The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-11-07


the tex: they not only sacrifice them
selves, but they sscIlh;e their families.
If nan by 8 wrong ,urse is deter
uiaed 10 g 10 perGition, lsuppose you
Will have to let him g.. But he puts
his wife and children in an equipage
that is the amaz .ment Of the avenues,
and the driver lashes the horses into
two whirlwinds, and the spokes fash in
the sun, and the golden headgear of the
harness CLEANS until black calamity
takes the bits of the horses and stops
them and shouts to the luxuriants OF
the eqlipage, Get 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 split hoof
the death dealing hpof o. the golden
calf.
e Solomon off red IN one sacrifice on
one occasion 22,0U0 oxen and 1900
sheep, but that was tame sacrifice
compared with the multitude of men
who are sacrificing themselves on this
altar of the golden calf and sacrificing
their families with them. The soldiers
Of General Havelock in India walked
literally ankle deep in the blood OF
the house of massacre" where 2OO
white women and children had been
slain by the poys, but tie blood about
this altar of the golden calf flows up to
the knee. foEs up to the girdle, f )Ws
up to the shoulder fl us up to the lip
Great God of heaven and earth, have
mercy on those who immediate them
selves on this altar The golden calf
has none.
Sill the degrading worship goes en-,
AMI the GevoteeS kneel and kiss the dust
AID count their golden beads and cross
Themselves with the blocd of their own
sacrifice. The music rolls on under
the arches. Il is made of blinking sill,
yer aud clinkipg gold and the rattling
specie of the banks and brokers shops
snd tho voices Of all the exchanges
The soprano cf the worship is carried
by the tini3 voices Of men who have
Just begun to speculate, while the deep
bass rolls out from those who for ten
years have been stepped in the seething
csldron. Chorus of voices rejoicing
over what they have made; chorus Of
voices Eailiog over what they have lost,
This temple of which | speak stands
open day and night, and there IS the
differing god with his four feet on
broken hearts, and there IS the smoking
altar of sacrifice, new victims every
moment on il, AID there are the kneel
ing devotees; and the dox,logy Of the
worship rolls on, while death stands
With moldy ard skeletoo arm beating
time for the chorus-'Mo1e, more,
more
Some PEOPLE are very much surprised
at the actions Of people in the Sock
Exchange, New York Indeed, it is a
scene sometimes that psralyzss dsscrip-
ton and is beyond the imagination Of
any one who has never looked. What
swapping of finger and thumb and wild
gesticula:ioa and raving like hyenas aud
stamping like bufaloes and swaying to
and fro and jostling aud running one
upon another and deafeniDg uproar,
until the president of the exchange
strikes with his mallet four or five times,
crying, 80 der, ordeF!' and the astoo-
i,hed spectator gees out into the fresh
airfeeling that he has escaped from pan
dem9nium. What does 1t al mean?
l 8ill Tell you whatit means. The de-
7otess Of every heather temple Gu:
themselves to opieces and yell and gyrate.
This Tociferation and gyration of the
Sock Exchange is sil appro pirate.
This is the worship of the golden calf.
But my text suggests that this wor-
ship has to be broken up, as the be-
havior Of Moses oc this occasion indi-
cs,ed. There arc !:rse who say that
this golden calf spoken Of inshe text vas
hollow aud merely plated with gold,
otherwise Moses could net have carried
it. 60 not know that but somehow,
perhaps by the assistance Of his friends,
be takes up this golden calf, which is
an n'ernsl insult to Gjd aod
man, and throws it into the
FIRE and it is melted, and then it comes
out and IS cooled Of, and By some
chemical applicance or by an old fash
ioned file it is pulveriz ID, aud it is
thrown into the brook, and as punish
ment the people are compelled to drink
the nsuseatipg stuff So you may de-
pend upon it that God will burn and
he will grind to pieces the golden ca f
Of modern idolatry, and he will compel
the people IN their agony to drink it.
If no, before, it will be so on the last
day. know not where the FIRE will be-
gin, whether at the Batter" or Lom-
bard street, whether st Shoreditch or
West End, but it will be very hot
blaze Ali the government securities
of the United States and Great Britain
will curl up in the first blaze All the
money safes and deposit vaults will
melt under the first touch. The Sea
will burn like tlnder, and the shipping
will be abandoned forever. The melt
ing gold in the brokers' window will
burst through the meltec wiadoW glass
into the street, but the flying popuia-
ton will rot stop to scoop 1t up. The
cry Of Fire from the mountain will
be answered by the cry Of Fire! in
the plain. The coDdagratjon will burn
ont from the continent toward the sea
and then burn in from the sea toward
the land. New York and London with
one cut of the red scytbe of destruction
will 90 down. Twenty-Five thousand
miles of confagration! The earth will
wrap itself round and round in shroud
of fame and lie down to perish. What
then will become of your golden calf?
Who then SO poor as to worship It?
Melted OF between the upper and the
neither milestone Of falling mountains