Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-03

ny Is 0aflGntCU. and the spectators tall
back on their pillow and sleep until they
are awakened again ~ corner in Pa
circ Mail or a sudden rise" of Rock
Island. Their nerves gone. their diges-
ton gone, their brain gone. they die. The
gowned ccclcsiastic comes in and reads
the funeral 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 men sacrifice them
selves on this altar suggested in the text
they not only sacrifice themselves, but
they sacrifice their families. If man by
a wrong course is determined TO so to
perdition, | suppose you will have 10 let
him 80. But he puts his wife and chill
dren IN an Cquipage that is the amaze
ment of the avenues, and the driver
laShes the horses into two whirlwinds
and the Spokcs flash in the sun. and the
golden hc0dgcar of the harness CLEANS
until black calamity takes the bits of the
horses aud stops them aud shouts to the
IuXuriant occupants of the equipage,
Get ont" They get out. They get
down. That husband and father flung
his family so hard they never got up,
There was the mark on them for life
the mark of a split hoof-the death deal
ing hOof of the golden calf.
solomon offered in one sacrifice on one
occasion 22.0OO oxen and 10000 sheep.
but that was tame sacrifice compared
with the multitude OF men who are sacri-
ticing themselves on the altar of the
golden calf and sacrificing their families
with them. The soldiers Of Gen Have
Npt- IN, Tt,ylt
in the blood Of THE house of massacre"
where 200 white women and children had
been slain by the sepoys. but the blood
about this altar of the golden calf flows
up to the shoulder. flows up To the lip.
Great God of heaven and earth have
mercy on those who immediate themselves
on this altar The golden calf has none.
Degrading Worship Goes On.
Still the degrading worship goes on,
and the dcvotecs knerl and kiss the dust
and count their golden beads and cross
themselves with the blood of their own
sacrifice. The music rolls on under the
arches. 1t is made of blinking 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 timd
voices of men who have just begnn to
speculate, while the deep bass rolls out
from those who for ten years have been
stepped in the seething cadron. Chorus
of voices rejoicing over what they have
made; chorus of voices wailing over what
they have lost. This temple of which |
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 it, and there are the
knceling dcvotecs; and the doXology Of
the worship rolls on, while death stands
with moldy and skeleton arm beating
time for the chorus--"More, more, more"
Some people are very much surprised
at the actions of people in the Stock En-
change, New York Indeed. it Is 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 gesticuation
and raving like hycnas and stamping like
butfaloCs and swaying to and FRO and jos
Ting and running one upon another and
deafcninE unroar, until the president Of
the exchange strikes with his mallct four
or five times, crying, Order. order," and
the aStOnishCd spectator goes out into the
fresh mir feeling that he has escaped from
paudemonium. What does it nil mean Z
| will tell you what it means. The devo-
tees OF every heather temple cut them
selves to pieces and yell and gyratc. This
yociferation and gyration Of the Stock
Exchange is all appropriate. This is the
worship of the golden calf.
fst1t ,N4 hat II =,
has to 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 as
sistance Of his friends, he takes up this
golden calf, which Is an Internal insult 10
God and man, and throws it into the fire
and it is melted. aud then it comes out
and is cooled off, and by some chemical
appliance or by an old-fashioncd file il il
pulvcrized, and it is thrown into the
brook, and rs n punishment the people
are compelled TO drink the nuuscatiny
stuff SO You may depend upon il that
God will burn and he will grind to pieces
the golden calf Of modern idolatry. and
he will compel the people in their agony
to drink it. If not before, it viii be SO on
the last day. | know not where the fire
will began, whether at the Battery" or
Lombard street. whether at Shorcditch or
West End, but it will be very hot blaze.
All the government securities Of the
United States and Great Britain will curl
UP in the first blaze. Al the money safes
and deposit vaults will melt under the
first touch. The sea will burn like finder,
and the shipping will be abandoned for
ever. The melting gold in the brokers'
window will burst through the melted
window glass into the street but the fly
ing population Will not stop to scoop it
mp. The cry Of Fire" from the noun
tain will be answered by the cry Of
Fire" in the plain. The conHagration
viii burn ont from the continent toward
the soa and then burn in from the sea
toward the land New York and London
with one cut of the red scythc Of dcstruc-
ton will 90 down Twenty-Five thousand
miles Of c0nhaHation III" earth will
wrap itself round and round in >hroud Of
fame and lie down TO perish. What then