The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-11-03

Gen. Hayelock. in India walked 1T
orally ankle deep in the blood OF "the
hous, of massacre" where 200 white
women and children had been slain by
the sepoys, but the blood about ms
altar OF the golden calf flows up 20 the
knee. flows up 10 the girdle, flows up TO
the shoulder, flows up 10 the lip. Great
God Of Heaven and earth. have mercy
on those who immediate themselves on
this atari The golden calf has
none.
Still the degrading worship goes on,
and the devotees kneei and kiss me
dust and count their golden beads and
cross themselves with the blood OF
their own sacrifice. The music rolls
on under the arches, II is made OF
clinking silver and elinking gold ano
the rafting specie Of the banks n
brokers' shops aud the voices OF all the
exchanges. The soprano of the worship
is carried by the timid 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 caldron. Chorus OF
voices rejoicing over what they have
made; chorus Of voices wailing over
what they have lost. The temple OF
which 1 speak stands open day and
night, and there is a glittering god
with his four feet on broken hearts,
and there is the smoking altar OF sac
riice, new victims every moment on
il, and there are the kneeling devo-
tees; and the ~doxology of the worship
rolls on, while death stands with
moldy and skeleton arm beating time
for the chorus-"More. more, morel
Some people are very much sur
prised at the actions of people in the
stock exchange, New York. Indeed, II
is a scene sometimes that paralyzes
description and is beyond the mag
nation Of anyone who has never
looked in. What swapping of finger
and thumb and wild gesticulation and
raving like hyenas and stamping Ike
buffaioes and ywaying to and fro and
jostling and running one upon anoth-
er, and deafening uproar, until the
president Of the exchange strikes with
his mallet four or five times, crying;
"Order, orderi" and the astonished
spectator goes out into the fresh air
feeling that he has escaped from pan.
demonium. What does IL all meant
l will tell you what Il means. The
de,otees Of every heather temple cut
themselves TO pieces and yell and
gyrate. This yoc~iferation and gyra'
lion OF the stock exchange is all ap
propriate. This is the worship OF the
golden calf.
! But my text suggests that this wor
. ship has 10 be broken up. as the be
havior Of Moses on this occasion indi
Gated. There are those who sa!
6 that this golden calf spoken Of in tn
/ text was hollow and merely plate'
0 with gold, otherwise Hoses could no
have carried Il. ! do not know that
but somehow. perhaps by the assist
a ance of his friends, he takes up thi
r golden calf which is an internal in
suit to God and man. and throws
1 into the fire and IL ~ melted, and the
/ IL out and Is cooled of, and b
some chemical appliance or by a
old-fashioned file II is pulverized, an
s. II is thrown into the brook. and as
J. punishment the people are compelie
r 10 drink the nauseating stun. )
you NAV depend upon il that God wi
e burn and he will grind to pieces III
v. golden calf Of modern idolatry, an
he will compel the people in their al
ar ouy to drink it. II not before, II wi
Is- be so On the last day. l know nj
Il, where the fire will begin, whether
in the Battery" or Lombard stree
er whether at shorediteh or West En-
,e. ,ut It viii be a very hot blaze. All II
go government securities Of the Unite
at States and Great Britain win curl l
CHI in the first blaze. All the mont
er safes and deposit vaults will melt u
er. der the first touch. The sea win bul
ay like finder. and the shipping viii
it's abandoned forever. The melting go
he In the brokers' window will bur
vii through the melted window glass In
nd the street. but the flying populate
st. will moi stop to scoop it up. The c
II "Firei- from the mountain will b
answered by the cry OF "Firel" in III
:. plain. The conHagration will bur
- out from the continent toward n
~ sea and then burn in from the Sc
toward the land. New York and Lol
ion with one cut Of the red scythe
~. destruction will go down. Twenty-f'
thousand miles Of eonhagrationi II
earth will wrap itself round an
.ound In shroud Of fame and lie dow
20 perish. What then will become
'ie' vour golden calf? Who then so POI
as to worship It? Melted or betwe'
an the INNER and the neither milestone
NJ falling mountains ground to powde
Dagop down. Moloch down. Jugge
ion raut down. golden calf down.
Rut every day is a day OF judgmer
~, md God Is all the time grinding
nv nieces the golden calf. Some yea
sgo in a time Of panic we learned
never before that forgeries will n
nav. that the watering Of stock will n
nav that the spending Of $4,000
country seats and a p%alatial city re
dence when there are only $4,000
a.. come will not pay, that the appropr
"a tion Of trust funds TO our own priya
ejaculation will not pay. We had
-. treat national tumor in the shape
fictitious prosperity. We called 1t I
tional enlargement. Instead Of cali
II enlargement we might better ha
called IT o swelling. 1t was a tum'
and God cut II out, and the nation "
sent back TO the principles OF our
lus tners and grandiathers. when twI
three made six instead Of 60 and VIII
the apples Of the bottom of the bari
~ were Just az good as the apples on I
top Of the barrel and a SIX handk'