The Forrest City times., 1889-12-14
IN THE HOLY CITY.
Sermon Preached by Dr. Talmage in Jeru-
 salem,
The Procession of Xinss conquerors, Poets and Immortal Men Pass Before the Mind . Eye of the Celebrated Brooklyn Pastor.

Rev. T. Dc Witt Talmsgc preached In tho
 city of Jerusalem last Sunday to a large
 gathering of Christian people His text | was Matt xxiii, B: "Jerusalemi Jerusa- iem!" A report of his eloquent sermon is
 appended.
 This exclamation burst from Christ's lips us he came in sight of thi. great city,
 and, although things have marveously
 changed, who can visit Jerusalem to. day < without having its mighty past roll over on
 him, and ordinary utterance must give l place for the exclamatory as we cry, O
 Jerusalem, Jerusaleml Disappointed with | the Holy Land many have been, and
 have heard good friends say that their | ardor about sacred places had been so
 dampened that they were sorry they
 ever visited Jerusalem. But with mo
 the city and it's surroundings urc q
 rapture. solemnity, an overwhelming
 emotion. Jerusalom, Jerusaleml The procession or kings, conquerors, poets and
 immortal mon and women pass before me
 as stand here Among the throng are Solomon, David and Christ Yes, through
 those streeta and amid these surroundings
 rode Solomon that wonder of splendor and
 wretchedness. It see nod as if the world
 exhausted itself on that man. It wove it's
 brightest flowers into his garland It set
 its richest gems in his coronet It pressed
 the rarest wine to his lips. It robed him l Tn tho purest purple and embroidery It | cheered him with tho sweetest music in
 that land or harps. It greeted him with
 the eladdcst laughter that ever leaped from l mirthfs lip. It sprinkled his check with
 spray from the brightest fountains. Roy
 atty had no dominion, wealth no luxury, l gold no glitter, flowers no sweetness, song
 no melody, light no radiance, upholstery
 no gorgeousness, waters no gleam, birds no
 piumage, prancing coursers no mettle.
 architecture no grandeur but 1t was all his
 Across the thick grass of the lawn, fragrant
 with tufts of campfire from Enscdi, fell
 the long shadows of trees brought from 1 distant forests,
 Fish pools, fed by artificial channels that
 brought the streams from hills far away, were perpetually ruflicd with fins, and l golden scales shot from water cave to wa ter cave with endless dive and swirl, at.
 racung the gaze of foreign potentates
 blrds that had been brought from foreign
 aviaries glanced and fiuttered among the
 foliage and called to their mates far be-
 yond the sea From the royal stables there
 came mp the neighinR of twelve thousand
 horses, standing in blankets of Tyrian
 purple. chewing their bits over troughs Of
 gold, waiting for the king'S order to be | brought out in front of the palace when the
 oHciai dignitaries would leap into the sad
 die Tor some grand parade, or, harnessed to
 some of the fourteen hundred chariots of
 the King, tho fiery chargers with Haunting mane ana throbbing nostril would make .he earth Jar with the tramp of hoofs and i the thunder of wheels While within and without the palace you could not think of a hot al l~.
 single spiendor that could be kindled down
 on the banks of tho sea the dry docks of
 Ezion-geoer rang with the hammers oi the shipwrights who were constructing
 larger vessels for still wider commerce,
 Tor all lands and climes were to be robbed | 10 ilaRe up Solomon's glory. No rest till
 ms keels shall cut every sea, his axmen hew every forest, his archers strike every rare wing, his fishermen whip every stream, his l merchants trade In every bazaar, his mama l oe honored by every tribe; and royalty shall
 nave no dominion, wealth no luxury. gold l no glitter, song no melody, light no radi.
 ance waters no gleam, birds no plumage 1 pranctng coursers no mettle, upholstery no 1 gorgeousness, architecture no grandeur. 1 but 1t was all his
 "Well,' you say, eff there is any man happy, he ought to be-" But hear him coming out through tho palace, and sec his
 robes actually incrusted with jewels, as ho 1 stands In tho front an d looks out upon tho l vast domain. What does he sayi King
 Solomon, great is your dominion, great is l your honor, great is your joyt No While
 standing hero amidst all the splendor, the l tears start and his heart breaks and ho l exclaims; Vanity of vanities; all is van l ity." N hat Solomon not happy yeti No not 1 happy. The honors and the emoluments of 1 tnls world brings so many cares with them 1 that they bring also torture and dIsouio- l tude. Pharoah sits on one of the highest
 earthly emincnces yet he is miserable be cause therc are some people in his realm
 that do not want any longer to make bricks. The head of Edward I. arches under his
 crown because the people will uot pay the
 taxes, and Llewellyn, Prince of Wales, wlH not do him homage, and
 Wallace Will be hero. Frederick | William III, of Prussia, is miserable be.
 cause France wants 10 take the Prussian provinces The world is not large enough
 for Louis XIV and William III. The ] ghastliest suffering, tho most shriveiing
 fear, tho most rending iealousies, the most gigantic disqnietude, have walked amidst 1 ohsequious courtiers, and been clothed in l royal apparel, and sat on judgment seats of | power
 Honor and truth and justice cannot 20 so
 high up in authority as to be beyond the range of human assault The pure and 1 good in all ages have been execrated by the
 mob who cry out; Not this man. but 1 Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. m 1 By honesty, by Christian principle, would 1 have you seek for the favor ana the con.
 hdenee of your fellow men; but do not look l upon some high position as though that altraFa ,t., | earthly honor are like tho mountains of l Switzerland, covered with perpetual ice and I snow Having obtained the confidence and | love Of your associates, be content with | such things as you havc. You brought
 nothing into the world and it is very cer- | tatn you can carry nothing out Cease ye | from man, whose breath is in his nostrils n There Is nn honor that is worth possessing | but 1t is an honor that comes from God This day rise up and tako it "Hehold what manner of love tho father hath be
 slowed upon us, that we should be called | the sons of God.n W ho aspircs not for
 that royaityt Come now, and he kings and l priests unto God and the lamb forever II wealth and wisdom could have satls-
 lied man, Solomon would have been sat
 ished. To say that Solomon was million. afro gives but very imperfect idea of tho |
 father. He had at his command gold to the
 value Of SIX hundred and eighty million
 pounds. and he had silver to tho value of
 one billion, twenty nino million, three hun. dred and seventy seven pounds sterling | The queen Of Sheba made him a nico Ettl~ I present of seven hundred and twenty thou
 sand pounds, and Hiram made him pres
 ent Of tho same amount If he had lost
 tho value of a whole realm out of his 1 pocket, 1t would have hardly been worth
 his while to stoop down and pick it up. He | wrote ono thousand and five songs. He
 wrote three thousand proverbs He wrote
 about almost everything. Tho Bible says
 distinctly he wrote about plants. from the
 cedar of Lebanon to tho hyssop that grow
 eth out of the wall. and about birds and
 beasts and fishes. No doubt he put otf his
 royal robes, and put on hunters trapping.
 and went out with his arrows to bring
 down the rarest specimens of birds and
 then with his fishing apparatus he went