Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-04
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
He URGES PEOPLE TO MAKE THEIR
RELIGION LIVELY.

The Queen Of sheba Brought Wonderful
Spices TO Solomon, the Great King.
why should Not the Church Offer the
Spice Of Energetic Religion 60 God7
BROOKLYN, May g. The capacity of
the New Tabernacle was fully tested
this morning by the vast audience
which assembled to hear DIR. Talmage
In his handsome and spacious church.
He is now preaching there morning and
evening, and>.. The Christian Herald
services in New York have been dis
continued. This has caused much re
gret to many people in that city. A
memorial was prepared and signed by
influential citizens asking DIR. Talmage
to continue the services. He could not
see his way to comply at the time, but
as he was evidently impressed by the
warmth of the welcome given him in
the metropolis, and deeply moved by
the good that was done, it Is not in
probable that in the near future he
will again be found duplicating his use
fulness by ministering to two congre-
cations, as he has been doing during
the past seven months. His subject
this morning was "Humdrum Abol
ished," and his text ii Chronicles TX,
9, "Of spices great abundance; neither
was there any such spice as the queen
Of Sheba gave King Solomon"
What Is that building out yonder
glittering in the sum- Have you not
heard2 1t is the house of the forest
of Lebanon. King Solomon has just
taken to it his bride, the princess OF
Egypt. You see the pillars of the
portico, and a great tower adorned
with one thousand shields of gold hung
on the outside of the tower-five hun
dred of the shields of gold manufactured
at Solomon's order, five hundred were
captured by David, his father, in bat
tie. See how they blaze in the noon
day sun.
THE STORY or SOLOMON.
Solomon goes up the ivory stairs Of
his throne between twelve lions in stat
uary, and sits down on the back of the
golden bull, the head of the beast
turned toward the people. The family
and attendants of the king are so many
that the caterers of the palace have to
provide every day one hundred sheep
and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and
the venison. hear the stamping and
paving Of four thousand fine horses in
the royal stables. There were impor
tant officials who had charge of the
work of gathering the straw and the
barley for these horses. King Solomon
was an early riser, tradition says, and
used to take a ride out at daybreak,
and when in his white apparel, behind
the swlftest horses of all the realm, and
followed by mounted archers in pur-
pie, as the cavalcade dashed through
the streets of Jerusalem l suppose it
was something worth getting up at five
o'clock In the morning to look at.
Solomon was not like some of the
kings of the present day--crowned i'm
becility. All the splendor of his palace
and retinue was eclipsed by his intel
lectual power. Why, he seemed TO
know everything He was the first
great naturalist the world ever saw.
peacocks from India strutted the basal
tic walk, and apes chartered in the
trees, and deer stalked the parks, and
there were aquariums with foreign fish,
and aviaries with foreign birds; and
tradition says these birds were so well
tanned that Solomon might walk clear
across the city under the shadow OF
their wings as they hovered and fitted
about him.
HIS WISDOM.
More than this, he had great repu-
tation for tho conundrums and riddles
that he made and guessed. He and
King Hiram, his neighbor, used 10 sit
by the hour and ask riddles, each one
paying in money IL he could not answer
or guess the riddle, The Solomonic
navy visited all the world, and the sail
ors, of course, talked about the wealth
OF their king, and about the riddles and
eniginas that he made and solved and
the news spread until Queen BalIis,
away of south, heard of it, and sent
messengers with few riddles that she
would like 10 have Solomon solve, and
n few puzzles which she would like to
have him find out She sent among
other things 20 King Solomon n dia-
mond, with "A hole so small that
needle could not penetrate 1t, asking
him 10 thread that diamond. And
Solomon took "A worm and put Il at
the opening In the diamond, and the
worm crawled through, leaving the
thread In the diamond,
The queen also sent goblet 10 Sol.
omon, asking him 10 III it with water
that did not pour from the sky, and
that did not rush out from the earth;
and Immediately Solomon put a slave
ON the back of a swift horse and gal
loped him around and around the park
until the horse was nigh exhausted,
and from the persplration Of the horse
the goblet was filled. She also sent
King Solomon five hundred boys Ia
girls dress and live hundred girls in
boys dress, wondering II lac would be
acute enough to find out the deception.
Immediately solomon. when lac saw
them wash their faces knew iron the
way they applied the water that u was
all a cheat
Queen Balkis was so pleased with the
acuteness Of Solomon that she said,
''Il Just 20 and sec him for myself.