The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-05-07
HE URGES PEOPLE TO MAKE
THEIR RELIGION LIVELY.
The Queen of Sheba Brought
Wonderful Spices to Solo
mon, the Great King.
WHY SHOULD NOT THE CHURCH Of
FER THE SPICE OF ENERGETIC
RELIGION TO G0D7

BROOKLYN, May 3.-The capacity of
the New Tabernacle was fully tested
this morning 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 dis
continued. This has caused much re-
get 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 i'm
probable that in the near future he
will again be found duplicating his use
fulness by ministering to two congre-
cations, as he has been doing during
the past seven months. His subject
this morning was "Humdrum Abol-
ished," and his text II 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,
glittering in the sum- Have you not
hearda 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-five hun
dred of the shields of gold manufactured
at Solomon's order, five hundred were
captured by David, his father, in bat
tie. See how they blaze in the noon
day sun.
THE STORY OF SOLOMON.
Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of
his throne between twelve lions in stat
uary, and sits down on the back of the
golden bull, the 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 oxen, besides the birds and
the venison. 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 the straw and the
barley for these horses. King Solomon
was an early riser, tradition says, and
used to 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 pur-
pie, as the cavalcade dashed through
the streets of Jerusalem I suppose it
was something 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 ecipsed by his intel.
lectual power. Why, he seemed to
know everything. He was the frs,
great naturalist the world ever saw.
Peacocks from India strutted the basal
tic walk, and apes chartered in the
trees, and deer stalked the parks, and
there we're aquariums with foreign fish,
and aviaries with foreign birds; and
tradition says these birds were so well
tanned that Solomon might walk clea1
across the city under the shadow Of
their wings as they hovered and fitted
about him.
HIS WISDOM.
More than this, he had q great repu
tation for the conundrums and riddles
that he made and guessed. He and
King Hiram, his neighbor, used to sill
by the hour and ask riddles, each one
paying in money if he could not answer
or guess the riddle. The Solomonit
navy visited all the world, and the sail
ors, 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 a few riddles that she
would like to have Solomon solve, ano
few puzzles which she would like tt
have him find out. She sent among
other things to King Solomon a dia
lnond, with a hole so small that &
needle could not penetrate it, asking
him to thread that diamond And
Solomon took a worm and put it a
the opening in the diamond, and ths
worm crawled through, leaving th'
thread in the diamond.
The queen also sent goblet to Sol
omon, asking him to fill it with wate
that did not pour from the sky, anl
that did not rush out from the earth
and Immediately Solomon put slave
on the back of swift horse and gal
loped him around and around the pari
until the horse was nigh exhausted
and from the perspiration of the hors.
the goblet was filed. She also sen
King Solomon five hundred boys il
girls dress and five hundred girls i,
boys dress, wondering if he would b.
acute enough to find out the deception
Immediately Solomon, when he saw
them wash their faces knew from tn
way they applied the water that it wa
all a cheat.
Queen Balkis was SO pleased with th
acuteness of Solomon that she said
'sPn just go and see him for myself
Yonder it comes, the cavalcade :
horses and dromedaries, chariots ant
characters, jingling harness and clat
tering heofs, and blazing shields ant
flying ensigns and clapping cymbals
The place is saturated with the peg
fume. She brings cinnamon and sad
from and ealamus and franEncense an