Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-30
From The London Magazine,
King olOmOn' Blacksmith.

And it came to pass when Solomon, the
son of David, had finished the Temple of Je-
rusalem, that he called unto him the chief
architects, the head artificers, and cunning
workers in silver and gold, and in wood and
in ivory and in stone-yea, all who had aid
ed in rearing the Temple of the Lord, and
he said unto them,-"S Sit ye down at my
table: | have prepared a feast for all my
chief workers and cunning artifcers.-
Stretch forth your hands, therefore, and eat
and drink and be merry. Is not the laborer
worthy of his hirel Is not the skillful arti-
ficer deserving Of honorl Muzzle not the
OK that treadeth out the corn"
And when Solomon and the chief work
men were seated, and the fairness of the land
and the oil thereof were set upon the table,
there came one who knocked loudly at the
door, and forced himself even into the festal
chamber. Then Solomon the King was
wroth. and said" What manner of man art
thou :" AND the man answered and said,
-" When men wish TO honor me, they call
me Son of the Forge; but when they desire
TO mock me, they call me blacksmith and
seeing that the toll of working in fire covers
me with sweat and smut, the latter name,
o King, is not inapt, and, in truth, thy SER
want desires no better"
"But,' said Solomon, "why came Won
thus rudely and unbidden TO the feast, where
none save the chief workmep of the Temple
are invited :" "Please We, my Lord, /
came rudely," replied the man, because
thy servants obliged me to force my way =
but l came not unbidden. Was it not pro-
claimed that the chief workmen of the TEN.
pie were invited to dine with the King of
Israel" Then he who carved the chpru-
bin said "This fellow is no SCULPTOR
And he who inlaid the roof with pure gold
said "Neither is he a workman in fine me-
tails" And he who raised The walls, said /:
He is not a cutter of %stone." And he who
made the roof, cried out: He is not cum
ming in cedar-wood; and neither knoweih
he the mystery Of uniting pieces of strange
timber together.
Then said Solomon, "what hast thou TO
say, Son Of the Forge, why | should not or
der thee TO be plucked by the beard, scouIg-
ed with a scourge, and stoned to death with
stones9" And when the Son of the Forge
heard this, he was in no sort dismayed, but
advancing TO the table, snatched up and
swallowed a cup Of wine, and said, o King,
live forever! The chief men Of the workers
in wood and gold and stone have said that |
an not of them, and they have said truly
! am their superior; before they lived was
| created. am their master, and they are
all my servants" And he turned him round,
and said 10 the chief Of the carvers in stone,
Who made the tools with which YOU
carve 2" And he said, "The blacksmith"
And he said to the chief Of the masons,-
Who made the chisels with which the
stones of the Temple were squared 2" And
he said, "The blacksmith" And be said
to the chief OF The workers in wood, Who
made the tools with which Won hewed tho
trees on Lebanon, and formed them into the
pillars and roof of the Temple2" And he
said, 1.-The blacksmith" Then said he n
the arlihcers in gold and in ivory, WHO
makes your instruments, by which YOU work
beautiful things for my lord the King -
And he said "The blacksmith"
" Enough enough, good fellow" said
Solomon "thou hast proved that invited