The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-09
EFFECT ON MANKIND.
DR.. Talmage Shows How the Spirit
of Greed Destroys.
strong Denunciation of Those Who
worship the Golden Calf of
Modern IdOlatry-Day of
Judgment Coming.
copyright, 1900. by Louis klopschl
Washington,

Washington,
In this discourse DR.. Talmage shows
how the spirit of greed destroys when
IA takes possession of man and that
msney got in wrong ways is curse.
Text: Exodus xXXii., 20, And he took
Inc calf which they had made and burnt
IA in the fire, and ground it to powder,
xnd strewed it upon the water, and
nnade the children of Israel drink of it,"
People will have god of some kind,
sud they prefer one of their own max
ing Here come the Israelites, breaking
ell their golden earrings, the men as
well as the women, for in those times
ahere was masculine as well as femi-
nine decora ton. Where did they get
these beautiful gold earrings, coming up
as they did from the desert? Oh, they
borrowed them of the Egyptians when
they left Egypt. These earrings are
piled up into a pyramid of glittering
beauty. ANY more earrings to bring?
SAYS Aaron. None. Fire is kindled,
abe earrings are melted and poured
into a mold. not of an eagle or war
charger, but of silly calf. The gold
eools down. the mold is taken away,
and the idol is set up on It's four legs
An altar is built IN front OF the SHIN
ing calf. Then the people throw up
sbeir arms and gyrate and shrek and
aance vigorously and worship.
Moses has been SIX weeks on Mount
Sinai, and he comes back and hears
the hawlinU and sees the dancing OF
these golden calf fanatics, ana he loses
his patience, and he takes the TWO
plates OF stone on which were written
the Ten Commandments and hlngs
them so hard against rock that they
split all to pieces. When man gets
angry. he is apt to break all the len
Commandments! Moses PUSHES in, and
he takes this calf god and throws II
into hot fire until it is melted all out
OF shape and then pulverizes 1t, not
by the modern appliance of nltromurl-
attic acid, but by the ancient appliance
of inter or by the old-fashioned file.
He stirs for the people most nauseat-
ing draft. He takes this pulverized
golden calf and throws it in the only
pie are compelled to drink of that
brook or not drink at all.
But they did not drink ali the gilt
tering stuff thrown on the surface.
Some of it flows on down the sur
face of the brook to the river and then
tows on down the river to the sea, and
the sea takes it up and bears it to the
AIT h fNf oil ha ,-iu nd hnto no
tides set back the remains of this gold
en- calf are carried up into the Potomac
and the Hudson and the Thames and
the Clyde and the Tiber, and men go
out, and they skim the glittering sur
face. and they bring it ashore. and
they make another golden calf, and
California and Australia break off their
golden earrings to augment the pile.
and in the fires of financial excitement
and struggle all these things are melt
ed together, and while we stand looking
and wondering what will come of it,
10 we find that the golden cali of Is
raelitish worship has become the gold-
en- calf of European and American wor-
ship.
Pull aside this curtain. and you see
the golden calf of modern idolatry.
1t 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 iutter
of a Frenchman's heart on the bourse.
1t has an eye so keen that it can sec
the rust on the farm of Michigan wheat |
aud the insect in the Maryland peach |