The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-03-28
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DVINE'S sun.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: THE Surprises of Religion. "
Preached in Vienna, Austria)
TEXT: behold, the half tgas not told me. +"

TEXT: Behold the half t7as not told me. "
= Kings K, Z.
Appearing before you to-day. NV mind vet
agitated with the scenery of the Holy Land.
from which VIC have Just arrived. you will
expect mo to revert to some of the scenes
once enacted there. Mark a circle around
LAKE Galileei and another circle around Jer-
uSaiem, and you describe the two isSidns in
which cluster memories Of more events than
IA any other two circles. Jerusalem was a
spell of fascination that will hold me the rest
OF my NE. Solomon had resolved that that
Guy should be the center of all sacred. regal
anu commercial magnilicence He set him
sen to work, and monopolized the surround
ing desert as q highway for his caravans. He
DulIt tue city OF Palmyra around one Of the
principal wells OF the east so that all the
long trains Of merchandise from the east
we're Obliged to stop there, pay toll and
teaVe part OF their wealth In the hands of
oolomon's merchants. He manned tho for
tress Ihapsacus at the chief ford of the Ell
pirates and put Under guard everything
lIio n passed there. The three great products
u faIestine wine pressed from the richest
clusters and celebrated all the world over.
oli' winch IN that hot country is the sitiro
shosit0te Tor butter and lard and was pressed
a. oih the ollVe branches until every tree in
ne country became an oil well; and honey,
when was the entire substitute for sugar.
49, 80 lnTee great products Of the country
Soiolloh exported, and received in retl. x
fruits and precious woods and the animals Y
every cline. '''' =.
ii lie went down to Ezion-geber and ordered
a neet OF ships to be constructed oversav,
tne workmen, and watched the LAUNCHING of
me noillla which was to go out on moro
' - a year voyage to bring home the
nealth OF Ihe then known world He heard
that the Egyptian horses were large and
S"lIl' ana long named and round limbed and
ne resolved to purchase them, giving eightv-
hEe dollars apiece for them, putting The hest
81 81 these horses in his own stall and selling
Ine surplus TO foreign potentates at great
He heard that there was the hest Of +irnbor
on Mount Lebanon, and he sent ont one nm
ufed and eighty thousand men to hew down
the forest and drag the timber through the
mountain gorges TO construct it into RATS TO
Ge hoated 10 Joppa, and from thence TO he
ula~h oy OK teams twenty-five miles across
tue land TO Jei alen. He heard that there
were beautiful flowers in other Lands Uo
sent Tor them, planted them in his own gar
eeIs and TO this very day there are flowers
iouhd IN the ruins Of that city such as are 10
Delound III no other part of Palestine the
e.lisai descendants Of the very flowers that
solomon planted. He heard that in foreign
/ sIOsss there were birds Of richest voice and
I most iuxurlant wing. He sent out Deonle To
catch them and bring them there, and he
. put them into his cageS
stand back now and see this long train Of
vs'lheis coming up 10 the Kings gate. and
Ihe OK trains from Egypt, gold and silver
anu precious stones, and beasts OF every
,iooll anu Dirds Of every wing, and fish Of
eteIy scale! See the peacocks strut under
l tne eedars, and the h6IseInen run and fhe
ctariots wheel HMk to the orchestra
Haze upon the danceI Not stoppinn to looL,
/ INTO the wonders Of the temple. stem right ON
| palace.
