The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-11-03
NUMBER II.

never before that forgerleS Will not
pay, that the watering of stock will not
pay, that the spending of S50.000 on
country seats and palatial city resi-
dence when there are only $4,000 in
come will not pay, that the appropria-
ton 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 it ma
tional enlargement. Instead of calling
it enlargement we might better have
called it a swelling. 1t was tumor,
and God cut it 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 5 good as the apples on the
top of the barrel and a six handker-
chief was not half cotton and a man
who wore a five-dollar 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 go
down together. There is many a man
in this day who rides 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
er 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 camel's hair shawl fiuttering out
of the back of the vehicle everything
: is paid for by notes that have been
three times renewed
l tell you that in this country We
shall never get things right until we
stop borrowing and pay as we go. 1t is
this temptation to borrow and borrow
r and borrow that keeps the people ever
l lastingly praying to the golden calf
for help, and just the minute they ex-
l pect the help the golden calf treads
on them. The judgments of God, like
: Moses in the text, will rush in and
l break up this worship, and l say let the
work go on until every man shall
1 learn to speak truth with his neigh
Dor. and those who make engagements
shall feel themselves bound to keep
? them, and then z man who will not
e repent of his business iniquity, but
t goes on wishing 10 satiate his canni-
/ bal appetite by devouring widows
: houses. shall. by the law of the land.
: be compelled 10 exchange the brown
e stone front for the penitentiary. Let
the golden calf perish!
: l want you to change temples and TO
= give up the worship of this unsatisfy-
= ing and cruel god for the service of the
V Lord Jesus Christ. Here is the gold
e that will never crumble. Here are the
4 securities that will never fail. Here
I are the banks that will never break.
J, Here is an altar on which there has
: been one sacrifice that does for all.
$ for "by one sacrifice hath Christ per-
= fected forever them that are sancti-
.
n fort you when you are in trouble and
: soothe you when you are sick and save
n you when you die. For He has said
when thou passeth through the wa
a ters, will be with thee, and through
d the rivers they shall not overflow thee;
o when thou walkest through the fire.
Il thou shalt not be burned, neither shall
e the flame kindle upon thee"
d When your parents have breathed
r their last and the old, wrinkled and
Il trembling hands can no more be put
It upon your head for blessing, He will
t be to you father and mother both,
t, giving you the defense of one and the
|, comfort of the other. For have we not
e Paurs blessed hope that as Jesus died
d and rose again, even so them also
p which sleep in Jesus shall God bring
Y with Him" And when your children
l. go away from you, the sweet darlings
n YOU will not kiss them and say good
'e by forever. He only wants to hold
d them for you a little while. He will
It give them back to you again, and He
o will have them all waiting for you a.
n the gates of eternal welcome. Oh
y what a God He is! He will allow yor
'e to come SO close that you can put you
lie arms around His neck, while He il
n response will put His arms around
le your neck. and all the windows o
a Heaven will be hoisted to let the re
n deemed look out and see the spectacle
of of a rejoicing Father and returned
re prodigal locked in that glorious EN-
lie brace. Quit worshiping the colder
ID calf and bow this day before HIN il
n whose presence we must all appear
Of when the world has turned TO ashes,
Or When shriveling like a parcheG scroll.
IN The flaming heavens together roll,
~ When louder yet and yet more dread