Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-07-04
WHICH THE QUEEN OF SHeBA
BROUGHT TO KING SOLOMON,
As Compared With the everlastin0 Fra
GRANGE Arising From the Garden
of the Lord - Religion, all
Sweet Spices Together.
SERMON BY REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE
Subjeci: "a Bundle of Spices "

to 1t his bride, the princess OF Egypt.
You see the pillars OF the portico, and a
great tower, adorned with one thousand
shields of gold, hung on the outside OF
the tower five hundred OF the shields
OF gold were manufactured at Solomon q
order, 500 were captured by David, his
father, in battle. See how they blaze in
the MONDAY sun. Solomon goes up the
ivory stairs of his throne between twelve
lions in statuary, and sits down on the
back of the golden bull, the head OF the
bronze beast turned toward the people.
The
Family and Attendants of thu King are 81
Many
that the caterers OF the palace have To
provide every dav 100 sheep and IL
oxen, besides the birds anu the venison
| hear the stamping and paving OF 4,OO0
fine horses in the royal stables. King
Solomon was an early User, tradition
says, and used to take ride out at day
break: and when, in his white apparel ,
behind the swiitest horses OF all the
realm, and followed by mounted archers
in purple, as the cavalcade dashed
through the streets Of Jerusalem, ! sup
pose It was something worth getting up
at ) o'clock in the morning TO look at
Solomon was not like great many
kings OF the present day--croaned i'm
becility. All the Splendor Of his palace
and retinue were eclipseI by his intel
lectual power. Why
He Seemed to Know Everything.
He was the first great naturalist the
p.n.nnta a
strutted the basaltic walk, and apes
chartered in the trees, and deer stalkcd
the parks, and Gquariums with foreign
fish, aud aviaries with foreign birds; and
tradition SAYS these birds were so we'll
tanned, that Soloman might walk clear
across the city under the shadow OF
their wings az they hOvered and fitted
about him. The Solomonic navy visit
ed all the world, and the sailors OF course
talked about the wealth OF their King,
and about the
Solved;
and the news spread until Queen
Balkis, away off south, heard OF ii, and
sent messengers with few riddles that
she would like 10 have Solomon solve,
and few puzzles that she would like to
have him find out. She sent among
other things to King Solomon, Il dia-
mond with hole so small that Il needle
could not penetrate it, asking him to
thread that diamond. And Solomon
took a worm and put it at the opening
in the diamond, and the worm crawled
through, leaving the thread in the dia
mond.
The queen also sent a goblet to Solo,
mon, asking him to lil it with water
that did not pour from the sky, and that
did not rush out from the earth; and
immediately Solomon put a slave OH the
back of swift horse and galloped him
around and around the park until the
horse was well nigh exhausted, and
From tho Perspirstion ofthe Horse the
Goblet was Filled.
She also sent to King Solomon five
hundred boys in girls dress and five
hundred girls in boys dress, wonder
ing if he would be acute enough 10 find
out the deception. lmmediatel y Solo
mon, when he saw them wash their
faces, knew from the way they applied
the water that il was all a cheat. Queen
Balkis was so pleased with the acute
ness of Solomon that she said: "Ill
Just 90 and see him for myself" Gon'
der it comes-the cavalcade-horses
and dromedaries, Chariots and chariot
eers, jingling harness and Gathering
hoois, and blazing shields, and flying
ensigns, and clapplng cymbals. The
place is saturated with the perfume.
She brings cinnamon, and saffron, and
calamus, and irankincense, and all man
ner OF sweet spices. As the retinue
sweeps through the gate the armed
guards inbale the arOmr.
Hut! Cry the Chsrioteers.
as the wheels grind the gravel IN front
of the pillared portico OF the King
Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere
bewitched with perfume. Asth drom.
edaries are driven up to the Kings
storehouses, and the bundles Of cam
phor are unloaded, and the sacks OF Gin.
namon and the boxes of spices are open.
ed, the purveyors OF the palace discover
what my text announces: "Ot spices,
great abundance; neither was there any
such spice as the Queen OF Sheba gave
to King Solomon.
Well, my friends, you know that all
theologians agree in making
Solomon a Type of Christ.
and in making the Queen OF Sheba a
type OF every truth seeker, and | sha!
take the responsibility OF saying that all
the spikenard and cassia, and franklin.
cense, which the Queen OF Sheba
broug int 10 King Solomon is nightly
suggestive OF the sweet spices OF our
holy religion. Christianity is not COL
lection OF sharp technicaities and angu-
lar facts, and chronological tables and
dry statistics. Our religion is compared
TO frankincense and TO cassla;
but never to nuX vonita, or
1t is q bundle Of myrrh.
1t is dash OF holy light. 1t is a sparkle
of cool fountains. 1t is an oplnlng OF
opaline gates. 1t is
A Collection CT Spices
The fact is that the duties and
cares .oi this coming 10 US from
time TO time, arc stupid often and in
ane and intolerabie. Here are men who
have been hittcrIng, climbing, pound
ng, hammcriny for twenty years, forty
years, fifty years. One great long
trudgery has their life been. Their faces
anxious, their feelings benumbed, their
LAYS monotonous. What is necessary
70 brighten up that up that mans life,
and to swpeten that acid disposition,
md to put sparkle into the mans splr,,
IS? The spicery OF our To- religion
Why, il between the losses OF lie there
lashed
A Gleam of an Eternal Gain;
{ between the betrayal OF lie there came
he CLEAN of undying friendship oi
Christ: il in dull times in business We
ound ministering spirits ilying to and
70 in our office, store or shop, every
lay life, instead OF being stupid mono
one. would he glorious inspiration,
between calm satisfaction
md Lioh rapture. How any woman
;eeps house without the religion OF
Christ to help her, is mystery to me.
To have 10 spend the greater part OF
1na's life, as many women do, in plan
ming meals and stitching garments that
will soon be- rent again, and deploring
oreakages and supervising tardy subor-
linates, and driving of dust that soon
again will settle, and doing the same
hing day in and day out, and year in