Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1890-01-13

VIENNA, Jan. b.-The Rev. T. De wit
TalmsRe, u. D., Of Brooklyn, preached
n this city to-day on 1.-The Surprises OF
Religion" His text was | Kings Z, Z:
"Behold. the half was not told me-"
After painting In vigorous manner the
glory oil Solomon, Dr. TalmAae referred
to the visit Of the Queen Of She5a in
these words:
The queen Of Sheba alights. She en-
ters the palace. She washes at tho bath.
She sta down at the banquet. The cup
bearers bow. The meat smokes, The
music trembles in the dash OF the waters
from the molten sea.
Then she rises from the banquet, and
walks through the conssryatories, and
gazes on the architecture, and she asks
Solomon many strange questions, and
she learns about the religion OF tho He
brews, AMI she then and there become, =
servant OF the Lord Col. Sho says with
In herself: 81 heard a great deal about
this place, and about this wonderful re-
lgion oil the Hebrews. but l find 1t far
beyond my highest antcipation,. / must
add more than nifty per cent. to what has
oeen related. II exceeds everything that
l could have expected. The half-the
halt was not told me-"
tiiul thing 1t is when social position and
wealth surrender themselves TO God.
When relii ion comes to neichbcrhool,
the first to receive II are the women.
Some mon say 1t 10 because they arc
weak minded. l say 1t is because they
have quicker perceptions of what Is
right, more ardent affection and caracity
for sublimer emotion. After the women
have received the Gospel, then all the
distressed and the poor OF both sexes,
those who have NO friends, accept Jesus.
Last OF all come the greatly prospered.
Alas, that It is sol
~ bless God that the day Is coming
when royalty will bring all its thrones,
and III usic all It's Ii lrmOnies, and painting
all its pictures, and sculpture all its
statusry, aud architecture all It's pillars,
and conquest all its scepters, and the
| queene OF the earth, In long limo Of ad-
vance, irankiIcense filling the air and
the camels laden with gold, shall APP
prosch Jerusalem, and the gates shall be
hoisted, and the great burden of spleudor
shall be lifted into the palace Of this
greater than Solomon.
"Again, my subject impresses me with
the fact religion Is surprise to any one
that gets It, Well. there IL coming q
greater surprise to every Chrisiian-a
greater surprise than anything have de-
picted. Heaven Is an old story. Every
body talks about It There Is hardly q
by mu in the bymn-book that does not
refer to 1t. Children read about II In
their Sabbath school books. Aged men
put on their spectsclcs to study It. We
say 1t 10 n harbur from the storm. We
| call 1t home. We say 1t Is the house OF
many mansions. We weave togeth,r all
sweet, beautiful, delicate, exh larant
words; We weave them into letters, and
then We srAii "a ~s.. IN and iilp and
| amArantb. And yet the place is going
I no = surprise to the most intelligent
| Christian.
Send the word up to the palace that we
are coming. ard that we are weary of the
| march OF the desert. The King VIII come
out aud say: "Wslcome to the palace;
bathe IN these waters; recline on these
banks. Take this cinnamon aud frank
incense and myrrh, aud put 1t upon q
censor and swing It before the altar"
And yet, my friends, when heaven bursts
upon us II will be q " eater surprise than
that-Jesus on the throne, and we made
like Hlml All our Christian friends sur.
rounding us in gloryl AL our SORROWS
aud tears and sins gone by foreverl The
thousands OF Thousands, the one hundred
and forty and four thousand, the great
multitudes that no man can number, Will
cry, world without end: 1.-THE balf--tht
hall was not tod mev'