The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-11-13
rALMAGE'S SERMON.
TIE Queen Of Sheba's Visit 60
King Solomon.

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King Solomon.
The Manner In which the jewish Mon.
areh's Maxnlficence Impressed his
Royal Visitor and tho Useral Les
sons to be Drawn TheFefroA.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, IN recent
sermon in Brooklyn Tabernacle, took the
subject of the Queen Of Sheba's visit tc
King Solomon for his theme. The text
was
Behold, the half was net told NEIL Kings.
XII.
Solomon had resolved that Jerusalem
should be the center of all sacred, regal
and commercial magnificence. He 81
himself to work and monopolized the sur
rounding desert as highway for his car
avans. He built the city of Palmyra
around one of the principal wells Of the
East, SO that all the long trains of mer-
chandise from the East were obliged 10
stop there, pay toll and leave part of their
wealth in the hands of Solomon's mer-
Gus of the chief part of the Euphrates, and
put under guard everything that passed
there. The three great products of fales-
tine-wine pressed from the richest clus.
tiers 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 Solomon exported; and re-
ceived in turn fruits and precious woods
and the animals of every CLINE. He went
down to Ezion -geber and ordered a feet of
ships to be constructed, oversaw the work.
men and watched the launching of the flo-
tilla which was to go out on more than q
years voyage to bring home the wealth of
the then known world. He heard that the
Egyptian horses were large and swift and
long-maned and round limbed, and he re-
solved to purchase them, giving $S5 apiece
for them, putting the best of these horses
in his own stall and selling the surplus to
foreign potentates at great profit. He
heard that there was the best of timber ON
Mount Lebanon, and he sent out 10000
men to hew down the forest and drag the
timber through the mountain gorges to
construct it into RATS to be floated to Jop-
pa, and from thence to be drawn by OK
teamsstwenty- 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 are 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 there were birds of richest
voice and most luxuriant wing. He sent
out people to catch them and bring them
there, and he put them into his cages.
Stand back, now, 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 horsemen run,
and the chariots wheel. Hark to the Or
chestra. Gaze upon the dance. Not stop
ping to look into the wonders of the Tenn
pie, step right on to the causeway and pass
up to Solomon's palace. Here we find our
selves amid 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
seen in the long line of corridors and the
suspended gallery and the approach to the
throne. Traceried window opposite tracer
led window. Bronzed ornaments burst
ing into lotus and lily and pomegranate.
Chapters surrounded by network of leaves
in which imitation fruit seemed suspended
as in hanging baskets. Three branches
so Josephus tells us-three branches sculpt-
ured on the marble, SO thin and subtle
that even the leaves seemed to culver. A
laver capable of holding 500 barrels of wa
ter on 600 brazen oxheads, which gushed
with water and filled the whole place with
GOODNESS and crystal line brightness and
musical plash. Ten tableschased with char
lot wheel and lion and cherubim. Solomon
sat On a throne of ivory. At the seating
place of the throne, on each end of each of
the steps, brazen lion. Why, my friends,
in that place they trimmed their candles
with shutters of gold, and they washed
their faces in basins of gold, and they
scooped ont the ashes with shovels of gold,
and they stirred the altar fires with tongs
of gold. Gold reflected in the water; gold
flashing from the apparel; gold blazing in
the crown. Gold, gold, gold.
: OF course the news of the afluence of
that place went out everywhere by every
caravan and by wing of every ship, until
seon the streets of Jerusalem are crowded
with curiosity seekers. What is that long
procession approaching Jerusalem.
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 shout, of the drivers, and |
see the dust-covered caravan showing that |
they come from far away. Cry the news |
up 10 the palace. The Queen of Sheba ad- |
vaHoes. Let all the people come out to see. |
Let the mighty men come out ON the palace |
corridors. Let Solomon come down the |
stairecOf the palace before the Queen has
alighted. Shake out the cinnamon and the |
saffron and the calaznus and the frank
incense, and pass it into the treas
ure house. Take mp the diamonds
until they glitter N 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
in the halls and through the cor
ridors until it mingles in the dash of the
waters from the moltn sea. Then she
rises from the banquet, and she walks
through the Conservatives, and she gaxes
On cne architecture, and she asks SCION on
many strange questions, and she learns
about the religion of the Hebrews, ami she
then and there becomes . servant of the
Lord God. She is overwhelmed. She be-