The Iola register., 1900-11-02
EFFECT ON MANKIND.
DIR. Talmage Shows How the Spirit
of Greed Destroys.
Strong DenuncIation of Those who
worship the Golden Calf of
Modern IdOiatry-Day of
Judgment COming.
copyright. 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l

how the spirit OF greed destroys Wnen
it takes possession of a man and that
money got in wrong ways is curse.
Text: Exodus. XXNii.. 20, And he took
the calf which they had made and burnt
IL in the fire, and ground ii to powder,
and streWed il upon the water. and
made the children of Israel drink Of
at"
People will have god of some KIND,
and they prefer one of their own maxi
ing. Here come the lsraeites, breaking
off their golden earrings. the men as
well as the women, for in those times
there was masculine as well as femi-
nine decoration. 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 pyramid of glittering
beauty. ANY more earrings to bring?''
says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled,
the earrings are melted and poured
into a mod, not of an eagle or a war
charger. but of a silly calf. The gold
eools down. the mold is taken away,
and the idol is set up on its four legs.
An altar is built in front OF the shin
ing calf. Then the people throw up
their arms ANA gyrate and shrek and
dance vigorously an" Norshlp'
Moses has been sis weeks on Mount
Sinai, and hc comes back and hears
the howiug and es The dancing Of
these golden cai' fouatics and ne loses
his patience, and inc takes the TWO
plates of stone on which were written
the Ten Commandments and hhnes
them'so hard r,"as rock mat they
split all 20 E-e... When man gets
angry, he is apt i' break all he len
commandments. Moses Iushes In' ana
he takes this cali god and throws II
into hot fire until 1t rs melted all out
OF shape and thcu rulveriIes IT. not
by the modern appliance OF nitromuri-
attic acid, but by he ancient appliance
of niter or by the oId-tashioned file.
lie stirs for the people most nauSeat-
ing draft. lie takes this pulverlzed
golden cali ana throws II IN the only
brook Whlch IS acceSSlnIe' ana 'he peo-
pie are compelled to drink OF that
brook OF not drink AT all
But theN ana not drink all the gllt-
tering stun thrown on the surface
Some of 1t flows on down the sur
face OF the brook to the river and then
flows on down the river to the sea- and
the sea takes II up ana bears II 10 the
mouth OF all the rivers ana when the
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 Iiber and men go
out and they skim the glitterlng sur
face, and they bring 1t ashore, and
they make another golden calf, and
California ana Australia break on 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 ind that the golden calf 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 ont
of stocks or stone, but it has an ear
so sensitive that II can near the Whis-
pers on wall street and Third street
and State street and the footballs in
the Bank OF England and the hutteI
OF frenchman S heart on the bourse
1t has an eye so Keen that it can se'
the rust on the farm of Michigan wheat
ana the insect IN the Maryland peach
orchard ana the trampled grain under
The hoot OF the Russian war charger
1t is so mighty that 1t swings any way
II will the worlds shipping. 1t has its
foot on all the merchantmen and the
steamers. 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: "One hundred and six
fy for million!' and the whole con
tinent shivered' The golden calf of the
text has. as far as America is con
cerned, its right foot in New York. its
Ielt ioot III Ihlchgo, ltS rlght back loot