The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-11-03
hoofs and shoulders and eyes and ears
and noSttils of tho ca1f of ooId


fee, and this golden calf of the text
is 10 exception. Its altar is not made
out of stone, as other affairs, but out
of counting-room desks and fireproof
safes, and it is a broad, a 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
chloral and morphine and intoXicants.
Some of them struggle in a nightmare
of stocks and at one o'clock in the
morning suddenly rise up, shouting:
"A thousand shares of New York Cen
tral-10s1 s1a-take 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
in the Lord" The golden calf kicked
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 ama2ement 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:
sect out!" They get out. They get
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 a 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, i
is a scene sometimes that paralyze'
description and is beyond the imag
ination of anyone who has nevei
looked in. What swapping of fngel
and thumb and wild gesticulation ant
raving like hyenas and stamping like
buffaloes and swaying to and fro anC
jostling and running one upon anoth
er, and deafening uproar, until the
president of the exchange strikes will
his mallet four or five times, crying
"Order, order!" and the astonishet
spectator goes out into the fresh ali
feeling that he has escaped from pan
demonium. What does it all mean
l will tell you what it means. Th'
devotees of every heather temple Gu
themselves to pieces and yell ant
gyrate. This vociferation and gyra
tion of the stock exchange is all ap
propriate. This is the Worship of thu
golden calf.
But my text suggests that this wor
, ship has to be broken up, as Sbe
havior of Moses on this occasion ihdi
Gated. There are those who sa!
that this golden calf spoken of in TIL
text was hollow and merely plate'
with gold. otherwise loses could no
. have carried it. | do not know that
but somehow, perhaps by the assist
| ance of his friends, he takes up thi
= golden calf, which is an Internal in
suit to God and man, and throws j
into the fire and it Is melted, and the1
, 1t comes out and is cooled off. and b.
p some chemical appliance or by al
old fashioned file it is pulyerized, AM
> it is thrown into the brook, and as
punishment the people are compel.e'
, to drink the nauseating stuff. 5
r you may depend upon it that God vii
;. burn and he will grind to pieces tn
golden calf of modern idolatry, an
$ he will compel the people in their ae
. ony to drink it. If not before, it Wi
| be so on the last d-y. / know no
| where the fire will begin, whether Il
the Battery" or Lombard street
Y | NnelDtT at NHOItullCu VI htsl T-Ht
: but it will be very hot blaze. All tn
government securities of the Unite
States and Great Britain will curl IL
= in the first blaze. All the none
5 safes and deposit vaults will melt III
I der the first touch. The sea will bur
' like tinder, and the shipping will b
I abandoned forever The melting gol
= in the brokers window will burs
$ through the melted window glass int
the street, but the flying poPulatio
), will not stop to scoop it up. The or
o of Fire" from the mountain will L
n answered by the cry of Fire" in th
plain. The conflagration will bur
n out from the continent toward tn
n sea and then burn in from the sc
Il toward the land. New York and Lol
I don with one cut of the red scythe {
d destruction will go down. Twenty-f'
S thousand miles of confagration tt
s earth will wrap itself round a
e round in shroud of flame and lie dow
e TO perish. What then will become
IS your golden calf? Who then so poo
IS as to worship it? Melted or betwes
Il the upper and the neither milestone