The Forrest City times., 1890-01-11

All to tho Gates of Jerusalem for Gods
 Glory.
 Rev. T. Dc Witt Talmage, op his return from his tour in tho Holy Land preached d in Vienna, Austria, last Sunday, on "The Surprises of Religion" His text was Kings X, [: "Behold, the half was not told me- The sermon was as follows:
 Appearing before you today, my mind yet agitated with tho scenery ot the Holy Land, from which we have just arrived, you will expect me to revert to some of the scenes once enacted there. Mark a circle around Lake Calico, md another circle around Jerusalem, and you des, ribe the two regions in which cluster memories of more events than in any other two circles. Jeru- salem was a spell of facination that will hold me the rest of my life. Solomon had resolved that that city should Dc the center of all sacred, regal and commercial magni- ficence. He set himself to work, and mo nopolized the surrounding desert as a high , way for his caravans. He built the city of Palmyra around one of the principal wells of the east so that all 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 Sol omon's merchants. He manned the for tress Thapsacus at the chief ford of tho Euphrates. and put under guard everything that passed there The three great pro ducts of Palestine-wine pressed from the richest clusters and celebrated all the world over; oil which in that hot 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 sugar-these three great products of the country Solomon exported, and received in return fruits and precious woods and the animals of every cline.
 He went down to Ezion- geber and order- cd a fleet of ships to be constructed, over- saw the workmen, and watched the launch ing of the flotilla which was to go out on more than years voyage, to bring home the wealth of the then known world He heard that the Egyptian horses were large and swift and long manei and round limbed, and he resolved topurchaso them, giving eighty five dollars apiece for them, putting the best of these horses in his own stall and selling the surplus to foreign DO tentates at great profit.
 He heard that there was the best of timber on Mount Lebanon, and he sent out one hundred and eighty thousand men to hcw down the forest and drag the timber through the mountain gorges, to construct 1t into rafts to be foated to Joppa, and from thence to be drawn by OK teams twenty five miles across the land to Jerusa- lem. He heard that there were beautiful flowers in other lands. He 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 Palestine the liueal descendants Of the very overs that Solomon planted. He heard that in foreign groves there were birds of richest voice and most luxuriant wing He sent out people to catch them, and bring them there, and he put them into his cages
 Stand back now and see this long train of camels coming up to the kings gate, and the OK trains from Egypt, gold sn silver and precious stones, and beasts of every hoof, and birds of every wing, and flesh of every scalel See the peacocks strut under the cedars, and the horsemen run, and the chariots wheel Gaze upon the dance ! Not stopping to look into the wonders of the temple, step right on to the causewav. and pass up 10 Solomon's palacel
 Here we find ourselves amid collection of buildings on which the king had lavish ed the wealth of many empires The gen
  CT artists is here seen in the long line of corridors and the suspended gallery and the approach to the throne Traoeried window opposite tracered window Brouz. cd ornaments bursting into lotus and lily and pomegranate Chapters surrounded by network of leaves in which imitation fruit seemed suspended as in hanging baskets. Three branches so Josephus tells us--three branches sruiptured on the marble, so thin and subtle that even the leaves seemed to culver A layer capable of holding five hundred barrels of water on six hundred brazen OK heads, wh ch gushed with water and filled the whole place with coolness and crystalline bright ness and musical plash. Ten tables chased with chariot wheel and lion and cherubim. Solomon sat on throne of ivory. At the seating place of the throne, on each end of the steps, a hrazeu 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 scooped out the ashes with shovels O. gold, and they stirred the altar fires with tongs of gold. Gold reflected in tho water Gold flashing from the apparel Gold blazing in the crown Gold, gold, gold
 or course the news of the afliuence of that place went out everywhere by every caravan and by wing of every ship, until soon the streets of Jerusalem arc crowded with curiosity seekers. What is that long procession approaching Jerusaleml I think from tho pomp of 1t there must be royalty in the train. l smell the breath of the spices which are brought as presents, and hear tue shouts of the drivers, and l see eNnr taa, .,,kr sIa, come from far away. Cry the news up to the palace. The queen of Sheba advances. Let all the people come out to see. Let the mighty men of the land come out on the palace corridors. Lot Solomon come down the stairs of the palace before tho queen has alte Shake out the cinnamon, and saffron, and the calamus, and the franklin cense and pass it into the treasure hou SC Take up tho diamonds until they glitter in the sun.
 Tho queen of Sheba alghts She enters the palace. She washes at the bath She sits down at the banquet The cCp bearers bow. The meat smokes. Tho music trem. bles in the dash Of the waters from the molten sea Then she rises from the ban quet and walks through the conserv ato. ries, and gazes on the architecture, and she asks Solomon many strange questions and she learns about the religion Of the He hrews, and she then and there becomes a servant Of the Lori God.
 She is overwhelmed. She begins to think that all the spices she brought and all the precious woods which are intended to be turned into aarps and psaiterics and into railings for the causeway between the temple and the palace, and the one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in money she begins to think that all these presents amount 10 nothing in such place, and she is almost ashamed that she has brought them, and says within herself: "l heard a great deal about this place, and about this wonderful religion Of the Hebrews, but | lind it far beyond my highest anticipa. tions l must add moro than fifty nar cent to what has boen related. It exceeds everything that could have expected. The half the half was not told mer
 Learn from this subject what a beautiful thing it is when social position and wealth surrender themselves to God When ro. hgion comes to nei9hborhood. tho first to receive it are the women. SoEno men say il is because they are weak minded l say i, is because they have quicker perception of