The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-16
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Weekly Discourse of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher.
Subjecti ..Ehe surprises Of
ES-Iigion." preached lisa
Vienna, Austriu.l

subjecii .sI'he surprises Of
IS-Iigion," ('reU ched lisa
Vicnnn. AustriaI
TExr; "P-.eld, The hc,t ICES not told me-"
y Kings x.,7.
Appearing before you to-day, my mind vet
agitated with the scenery of the Holy Land,
from which we have just arrived, you will
expect mo to revert 10 some OF the scenes
once enacted there. Mark circle around
Lake Galilee, and another circle around Jer-
usalsm, and you describe the two regions in
which cluster memories of more events than
in any other two circles Jerusalem was a
spell OF fascination that viii hold me the rest
oil my life, solomon had resolved that that
city should be the center of all sacred regal
and commercial magniilcence He set him.
self TO work, and monopolized the surround
ing desert as highway for his caravans. lie
built the city OF Palmyra around one of the
principal wells of the cast SO that all the
long trains of merchandise from the east
were Obliged 10 stop there, pay toll and
leave part of their wealth in the hands of
Solomon's merchants, He manned tho for
uess Ihapsacus at the chief ford OF the Eu
pirates, and put under guard everything
that passed there The three great products
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 lar d, 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 ordered
q hect OF ships to DO constructed, oversaw
Tue workmen, and watched the launching of
the hotiiia which was to go out on more
than years voyage to bring home the
wealth of tho then known world. He heard
that the Egyptian horses were large and
| swift, aud long named and round limbed and
he resolved to purchase them, giving eighty
| hve dollars apiece for them putting the best
OF those horses in his own stall and selling
me surplus to foreign potentates at great
profit.
He heard that there was the best of timber
on Mount Lebanon, and he sent out one hum
| ured ana eighty thousand men to hew down
the forest and drag the timber through the
mountain gorSes, to construct it into RATS to
be floated to Joppa, and from thence to be
| uraWh ny OK teams twenty-five miles across
the land to Jel ialem He heard that there
| We're beautiful flowers in other lands. He
sent for them, planted them in his own gar
9ens, and to this very day there are flowers
| ioundin the ruins of that city such as are to
De1ound in no other part of Palestine the
| meal descendants of the very flowers that
solomon planted. He heard that in foreign
| groves there were birds of richest voice and
most iuxuriant 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
eailels coming up to the Kings gate, and
the OK trains from Egypt, gold and silver
| ana precious stones, and beasts OF every
moor, and birds of every wing, and fish of
| every scale! See the peacoclls strut under
Che ceaars, and the horsemen run, and the
| cnariots wheel Ilark TO the orchestral
Gaze upon the dance! Not stopping to look
| INTO the wonders OF the tenlple step right on
| 70 me causeway, and pass up to Solomon's
| palace.
| Here VIC find ourselves amid a collection of
buildings on which the King had lavished
| I SI wealth oil many empires. The genius of
;hirih', me architect and of the other artists
| Is mere seen IN the long line Of corridors and
the suspended gallery and the approach to
| the tnrone. Iraceried window opposite ira
| cerlcd window. Bronzei ornaments burst
,ng INTO lotus and lily and pomegranate.
| Chapleers surrounded by network Of leaves
| NJ winch limitation fruit seemed suspended
IS IN hanging baskets. Three branches-so
'osS:,'ius three branches sculptured
"a 'he marble, SO thin and subtle that even
| mo leaves seemed to CULVER A laver capable
oi holdn@ live hundred barrels of water
on six hundred b.'ayen OK heads. which
gesieu WIN water and filled tho whole place
WIN cooiness and crystalline brightness and
mus cal piasll' Ten tables chased with
| cn.llot wheel and lion and cherubim. Solo
m mon s. on a throne of ivory. At the seating
| z ace o. the throne, on each end of the steps.
br1zon lion Why my friends in chat
pss"ec tney trimmed their candles with shutters
" S"iy, ana they cut their fruits with knives
" SUI ana tney washed their hands in basins
81 S,s oL.i, ana they scooped out the ashes with
G,es viii 80 81, anu tiIsy s:hTsd tire alter
tho va ",sn eng G, OF gold Goid rejected IN
| Ctnli HI; ouiu hissihS from tne apparel!
onlI, o'"Niiis IA lhe crown! Gold! gold!
| sVGtf
nlan, - we news OF Tue ai1uence OF that
p Ia "eh. o"o everywhere by every caravan
10y ~ @irls Vi every SNIP until soon the
sit', ~ oeruSaIsfh are crowded with Curl
10y seJhets nat is that long procession
nap,oa or Jerusaiem! think from the
| gtnp VI IL tIere must De royalty In the
III I'LL; l aiileii the breath OF the spices
~ ci are Drought as presents and l hear
tne sloUt Oh tho drivers, and see the dust
c s caravan showing that they come
li9l'l lar away. Cry the news up to the
"a &C. Inc queen OF Sheba advances. Let
al; tne people come out to see, Let the
niiguey men OF the land come out on the
| .DoaV'''oii
lne Stars oil the palace before the Queen has
aishteu' Shake out the cinnamon. and
the saffron, and the calamus, and the frank
incense and pass it into the treasure house
Take up the diamonds until they glitter in
the sun.
The Queen of Sheba alights. She enters 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 sea. Then
she rises from the banquet, and walks through
the conservatories and gazes on the architec-
| tnc, and she asks Solomon many strange
| questions and she learns about the religion
Of the Hebrews, and she then and there be-
comes a servant of the Lord God,
She isoverwhelmed She begins to think
that all tho spices she brought and all the
precious woods which are intended TO bs
turned into harps and psalteries and into rail.
ings for tho caliseway 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 moth
ing in such place, and she is almost ashamed