Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-27
TALMAGE's SERMON
10 queen OF sheba's Visit tn
King Solomon.

King Solomon.
~.o Manner In Which the Jcwia, Nh,
ribs Magnificence Impressed ,,,.
Royal Visitor and the Useful Les.
sons to be Drawn Therefron,
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, in a recen+
.srnnon in Brooklyn Tabernacle, took the
Inject of the Queen of Sheba,s visit to
riug solomon for his theme. The text
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So
solomon had resolved that Jerusalem
should be the center of all sacred. regal
and commercial magnifcence. He Set
himself to work and m%onopolized the sur
rounding desert as a highway for his car.
arans. He built the city of PALMYRA
around one OF the principal wells of the
East. so that all the long trains of mer-
cbandise from the East were obliged to
stop there, pay toll and leave part of their
wealth in the hands of Solomon's mer.
chants. He named the fortress Thapsa.
Gus of the chief part of the Euphrates. and
nut under guard everything that passed
There. The three great products of Pales.
tine-wine pressed from the richest clus-
tiers and celebrated oil 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 we'll: and
honey which was the entire substitute for
suear-these three great products of
the country solomon exported; and re-
ceived i'll 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 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-maned Il round -limbed, and he re-
solved to purchase them, giving; $50 apiece
for them, putting the best of these horses
in his own stall m 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 $50, 900
men to hew Town the forest and drag the
timber through the mountain gorges to
construct it into RATS to be foated to Jop-
pa, and from thence to be drawn by OK
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 are flowers
found in the ruins of that city such as are
to be found in no other part of Palestine,
tie 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 thu OK trains from Egypt, gold and
silver AID precious stones and beasts of
every hGof and birds of every wing and
fish of every scale. See the peacocks strut
under the ceGars, and the horsemen run,
and the chyriots wheel. Hark to the or
chestra. Gaze upon the dance. Not stop
ping to look into the wonders of the Tenn
pile, step right on to the causeway and pass
up to Solomon's palace. Here we find our
selves amid a collection Of buildings Oh
which the king had lavished the wealth of
many empires. The genius of Hiram, the
architect, II 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
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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
layer capable of holding 800 barrels of wa
ter on 800 brazen oXheads, which gushed
with water and filled the whole place with
coolness and crystal line brightness and
musical plash. Ten taLleschased with char
lot wheel and lion and cheruhim. Solomon
sat on a throne of ivory. AT the seating
place Of the throne, on each end of each OF
the steps, a brazen lion Why, my friends,
in that place they trimmed their candles
with snutfers 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; 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, t
soon the streets OF Jerusalem are crowded
with curiosity seekers. What is that long
procession approaching Jerusalem? l
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 l hear the shout Of the drivers, and
see the d~ust-covered caravan showing that
they come from far away. Cry the news
up to the palace. The Queen of Sheba adj
vances. Let all the people come out to see
Let the mighty men come out on the palace
corridors. Let Solomon come down the
stairs of the palace before the Queen mas
alighted. Shake out the cinnamon ana the
saffron and the calamus and the frank
incense, and pass it into the treas
ure house. Take up the dlaiaonus
until they glitter in the sun. Ihe
Queen of Sheba alights. She enters the