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

Dr.. Talmag4 Tells Of It's 8 ightin2
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STRONG DENUNclATION
OF These Who Worship tbs GoIdsn
Calf of Modsrn ldolatry ard
Sacif .ca Thsm salves
en- lis Altar.

In this discourse DR.. Talmage shows
how the spirit Of greed destroys when
it takes possession Of man and that
money got in wrong ways is curse
Text: Exodus, zxxii, 20, And hetooS
the calf which they had made and burnt
it in the FIRE, and ground it to powder,
q d streEed it upon the water and made
the children of Israel drink Of It,
People will have god Of some kind,
and they prefer c1e Of their own max
ing. Here come the Israelites, break
ing of their golden earrings, the men
ss well as the women, in those times
there was masculine as we'll ss feminine
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 pyarmid OF glittering
beauty. ANY more earrings to bring?
says Aaron. None. Fire is klndled,
the earrings are melted and poured into
3 mold, not Of an eagle or war charger,
but Of silly calf. The gold cools down
the mold is taken -aTag, and the idol IS
set up on its four legs. An altar is
built in front Of the shining calf. Then
the people throw up their arms aud
gyrate and shrek and dance vigorously
and worship.
Moses has been SIX weeks on Mount
Sinai, and he comes back and hears the
bowling and sees the dancing OF these
golden calf fanatics, aud he loses his pa.
tlence, and he takes the two plates of
stone On which were written the Ten
Commandments and iings them SO hard
against rock that they split all to
pieces. When a man gets angry, he is
apt to break al the Ten Command
ments, Moses rusLes in, and he takes
this calf god and throws it into hot
FIRE until it is melted all out Of shape
and then pul7e;izes it, not By the
nodorn appliance of nitromuriatic acid,
but by the ancient appliance Of inter or
by the old fashioned file. He stirs for
the people most Dauseating draft. He
takes this rulverizo6 golden calf and
throws it in the only brook which is
accessible, and the people are compelled
to dring Of that brook or not brink at
all.
But they did rot drink all the glitter
ing stuff thrown on the surface. Some
Of it flows on down the surface of the
brook to the river and taen flows on
down the river to the sea, and the sea
takes it up AID bears it 20 the mouth Of
all the rivers, and when the tides set
back the remains Of this golden calf
are carried up into the Potomac and
the Hudson ard the Thames and the
Tiber, ard men 80 out, ao6 they skim
the glistering surface, and they bring i;
ashore, and they make another golden
calf, and California and Australia
break of their golden earrings to aug.
ment the pile, and in the fires Of 6nan-
cial excitement and struggle all these
things are melted together, and while
we stand looking and wondering what
will come of it, 10, We fud that the
golden calf Of Is,aeftish worship las
become the golden ca.f Ct European and
American worship.
Pull aside this curtain aud you see
the golden calf OF modern idolatry. 1t
is not, like other id Dis, made out Of
stocks OF stone, but it has aD ear so sem
sitive that it can hear the whispers on
Wsll street, and Third street, and State
street, and FOOTBALLS in the Bank of
England, and the flttter Of a French
mans heart Oh the Bourse, 1t has an
eye so keen that it can see the rust On
the farm of Michigan wheat and the in
sect in the Maryland peach orchard and
the tranpled grain under the hoof Of
the Russian war charger. 1t is SO
mighty that it swings any way it will
the worlds shipping. 1t has its foot on
sll the merchantmen and the steamers.
1t started the American civil war and
under God, stopped it, and it decid d
the Turke- Russian contest. One brok
er in September, 1869, in New York,
shouted. "One hundred and sixty for
million! and the whole continent
shi7ered. The golden calf Of the text
has, as far as America is concerned, It's
right front foot in New York, its left
front foot in Chicago, its right back
foot IN Charleston, its left back foot in
New Orleans, and it shakes itself the
world. On, this is mighty god-the
golden calf of the worlds worship.
But every god must have its temple,
and this golden calf of the text is no
exception. It's temple is vaster than
St. Paul's cathedral in England, and
St. Peters in Italy, and the Alhambra
of the Spaniards, and the Partherou Of
the Greeks, and the Tai Mshsl Of the
Hindoos and all the catnedrals put to-
gether. It's pillars are grooved and
futed with gold, and lis ribbed arches
are lowering gold, and its chandeliers
are decending GOLD, and It's floors are
tessellateu gold, and its vAults are
crowded heaps Of gold, aud It's spires
and oomes are soaring gold, and its
organ pipes are resounding gold, an its
pedalsare tranping gold, and It's stops
pulled out are are fsshing gold, while
stand st the hea6 of the temple, as the
prasiding deity, are the hoofs and
shoulders and eyes and ears and nos
srils Of the calf Of gold.
Further, every god must have not
only its temple, but its altar Of sacri-
zee, and this golden calf Of the text is
no exception. Its altar is not made out
Of stone as other sltsrs; but out of
counting room desks and ireproof safes,
and it is a broad, a loDg, a high altar.
The victims sacrificed on it are the
SWsrtouts and the Ketchans and the
Fisks and 10000 other people who are
slain before this golden calf. What
does this god care shout the croans and