The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-16
HUMDRUM ABOLISHED.
SERMON PREACHED SUNDAY, MAY 3,
eY REV. 7. DE WITT TALMAGE.

Mako Their Religion Lively, Based Upsn
the Visit of the Queen of Sheba to SOL
omon. the Great King. | ri
BROOKLYN, May 3.-The capacity of the
New Tabernacle was fully tested this morn
ing 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 discontinued. This has caused
much regret to many people in that city.
"A memorial was prepared and 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 impressed 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 usefulness by ministering to two con-
8regations, as he has been doing during the
past seven months. His subject this morn
ing was "Humdrum Abolished" !" and his
text III Chronicles tx, 9: ''Of spices great
abundance; neither was there any such
spice as the Queen OF Sheba gave King Sol
omon."
A WONDERFUL BUILDING.
What is that building out yonder gilt
toring in the sun? Have you not heard?
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 great tower
adorned with one thousand shields of gold
hung on the outside of the tower-fiye
hundred of the shields of gold manufact-
ured at Solomon's order, five hundred
were captured by David, his father, in bat
the See how they blaze in the MONDAY
sun.
Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his
throne between twelve lions in statuary
and sits down on the back of the golden
bull, the head of the bronze beast turned
toward the people. The family and at
tendants 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 venison. l hear
the stamping and paving of four Thousand
line horses in the royal stables. There
were important 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
% take ride out 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 caval-
-cade dashed through the streets of Jerusa-
lem suppose it was something worth get
ting up at five O'Clock in the morning to
look at
Solomon was not like some of the kings
cd the present day-crowned imbecility.
All the splendor of his palace and retinue
was eclipsed by his intellectual power.
Why, he seemed to know everything. He
was the first great naturalist the world
ever saw. Peacocks 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 tradi-
tion 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.
SOLOMON AND HIS RIDDLES.
More than this, he had a great reputa-
tton for the conundrums and riddles that
he made and guessed. He and King Hi
ram, his neighbor, used to sit by the hour
and ask riddles. each one payingin money
II 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 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 a few puzzles
which she would like to have him find out |
She sent among other things to King Sol |
omon diamond with hole so small that |
a needle could not penetrate it, asking him |
W OldO uldInOnu. ana solomon |
took worm and put it ct the opening in |
the diamond, and the worm crawled |
through, leaving the thread in the dia-
mond.
The queen also sent 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 Immediately |
Solomon put slave on the back of a swift |
horse and galloped him around and around |
the park until the horse was nigh exhaust
ed, and from the perspiration of the horse |
the goblet was filed. She also sent King |
Solomon five hundred boys in girls dress, |
and five hundred girls in boys dress, won
dering 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.
THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN.
Queen Balkis was SO pleased with the |
acuteness of Solomon that she said, s.FIl.
just go and see him for myself" Yonder
1t comes-the cavalcade-horses and drom-
edaries, chariots and charioteers, jingling
harness and Gathering hoofs, and blazing
shields, and flying epsigns, and clappinp
cymbals. The place is saturated with the
perfume She brings cinnamon and saf-
IRON and calamus and franhslcense and |
all manner of sweet spices. AS the reti-
nue. sweeps through the gate the armed
guard inhale the aroma. "Haltl'' cry the
charioteers, as the wheels grind the gravel
In front of the pillared portico of the king.
Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere be-
witched with perfume As the drome-
diaries are driven up to the kings store
houses. and the bundles of camphor are
unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon, and
the boxes of spices are opened, tbe purvey-
ors or the palace discover whay my text
announces, "Of spices. great abundance;
M hor- fhar oh
Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon"
Well. my friends, you know that all the