The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-10

you expect to be to the Lord Who blessed
this queen of Sheba. Certainly you are not
ashamed to be found in this queens com
pany.. l am glad that Christ has had his
imperial friends in all ages-Elizabeth
Christina, queen Of Prussia; Maria Feodo-
rovna. queen Of Russia; Marie, empress of
France; Helena, the imperial mother of
Constantine; Arcadia, from her great for
pie and toiling for the alienation of the
masses; Queen Clotilda, leading her hus-
band and 900 of his armed warriors to
Christian baptism; Elizabeth of Burgundy,
giving her jeweled glove to q beggar, and
scattering great fortunes among the dis
dressed; Prince Albert, singing Rock OF
Ages in Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria
incognita, reading the Scriptures to dying
pauper.
bless God that the day is coming when
royalty will bring all it's thrones, and music
oil Its pictures, and sculpture all it's statuary.
and architecture all it's pillars, and conquest
oil it's scepters, and the queens OF the earth.
IN long line of advance 1rankincense filing
the air and the camels laden with gold, shall
approach Jerusalem, and the gates shall be
hoisted, and the great burden of splendor
shali be lifted into the palace of this greater
than Solomon.
Again, my subject teaches me what is
earnestness in the search oftruth. Do you
know whore Sheba was? 1t was in Abyssnia,
or some say in the southern part of Arabia
Felix In either case it was great way OF
from Jerusalem. To get from there to Jer-
usalem she had to cross country infested
with BANDITS and go across blistering des-
erts, Why did not the Queen of Sheba stay
at home and send a committee tn inquire
n h<n,r %hN
delegates report in regard to that religion
and wealth of King Solomon? She wanted
to see for herself, and hear for herself. She
could not do this by work Of committee. She
felt she had q soul worth 10000 kingdoms
ike Sheba. and she wanted robe richer than
any woven by Oriental shuttles, and she
wanted a crown set with the Jewels ofeternity.
Bring out the camels. Put on the spices.
Gather up the jewels OF the throne and put
them on the caravan. Start now; no time to
be lost. Goad on the camels. When [ see
that caravan, dust-covered, weary and ex-
hausted, trudging on across the desert and
among the bandits until it reaches Jerusalem,
say: "There is an earnest seeker after the
truth"
But there are great many who do not act
in that way. They all want to get the truth,
but they want the truth to come to them;
they do not want to go to it. There arepeo-
pie who fold their arms and say: II am
ready to become Christian at any time; if
am to be saved l shall be saved, and if I
am to be lost shall be lost" But Jerusa-
lem will never come to you; you must go to
Jerusalem. The religion of the Lord Jesus
Christ will not come to you; you must go
and get religion. Bring out the camels; put
on all the sweet spices, all the treasures OF
the hearts affection. Start for the throne.
ing in fountains all around about the throne.
Sit down at the banquet-the wine pressed
from the grapes of the heavenly Eschol, the
angels of God, the cup bearers. Goad on the
camels The Bible declares it: "The queen
of the South"-that is, this very woman I
am speaking of-"the queen of the South,
shall rise up in Judgment against this genera
| tfOn and rdemn it; for she came from the ut
termost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom
of Solomon: and, behold! greater than Sol
ONION is here" What infatuation the sitting
down in idleness expecting to be saved.
''Strive to enter at the straight gate. Ask,
and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall
find; knock, and it shall be opened to you"
Take the kingdom of heaven by violence,
Urge on the camelsl
Again. my subject impresses me with the
fact that religion is surprise to any one
| that gets it, This story of the new religion
| in Jerusalem. and of the glory OF King Solo,
mon who was q type of Christ-that story
rolled on and on, and was told by every man
on the wing of every ship and with every car
avian, and you know story enlarges as it
is retold, and by the time that story gets
down into the southern part of Arabia, Felix
and the Queen of Sheba hears it, it must be
tremendous story. And yet this queen de-
clares in regard to it, although she had heard
so much and had her anticipations raised so
high, the half-the half was not told her.
So religion is always a surprise to any one
that gets it. The story of grace-an old
story. Apostles preached it with rattle of
chain; martyrs declared it with arm Of fire;
deathbeds have affirmed it with visions of
glory and ministers ofreligion have sounded
it through the lanes, and the highways, and
chapels, and the cathedrals. 1t has been cut
into stone with chisel, and spread on the
canvas with pencil; and it has been recited in
doxology of great congregations. And yet
when man first comes to look on the pal
ace of Gods mercy, and to see the royalty of
Christ, and the wealth of this banquet and
the luxuriance of his attendance, and the
loneliness of his tace and the joy of his serv-
ice, he exclaims with prayers, with tears,
with signs. with triumphs; "The half-the
half was not told mel'
Iappeal to those who ore Christians. Com
pare the idea you had of the joy of the
Christian life before you became a Chrirtian
with the appreciation of that joy you have
now since you have become a Christian, and
you are willing to attest before angels and
men that you never, in the days of your
bondage, had any appreciation OF what was
to come. You are ready today to answer
and say in regard to the discoveries you have
made in the mercy and the grace and the
goodness of God: "The halt-the half was
not told me''
Well, we hear great deal about the good
time that is coming to the world when it is
to be girded with salvation. Holiness on
the bells of the horses. The lions name
patted by the hand OF babe. Ships of
Tarshish bringing cargoes for Jesus, and the
hard, dry. barren, winter bleached storm
SCARED, thunder split rock breaking into
floods of bright water Deserts into which
dromedaries thrust their nostris, because
they are afraid of the simoon-deserts bloom.
ing into carnation roses and silver tipped
lilies.
1t is the old story. Everybody tells it.
Isaiah told it, John told it, Paul told it, Eze-
kiel told 1t, Luther told it, Calvin told it,
John Milton told it-everybOdy tells it: and