The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-09
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royalty will bring all its thrones, and music
oil its pictures, and sculpture all it's statuary.
and architecture all it's pillars, and conquest
oil its scepters, and the queens OF the earth,
in long line of advance, frankincense filing
the air and the cameIs laden with gold, shall
approach Jersusalem, and the gates shall be
hoisted, and the great burden of splendor
shall 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 wasin Abyssinia,
or some say in the southern part of Arabia
Felix. In either case it was q great way off
from Jerusalem. To get from there to Jer-
usalem she had to Cross a country infested
with bandits, and go across blistering des-
erts, Why did not the Queen of Sheba stay
at home and send a committee to inquire
about this new religion, and have the
delegates report in regard to that religion
and wealth of King Solomon? She wanted
to see for herself, and hear for herself. She
coulc not do this by work OF committee. She
telt she had soul worth 10000 kingdoms
| like 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
l say: "There is an earnest seeker after the
truth"
But there are a 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 peo-
pie who fold their arms and say: 81 am
ready to become Christian at any time; if [
am to be saved | shall be saved, and if
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.
Go in and hear the waters of salvation dash
ing in fountains all aronnd 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
cames. The Bible declares it: "The queen
of the South'-that is, this very woman 1
am speaking of-"the queen of the South,
shall rise up in judgment against this genera
ton and cOrdemn it; tOrshe came from the ut
termost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom
of Solomon: and, behold! a greater than Sol
omon 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 camels!
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 type of Christ-that story
rolled on and en- and was told by every man
coming back from Jerusalem. Then goes
on the wing of every ship and with every car
avan, and you know a 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 a
tremendous story. And yet this queen de-
clares in regard to it, although she had heard
so much and had her antieipations 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 a 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
loveliness of his face, and the joy of his serv-
| ice, he eXclaims with prayers with tears,
with sighs. with triumphs; "The half-ths
! half was not told me!''
| Iappeal to those who are 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 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 disco veries 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 nostrils, because
they are afraid of the esimoon-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
yet-aLd yet when the midnight shall fly the
hills, and Christ shall marshal his great
army, and China, dashing her idols into the
dust, shall hear the voice of God, and wheel
into line; and India, destroying her jugger-
naut and snatching up her little children
from the Gangese, shall hear the voice of
God and wheel into line; and vne-covered
| Italy, and wheat-crowned Russia, and all the
earth shall hear the voice OF God and fall into
| line; then the Church, which has been toiling
and struggling through the centuries robed
and garlanded like bride for her husband,
shall put aside her veil and look up into the
face of her Lord and King and say: the
| half-tha half WAS not told mel,