The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-04-08
GO AFTER RELIGION,
For There Is No Other Way Of
Getting It
Don't, MIcawbar-I.Ike, Walt For Some
thing 10 Turn Up-There Is n Great
Surprise Coming to Every Chris
tian-Sermon by Rev. T. De-
witt Talmage, -. ID.

I. Kings x, T.: behold, the half was
not told me-"
solomon had resolved that Jerusalem
should be the center of all sacred, regal
and commercial magnifcence. He set
himself TO work, and monopolized the
surrounding desert as a highway for
his caravans He built the city of
Palmyra around one Of the principal
wells of the east so that all the long
trains of merchandise from the east
were obliged to stop there. pay toll and
leave part of their wealth in the hands
of Solomon's merchants. He manned
the Fortress Thapsacus at the chief
ford of the Euphrates, and put under
guard every thing that passed there.
The three great products of Palestine
wine pressed from the richest clusters
and celebrated the world over, oil
which in that hot country Is the entire
substitute for butter and lard and was
pressed from the olive branches until
every tree in the country became an oil
well, and honey, which was the entire
substi .ute for sugar-these three great
products of the country Solomon ex-
ported, and received in return fruits
ana precious WOOuo duu VIC oui""AS Va
every cline.
He went down to Ezion-geber and or
dered n feet of ships to be constructed,
oversaw the workmen, and watched the
launching of the flotilla which was to
go out on more than years voyage to
bring home the wealth Of the then
known world. He heard that the Egyp-
tian horses wre large and swift, and
long named and round-limbed. and he
resolved to purchase them, giving S75
apiece for them, putting the best of
these horses in his own stall and sell
ing the surplus to foreign potentates at
great profit
He heard that there was the best OF
timber on Mt Lebanon, and he sent
out $50, 900 men to hew down the forest
and drag the timber through the mount
ain gorges to construct into RATS to be
fioated to Joppa, and from thence to be
drawn by OK teams twenty five miles
across the land to Jerusalem. He
heard that there were beautiful flowers
in other lands. He sent for them,
planted them in his own gardens, and
TO this very day there are flowers found
in the ruins of that city such as are to be
found in no other part of Palestine--the
lineal descendants of the very flowers
that Solomon planted. He heard that
in foreign groves there were birds of
richest voice and most luxuriant
wing. He sent out people to
catch them and bring them there, and
put them into his cages
Stand back now and see this long
e H.. 90 l. nc
gate, and the OK trains from Egypt,
gold and silver and precious stone, and
beasts of every hoof, and birds of every
wing, and fish of every scale! See the
peacocks strut under the cedars, and
the horsemen run, and the chariots
wheel! Hank to the orchestra! Gaze
upon the dance Not stopping to look
into the wonders of the temple, step
right on to the causeway, and pass up
to Solomon's palace
Here we find ourselves amid collec-
ton of buildings on which the king had
lavished the wealth of many empires
The genius of Hiram, the architect, and
of the other artists is here seen in the
long line of corridors and the suspended
gallery and the approach to the throne.
Traceried window opposite traceried
window. Bronzed ornaments bursting
into lotus and lily and pomegranate.
Chapters surrounded by network OF
leaves in which imitation fruit SEEM
ed suspended as in hanging baskets.
Three branches-so Josephus tells us
three branches sculptured on the mar
BILE, so thin and subtle that even the
leaves seemed to culver. A laver capa-
bic of holding five hundred barrels OF
water on six hundred brazen OK heads,
which gushed with water and filled the
whole place with GOODNESS and crystal
line brightness and musical plash. Ten
tables chased with chariot wheel and
lion and cherubim.
Solomon sat on throne of ivory. At
the seating place of the throne, on each
end of the steps brazen lion. Why,
my friends. in that place they trimmed
their candles with snuffers of gold, they
cut their fruits with knives Of gold, and
they washed their faces in basins of
gold, and they scooped out the ashes
with shovels of gold, and they stirred
the altar fires with tougs OF gold. Gold
reflected in the water! Gold flashing
from the apparel! Gold blazing in the
crown! Gold! gold! gold!
OF course the news of the affiuence OF
that place Wen. out everywhere by
every caravan and by wing q every
ship, until soon the streets of Jerusalem
are crowded with curiosity seekers
What is that long procession approach
ing Jerusalem? think from the pomp
of IL there must be royalty in the train.
smell the breath of the spices which