Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-04
.SOLOMON'S SENSE.
HB HAD VERY ACUTE AND PRACTICAL
MIND.
Be Answered Conundrums and Solved Riddlss-His
Psrspioacity Attracts the Attention Of The Queen
Of SheOa-Her Tribute 70 BIS Wisdom IS
Happily Applied to the Modern
Christian Church.
Special telegram to ne Register.


fully tested this morning by the vast
audience which assembled TO hear DR..
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 10 continue the ser
vices. He could not see his way TO
comply at the time, but, as he was evil
IDENTIFY impressed by the warmth OF the
welcome given him in the Metropolis,
and deeply moved by the good that was
done, il is not improbable that in the
near future he will again be found dup
Heating his usefulness by miniStering TO
two congregations, as he has been doing
during the past seven months. His
subject this mOruing was "Humdrum
Abolished" and his text, III. Chronicles
s: Q: ''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 sun? Have you not
heard? IL 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 por-
tico, and a great tower, adorned with
one thousand shields OF gold, hung on
the outside OF the tower-fve hundred
Of the shields of gold manufactured at
SOlOmOn's order, five hundred were cap
tured 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
statuary, aud sits down on the back Of
golden bull, the head of the bronze
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 officials who had charge OF the
work OF gathering the straw and the
barley for these horses. King Solomon
was an early riser so tradition says, and
used 10 take a ride out at daybreak; and
when, in his white apparel, behind the
swifteSt horses of all the realm, and fol-
lowed by mounted archerS in purple, as
the cavalcade dashed through the streets
OF Jerusalem, l suppose it was some
thing 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 inn
becility. All the splendor of his palace
and retinue was eclipSed by his intel
lectual power. Why, he seemed 10 know
everything. He was the first great ma
turaliSt the world ever saw. PeacOckS
from India strutted the baSaltic walk,
and apes chartered ia the trees, and
deer Stalked the parks and there were
aquariumS with foreign fish, and aviar-
les 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 lowered and fitted about him.
SOME OF SOLoMON's FEATS.
More than this, he had 4 great repu-
tatiOn 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 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 aud solved; and the news
spread until Queen BalkiS, away OF
south. heard OF it, and sent messengers
with few riddles that she would like
To have solomon solve, and few puz-
zles which she would like 10 have him
find out. She sent among other things,
10 King Solomon, a diamond with hole
so small that needle could not pene-
trate it. asking him to thread
that diamond. And Solomon
took worm and put IL at the
oDening i'm the diamond, and the worm
crawled through, leaving the thread IN
the diamond. The queen also sent a
goblet 20 solomon, asking him 10 hll IL
with water that did not pour from the
sky. and that did not rush from the
earth: and immediately solomon put a
slave on the back of a swift horse and
qalloped him around and around the
mark until the horse was nigh exhausted,
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 10
bovs' dress. wondering If be would bt
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 II was
all a cheat.
Queen BalkiS was SO pleased with the
acuteneSS OF solomon, that she said
.Tn lust go and see him for myself.
Wonder it comes - the cIvaicade -
horses and dromedarieS, chariOtS anC
charioteerS. jinelinc harness and clat
tering hoofs. and blazing shields, anC
hving enSignS, and clappinS cymoaIS
The place is saturated with the per
fume. She brings cinnamon, and SAT
from. and calamuS. and fran6incenSe
and am manner of sweet spices. As the
retipue sweeps through the gate, the
armed guard iuhale the aroma. HALT
cry the charioteerS, as the wheels grinl
the gravel I'm front of the niilared por
tico of the king. Queen BalkiS alight
in an atmosphere bewitChed with per
fume As the dromedarieS are driver
I'D TO the kings StOrehOuSeS, and the
bundles OF camphOr are unlOaded, anC
the sacks of cinnamon, and the boXe!
of spices are opened, the purveyOrS o.
the palace discover what my text an
nounceS: "Of spices, great abundance
neither was there any such spices a:
the Queen Of Sheba gave 10 King Selo
mon"
SUGGESTIVE or RELIGION
Well. my friends, you know that al
theologianS agree i'm making Solomon ;
type of Christ, and making the Queen OF
go. :. .---.n II .,-,l-,- trnt h-sank nl.. anr