Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1890-01-18

The cup bearers bow. The meat
smokes. The music trembles In the
dash of the waters from the molten sea.
Then she rises from the banquet, and
walks through the Conservatives, and
gazes on the architecture, and she asks
many strange questions, and she learns
about the religion of the Hebrews, and
she then and there becomes q 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
intended TO be turned into harps and
psalteries and into ratings for the
causeway between the temple and the
palace, and the $3.50, 900 in m~oney-she
begins to think that all these pres
ents amount to rothing In such a
place, and she is almost ashamed that
she has brought them, and she says
within herself: II heard a great deal
about this place, and about this won
derful religion of the Hebrews, but l
find it far above my highest antici-
pations. / must add more than so per
cent. to what has been related. 1t ex-
ceeds everything that / could have ex-
pected. The half-the half was not
told me-"
Learn from this subject what a beau
tiful thing 1t is when social position
and wealth surrender themselves to God.
When religion comes to a neighborhood,
the first TO receive it are the women.
Some men say it is because they are
weak minded. i say it is because they
have quicker perception of what is
right, more ardent affection and capac-
ity for sublimer emotion. After the
women receive 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 1T is so!
If there are those who have been
favored Of fortune, or, l might better
put it, favored of God, surrender all
you have and all you expect to be to
the Lord who blessed this queen of
Sheba. Certainly you are not ashamed
TO be found in this queens company. i
am glad that Christ has had his imperial
friends in all ages-Elizabeth Christina,
queen of Prussia; Maria F~eodorovna,
queen of Russia; Marie, empress of
France; Helena, the imperial mother of
Constantine; Arcadia, from her great
fortunes building public baths in Con-
stantinople and toiling for the allevia-
ton of the masses; Queen Clotilda,
leading her husband and 5000 Of his
armed warriors to Christian baptism;
Elizabeth of Burgundy, giving her jew
eled glove TO a beggar, and scattering
great fortunes among the distressed.
Prince Albert, singing "Rock of Ages
in Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria,
incognita, reading 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 paint
ing all it's pictures, and sculpture all its
statuary, and architecture all its pillars,
and conquest all its scepters, and the
queens of the earth, in long line Of ad-
vance. frankincense filling the air and
the camels laden with gold, shall APP
proach Jerusalem, 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 was in
Abyssinia, or some say in the southern
part of Arabia Felix. In either case it
was a great way off from Jerusalem. To
get from there to Jerusalem she had to
cross a country infested with bandits,
and go across blistering deserts. Why
did not the queen of Sheba stay at home
and send a committee to inquire about
this e religion, and have the dele
gates 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 a 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 Of
eternity. 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 l see that caravan,
dust covered, weary and exhausted,
trudging on across the desert and among
the bandits until it reaches Jerusalem,
! say: There is an earnest seeker
after the truth"
But there arc q great many who do
not act in that way. They all want TO
get the truth, but they want tho truth
to come to them; they do not want to
go to 1t. There are people who fold
their arms and say: 81 am ready to be-
come . Christian at any time; il L ann
to be saved ! shall be saved, and il am
to be lost / shall be lost" But Jeru-
salem will never come to you; you must
60 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, ALI 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 banquat-the
wine pressed from the grapes Of the
heavenly Eshcol, the angels of God the
cup bearers. Goad on the 'camsls. The
Bible declares it: 1.-THE queen Of the
south'-that is, this very woman ! am
speaking of-'the queen of the south
shall rise up In Judgment against this
generation and condemn 1t; for she
came from the uttermost parts Of the
earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon
and, behold! a greater than solomon Is
here" What ~infatuation the sitting
down in idlenoss expecting to bt
saved. ''Strive I'd enter in at the
straight gate. Ask, and it shall be giver
you; seek, and ye shall find; knock. and
1t shall be openad to yon-' Take ths
kingdom of heaven by violence. Urge
IN thu. oamelsi