Here we find ourselves amid a collection OF
/ DuHdihgs on which the King had lay-isheI
me wealth Of many empires The rrerins Of
iiIi.aIl, Inc architect and Of the other artists
I Is mere seen IN the long line Of corridors and
tle suspended gallery and the approach to
Tue tnfone Iraceried window opposite ira
gelled window. Bronzed ornaments burst
9 clis NC lo1us and lily and pomegranate
in 1lii;si surrounded by network Of leaves
III "hlch imitation fruit seemed SUSPENDED
as IN hanging baskets. Three branckes-so
1osephus tolls us-three branches scuIptured
On tle marble, so thin md subtle that EVEN
tHe leaEes seemed to culver. A laver capable
Vi noielng i've hundred barrels of water
u TX hundred brazen OK heads which
guShed with water and filled the whole nIaoe
with GOODNESS and crystalline brightness and
musical piash. Ten tables chased with
charlot wheel and lion and cherubim. Solo
mon sat on throne of ivory. At theseatirp
pAlce Oh the throne, on each end Of the sters,
oIaIeh non. Why, my friends in that
Pa lucy trimmed their candles with snuffers
u go,9, and they cut their fruits with knives
VI soidi and they washed their hands in basins
Of gold and they scooped out the ashes with
s.noVels OF gold, and they stirred the altar
lires with toGgs Of gold Gold reflected in
me water Gold flashing from the aunarel
oTiu Diazng IN the crownl Goldi coldi
VI course the news of the aliuepco If that
PlaSs went out everywhere by every caravan
anu qy wing Of every ship, until soon the
si!eets OF Jerusalem are crowded with curi
| tSity seekers. What is that long nrOcassio,
approaching Jerusalem? | thinl, from tbe
poI!ip Oh II there must be ROYALTY in the
ram Si; 1 smell the breath OF the spices
,'.ieil are brought as presents, and l hsar
me shout Of the drivers and see the dust
covered caravan showing that thew come
ION Iaf away Cry the news un to the
pSlace. Tie Queen OF Sheba advances LEI
al the people come out 10 see Let fine
Hlghty men Of the land come out ON fine
Ilalace corridors. Let Solomon come down
'Ic stars OF thepalace before the Queen has !
s,.lel SNAKE cat the CHM non an1
enc saffron, and the calamus. and the frank
incense and pass it into the treasure housa
~ axe up the diamonds until they glitter in
The Queen Of Sheba alights. She enters the
palace She washes at the bath. She sits
down at the banquet The cup bearers bow
l ne meat smokes The music trembles in the /
Iash Oh the waters from the molten sea. Then
sac rises from the banquet, and walks through
lile conservatories, and gazes outhe arcHitls1, I
ture, and she asks Solomon many strange
questions, and she learns about the RELIGION
u tns hebrews, and she then and there be-
comes servant Of the Lord God
ohe IS o erwhelmed She harms IN tbint, I
mat all the spices she brought, and all tho
precious woods which are intended to BE-
turned INTO harps and psalteries and into rail I
-nss Tor the causeway between the tenlple anil /
.ne palacei and the one hundred and eighty /
thousand dollars in mOney-she begins To /
think that all these presents amount to moth I
.ng IN sueh place, and she is almost ashamed /
mat she has brought them and she savs /
Tltnin herself: Il heard great deal about I
nus place and about this wonderful religion /
the Hebrews, but l find it far beyond nv |
!itsnes1 antlcipations must add more than |
lity per cent. to what has been related. 1t .
sAcee1s everything that 1 could have ex-
nen vas NV VII
Learn from this subject what a beautiful
ming u IS when social position and wealth /
'urrehier themselves to God. When religion /
l 4I 70 neiShborhoo1, the first to receive |
u az Jhe women. Some men say it is beca,,se
,hey are weak minded. l say it is beeausa |
'ney nave quicker perception Of what il
right, more ardent affection and capacity for
suollmer 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
IL there are those who have been favored /
oil fortune, or, rs might better put it favored /
of God, surrender all you have and ali Won ex-
pect to be to the Lord, who blessed this Queen
oil Sheba. Certainly you are not ashamed TO |
be found IN this Queens company. am glad /
that Christ has had his imperial friends /
IN all ages-Elizabeth Christina, Queen of /
Prussia; Maria Feodorovna, Queen of Rus
sia; Marie, Empress of France; Helena. the /
imperial mother of Constantine: Area
dia, from her great fortunes building
onb1c baths in ConstantinOple and toiling
,9r the alienation of the masses; Queen
Clotllda, leading her husband and three
thousand of his armed warriors to Christian
baptism; Elizabeth, of Burgundy. giving her
Jeweled glove to q beggar and scattering
great fortunes among the distressed: Primes
Albert, singing Rock of Ages" in Windsor
Castle, and Queen Victoria incognita, read
ing the Scriptures to a dying pauper.
bless God that the day is coming when
royalty will bring all its thrones, and music
all its harmonies, and painting all its pict-
ures, and sculpture all its statuary. and
architecture all its pillars and conquest all
its scepters, and the Queens of the earth. in
long lide of advance, frankincense filling
the air and the camels laden with gold. shall
approach Jerusalem, and the gates shall be
holsted, and the great burden of splendoI