St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-02


in life, all that is purest, all that is most
knowledgeable, all that is most enduring
and aspiring, all that is most Self-denying
for the sake of beneficence. That is re-
ligion, and whenever you can combine the
outward and inward there you have saint
ship, beautiful conduct, with beautiful
origination of it in the emotion and soul
and intelligence; and whatever so lives as
not to produce in some way or other the
impression of the beauty Of religion falls
short of the genius of the New Testament"
DIR. Talmage's EiOqulence.
Special to the Globe.
BROOKLYN, Nov. t. The Rev. T.
De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached this
morning in the Brooklyn tabernacle, on the
subject, The Queens Visit. The text was
| taken from Kings X. ,vii-''Behold the half
| was not told me-" Solomon had resolved
| that Jerusalem should be the center of all
| sacred, regal and commercial magnificence.
He set himself to work and monopolized the
surrounding desert as q 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 mer-
chandise from the East We're obliged to
stop there, pay toll and leave part of their
chants. He named the fortress Thapsacus,
the chief part of the Euphrates, and put
under guard everything that passed there
The three great products of Palestine-wine
pressed from the richest clusters and cele-
brated all the world over oil which in that
hot country is the entire substitute for but
ter and lard, and was pressed from the
| olive branches until every tree in the cOun-
| try 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 in return fruits
and precious woods and the animals of
every cline. He went down to Ezionge-
ber and ordered fleet of ships to be con-
structed, oversaw the wOrkmen and watched
the launching of the fotilla, 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 Iong-man and round-limbed, and he
resolved to purchase them, giving $50
apiece for them, putting the best of these
horses in his own stall and selling the sur
plus to foreign potentates at great profit.
He heard that there was the best of timber
on Mount Lebanon, and he sent out 190, 900
men to hew down the forest and drag the
|
struct it into rafts to be be floated to Joppa,
and from thence to be drawn by OK teams
| twenty-five miles across the land to Jeru-
salem. 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 de-
scendants 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 ruu, and the
chariots wheel. Hark to the orchestra.
Gaze upon the dance Notstopping to look
into the wonders of the temple, step right
on to the causeway and pass up to Solo
mons palace. Here we find ourselves amid
a collection of buildings OF 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 traceried window. Bronzed
ornaments bursting into lotus and lily and
pomegranate. Chapters surrounded by net
| work Of leaves in which imitation fruit
seemed suspended as in hanging baskets.
Three branches, so Josephus tells us, three
branches sculptured on the marble, so thin
and subtle that even the leaves seemed to
culver. A laver capable of holding five
hundred barrels of water on six hundred
brazen OXheadS. 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 throne
of ivory. At the seating place of the throne,
OH each end of each of the steps, brazen
lion. Of course the news of the affluence 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 Jerusalem? I think
from the pomp of it there must be royalty
in the train. I smell the breath of the
spices which are brought as presents, and 1
hear the shout Of the drivers, and see the
come from far away. Cry the news up to
the palace. The queen of Sheba advances.
Let all the people 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 alighted. Shake out
the cinnamon and the saffron and the Gala
mus and the frank incense, 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 trembles 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 ban
quet and she walks through the conserva-
tories, and she gazeS on the architecture,
and she asks Solomon many strange ques-
tions, and she learns about the religion Of
the Hebrews, and she then and there be-
comes servant of the Lord God. She is
overwhelmed She begins to think that
all the spices she brought and all the pre-
cious woods which are intended to be turned
into harps and psalteries, and into railings
between the temple and the palace, and
the $50, 900 in money-she begins to think
that all these presents amount to nothing
in such place, and she is almost ashamed
that she has brought them, and she says
within herself: II heard great deal
about this wonderful religion of the He
brews, but find it far beyond my highest
anticipations. I must add more than so
per cent to what has been related. 1t ex-
ceeds everything that Icould have expected.
The half was not told me-" Again
MY SUBJECT TEACHES
me what is earnestness in the search of
truth. Do you know where Sheba was?