Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-12-20

nave. You brought nothing INTO the world,
and it is very certain you can carry nothing
out Cease we from man, whose breath is
in his nostrils." There is an honor that is
worth possessing, but it is an honor that
comes from God. This day rise up and take
it, Behold what manner Of love the
Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should
be called the sons of God Who aspires not
for that royalty? Come, now, and be Kings
and priests unto God and the Lamb forever.
If wealth and wisdom could have satisfied
a man, Solomon would have been satisfied
To say chat Solomon was a millionaire gives
but very imperfect idea Of the property he
inherited fyom David. his father He had at
his command gold to the value or SIX hum
dred and eighty million pounds, and he had
silver to the value Of one billion twenty-nine
million, three hundred and seventy-seven
pounds sterling. The Queen Of Sheba made
him a nice little present of seven hundred and
twenty thousand pounds, and Hiram made
him q present of the same smount. Ii he had
lost the value Of whole realm out of his
pocket, it would have hardly been worth his
while TO stoop down and pickitup, He wrote
one thousand and five songs He wrote three
tl,r a.urIl "a ersrl,z. -sto at,o44 s.l--aest
everything. The Bible says distinctly he
wrote about plants, from the cedar of Le-
banon to the hyssop that groweth out of the
wall and about birds and beasts and fishes
NO pub bll mo iOy al iOpSct anu pun
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
down to the stream to bring up the denizens
Of the deea and nlunqed into the. forest and
tound the rarest specimens OF howersi ana
then be came back to his study and wrote
books about zoology, the science of animals;
about ichthyo,ogy, the science OF fishes
about prnitbology, the science of birds;
about botany, the science of plants. Yet
Notwithstanding all his wisdom and wealth,
behold his wretchedness and let him pass on.
Did any other city ever behold so wonderful
a man? O, jerusalem Jerusaleml
But here passes through these streets, as in
Imagination ! see him, quite as wonderful,
and far better man. David the conqueror,
the King the poet, Can it be that | am in
the very city where lie lived and reigned?
David, great for power, and great for grief.
He was wrapped up in his boy Absalom. He
was splendid boy judged by the rules of
worldly criticism, From the crown of his
head to the sole of his feet there was not a
single hlemish. The Bible says that he
had such luxuriant shock of hair
that, when once a. year it was shorn,
what was cut off weighed over three
pounds. But, notwithstanding all his
brilliancy of appearance. he was bad boy,
and broke his fathers heart. He was plot
ting to get the throne of Israel. He had
alarshaled an army to overthrow his fathers
government. The day of battle had come
md the conflict was begun. David, the
father, sat between the gates of the palace
Waiting for the tdin@s OF the conflict, Oh,
aow rapidly his heart beat with emotion
Two great questions were to be decided: the
Afety of his boy, and the continuance of
the throne of Israel. After awhile "A
servant, standing on the top Of the house,
looks off, and he sees some one running. He
is coming with great speed, and the man
on the top of the house announces the COM
ing of the messenger, and the father watches
and waits and as soon as the messenger
from the field of battle comes within hallnS
distance the father cries OUT: Is it ques-
lion in regard to the establishment Of his
throne? Does he say: "Have the armies OF
Israel been victorious? Am to continue in
my imperial authority Have | oyerthrown
my enemiesF Oh, no. There is one ques-
and springs from the lip into the ear OF
the besweated and bedusted messenger
dying from the battle field-the question:
rs the young man Absalom safey' When II
was told to David, the King, that though
his armies had been victorious, his son had
been slain, the father turned his back upon
the congratulations of the nation, and went
up the stairs of his palace, his heart breaking
as he went, wringing his hands sometimes,
and then again pressing them against his
temples as though he would press them in,
crying: 80 Absalom! my sonl my son!
Would God had died for thee, o Absalom !
my son! my SON" Stupendous grief, OF
David resounding through all succeeding
ages. This was the city that heard the woe.
o Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
! am also thrilled and overpowered with
the remembrance that yonder, where now
stands a Mohammedan mosque, stood the
temple, the very one that Christ visited.
Solomon's temple had stood there, but Neb-
uchadnezzar thundered it down. Zerubba
bels temple had stood there, but that had
been prostrated. Then Herod built q temple
because he was fond of great architecture
and he wanted the preceding temples TO, seem
Insignificant, Put eight OF ten modern ca
thedrals together and thoy would not equal
that structure. IL covered nineteen
acres. There we're marble pillars sup
porting roof of cedar and silver ta-
bles on which stood golden cups, and there
were carvings exquisite and inscriptions re-
splendent, glittering balustrades and orna-
mented gateways. The building OF this tenn
pie kept ten thousand workmen busy forty
! six years. Stupendous pile of pomp and
magni6cencel But the material and archi-
tectural grandeur Of the building were very
tame compared with the spiritual meaning Of
its altars and holy of holies, and the over.
whelming significance of its ceremonies. o
| Jerusalem, Jerusalem.
But standing in tl1s old city all other facts
are eclipsed when we think that near here
our blessed Lord was born. that up and
down the streets of this city He walked, and
that in the outskirts Of 1t He died. Here was
His only day of triumph, and His assassina.
ton. One day this old Jerusalem is at the
| tiptop of excitement. Christ has been doing
some remarkable works and asserting very