The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1890-01-16
DIR. TALMAGE IN AUSTRIA.
HIS SERMON IN VIENNA, WITH NOTES
ON HIS TOUR OF THE HOLY LAND.

Tho Surprises In ReligIon--The Fascina-
tion that Surrounds Jerusalem aud tho
Son of Galiles--Soloinon's Designs for
His CapitoI.
VIENNA, Jan. 5.--The Rev. r. De
2 Witt Talmage, d. D., of Brooklyn,
preached in this city today on "fhe
Surprises of Religion" His text was
Kings X, z: Behold, the half was
not told me" The sermon was as fol-
lows: -.
Appearing before you today, nv
mind yet agitated with the scenery of
the Holy Land, from which we have
lust arrived, you will expect me to re-
vert to some of the scenes once
enacted there. Mark circle around
Lake Galilee, and another cir
Gle around Jerusalem, ard 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 re-
solved that that city should be the
center of all sacred, regal and CONNER
cial magnificence. He set himself to
work, and monopolized the surround
ing desert as q highway for his cara
vans. He built the city of Palmyra
around one of the principal wells of
n, the east, SO that all the long trains of
or from the east were
to stop there, pay toll and
eaye part of their wealth in the hands
IT Solomon's merchants. He manned
P, . fortress Thapsacus at the chief ford
;aoR the Euphrates, 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 III that hot country is the entire
substitute for butter and lard, andwas
= pl}essed from the olive branches until
y Very tree in the country became an
aI ~ we'll and honey, which was the en-
ire substitute for sugar these three
u great products Of the country Solomon
4 Exported, and received i'm return fruits
7 !lAa precious woods and the animals of
every cline. ~, =
He went down to Ezion-gcbcr and
ordered heet of ships to be construct
ed, oversaw the workmeii, and watched
the launching of the iiotilla which
was to go out on more than a
years voyage, to bring home the
wealth of the then known world.
He heard that tho Egyptian horses
were large and swift, and long named
and round limbed, and he resolved to
purchase them, giving eighty-five dol
lars apiece for them, putting the best
OF these horses in his own stall and
selling the surplus to foreign potcn-
tates III great profit. .--.-.-a--..>'.-.'-
He heard that there was the best of
timber on Mount Lebanon, and he
sent out one hundred and eighty thou
sand men to hew down the forest and
drag the timber through the mountain
: gorges to construct it into RATS to be
" hoated to J&ppa, and from thence to
be drawn by OK teams twenty-five
!: miles across tho land to Jerusalem.
" He heard that there were beautiful
flowers in other lands. He sent for
them, planted them in his own gar
dens, 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 descend
ants OF the very flowers 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. 4
Stand back how and see this lono
train OF camels coming up to the kings
/, gate, and the OK trains from Egypt.
Y god and silver and precious stones,
v an&'beasts OF, every hoof, and birds of
HSsry. wing, and fish Of every scale
M the ,peeacoclss strut under the ce-
lEdars and the horsemen run, and the
/. chariots wheell Hark to the orches-
tral Gaze upon the dance! Not stop
ping to oot into the wonders of the
temple, step right on to the causeway,
and pass up to Solomon's palacel
THE MARVELs OF soLoMON's PALACE
Here we find ourselves amid col
], lection Of buildings on which the
9 king had lavished the wealth of many
empires. The genius of Hiram, the
: architect, and of the other artists is
here seen in the long line of corridors
and the suspended gallery and tho ap.
, proach to the throne. Traceried win
dow opposite tIaceried window.
h Bronzed ornaments bursting into lotus
and lily and pomegranate. Chapters
u surrounded by network of leaves in
1 which imitation fruit. seemed suspend
ed as in hanging baskets. Three
! branches--so Joscphus tells us-three
branches sculptured on the marble, so
thin and subtle that even the leaves
aoeemed to culver. a laver capable of
'Wtlolding five hundred barrels of water
" II six hundred brazen OK heads, which
with water and filled the whole
Aace woth GOODNESS and crystalline
10 Gightness and musical plash. Ten
ST yoles chased with chariot wheel and
e foin and cherubim. Solomon sat on q
! kke lone Of ivory. At the seating place
1Ra be throne, on each end of the steps,
cazen lion. Why, my friends, in
IL Aplace they trimmed their candles
snuffers of gold, and they cut
fruits with knives Of gold, and
! sashed their faces in basins of
d they scooped out the ashes
I,tvels of gold, and they stirred
SSaS r fires with tongs Of gold.
suiected in the water! Gold
sG3fnst from the apparel Gold
tne, Gltn the crowni Cold, gold,
( lOf COZ brse the news of the affluence