The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-11-09

pay, that the spending of $4,000 on
country seats ami a palatial city resi-
dence when there are only 100000 in
come will not pay, that the appropria-
ton of trust funds to our own private
specula ton will not pay. We had a
great national tumor in the shape OF
fictitious prosperity. We called it ma
tional enlargement. Instead of calling
it enlargement we might better have
called it a swelling. 1t was a tumor,
and God cut it out, and the nation was
sent back to the principles of our ia
Tiers and grandfathers, when twice
the apples at the bottom of the barrel
were just as good as the apples on the
top of the barrel and a silk handker-
chief was not half cotton and a man
who wore a five-dollar coat paid for
was more honored than man who
wore $50 coat not paid for.
Te modern golden calf, like the one
of the text, is vs-.y SPIT to be made out
of borrowed gold. Fhese Israelites of
the text borrowed tire earrings of the
Egyptians and then fielted them in % a
god That is the way the golden calf is
made nowadays. A great many house
keepers not paying for the articles they
get borrow of the grocer and the baker
and the butcher and the dry goods
seller. Then the retailer borrows of
the wholesale dealer. Then the whole
sale dealer borrows of the capitalist,
and we borrow and borrow and borrow
until the community is divided into two
classes, those who borrow and those
who are borrowed of, and after awhile
the capitalist wants his money. and he
rushes upon the wholesale dealer, and
the wholesale dealer wants his money
and he rushes upon the retailer, and
the retailer wants his money, and he
rushes on the customer, and we all go
down together. There is many man
in this day who rides in carriage and
owes the blacksmith for the tire and
the wheelwright for the wheel and the
trimmer for the curtain and the driver
fol-; unpaid wages and the harness MAX
er for the bride and the furrier for
the robe, while from the tip of the car
rage tongue clear back to the tip of
the camel's hair shawl fluttering out
of the back of the vehicle everything
is paid for by notes that have been
three times renewed.
! tell you that in this country we
shall never get things right until we
stop borrowing and pay rs we go. 1t is
this temptation to borrow and borrow
and borrow that keeps the people ever
lastingly praying to the golden calf
for help, and just the minute they ex-
pect the help the golden calf treads
on them. The judgments of God, like
Moses in the text. will rush in and
break up this worship, and l say let the
work go on until every man shall
learn to speak truth with his neigh
Dor, and those who make engagements
shall feel themselves bound to keep
them, and then man who will not
repent of his business iniquity, but
goes on wishing to satiate his canni-
bal appetite by deyouring widows
houses, shall, by the law of the land,
be compelled to exchange the brown
stone front for the penitentiary. Let
the golden calf perish!
l want you to change temples and to
give up the worship of this unsatisfy-
ing and cruel god for the service of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Here is the gold
that will never crumble. Here are the
securities that will never fail. Here
are the banks that will never break.
Here is an altar on which there has
been one sacrifice that does for all,
for "by one sacrifice hath Christ per-
fected forever them that are sancti-
fed" Here is God who will COM
tort you when you are in trouble and
'oothe you when you are sick and save
you when you die. For He has said:
When thou passeth through the wa
-ers, will be with thee, and through
he rivers they shall not overflow thee;
when thou walkest through the fire.
hou shalt not be burned, neither shall |
he flame kindle upon thee"
When your parents have hreathed |
heir last and the old, wrinkled and
trembling hands can no more be put
lpon your head for blessing, He will |
De to you a father and mother both,
irving you the defense of one and the |
comfort of the other. For have we not |
'aul's blessed hope that as Jesus died
md rose again, ''even SO them also
which sleep in Jesus shall God bring
With Him." And when your children
70 away from you, the sweet darlings,
,ou will not kiss them and say good |
,y forever. He only wants to hold |
hem for you a little while. He will
rive them back to you again, and He
will have them all waiting for you at