Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-05-21
MORE SPICE
Is What Or. Talmags Thinks We
Need In Religion.
MELANCHOLY FACES NOT NEEDED
In a Mans Religious Career-Sun-
shine Instead Of Clouds to Make
the Walk in Life a Perpet-
uaI Joy.

the Walk m Lite Perpet-
uaI Joy.
Special 10 The Register.
New YORK, May 20-The following SER
mon was preached by Rev. 7. De Witt Tai
mage, at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, this
morning:
Opening hymn:
"JOy TO the world, the Lord Is come,
Let earth receive her King"
Subject OF the sermon-"Aromatics of
Religion"
TEXT-II Chron. ix.9: "Of Spices great abund.
anee; neither was there any such spice as
the Queen OF Sheba gave KING solomon"
What is that building out yonder glitter
ing IN the sun? Have you not heard? 1t
is the house of the forest of Lebanon.
King Solomon has just taken to it 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-509 CT
the shields OF gold manufactured by Solo.
mons order, 500 were captured by DaviG,
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 or the
back of the golden bull, the head of the
bronze beast turned toward tho people.
The family and attendants OF the king are
so many that the caterers of the palace
have to provide every day 100 sheep aud 13
oxen, besides the birds and the venison.
| hear the stamping and paving of
4,CCU fine horses in the royal stables. There
were imFOrtGnt officials who had charge of
the work OF gathering the straw and the
barley for th-se horses. King Solomon
was an early riser. tradition says, and used
TO
Take Ride Out az Day break;
and when in his white apparel behind the
swiiteSt horses of ali the realm
and followed by mounted arch
ers in purple as the cayaicade dashed
through the streets OF Jerusalem | suppose
il was something worth getting up al five
o'clock in the morning to look at. Solo
mon was not like great many kings @, the
present day-Crowned imbecility. All the
sprpndor Of his palace and retinue were
ec'ipScd by his intellectual power. Why,
Re seemed to know everything. He was
first grea naturalist tie world ever saw.
PCacOCEs from India strItted basaltic walks
aud apes chartered in the trees and deer
stalked the PARKS and aquariums with for
eign fish and aviaries with foreign birds;
ard tradit tion says these birds were so veil
trained that Solomon might walk clear
across the city under the shadow OF their
wings as they lowered and fitted about
him.
More than this, he had q great reputa-
tion for the conundrums and riddles that
he made and guessed. He and King Hiram,
his neighbor, used to sit by the hour and
ask riddles, each one paying the money il
he could not answer or guess the riddle.
The SOlOmoni Navy visited sll the world,
and the sailors of course talked about
The Wealth of Their king
and about the riddles end enigmas that
he made and solved. and tie news spread
until Queen Balk :, away o South, heard
Of il and sent messengers with few rld-
dies that she would like 10 have Solomon
solve and q few puzzles that she would
like 10 have him find out. She sent among
other things TO King solomon diamond
with a Lole so small that needle could not
penetrate il. asking him to thread that
diamond. And Solomon took a worm ard
put il at the opening in the diamond
The worm Crawled through, leaving the
| thread in the diamond. The Queen al :
| sent goblet to Solomon, asking him to ill
| it with water that did not pour from the
sky and that did not rush out from the
Clrth. and immediately solomon put a
ioped him around and around the park
| until the horse was nigh exhausted, and
from the perspiratiOn OF him
The Goblet Was FILLED.
She also sent to King Solomon 500 boys in
girls dresses and $40 girls in boys dress,
Wondering if he would be cute enough to
find out the deception. Immediately Sol
omon, when he sew them wash their faces,
knew from the way they applied the water
that il was all cheat. Queen EIlkis was
so pleased with he aCuteness of Solomon
that she said: "pll Just go and see him
myself" NOnder il comes, the Civalcade,
horses and dromed edaries, chariots and chari-
oteers. jingling harness and clatter'ng
hoofs, snd blazing shields and flying en-
signs and clapping cymbals. The place is
saturated with the perfume. She brings
cinnamon ard saffron, and CalamuS aud
frankincense, and all manner Oi sweet
spices. As the retinue sweeps
through the gate, the armed
guard inhale the aroma. Halt, cry
the charioteers as the wheels grind the
gravel in front of TIE pillered pOrtico OF
the king. Queen Balkis slighted in an e.
mosphere bewitChed with perfume. As the
dromCdaries are driven up to the Ming $
store houses and the bundles c. Camphor
are unloaded. and the sacks OF cinnamon
and the boxes OF spices are opened, The
purveyors of the palace discover what my
text announces: "Of spices greal abun-
dance: neither was there any such Spice as
the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon
Well. NV friend, You know that all theo-
logians agree in making Solomon type CT
Christ. and in making the Queen OF Shebs a
Type of Every Truth Seeker:
and shall take the responsibility this morn
ing of saving that all the spikenard and
CaSsia and frankincense which the Queen
of Sheba BROUGHT 10 King Soloman IS
NIGHTLY suggestive Of the sweet spices OF
our holy religion. Christianity Is not
co lection of sharp technicalitias, angular
facts. chronological tables and dry stitls-
tics. cur religion is compared 10 fran6la-
cersc and to casSia but never to night
shade. IL is a bundle of myrrh. II Is
dash of holy light. 1t is sparkle OF cool
fountains. Ii is an opening OF opuilne
gates. IL is a collection OF spices would
God we were as wiz in taking spices 10
Our divine King as queen PalkiS was wise
in tsklnc spices to the earthly Solomon.
The fact is that the
Duties and Cares OF this Life
coming 10 US from time to time, are stupid
often, and mean and intOlerable. Here are
men who have been bltteriHg, climbing,
pounding, hammCring, for twenty years,
forty wears, fifty years. One great long
drudgery has their life been. Their face
anxious, their feelings benumoed, thelr
days mouotonous. What is necessary 10
brighten up that mans life ard to sweeten
Ihst acid disposition, and to put sparkle
into the mans spirits? The spicery OF our
holy religion. Why, if between the losses
of life there dashed q gleam OF an eternal
gain. if between the betrayals OF life, there
came the gleam of the undying friendship
of Christ: if in dull times in business, we
found ministeTiug spirits Tying to and iro
life. instead Of being a stupid monotone,
would be q
Glorious Inspiration,
pendrlumipg between calm satisfaction
and high raptures. How any woman can
keep house without the religion OF Christ to
help her is mystery to me. 10