Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08
=uJ7lIDRUNI ABOLISHED.
amoN PREACHED BY REV. r.
DE WITT TALMAGE. M

a stirring EAHoEs"'i"AA ~ ShrA7StAns TO
.,.ke rheir iseligion Lively, BASED Upon
visit of the Queen of sheba to Sol
,non the Great King.
The capacity of the New Brooklyn
-. hn,.naele was fully tested by the vast
1a 'linnre which assembled to hear DR..
S auGr, in his handsome and spacious
I ,arnb His subject was "Humbrum
c.nn"nlishcd." and his text II Chronicles il.
got =. ..Of spices great abundance; neither
~ .os there any such spice as the Queen of
S SSn gave King Solomon
What is that building out yonder gilt
.orinp in the sun? Have you not heard?
, =. !. the house of the forest of Lebanon.
KING solomon has just taken to it his
s m.rT the Princess of Egypt. You see
.he a. nllars of the portico, and great
. Va" adorned with one thousand
.Iicds of gold, hung on the outside of
..il,'otover-tive hundred of the shields
" ,old manufactured at Solomon's order,
s1e hundred were captured by David,
III. father, in battle. See how they
hinzc in the monday sun!
solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his
.,rore between twelve lions of statuary.
and sits down at the back of the golden
h,I The head of the bronze beast turned
ward the people. The family and at
,ondants of the king are so many that
.hr caterers of the place have to provide
every day one hundred sheep and thir-
,nnn oxen, besides the birds and the VEN
i,ou hear the stamping and paving
of four thousand fine horses in royal
stables. There were important officials
who had charge of the work of gather
inc the straw and the barley for these
hnrscs. King Solomon was an early
riser. tradition says, and used to take q
ridcout at daybreak; and when in his
white apparel, behind the swiftest horses
of all the realm. and followed by
mounted archers in purple, as the cav
alrade dashed through the streets of Je-
rt,salcm / suppose it was something
worth getting up at o'clock in the
morning to look at.
solomon was not like some of the kings
of the present day-crowned imbecility.
All the splendor of his palace and retinue
was cclipsed by his intellectual power.
Why, he seemed to know everything. He
was the first great naturalist the world
ever saw. Pcacocks from India strutted
the baSaltic 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 ira
d,on says these birds were so we'll
tanned that Solomon might walk clear
across the city under the shadow of their
wings as they lowered and fitted about
him.
More than this, he had great reputa-
ton for the conundrnms and riddles that
he made and guessed. He and King
Hiram, his ncighbor, used to sit by the
hour and ask riddles, each one paying in
money if he could not answer or guess
the riddle. The Solomonic navy visited
all the world, and the sailors, of course,
talked about the wealth of their king,
and about the riddles and enigmas that
be made and solved, and the news spread
until Queen Ballis, away off south,
heard OF it, and sent messengers with a
few riddles that she would like to have
Nlomon sole, and a few puzzles which
Nwou!d like to have him find out. She
r' among other things to King Solo
eM.a diamond with hole so small that
lecGle could not penetrate it, asking
lM to thread that diamond. And Solo
mon took worm and put it at the OPEN
Ing in the diamond, and the worm
craSled through, leaving the thread in
the diamond
The queen also sent goblet to Solo
Moll asking him to fill it with water
lAat dld not pour from the sky, and that
ald not rush out from the earth, and i'm
heQately Solomon put slave on the
Oack OF a swift horse and galloped him
around and around the park until the
morse was nigh exhausted, and from the
MpfSplra1ion of the horse the goblet was
ned She also sent King Solomon five
hundred boys in girls dress, and i've
hundred girls in boys dress, wondering
=. ~ ne would be acute enough to find out
'lo deception. Immediately Solomon,
~, sleh ne saw them wash their faces,
anew from tho way they applied the
"atef That it was all a cheat.
queen Balhis was so pleased with the
atl'ehess OF Solomon that she said, cpl
!"s' 80 and see him for myself" Yonder
~. comes-the observation-disclosures and
u;l ' chariots and characters,
sniSl'hs harness and gathering hoofs,
ANU ANU blazing shields, and flying ensigns,
anu eiapDing cymbals. The place is
si' with the perfume. She brings
t nnna1ion and saffron and calamus and
s l,. and all manner of sweet
,p'eS AS the retinuc sweeps through
, ,.e saac the armed guard inhale the
l.o''a. 'Halt!'' cry the characters, as
III, ,le wheels grind the grave! in front of
p" Y piilared portico of the king. Queen
va na'Nl> aights in an atmosphere be-
S Sa,t'led with perfume. AS the drome-
a Iarlcs are driven up to the kings store
'"''ScS and the bundles Of camphor are
a ''noaacd, and the sacks of cinnamon,
n n,u lLe boxes of spice are opened, the
NV of the palace discover what
@ oSt announces, s'Of spices, great
S y'in'''ance; neither was there any such
L g~es as The Queen of Sheba gave to
N ~? Solomon,
.i,, "ell' my friends. you know that all
t t~yol'SiaNs agree in making Solomon a
S J". VI thrist, and making the Queen of
, 'Ion a type of every truth seeker, and
.,, "na!. take the responsibility of saying
frs,, ali the spil1enard and cassia and
b Immense which the Queen of Sheba
, S,"nshI to King Solomon are nightly
r" @5sss'iYe of the sweet spices of our holy
>, " IIn Christianity is not collection
ma dn I1p 'echncalities and angular facts
, liz" chronological tables and dry statis-
in~ % Our religion is compared to frank
,I,'hSe and to cassia. but never to night
5, ,SI', II is bundle of myrrh. 1t is a
c", Yi' 81 >, holy light. It is a sparkle of