Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-18
ON THE WAY HOME
The Talmage Party Now Headed
for America.
The Brooklyn Preacher Tells
Vienna Congregation OF What
He Saw in the Holy
Land.
1.-THE Surprises OF Religion"


VIENNA, Jan. 5.-The Rev. 4. De
Witt Talmage, ID. d., OF Brooklyn,
preached in this city today on The
Surprises Of Religien." His text was
/ Kings x, Z: ''Behold, the half was
not told me-" The sermon was as fol-
lows:
Appearing before you today, my mind
yet agitated with the scenery of the
Holy Land, from which we have just
arrived, you will expect me to revert to
some Of the scenes once enacted there.
Mark q circle around Lake Galilee, and
another circle around Jerusalem, and
you describe the two regions in which
cluster memories of more events than in
any other two circles. Jerusalem was a
spell of fascination that will hold me
the rest of my life. Solomon had re-
solved that that city should be the cen
ter Of all sacred, regal and commercial
magniicence. He Set himself to work,
and m~onopolized the surrounding desert
as a highway for his caravans. He built
the city of Palmyra around one of the
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the long trains of merchandise from the
east were obliged to stop there, pay toll
and leave part of their wealth in the
hands of Solomon's merchants. He
manned the fortress Thapsacus at the
:hief ford of the Euphrates, and put un-
der guard everything that passed there.
The three great products of Palestine
wine pressed from the richest clusters
and celebrated all the world over; oil,
which in that hos country is the entire
substitute for butter and lard, and was
pressed from the olive branches until
every tree in the country became an oil
well: and honey, which was the entire
substitute for s~ugar-these three great
products of the country Solomon eX-
ported, and received in return fruits and
precious woods and the animals of every
cline.
lie went down 10 Ezion-geber ana or
dered a feet of ships to be constructed,
oversaw the workmen, and watched the
launching of the flotilla which was TO
go out on more than a years voyage, to
bring home the wealth Of the then
known world. He heard that the Egyp-
tian horses were large and swift, and
long maEel and round limbed, and he
resolved to purchase them, giving SS5
apiece for them, putting the best of
these horses in his W stall and selling
the surplus to foreign potentates at
great profit.
He heard that there was the best Of
timber on Mt. Lebanon, and he sent
Jut $50, 900 men To hew down the forest
and drag the timber through the noun
tain gorges, TO construct ii into RATS TO
be fioated to Joppa, and from thence
to be drawn by OK teams twenty-five
miles across the land 10 Jerusalem.
He heard that there were beautiful
flowers in other lands. lie sent for
them, planted them in his own gardens,
and to this very day there are flowers
found in the ruins of that city such as
are to be found in no other part of Pal
estine. the lineal descendants of the
very flowers that Solomon planted. He
heard that in foreign groves there were
birds Of richest voice and most lux
uriant wing. He sent out people to
catch them, and bring them there, and
he put them into his cages.
Stand back TOY and sec this long
rain Of camels coming up to the kings
gate, and the OK trains from Egypt,
gold and silver and precious stones, and
beasts of every hoof, and birds of every
wing. and fish of every scale! See the
peacocks strut under the cedars, and the
horsemen run, and the chariots wheel!
Hark to the orchestra! Gaze upon the
dance! Not stopping to look into the
wonders of the temple, step right on to
the causeway, and pass up to SolOmon's
palace!
Here we find ourselves amid . collec-
ton of buildings which the king had
lavished the wealth Of many empires.
The genius of Hiram, the architect,
and of the other artists Is here e in
the long line of corridors and the sus-
pended gallery and the approach to the
throne. Traceried window opposite
traceried window. Bronzed ornaments
bursting into lotus and lily and pome-
~granate. Chapters surrounded by net
work of leaves in which imitation fruit
seemed suspended as in hanging bas-
kets. Three branches-so Josephus
tells us-three branches ~sculptnred on
the marble, so thin and subtle that
even the leaves seemed to quiver. A
laver capable of holding 500 barrels OF
water on GOO brazen OK heads, which
gushed with water and filled the whole
place with GOODNESS and crystalline
brightness and musical plash. Ten
tables chased with chariot wheel and
lion and cherubim. Solomon sat on a
throne of ivory. At the seating place
Of the throne, on each end of the steps,
q brazen lion. Why, my friends, in
that place they trimmed their candles
with snuffers Of gold, and they cut their
fruits with knives of gold. and they
washed their faces in basins of gold,
and they scoopcd out the ashes with
shovels Of gold, and they stirred the
altar fires with tongs of gold. Gold re
fected in the watert Gold flashing
from the apparel! Gold blazing in the
crown! Gold, gold, gold!
OF course tho news of the a~fiuence OF
that place went out everywhere by
every caravan and by wing Of every
ship. until soon the streets Of Jerusa
lem are crowded with curiosity seekers
What is that long procession approach
ing Jerusalem? i think from the POM
of it there must be royalty in the train
l smell the breath OF the spices which
are brought as presents, and hear thu
shout of the drivers, and / see the dus
covered showing that the,
come from far away. Cry the news a
to the palace. The queen of Sheb
advances. Let all the peopl
come out to , see. Let tn
mighty men Of the land come out q
the palace corridors. Let Solomo