Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-05-09
DIR. TAEMAGES SERMON.
He URGES PEOPLE TO MAKE THEIR
RELIGION LIVELY.

HE URGES PEOPLE TO MAKE THEIR
RELIGION LIVELY.
The Queen OF, shcba Brought Wonderful
spI.o4s Ia Solomon. the arcnt King.
Why Should Not tho Church Offer tla.
sploe of Energetic Religion to Goll2
BROOKLYN, May 3.-The capacity Of
tho New Tabernacle was fully tested
this morning by the vast audience
which assembled to hear Dr. Talmage
IN llis handsome and spacious church.
lie is now preaching there morning and
evening, and The Christian Herald
service, In New YORK have been dis
continued. This lias caused much re-
greet t. many people in that city. A
memorial WINS prepared and signedsby
influential citizens asking DR. 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
4 the good that was done, it is mot i'm
probablasthat in the near future lie
will again be found. duplicating llisuse-
fitness by ministering to two cougre.
cations, as he has been doing during
the past seven months. His subject
this morning was "Hundrum Abol-
/ ished." and his text II Chronicles il,
q, "Of spices great abundance; neither
was there any such spice as the queen
of Shebl gave King Solomon.
What is that building out yonder,
1 differing in the sum- Have you not
hearl2 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 q great tower adorned
with one thousand shields of gold hung
on the outside of the tower-tive hun
drcd of the shieldsof gold manufactured
at Soloinon's order. FIVE hundred were
captured by David, lis father. in bat
tie. See how they blaze in the noon
day sun.
1uE STORY OF SOLOMON.
Solomon goes up the ivory stairs Of
his throne between twelve lions in stat
.lary. and sits down on the back Of the
golde, bull. tile 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 oxerr7besides the birds and
/ the venison hear the stamping and
+ paving of four thousand fine horses i'll
4 tho royal stables. There were impor-
] tant officials who had charge of tie
. work OF gathering the straw and the
harley for these horses. King Solomon
j was ,tn early riser, tradition says, and
used to take q ride out ct daybreaE.
Land when in his white apparel, behind
.tlie swiftest horses of all the realm, and
followed by mounted archers in pur-
Eple, as the cavalcade dashed through
the streets OF Jerusalem l suppose it
was something worth getting up at five
j o'cl6eksin tlic-morHiiig toeleoh t,t:-,-f-s''
Solomon was not like some of the
kings of the present day-crowned i'm
beclitq.i All the splendor of his palace
and retfnuo was eclipsed BY his intel
lectual power. Why, he seemed to
know everything. He was the FIRST
great naturalist the world ever saw.
Pcacocks from India strutted the basal
tic walk, and apes Chartered in the
trees. and deer stallled the parks, and
there were aquariums with foreign fish,
and aviaries with foreign birds; and
tradition says these birds were 30 well
tanned that Solomon might walk clear
across the city under the shadow OF
their wings as they lowered and fitted
about liul-
HIS WISDOM.
Moro than this, he had great repu-
tation for the conundrums and riddles
that lie made and guessed. He and
King Hiram, his neighbor, used to sit
by the hour and ask riddles, each one
paying in money if he could not answer
or guess the riddle. The Sololnonic
navy visited all the world, and the sail
ors, of course, talked about the wealth
of their king, and about the riddles and
eniglnas that he made and solved; and
the news spread until Queen Balkis,
away off south, heard of it, and sent
messengers with few riddles that she
would like to have Solomon solve, and
few puzzles which she would like to
have him find out She sent among
other things to King Solomon dia-
mond, with n hole so small that q
needle could not penetrate it, asking
him to thread that diamond. And
Solomon took worm and put it at
the opening in the diamond, and the
worm crawled through, leaving the
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