Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-11-03

Will not pay. We had a great national
tumor In the shape Of fictitious pros
perity. We called 1t national enlarge
ment. Instead Of calling 1t enlarge
ment we might better have called it a
swelling. III was tumor, and God cut
1t out, and the nation was sent back to
the principles OF our fathers and grand
fathers, when twice three made six In
stead Of 60, and when the apples at the
bottom of the barrel were just as good
as the apples on the top Of the barrel,
and silk handkerchief was not half
cotton, and man who wore 50 coat
paid for was more honored than man
who wore q $50 coat not paid for.
A CannibaI Appetite.
The modern golden calf, like the one
Of the text, Is very apt to be made out
of borrowed gold. These Israelites Of
the text borrowed the earrings of the
Egyptians and then melted them Into
a god. That Is the way the golden calf
is made nowadays. A great many
| housekeepers, not paying for the artl-
! cles 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
wholesale dealer borrows Of the capt.
talst, 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 whole
sale 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 20 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 for unpaid wages, and
the harness maker for the bride, and
the furrier for the robe, while from the
tip of tie carriage tongue clear back to
the tip Of the camers hair shawl fiut-
terlng 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 as we go. 1t
is this temptation to borrow and bor-
row and borrow that keeps the people
everlastingly praying to the golden calf
for help. and Just at the minute they
expect 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 | say let
the work 90 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 when q man who will not
repent of his business iniquity, but
goes on wishing to satiate his cannibal
appetite by devouring widows houses,
shall, by the law Of the land, be COM
PEELED to exchange the brownstone
front for the penitentiary. Let the
golden calf perish!
Demolished Idols.
But II we have made this world our
god, when we come to die we shall see
our idol demolished. How much OF this
world are you going to take with you
into the next? Will you have two
pockets - one in each side Of your
shroud? VIII you cushion your casket
with bonds and mortgages and certif-
Gates of stock? All, no. The ferryboat
that crosses this Jordan takes no bag
gage-nothipg heavier than an imma-
terlal spirit. You may, perhaps, take
$500 with you two or three miles in the
shape Of funeral trapplngs to the cem-
etery. but you will have to leave them
there. 1t would not be safe for you to
lie down there with gold watch or a
diamond ring; 1t would be a tempta-
ton to the pllagers. If we have made
this world our god, we shall see our
idol, when we die, ground to pieces by
our pillow, and we shall have to drink
1t In bitter regrets for the wasted op-
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be gone. Where are the men who tried
Warren Hastings in Westminster hail.
Where are the pilgrim fathers who put
out for America? Where are the veter-
ans who on the Fourth of July, 1894
marched from New York park to the
Battery aud fired a salute and then
marched back again? And the Society
of the Cincinnati, who dined that aft
ernoon at Tontne Coffee House, on
Wall street. and Grant ThOrburn, who
that afternoon waited 10 minutes al
the foot of Maiden lane for the Brook
lyn ferryboat. then got in and was row
ed across by two men with oars, the
tide so strong that it was an hour and
ten minutes before they landed? Where
are the veterans that fired the salute
and the men Of the Cincinnati society
who that afternoon drank to the patrf
otic toast. and the oarsmen that roweC
the boat. and the people who were
transported? Gone, Oh. this is fleet
Ing world, 1t Is a dying world. a mar
who had worshiped it all his days in
his dying moment described himself
when he said, Fool, fool, fool"'
Gold That Never Crumbles.
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, fol
"by one sacrifice hath Christ perfected
forever them that are sanctified.
Here is a God who will comfort you
when you are In trouble and soothe
you when you are sick and save you
, when you die. For he has said
, when thou passest through the wa
ters, l will be with thee, and through
the rivers, they shall not overflow
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