St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-12-01

puts his wife and children in IN equip
age that is the amazement Of the av-
enues, and the driver lashes the horses
into two whirlwinds, and the spokes
flash 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 Quit" They get out. They get
down. That husband and father flung
his family so hard they never got up.
Th.re was the mark on them for life
1.-THE mark Of split hoof-the death
dealing hoof Of the golden calf.
Solomon offered in one sacrifice on
one occasion 22,OOC oxen and 10000
sheep, but that was 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 eco 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 to 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. 1t is made CT
clinking 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
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 I speak stands open day and
night, and there is glittering god
with his four feet on broken hearts,
and there is the smoking altar of sac
rifice, new victims every moment on
1t, and there are the kneeling dev0-,
tees; and the doNoiogy Of the worship
rolls on, while death stands with
moldy and skeleton arm beating time
for the chorus-"More, more, morc!"
: Some people are very much sur
prised at the actions of people in the
stock exchange, New York. Indeed. it
is a scene sometimes that paralyzes
description and is beyond the imag-
ination Of anyone who has never
looked in. What swapping of finger
and thumb and wild gesticulation and
raving like hyenas and stamping like
buffaloes and swaying 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, order!" and the astonished
spectator goes out into the fresh air
feeling that he has escaped from pan
demonium. What does 1t all mean?
I will tell You what it means. The
devotees Of every heather temple cut
themselves to pieces and yell and
gyrate. This .vociferntion and gyra-
tion Of the stock exchange is all APP
propriate. This is the worship Of the
golden calf.
But my text suggests that this wor-
ship has to be broken up, as the be-
havior of Moses on this occasion indi-
Gated. 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 assist
ance of his friends, he takes up this
golden calf. which is an internal in,
suit to God and man. and throws IL
into the fire and it is melted. and then
It comes on: and is cooled off, and by
some chemical appliance or by an
file it is pulverized. and
it is thrown into the brook, and as a
punishment the people are compelled
to drink the nauseating stuff. So
you may depend upon it that God will
burn and NE will grind to pieces the
golden calf Of modern idolatry, and
he will compel the people in their ag-
ony to drink it. If not before. it will
be so on the last day. / know not |
where the fire will begin. whether at |
the Battery" or Lombard street, |
at Shoreditch or West End, |
tut il will be very hot blaze. All the |
securities of the United |
States and Great Britain will curl up |
IN the first blaze. All the money
safes and deposit vaults will melt un-
Ter the first touch. The sea will burn
like finder. and the shipping will be
abandoned forever. The melting gold |
10 the brokers' window will burst i
through the melted window glass into
the street. but the flying population
will not stop to scoop it up. The cry
II "Fire!" from the mountain will be
by the cry Of Fire" in the
plain. The confagration will burn
,ut from the continent toward the
sea and then burn in from the sea
oward the land. New York and Lon
lon with one cut Of the red scythe Of
will go down. twenty-five
thousand miles of confiagration! The
Earth will wrap itself round and
ound in shrond OF flame and lie down
o perish. What then will become Of
-our golden calf? Who then SO poor
IS to worship it? Melted or between
he upper and the neither milestone Of
alling mountains ground to powder.
lagoon down. Moloch down. Jugger-
laut down. golden calf down!
But every day is day of judgment.
nd God is all the time grinding to
,ieces the golden calf. Some years
20 in a time of panic we learned a.
lever before that forgeries will not
,ay. that the watering Of stock will not
,ay, that the spending Of $4,000 on
ountry seats and palatial city resi-
ence when there are only $4,000 in
ONE will not pay, that the appropria-
ion of trust funds to our own private
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