Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-01-23
TALMAGE IN AUSTRIA.
SERMON IN VIENNA, WITH NOTES ON
HIS TOUR OF THE HOLY LAND.
Tho Surprises in Religion-The Fascination
that Surrounds Jerusalem and the Sea Of
Galilee-Solomon's Designs for His Capt.
toll.

Brooklyn. preached in Vienna Sunday,
Jan. 5, on The Surprises of Religion.
His text was Kings X. Z: Behold, the
half was not told to me-" The sermon
was as follows:
Appearing before you to- day, 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 a
circle around Lake Galilee, and another
circle around Jerusalem, and you de-
scribe 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 resolved that
that city should be the center of all
sacred. regal and commercial magnifi-
cence. He set himself to work, and
monopolized the surrounding desert as
| highway 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 mere handise from the
east were obliged to stop there, pay toll
and leave part of their wealth in the
hands of Solomons merchants. He
manned the fortress Thapsacus at the
chief ford of the Euphrates, and put
under guard everything that passed
there. The three great products of
Palestine-wine pressed from the rich
est 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 we'll; 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 Or
dered a fleet of ships to be constructed.
oversaw the workmen, and watched the
launching of the hotilla 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 named and round limbed. and he
resolved to purchase them, giving SS5
apiece for them, putting the best of
these horses in his own stall and selling
the surplus to foreign pOtentates 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 hew down the forest and drag the
Tue ulouutilA SoIRcb, "
construct it into RATS to be fioated to
OK teams twenty-five miles across the
lard to Jerusalem. 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 lineal descendants
of the very fowe rs 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 King S
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.
Hank to the orchestra! Gaze upon the
dance! Not stopping to look into the
the causeway, and pass up to Solomon s
palace!
Here We find ourselves amid a collec-
ton of buildings on which the king
| had lavished the wealth of many en-
pires. The genius of Hiram, the archi-
tect, and of the other artists is here seen
in the long line of corridors and the
suspended 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
network of leaves in which imitation
fruit seemed suspended as in hanging
baskets. Three branches-so Josephus
tells us-tbree branches sculptured on
the marble, SO thin and subtle that even
the leaves seemed to culver. A LAYER
capable of holding 500 barrels of water
on 600 braZen OK heads, which gushed
with water and filed the whole place
and musical plash. Ten tables chased
with chariot wheel and lion and cheru-
BIN. Solomon sat on throne of ivory.
At the seating place of the throne, on
each end of the steps, a braZen lion.
Why, my friends, in that place they
trimmed their candles with shutters of
gold, and they cut their fruits with
knives of gold, and they washed their
| faces in basins of gold, and they
scooped outt ashes with shovels of
gold, and they stirred the altar fires with
torgs of gold. Gold reflected in the
water! Gold flashing from the apparel!
Gold blazing in the crown! Gold, gold,
gold!
| OF course the news of the aff1uence of
that place went out everywhere by every
caravan and by wing of every ship,
until soon the streets of Jerusalem are
crowded with curiosity seekers. What
is that long procession approaching
Jerusalem? think from the pomp of
it there must be royalty in the train. l
smell the breath of the spices which are
brought as presents, and I hear the
shout of the drivers, and see the dust
covered caravan showing that they
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. Let
Solomon come down the stairs of the
palace before the queen has alighted.
Shake out the cinnamon, and the SAT-
from, and the calamus, andthe franklin
cense and pass it into the treasure
house. Take up the diamonds until
they glitter in the sun.
The Queen of Sheba alights. She en-
tiers the palace. She washes at the
bath. She sits down at the banquet.
The cup bearers bow. The meat smokes.
The music trembles in the dash of the
waters from the molten sen. Then she
rises from the banquet, and walks
through the conservatives, and eazes
on the architecture, and she asks Solo
mon many strange questions, and she
learns about the religion of the
Hebrews, and she then and there be-
comes servant of the Lord God.
She is overwhelmed. She begins to
think that all the spices she brought,
and all the precious woods which are in :
tended to be turned into harps and
psalteries and into ratings 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
to nothing in such place, and she is
almost ashamed that she has brought
them, and she says within herself:
heard q great deal about thisiplace, and
about this wonderful religion of the
Hebrews, but find it far beyond my