The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-02

Ta!mage, IL. D., preached this morning, IN the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, on the subject, THE
Queens Visit" Before the sermon he expounjed
chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. The
opening hymn begins:
Grace, It's charming sound,
Harmonious to the ears
Heaven with the echo shall resound
And all the earth shall hear.
The text was taken from | Kings K. Z: Behold
mon in full:
Solomon had resolved that Jerusalem should
be the center of all sacred, regal and commercial
magnifcence He set himself to work and mo-
nopolzed the surrounding desert as highway
for his caravans He built the city of Palmyra
around one of the principal wells of the East, so
that all the long trains of merchandise from the
East were obliged to stop there, pay toll, and
leave part Of their wealth in the hands OF Solo
mons merchants. He named the fortress Thap-
sacus of the chief part of the Euphrates, and put
under guard everything that passed there. The
three great products of Paestine-wine, pressed
from the richest clusters, and celebrated all the
world over; oil, which in that hot country is the
entire substitute for butter and lard,
and was pressed from the olive branches until
every tree in the country became an oil well, and
honey, which was the entire substitute for sugar
these three great products of the country Solo
mon exported, and received i'll return fruits and
precious woods and the animals of every cline.
He went down to Ezion-geber and ordered feet
of ships to be constructed, oversaw the work
men and watched the launching of the f1otilla
which was to go out on more than a years
voyage to bring home the wealth of the then
known world. He heard that the Egyptian
horses were large and swift. and long named.
and round-limbed, and he resolved to purshase
them, giving $50 apiece for them, putting the
best of these horses in his own stall and selling
the others to foreign potentates at great profit.
He heard that there was the best Of timber on
Mount Lebanon, and he sent out $780, 900 men to
hew down the forest and drag the timber
through the mountain gorges. to construct it
into RATS to be foated to Joppa. and from thence
to be drawn by ox-teams twenty-five miles across
the land to Jerusalem. He heard that there
were beautiful flowers in other lands. He sent
for them, planted them in his own gardens. and
to this very day there flowers found in the
ruins of that city such as are to be found in no
other part of Palestine, the lineal descendants
of the very flowers that Solomon planted He
heard that in foreign groves were birds of rich
est voices and most luxuriant wing He sent
out people to catch them and bring them there,
and put them into his cages
Stand back nov and see this long train of
camels coming up to the Kings gate and the OK
trains from Egypt gold. and silver. and precious
stones, and beasts of every hoof, and birds of
every wing, and fish of every scale See the
peacocks strut under the cedars, and the horse
men run, and the chariots wheel. Hark to the
orchestra. Gaze upon the dance. Not stopping
to look into the wonders of the Temple, step
right to the causeway and pass up to Solo
mons palace Here we find ourselves amid a
collection of buildings on which the King had
lavished the wealth of many empires The
genius of Hiram. the architect, and of the other
artists is here in the long line of corridors,
and the suspended galleries, and the approach to
the throne. Traeeried window opposite traceried
window. Bronzed ornaments bursting into lotus,
and lily, and pomegranate. Chapters surround
ed by network of leaves, in which imitation of
Three branches-so Josephus tells us-three
subtle that even the leaves seemed to culver. A
laver capable of holding five hundred barrels of
water on six hundred brazen OK heads which
gushed with water and filled the whole place
with GOODNESS, and crystalline brightness. and
musical plash. Ten tables chased with chariot
wheel, and lion, and cherubim. Solomon sat on
a throne of ivory. At the seating place of the
throne, on each end of the steps, brazen lion.
Why, my friends, in that place they trimmed
their candles with snuffers of gold, and
they cut their fruit with knives of gold, and
they washed their faces in basins of gold. and
they scooped out the ashes with shovels of
gold, and they stirred the altar fires with tongs
of gold Gold reflected in the water Colo
flashing from the apparel. Gold blazing in the
crown. Gold, gold, gold!
OF course the news of the affiuence of that
place went out everywhere, by every caravan
and by wing Of every ship. until soon the streets
of Jerusalem are crowded with curiosity seekers
What is that long procession approaching Jeru-
solem2 / think, from the pomp of it, there must
be royalty in the train. / smell the breath of
the spices which are brought as presents, and
hear the shouts of the drivers. and | see the
duSt-covered caravan, showing that they come
from far away. Cry the news up to the palace
The Queen of Sheba advances. Let all the peo-
Pile come out to see. Let the mighty men of the
land come out on the palace corridors. Let Sol
ONION come dOWn the stairs OF the palace before
the Queen has alghted Shake out the CHINA.
mon, and the saffron, and the calamus, and the
frankincense, and pass it into the treasure-house
Take up the diamonds until they glitter in the
sun. The Queen of Sheba alights. She enters
the palace She washes at the bath She sits
down at the banquet The cup bearers bow.
The meats smoke. The music trembes in the
hall and through the corridors until it mingles in
the dash of the waters from the molten sea.
Then she rises from the banquet and she walks
through the Conservatives, and she eazes on the
architecture, and she asks Solomon many
strange questions, and she learns about the re-
lgion of the Hebrews. and she then and there
becomes a servant of the Lord God She is over
whelmed She begins to think that all the spices
she brought, and all the precious woods which
are intended to be turned into harps and psalter
les, and into ratings for the causeway between
the temple and the palace and the $3.50, 900 in
money-she begins to think that all
these presents amount to nothing
in such place. and she is almost