the worship Of the gold
en- calf.
Day ot Judgment Coming.
But every day is a day Of judgment,
and God is all the time grinding to
pieces the golden calf. Some years
ago in 4 time of panic we learned as
never before that forgeries will not
pay, that the watering OF stocks VIII
not pay, that the spending OF $4,000
on country seats and a palatial city
| residence when there are only $4,000
income will not pay, that the appropIia-
| ton of trust funds to our own pri-
vate speculation will not pay. We had
q great national tuner in the shape of
! fictitious prosperity. We called it ma
! tional enlargement. Instead of calling
| it enlargement we might better have
called it a swelling. 1t was a tumor,
and God cut it out, and the nation was
sent back to the principles Of our
fathers and grandfathers, when twice
! three made six instead Of sixty and
when the apples at the bottom of the
barrel were just as good as the apples
on the top of the barrel, and a silk
! handkerchief was not half cotton,
and man who wore s. coat paid for
was more honored than man who
wore $50 coat not paid for
The modern golden calf, like the
one OF the text, is very apt TO be made
out Of borrowed gold. These Israelites
of the text borrowed the earrings Of
/ the Egyptians and then melted them
into a god. That is the way the gold
en- calf is made nowadays. A great
many housekeepers, not paying for
the articles they get. borrow of the
grocer and the baker and the butcher
and the dry goods seller. Then the
retailer borrows of the wholesale deal
er. Then the wholesale dealer bor-
rows Of the capitalist, and we borrow
and borrow and borrow until the COM
munity is divided into two classes,
these who borrow. and those who are
borrowed Of and after awhile the
capitalist wants his money, AID he
rushes upon the wholesale dealer, and
she wholesale dealer wants his money
and he rushes upon the retailer, and
the retailer wants his money, and he
rUshes upon the customer, and we all
20 down together There Is many a
man In this day who rides in a car
riage and owes the blacksmith for the
tire and tho wheelwright fol the wheel
and the trimmer for the curtain and
the driver for unpaid wages and tao
harness maker for the bride and the
furriey for the robe, while from the
tip Of the carriage tongue clear back
20 the tip of the camel's hair shawl
huttering ont OF the back OF the We
hicle everything is paid for by notes
that have been three times renewed.
Iaols Demolished.
But, If we have made this world
our god, when we come to die we shall
zee our idol demolished How much
Of this world are you going to take
with you into the next? WIN you have
two poctets-one in each side OF your
shroud? VIII you cushion your c.-s-
ket with bonds and mortgages and Ger
tifcates of stock? All, no! The fer
ryboat that crosses this Jordan takes
no aggage--nothing heavier than an
immatcrial spirit. You may, perhaps
take $500 with you two or three miles
in the shape OF funeral trappngs 60
the cemetery, but you will have to
leave them there 1t would not be safe
for you to lie down there with 80 d
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