The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-05-12
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Bsissis sent solomon the wise Means OF
Eniiyening Services.
BROOKLYN, May3.-The capacity of
the new tabernacle was fully tested this
morning by the vast audience which as
sembled to hear DIR. Talmage in his
handsome and spacious churchs He Is
now preaching there morning and even
my aud the Christian Herald services In
New York have beendiscontinued. This
has caused much regret to many people
Ia That city. Al memorial was prepared
aud signed by 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 inn
pressed by the warmth of the welcome
given him in the metropolis, and deeply
moved by the good that was done. it Is
not improbable that in the near future
he will again be found duplicating his
4 usefulness by ministering to two %
gregations, as he has been doing during
the past seven months. His subject this
morning was "Humdrum Abolished,o
and his text, III 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, gilt
tering In the sunp Have you not heard?
It is the House of the Forest of Leb-
anon. King Solomon has just taken to
II his bride, the princess of Egypt. You
see the pillars Of the portico, and a great
tower, adorned with one thousand
shie.ds Of gold. hung on the outside Of
the tower-lve hundred of the shields
of gold manufactured at Solomon's
order, five hundred were captured by
David, his father, in battle. See how
they blaze In the MONDAY sun!
Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of
his throne between twelve lions in statu-
airy, and sits down on the back ofthe
golden bull, the head ofthe bronze beast
turned towardi the people. The family
and attendants of the king are SO many
that the caterers of the place have to
provide every day one hundred sheep
and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and
the yenison. / 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 tho straw and the barley
for these horses. King Solomon was -
early riser, tradition says, and used to
- SaNO q " OuO aJ uu( UlCuhS anu WIlC
in his white apparel behind the swiftest
horses of all the realm, and followed by
mounted archers in purple, as the cav
alcade dashed through the streets Of
Jerusalem, L suppose it was something
worth getting up at S O'Clock in the
morning to look at.
Solomon was not like some of the
kings of the present day-crowned inn
! becility. All the splendor of his palace
and retinue were eclipsed by his intel
lectual power. Why, he seemed to know
everything. He was the first great nat
uralist the world ever saw. Peacocks
from India strutted the basaltic walk,
and apes chartered in the trees, and deers
stalked the parks and there were aqua
RUINS with foreign fish, and aviaries' with
foreign birds;Iand tradition says these
birds were so we'll tanned that Solomon
might walk clear across tho city under
the shadow of their wings as they how
cred and fitted about him.
More than this, he had q great reputa-
ton for the conundrums and riddles that
he 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 Solomonic navy
visited all the world, and the sailors, Of
course, talked about the wealth of their
kings, and about the riddles and enig-
mas that he made and solved; and the
news spread until Queen Balkis, away
of south, heard of it and sent messen-
gers with q few riddles that she would
like to have Solomon solve, and a few
puzzles which she would like to have
him find out. She sent among other
things, to King Solomon, a diamond
with a hole so small that a needle could
not penetrate it, asking him to thread
that diamond. And Solomon took a
s worm and put 1t at the opening in the
diamond, and the worm crawled through,
leaving the thread in the diamond. The
queen also sent a goblet to Solomon
asking him to fill it with water that did
not pour from the sky, and that did not
rush out from the earth; and immedi-
ately Solomon put a slave on the back of
a swift horse and galloped HIM around
and around the park until the horse was
nigh exhausted, aud from the persplra-
ton of the horse the goblet was filled.
boys dress, wondering if he would be
acute enough to find out the deception.
Immediately Solomon, when he saw
them wash their faces, knew from the
way they applied the water that it was
all a cheat.
Queen Balkis was so pleased with the
acuteness ofSolomon, that's she said: ''I'll
just 60 and see him for hlmself."
Yonder it comes-the cavalcade-horses
and dromedaries, chariots and chariot
GERS, .iingling harness and Gathering
hoofs, and blazing shields, and flying
ensigns, and clapping cymbals. The
place is saturated with the perfume.
She brings cinnamon, and saffron, and
calamus, and frankincense, and all man
ner of sweet spices. AS the retinue
sweeps through the gate, the armed
guards inhale the aroma. HALT" cry
the charloteers, as the weels grind the
gravel in front OF the pillared portico Of
the king. Queen Balkis alights in an
atmosphere bewitched with perfume. AS
the dromedaries are driven up to the
king's store-houses, and the bundles Of
crmphOr are unloaded, and the sacks Of
cinnamon, and the boxes Of spices are
opened, the purveyors Of the palace dis
cover what my text announces: "Of
spices, great abundance; neither was
there any such spices as the Queen of
Sheba gave to King Solomon"
Well, my friends, you know that all
t~heologians agree In making Solomon a
type;of Christ, and making the Queen