New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-15

pany. l am glad that Christ has had his
imperial friends in all ages-Elizabeth
Christina. queen of Prussia; Maria Feodo-
5rovna queen of Russia; Marie, empress of
France; Helena, the imperial mother of
Constantine; Arcadia, from her great for
tunes building public baths in Constantine
pie and toiling for the alienation OF the
masses; Queen Clotilda, leading her hus-
band and 5000 OF his armed warriors to
Christian baptism Elizabeth of Burgundy,
giving her jewelei glove to q beggar, and
scatter scattering great fortunes among the dis.
Ages" in Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria
incognita, reading the Scriptures to dying
pauper.
I bless God that the day is coming when
royalty will bring all it's thrones, and music
all its pictures, and sculpture all it's statuary,
and architecture all it's pillars, and conquest
all Its scepters, and the queens of the earth,
IN long line of advance. irankincense 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 of truth. Do you
know where Sheba was? 1t WASH Abyssinia,
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-
usalen 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 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
could not do this by work of committee. She
felt she had soul worth 10000 kingdoms
like Sheba, and she wanted a 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;n 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 are peo-
pie who fold their arms and say: II am
ready to become Christian a t any time; if I
am to be saved I 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
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 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 /
am speaking o-'the queen of the South,
shall rise up in Judgment against this genera
tfon and cor denim it; forshe 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 camels
Again, my subject impresses me with the
fact that religion is a 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 on, and was told by every man
coming back from Jerusalem. Thenews goes
on the wing of every ship and with every car
avian, 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 anticipations raised SO
high, the half the half was not told her.
- SO religion is always 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 ofreigion 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
wit hos hoo, to6 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
loneliness of his face, and the joy of his serv-
ice, he exclaims with prayers, with tears,
with signs. with triumphs; "The half-the
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 Chrirtian
with the appreciation of that joy you have
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 mel"
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
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 vine-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: 'sthe