The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-30

go to perdition. suppose you viii have to
LET him 60. But he puts his wife and
children in an equipage that Is the amaze
ment Of the avenues. and the driver LASH
| es the horses into two whiirwinds. and
| the spokes fash In the sun. and the gold
en- headgear Of the harness CLEANS. until
black calamity takes the bits of the
horses and stops them. and shouts to the
luxurisnt occupants OF the eQuipagc. Get
out! They get out. They get down.
That husband and father flung mis- family
| so hard that they never got up. There
vas the mark on them :or llfe-the mark
| of split foof-the death dealing hoof of
| the golden calf.
Solomon offered in one sacrifice. on one
occasion. twenty-five thousand oxen and
one hundred and twenty thousand sheep:
but that was a tame sacrifice compared
with the multitude of men who are sacri-
| ficing themselves on this altar of the gold
en- calf. and sacrificing their families with
| them. The soldiers of Gen. Havelock In
| India, walked literally ankle deep IN the
| blood of the house of massacre where
two hundred white women and children
had been slain by the Sepoys; but the
blood about this altar OF the golden calf
flows up 10 the knee, flows up 20 the ;,ir-
ole. flows TO the shoulder. flows 10 the
lip Great God OF heaven and earth, have
mercy on those who immediate themselves
on this altar! The golden calf has none.
Fasatieal Money Wers ipers.
"StiT the degrading Worship goes on.
and the devotees kneel and kiss the dust
and count their golden beads and cross
themselves with the blood of their own
,r1Ff- he.
arches: 1t is made OF climbing silver and
clinking gold and the rafting specie OF
the banks and brokers' shops and the
voices of all the exchanges. The soprano
of the worship Is carried by the tiulid
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
CT voices rejoicing over what they have
made: chorus of voices wailing ove- what
they have lost. This temple of which I
speak stands open day and night, and
there is the glittering god with his four
feet on broken hearts, and there is the
smoking altar of sacrifice. new victims
every moment on 1t. and there are the
kneeling devotees: and the doxology OF
the worship rolls on. while death stands
with moldy and skeleton arm beating
time fo- the chorus-Morei morei morer
Some people are very much surprised
at the actions Of people in the stock ev-
change. New York. Indeed, 1t is a scene
sometimes that paralyzes description. and
is beyond the imagination of any one who
has never looked in. What swapping Of
finger and thumb and wild ges -icu,ation.
and raving ike hyenas, and stamping like
buffaloes. and swaying to and fro. ard
jostlng and running one upon another.
and deafening uproar. until the president
OF the exchange strikes with his mallet
four or five times crying. 'Order order?
and the astonished spectator goes out into
the fresh air feeling that he has escaped
from pandemonium. What does 1t all
mean! l will tell you what it means. The
deyotees OF every heather temple cut
themselves TO pieces and yell and gyrate.
This vociferation and gyration Of the
stock exchange is all appropriate. This is
the worship Of the golden calf.
God viii Destroy the Idol.
But my text suggests that this wor-
ship has 10 be broken up. as the behavior
OF Moses on this occasion indicated. There
are those who say that this golden calf,
spoken OF in the text, was hollow. and
merely plated with gold; otherwise Moses
could not have carried it. | do not know
that; but somehow, perhaps by the ssist-
ance of his friends, he takes up this gold
en- calf. which is an Internal insult TO God
and man. and throws 1t into the fire and
II Is melted; and then it comes out and S
cooled of, and, by some chemical appli-
ance or by an old-fashioned file, IL is pull
verified. and il is thrown into the brook,
and. as punishment, the people are COM
PEELED 10 drink the nauseating stuff. So
you may depend upon IL that God will
burn and he will grind 10 pieces the gold
en- calf OF modern idolatry. and he will
compel the people In their agony to drink
II. If not before. it will be SO on the last
day. l know not where the fire will be-
gin, whether at the Battery or Lombard
street. whether at Shoreditch or West
End; but 1t will be very hot blaze All.
the government securities of the United
States and Great Britain will curl up In
the first blast. All the money safes and
deposit vaults will melt under the first
touch. The sea will burn like finder, and
the shipping will be abandoned forever.
The melting gold in the brokers' window
will burst through the melted window
glass into the street but the flying popu-
lation VIII not stop to scoop IL up. The
cry of 'Firep from the mountain will be
answered by the cry OF Fire. in the plain.
The confiagration will burn out from The
continent toward the sea, and then burn
in from the sea toward the land. New
York and London. with one cut OF the red
scythe Of destruction. Will go down. TWEEN
ty-fve thousand miles of confiagration,
The earth will wrap itself round and
round in shroud Of flame and lie down to
perish. What, then, will become OF your
craT7 oil hn
worship it? Melted or between the upper
and the neither milestone OF falling noun
tains ground to powder. Dagon dowr-
Moloch down; Juggernaut down: golden
calf down!
NntioBa Crime Of borrowing.
But, every day is a day Of judgment.
and God Is all the time grinding TO pieces
the golden calf. Some years ago, In a
time OF panic, we learned, as never be-
fore. that forgeries will not pay; that the
watering OF stock will not psy; that the
spending OF so, 600 on country seats and a
palatial city residence, when there are
only $4,000 income. will not pay; that the
appropriation OF trust funds TO our own
private speculation will not pay. We had
a great national tumor In the shape OF
fictitious prosperity. We called II ma
tional enlargement; instead OF calling II
enlargement. we might better have called
IL swelling. II was tumor and God
cut IL out; and the nation was sent back
10 the principles Of our fathers and 1
Grandfathers, when twice three made SIX /
instead Of sixty, and when the apples at
the bottom Of the barrel were Just as
good as the apples on the top Of the bar
rel. and silk handkerchief was not half (,
cotton. and man who wore S coat
paid for was more honored than man 1
who wore a SO coat not paid for.
THE modern golden calf. like the one Of 1
the text, Is very apt 10 be made out OF 1
borrowed gold. These Israeiites OF the /
text borrowed the earrings OF the Egyp- l
tians, and then melted them into a god. I
That Is the way the golden calf is made 4
nowadays. a great many housekeepers.
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