The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-11-02
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject; The Golden Calf of Modern fdo,-
airy - The spirit of Greed DESTROYS
Those who Are in Its Grasp - Money
Got wrongfully il a Curse.

Subject; The Golden Calf of Modern tdo,-
stry - The spirit of Greed DESTROYS
Those who Are in Its Grasp Money
Got wrongfully il a Curse.
tcopyrtsht isoal
WASHINGTON. u. C.-ln this discourse
DR. Talmage shows how the spirit Of
greed DESTROYS when IL takes possession
Of man and that money got IN wrong
ways is a curse; text, Exodus NNNn, ~,
And he took the calf which they had
made aud burnt /. I'm the hre and ground
il 20 powder and strewcd il upon the
water and made the children OF Israel
drink OF il"
People will have god Of some kind.
and they prefer one OF their own making
Here &C = the lsraehtes, breaking oil
their goldea earrings. the men as well as
the women, for IN thnse times there was
masculine rs well as feminine decoration.
Where 4 they get these beautiful gold
earrings, coming up. as they did. from the
desert Oh the borrowed them of the
Egyptians when they left Egypt. These
earrings are piled up into pyramid OF
glitterinE beauty. ANY more earrings
to bring says Aaron. None. Fire is
kludlcd, the earrings are melted and pour
ed into a mold not of an eagle or n war
charger. but OF silly calf; the gold cools
down, the mold Is taken away, and the
idol Is set M on rs four legs. An altar
IS built IN font OF the shining calf. Then
the people throw mp their arms and ".
rate and shrek and dance vigorously and
worship
Moses h,s been six weeks on Mount
Sinai. a i he comes back and hears the
bowling and sees the dancing ot these
golden calf fanatics and he loses his pa.
tience, aud he takes the two plates of
stone on which were written the Ten Com.
maudments and filings them 50 hard
against a rock that they split all TO pieces
When a man gets angry, he Is ant to
break all the Ten Commandments Moses
rushes IN. and he takes this calf god and
throws II into hot TIRE until II is melted
all out of shape and then pulverizcs it
not by the modern appliance ot nitro mu-
riatlc &C a, but hv the ancient appliance of
inter or by the old fashioned file. He silrs
for the people a most nauseatlng draft
He takes this pulverized golden calf and
throws IL IN the only brook which Is ac-
ceSshle, and the people are compelled TO
drink of that brook or not drink at ALL
But they did not drink all the gllttering
stuff thrown on the surface. Some of u
flows on down the surface OF the brook to
the river and then flows on down the river
10 the sea. and the sea takes It up and
bears it TO the mouth of all the rlvcrs, and
when the tides set back the remains OF
this golden calf are carried up into the
Potomac and the Hudson and the Thames
and the Clyde and the Tber And men
go out and they skim the glttcrug sur
face. and they bring il ashore and they
make another golden calf, and California
and Australia break OIL their golden ear
rings TO augment the pile, and in the fires
Of financial excitement aud struggle all
I these things are melted together, aud
while we stand looking and wondering
what will come OF lt. 10, we find that the
/ golden calf of lsraclitlsh worship has be.
come the golden calf OF European and
/ American worship.
| Pull aside this curtain, and you soc the
golden calf of modern idolatry II % not
/ like other idols. made out OF stocks OF
stone. but u has an ear so sensitive that ~
can hear the whispers on Wall street and
/ Third street and State street. and the
! footballs IN the Bank of England and the
hutter OF n Frcnchman's heart on the
/ bourse. IL has an eye so keen that Il can
see the rust on the farm OF Michigan
wheat and the insect IN the Maryland
/ peach orchard and the trampled grain nm.
/ der the hoof of the Russian war charger.
/ IL is so mighty that IT swings any way It
will the worlds shipping. II has ts foot
/ on all the merchantmen and the steam
ers. II started the American Civil War
and under God stopped IT. and II decided
! the Turko- Russian contest. One broker
/ in September 1869, in New York, shouted,
] olt nuDnftu anu sixty LOT mllllDn
/ and the whole continent shivered The
/ golden calf of the text has, as far az Amer.
! ica is concerned its right front foot in
! New York, IL left front foot IN Chicago
/ It's right back foot IN Charleston, rs left
/ back foot IN New Orleans, and when It
] shakes itself IL shakes the world. Oh this
/ il a mighty god-the golden calf OF the
worlds worship,
! But every god must have its temple, and
p unl1aD "a pf faV "a "a
/ ton. Its temple - vastor than 81. PauPs
/ Cathedral IN England. and ~. Peters in
/ Italy, and the Alhambra Of the Spaniards,
and the Parthenon OF the Greeks, and the
/ TAI Mahal of the liindoos. and all the
cathedrals put together. It's pillars are
grooved and huted with gold. and it's
ribbed arches are lowering gold, and its
chandeliers are descending gold. and its
floors are tessellated gold, and it's vaults
are crowded heaps Of goll and its spires
and dOmes are soaring gold. and it's organ
plDes are resOunding gold, aud lts pedals
are tramping gold aud its stops pulled out
are flashing gold, while, standing at the
head OF the temple. as the presiding diety
are the hoofs and shoulders and eyes and
ears and nostrils OF the calf of gold.
Further, every god must have not only
It's temple, but its altar OF sacrifice, and
this golden calf OF the text IL no exception
It's altar ls not made out OF stone as other
altars, but out of counting room desks
and treproof safes, and II s a broad, a
long. a high altar. The victims sacrificed
on II are the Swartouts and the Ketchams
and the Fisks and ten thousand other
people who are slain before this golden
calf
What does this god csrc about the
groans and struggles Of the victims before
~ With cold, metallic eye, u looks on
and yet lets them suffer What an altar
What a sacrifice Of mind, body and soul
The physical health OF great multitude
is flung on TO this sacricial altar. They
cannot sleep. and they take chlDral and
morphine and intoxlcants.
Some Of them struggle IN n nightmare of
stocks. and Of | O'Clock IN the morning
suddenly rise up shouting a thousand
shares Of New York Ccntral-one hun.
dred and eight and a half. take iti'-unth
the whole family is afrgh' cd. and the
spectators fall back on their pillows and
sleep until they are awakened again by
corner IN Pacific Mail, or a sudden
rise" Of Rock Island
Their nerves gone. their digestion gone.
their brain gone. they die. The gowned
ecclcsIastic comes in and reads tho iuner.
al service, Blessed are the dead who die
IN the Lord" Mistake They did not
die IN the Lord the golden cali kicked
them
The trouble ls. when the men sacrihce
Themselves on this altar suggested IN the
text they not only sacrifice Themselves,
but they sacriiice their families.
II "a man by a wrong course is deterrn.
ined 30 90 % perditiou, ! supposs you
will haze 90 let him go Bot NJ puts his
wife and children in an equipaze that -
the am8znmcnt oi the avenues. and the
driver ashes the horses into two wbirl.
winds and the sD0kes fash boz The sun and
a i l L Il.
until back calamity takes the bits oil the
hnraea and .lnn. lHn-n and aLnIIs ln Tho