The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-12-11


and be Kings and priests unto God and
the lamb forever.
II wealth and wisdom could have sat-
ished man, Solomon would have been
satisfied. To say that Solomon was a
millionaire gives but very imperfect
idea of the property he inherited from
David, his father. He had at his com.
mand gold to the value Of 6S0,000,0 ,000
and he had silver to the value of 81, 029,-
O0O,327 The Queen of Sheba made him
nice little present Of e720,O0o, and
Hiram made him present Of the same
amount. II he had lost the value Of
realm out of his pocket 1t would have
hardly been worth his while to stoop
down and pick 1t up. He wrote 1,005
songs. He wrote 5000 proverbs. He
wrote about almost every thing. The
Bible says distinctly he wrote about
plants, from the cedar of Lebanon
to the hyssop that groweth out of
the wall, and about birds and beasts and
fishes. No doubt he put of his Royal
robes and put on hunters trappings, and
went out with his arrows to bring down
tne raresc specimens Oh piros' anu Vneh
with his apparatus he went down to the
stream to bring up the denizens Of the
deep, and plunged into the forest and
found the rarest specimens Of flowers,
and then he came back to his study and
wrote DOCKS ABOUT Zoology tne science
OF ah,iinais; hi,iinnais; ABOUT lcnsnCiogy' tne sciences
Oh nshes' apouO orhionoiogy, ohe sciehco
oi pirus' ABOUT ootany, ene science Oh
plants fer notwi.nstanaing al ms
w,soom anu weaitn' penoiu MS wreCch-
euhesS' anu ieO MN pass on Diu any
oenea clSy ever pen0iu 30 wonueriui d
i'an' Y 'erusaieti' 'erusaienn'
But here passes through these streets,
as In imagination l see him, quite as
wonderful and a lar better man. David
the conquerer, thesking, the poet. Can
1t be that am in the very city where
he lived and reigned2 David great for
power, and great for grief. lie 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 foot there
was not single blemish. The Bible
says that he had such luxuriant shock
OF hair that, when once a year 1t was
shorn, what was cut of weighed over
three pounds But, Notwithstanding all
his brilliancy OF appearance, he was a
bad boy, and broke his fathers heart.
he was plotting to get the throne Of
Israel He had marshaled an army
to overthrow his fathers government
The day Of battle had come. The con-
fiict was begun. David, the father, sat
between the gates Of the palace waiting
Tor the tidings OF the conflict. Oh, how
rapidly his heart beat with emotion!
Two great questions were to be decided:
tho safety OF his boy, and the contin-
uance Of the throne of Israel After
awhile, a servant, standing on the top of
the house, looks of, and he sees some
one running. He is coming with great
speed, and the man on the top OF the
house announces the coming OF the mes
senger, and the father watches and waits
and as soon as the messenger from the
field Of battle comes within hailing dis
tance the father cries out. Is IT u ques-
tion in regard to the establishments OF
his throne? Does he say; "Have tho
armies OF Israel been victorious? Am l
TO continue In my Imperial authority?
Have ] overthrow mine enemies?" Oh,
no. There Is one question that springs
from his heart TO the lip, and
springs from the lip into the ear
Of the besweated and bedusted messen-
ger flying from the battlefield
the question; i'Is the young man Abb
salon safe2" When it was told 70
David, the King, that, though his armies
bad 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 Yringing his
hands sometimes, and then again press
ing them against his temples as though
he would press them in, crying: "oh, Alb
saloml my sonl my sonl Would God ]
had died for theel Oh, Absalornl my
soni my son!' Stnpendous grief Of David
resounding through all succeeding ages.
This was the city that heard the woe.
Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusaleml am also
thrilled and overpowered with the re-
membrance that yonder, where now
stands Mohammedan mosque, stood
the temple, the very one that Christ
visited. Solomon's Temple had stood
| there, but Nebuchadnezzar Numbered II