The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-12-07

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What sacrifice Of mind, body snc
soul! The physical health OF a great
multitude is flung on TO this sacrificia
altar. They cannot sleep, and they take
chloral and morphine and intoxicants
Some Of them struggle In a nightmare
OF stocks and at one o'clock in the
morning suddenly rise up. shouting:
"A thousand shares of New York Cen
tral-lO6h-take It'll" until the whole
family Is affrighted, and the specula-
tors fall back on their pillow and sleep
until they are awakened again by a
corner" In Pacific Mail or a sudden
rise" OF Rock Island. Their nerves
gone, their digestion gone, their brain
gone, they die. The gowned ecclesias-
tic comes in and reads the funeral serv-
ice: Blessed are they who die in the
Lord!" Mistake. They did not die
in the Lord" The golden calf kicked
theml
The trouble is when men sacrifice
themselves on this altar suggested in
the text they not only sacrifc them
selves, but they sacrifice their fami-
lies. If a man by a wrong course is de-
termined to go TO perdition, suppose
you will have to let him CO. But he
puts his wife and children in an equip
age that is the amazement Of the av-
enues, and the driver lashes the horses
into two whirlwinds, and the spokes
fash in the sun, and the golden head
gear of the harness CLEANS until black
calamity takes the bits OF the horses
and stops them and shouts to the lux
uriant occupants Of the equipage:
"Get outl" 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 split hoof-the death
dealing hoof of the golden calf.
Solomon offered in one sacrifice on
one occasion $4,000 oxen and 10000
sheep, but that was a tame sacrifice
compared with the multitude of men
who are sacrificing themselves on this
altar of the golden calf and sacrificing
their families with them. The soldiers
of Gen. Havelock, In India, walked lit
orally ankle deep 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
knee, flows up 10 the girdle, 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.
Still 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 sacrifice. The music rolls |
on under the arches. II is made OF
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 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 oaldron. Chorus OF
voices rejoicing over what they have
made; chorus Of voices wailing over
what they have lost. The temple Of
which I speak stands open day and
night, and there is glittering god
with his four feet on broken hearts,
md there is the smoking altar of sac
rifce, new victims every moment on
L, and there are the kneeling devo-
iees; and the doxology Of the worship
rolls on, while death stands with
noldy and skeleton arm beating time
'or the chorus-"More, more, morel"
Some people are very much sur
,rised at the actions of people in the
took exchange, New York. Indeed, II
S a scene sometimes that paralyzes
description and Is beyond the imag-
nation Of anyone who has never
ooked in. What swapping of finger
md thumb and wild gesticulation and
aving like hyenas and stamping like
and swaying to and fro and
ostling and running one upon anoth-
r, and deafening uproar, until the
resident of the exchange strikes with
is mallet four or five times, crying:
Order, orderl" and the astonished
pectator goes out into the fresh air
ceiling that he has escaped from pam
emonium. What does II all mean?
will tell you what II means. The
evotees of every heather temple cut I
themselves to pieces and yell and
yrate. This vociferation and gyra- (
on OF the stock exchange Is all ap- I
ropriate. This is the orship Of the 3
olden calf. ,
But my text suggests that this wor- =
hip has to be broken up, as the be- I
avior Of Moses on this occasion indi- I
lted. There are those who say '
lat this golden calf spoken OF in the {
,xt was hollow and merely plated I
ith gold, otherwise Moses could not
ave carried il. I do not know that, Z
Ut somehow, perhaps by the assist I
nee of his friends, he takes up this Il
olden calf, which Is an Internal in b
III TO God and man, and throws il o
to the fire and II Is melted. and then G
comes out and is cooled of. and by T
me chemical appliance or by an a
d-fashioned file 81 is pulverized, and v
is thrown into the brook, and as a v
lnishment the people are compelled Q
drink the nauseating stuff. So Y
~ may depend upon 1t that God will b
i'm and he will grind to pieces the Il
,lden calf Of modern idolatry, and q
will compel the people in their ag- "
~ IN drink n II not before IL will 81