The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1900-12-07
FARMVILLE. VA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER Z. 1900

P"iN' liz NDhhdBidNiOu VIII Durl
out from the continent toward tn
sea and then burn In from the SCI
toward the land. New York and Lon
don with one cut of the red scythe o
destruction will go down. Twenty-fiv,
thousand miles Of conhagrationl Tn,
earth will wrap Itself round anC
round in shroud of fame and lie down
10 perish. What then will become OF
your golden ealf2 Who then so pool
as TO worship it7 Melted or between
the upper and the neither milestone OF
falling mountains ground 10 powder
Dagon down. Moloch down. Jugger.
naut down, golden calf downl
But every day is . day OF judgment.
and God is all the time grinding to
pieces the golden calf. Some years
ago in time OF panic we learned as
never before that forgeries will not
pay, that the watering of stock will not
pay, that the spending OF $4,000 on
country seats and a palatial city resi-
dence when there are only $4,000 in
come will not pay, that the appropria-
tion 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 1t ma
tional enlargement. Instead Of calling
il enlargement we might better have
called It swelling. 1t was a tumor,
and God cut II out, and the nation was
sent back to the principles of our IA
theirs and grandfathers, when twice
three made six instead OF 60 and when
the apples at the bottom of the barrel
were just as good as the apples on the
top of the barrel and a silk handker-
chief was not halt cotton and a man
who wore q fve-dolar coat paid for
was more honored than a man who
wore a $50 coat not paid for.
Te modern golden calf, like the one
of the text, Is very apt to be made out
OF borrowed gold. These Israelites OF
the text borrowed the earrings Of the
Egyptians and then melted them into
god. That Is the way the golden calf is
made nowadays. A great many house
keepers not paying for the articles they
get borrow Of the grocer and the baker
and the butcher and the dry goods
seller. Then the retailer borrows OF
the wholesale dealer. Then the whole
sale dealer borrows Of the capitalist,
and we borrow and borrow and borrow
until the community is divided into two
classes, those who borrow and those
who are borrowed Of, and after awhile
the capitalist wants his money, and he
rushes upon the wholesale dealer, and
the wholesale dealer wants his money
and he rushes upon the retailer, and
the retailer wants his money, and he
rushes on the customer, and we all 90
down together. There is many a man
In this day who hdes in carriage and /
owes the blacksmith for the tire and |
the wheelwright for the wheel and the /
trimmer for the curtain and the driver |
for unpaid wages and the harness MAX
or for the bride and the furrier for
the robe. while from the tip Of the car
riage tongue clear back TO the tip Of
the csmers hair shawl huttering out
Of the back OF the vehicle everything
Ia paid for by notes that have been
three times renewed.
tell you that In this country we
shall never get things right until we
stop borrowing and pay as we go. II Is
this temptation 20 borrow and borrow
and borrow that keeps the people ever
lastingly praying to the golden calf
for help, and just the minute they ex-
pect the help the golden calf treads
IN them. The judgments OF God. like
Moses in the text, will rush in and
break up this worship. and say let the
work go on until every man shall
earn TO speak truth with his neigh
DOT, and those who make engagements
hall feel themselves bound to keep
hem, and then a man who will not
repent OF his business iniquity, but
,oes on wishing TO satiate his csnni-
pal appetite by deyouring widows
louses, shall, by the law OF the land,
'e compelled to exchange the brown
tone front for the penitentlary. Let
he golden calf perishl
want you to change temples and to
i've up the worship OF this unsatisfy-
ng and cruel god for the service Of the
ord Jesus Christ. Here Is the gold
hat will never crumble. Here are the
ecurities that will never fail. Here
re the banks that will never break.
IL 81,
cen one sacrifice that does for all.
or "by one sacrifice hath Christ per-
ected forever them that are sancti-
ed" Here is a God who will com
ort you when you are in trouble and
oothe you when you are sick and save
on when you die. For He has said:
When thou passeth through the wa (
srs, / will be with thee, and through (
he rivers they shall not overflow thee; !
hen thou walkest through the fire. {
lou shalt not be burned, neither shall
ie flame kindle upon thee"
When your parents have breathed
lelr last and the old, wrinkled and
'embling hands can no more be put
pom your head for blessing, He will {
E TO you a father and mother both, 8
wing you the defense of one and the
,mfort of the other. For have we not
aul's blessed hope that as Jesus died o
nd rose again, ''even so them also q
hich sleep in Jesus shall God bring c
it'll Him" And when your children &
, away from you, the sweet darlings, I
~ will not kiss them and say good
, forever. He only wants to hold 4.
iem for you little while. He will .
We them back to you again, and He !,
N have them all waiting for you at =
70 oafaa of aterna I Welcome Oh