The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-11-01
REV. DR.. TALMAGE,
THE EMINENT DIvINE's SUNDAY
DIsCOURSE.
Subject Thu Golden Calf of Modern IDOL
airy - The Spirit OF Greed Destroys
Those who Arc In Its Grasp Money
Got WrongruIly is Curse,

got Wrongiully is n Curse,
copyright lguLI
WASHINGTON, u. C.-ln this discourse
DIR. Talmage shows how the spirit OF
greed destroys when it takes possession
OF a man and that money got IN wrong
ways Is a curse; text, Exodus NNNii 90,
And he took the cali which they had
made and burnt it in the fire and ground
IL TO powder and stVwcd it upon the
water and made the children OF Israel
drink of it,
People win have a god oI some kind
md they prefer ono OF their own making.
Here co The Israelitcs, breaking OIL
their golden carrnrs the rcn as well az
the women. for in those times there was
masculine as well 30. feminine decoration
Where o.l they get thcst beautiful gold
earrings, coming mp, as they did from the
descrty Oh, they borrowed them OF the
Egyptians when they left Egypt These
glitterna beauty. Any more earrings
to bring says Aaron None Fire is
klndlcd, the earrings are melted and pour
ed into mole no, oi an eagle or d war
charger. but 'Oi silly calf; the gold rools
down, the mold is taken away, and the
IDOL Is set up on its four legs. An altar
Is built IN front of the shining calf Then
the pcople throw up their arms and gy-
rate and shrek and dance vigorously and
worship
Moses has been six weeks on Mount
Sinai aud he comes back and hears the
bowling and secs the dancing at these
golden calf fanatics. and he loses his pa.
ttcucc, and he takes the two plates ,uf
stone on which Were written the Ten Com.
m&ndments and Rings them 30 harl
against a rock that they split all 60 pieces,
When man gets angry, he * tpt 80
break all the Ten Commandments. Nu,cs
rushcs IN and hc takes this calf god aud
throws IT into not fire until 1t IS melted
all out Oi shape snd then pulverzes it.
moi by the modern appliance Of ntru mu.
Tiatic acid, but by the ancient appliance ot
nlte1 or by the old fashioned file lie-stirs
Tor the people most nauseatlng draft.
lie takes this pulvcrized roldeu cali and
throws - IN the only brook which q ac-
cc-sihle, and the people ar, compelled 20
drink ol that brook or not drink at all.
But they did not drink AL the glittering
stuit thrown on the surface Somu OF it
tlows on down the surface OF the brook to
the river and then flows ON down the river
TO the sea. and the sea takes II ui and
bears II TO the mouth of all the i1ver-. aud
when the tides set back the Icmalus OF
lhlt golden calf are carried up mo the
Potomac and the Hudson and the Thames
and ,thc Clyde and the Tiber. And men
60 out aud they skim the glittern.g sur
face and they bring it ashore ana they
make another golden cali, aud California
and Australia break off their golden ear
rings TO augment the pile and in tte fires
ot financial excitement and struggle all
these things are melted together and
while We stand looking and wondering
what will come OF it, TO- we find that the
golden calf OF lsraelitish worship has be-
come the golden cali OF EuropenH and
American worship.
Pull aside this curtain, and yOu src tho
golden calf OF modern idoatry. II A. not,
like Wther idols, made out of stocks or
stone, but IT has an ear so sensitive that IT
can hear the whispers on Wall street and
Third street and State street. and the
footballs in the Bank Of England and the
iluttcr OF a Freuohman heart On the
bourse 1t has an eye so keen that IT. can
see the rust on the farm OF Michigan
wheat and the insect in the hmEland
peach, orchard and the trampled gram .un-
der the hooi OF the Russian WIZ charger
1t IL no mighty thai it swlngs any way it
viii the worlds shipping 1t has te foot
on all The merchantmen aud the eteam
ors. ~ started the American Civil War
and under God stopped 1t. and It decided
the lurko Russian contest One hnuker
IN September. 1869, - New York, shouted
One hundred and sixty for 4 million
and the whole continent shvrred- Ghc
golden calf OF the li'has, as far as Amer
icu Is concerned ts right front foot IA
New York, its left front foot in Chicago
back foot IN New Orleans, aud when di.'
shakes itself it shakes Ghc world. Ola this
II ., mighty god-the golden cali OF the
worlds worship!
But every god must have its temple ana
this golden cali OF the text is no e1cep
ton Its temple is v4sterthan ST, Paul's
Cathedral ~ England, and St. Peters IN
Italy, and the Alhambra .of the Spaniards
and the Parthenon OF The Greeks, and the
Tai Mahal Gt the Hladoos and all the
cathedrnls pNt together IL pillars arc
grooved aud iluted with gohl, aud ils
ribbed arches are lowering geld, and it,
chandeliers are descending gold, and it's
floors are tessellated gold, and its vaults
are crowded heaps OF gold and its spires
and domes are soaring gold and its organ
pines are rcsounding gold. and ITS pedals
are trampng gold, and its stops pulled out
are flashing gold, while, standing at the
head oi the tempr, as the presiding dety.
are the hoOls and shoulders and eyes and
ears and nostrils dl the calf a5 gold.
Further, every god must have not only
its temple, but its altar OF sacrifice, and
this golden cali OF the text is no exception.
Its altar is moi made out OF stone as other
affairs, but out of counting room desks
and fireproof safes, and it is a broad
long, a high altar, the victims sacrificed
on it are the Swartouts and the ketchums
and the Fisks and ten thousand Other
people who are slain before this golden
calf
What does this god care about the
gronns and struggles OF The victims before
it! With cold, metallic eye, il looks on
and yet lets them suffer. What an altar,
What a sacrifice Of mind, body and soul!
The physical health of great multitude
is flung o. to this sacriliciaf altar. TheS
cannot sieep. and they take choral and
morphine and iuto1lcants.
Soue of them struggle in a nightmare of
stocks, and at | o'clock in the morning
suddenly rise up shouting; "A thousand
shares of New York Central-ouc hun
dred and eight and a half. take iti"-uutil
the Whole family is aiIrighted. and the
spectators fall back on their plllORs and
sleep until they are awakened again by a
corner" in Pacific Mail, or sudden
rise" OF Rock Island.
Their nerves gone, their digestion gone,
their brain gone, they die. The gowned
ecclesiastic comes in and reads the funeV-
Al service. Blessed are the dead who die
in The Lord" Mistake. They did not
die in the Lord" the golden calf kicked
them.
The trouble is, when the men sacrifice
themselves on this altar suggested in the
text they not only sacrifice themselves, |
but they sacrifice their families.
If man by wrong course is determ- |
med TO go to perditlon, | suppose you |
will have to let him CO. But he puts his |
wife and children in an equipago that is !
the amazement of the avenues and the |
driver lashes the horses into two whrl |
winds, and the spokes flash in the sun and |
the golden headgear OF the harness CLEANS |
until black calamity takes the Lts OF the |
h,t I'D 81, thpp, and oh To tl,n |