Telegram-herald., 1890-11-03
SOL0M0N'S GARDENS


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liant as II ssollOped 0ut " that very sun
rise, and AXE the Winds for speed, followed
by reglmeat % archers on horseback.
with haDd on .ded bow end arrows with
steel pSints flashing IN the sun, clad from
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hair serinkled with gold dust. all dakhiRg
down ths rossi tbe horses * full run, the
rcins loose en- their neoEs. and the erZck "a
whips and the hallOo of tho RECKLESS caval-
cade putting the mlles % dclaEes. Who
Is Il. and what Is IL King solomon taking
an ousing before breakfast from Jerusalem
10 h.s gardens aad parks and orchards
and reservoirs, six miles down the roed
toward Hebron. What a contrast be-
tWesn that and myself on thst very road
one morning last Deoe mber going afoot,
ior cur plain vehicle turned back
Tor Photographic apparatus iorgstten;
We on the way 70 tind what y called Solo
mons pools, the ancient water works Of
Jerusalem, and the gardens Of king
nearly three thousand years ago. We
crOss the cqueduct again and again, and
here we arc at the three great reservoirs,
not ruins OF reservoirs, but the reservoirs
themselves, that Solomon built three mil
lennipms ago for the purpose Of catching
the mountain streams and passing them 10
Jerusalem 10 slake the thirst OF the city
and also TO irrigate the most glorious range
OF gardens that ever bloomed with all
colcrs or bresthed with all redoience, for
Solomon was the greatest horticulturist,
the greatest botanist, the greatest Orni-
biologist. the greatest capitalist and the
greatest scientist OF his century.
WONDERFUL ANCIENT MASONRY.
Cone over the piles Of gray rock, and
here we are at the frst of the three reser-
voirs, which are on three great levels, the
base OF the top reservoir higher than the
top of the second, the base of the second
reservoir higher than the top CT the third,
so arranged that the waters gathered from
several sources above shall descend from
basin TO basin, the sediment OF the water
deposited In each of the three. SO that by
the time it gets down TO the aqueduc5
which is TO take it 20 Jerusalem it has had
three offerings, and is rs pure as when the
clouds rained it. Wonderful specimens Of
masonry are these three reservoirs. The
white cement fastening the blocks of stone
together is now just as when the troTels
three thousand years ago smoothed the
90; the second, 428 feet by 100, and the
lowest reservoir, $50 feet by 16e and deep
enough and wide enough and mighty
enough 10 float Gn ocean steamer.
On that December morning VIC saw the
waters rolling down from reservoir 10
reservoir, and can well understand how in
this neighborAood the imperial gardens
were one great blossom. and the orchard
- fr.4.ft nd hot LII
mon in his palace, writing the Song of
Songs and Ecclesiastes, may have been
drawing illl.jtratioas from what he had
seen that very morning in the royal gar
dens when be alluded to melons, and man
brakes, and apricots, and grapes, and
pomeCranates, and figs, and spiken, and
cinnamon, and caiamus, and campfire,
and apple trees among the trees OF the
wood, " and the almond tree as fourishing,
and to myrrh and frankincease, and repre-
sented Christ as gone down into his gar
deus, and the beds Of spices to feed in the
gardens, and 20 gather lilies, and to eyes
like iish POOLS" and To the voice Of the
turtle dove as heard in the land. l think
it was when Solomon was showing the
Queen Of Sheba through these gardens that
the Bible says Of her, There remained no
more spirit in her" She gave it up.
But all this splendor did not make Solo
mon happy. One day, after getting back
| from his morning ride and before the
horses had yet been cooled OF, and rubbed
| down by the royal equerry, Solomon wrote
The memorable words following my text,
like 4 dirge played after grand march,
Behold ell was vanity and vexstion Of
spirit, and there was no profit under the
sun" In other words, 1T don't payr'
/ Would God that we might all learn the
lesson that this world cannot produce hap
p:nessi At Marseilles there is a casteliated
house on high ground crowned with all
that grove and garden can do, and the
whole place looks out bPon a. enchanting
a landscape a. the world holds wster and
hill clasping hands in a perfect bewitch-
ment Of scenery. hut the owner of that place
I il totally blind aud 70 him all this goes
/ for nothing, illustrating the truth that
I whether one be physically or morally blind
/ brilliancy OF surrounding cannot give sat
I isfaction; bat tradition says tnat when the
T wise men Of the east were being g1ided
7 By the star on the way to Bethlehem they
/ for little while lost sight Of that star.
and in despair and exhaustion came - a
/ well 20 drink. when looking down into the
well they saw the star rejected IN the
( water and thst cheered them. and they re-
/ sumed their journey: and have the notion
/ thst though grandeur and Porp of sur
roundiuzs may not afford peace At the
well of God's consolation. close bT. Tou
NAV ind happiness, and the plainest cip
AZ she well - salvation nav bold the
bri-htest star that ever shons from tAs
I heavens