Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-05
CHRISTIAN BEAUTIES.
DIR. Talmage on the Grandeurs Of
Religion.
beauties OF Christianity More Surprising
Than the Glories OF soIOmon-social
Position aud wealth In the Service
OF tho Lord-Tho Hereafter.


Dewitt Talmage took his text from
i. Kings x. Z: "Behold, the half was
mot told me-" He said:
Solomon had resolved that Jerusalem
should be the center Of all sacred, regal
and commercial magni6cence. He set
himself to work and monopolized the
surrounding desert as q highway for
his caravans He built the city Of Pal
myra around one of the principal wells
of the east, SO that 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 principal 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-
!, tute for sugar-these three great prod
nets Of the country Solomon exported
and received in return fruits and pre-
Scious woods and the animals OF every
CLINE
He went down to Ezion-geber and or
.dered o feet Of ships to be constructed,
~overssw the workmen, and watched
the launching Of the hotilla which was
to 90 out on more than years voyage,
to bring home the wealth of the then
known world. He heard that the
Egyptian horses were large and swift,
and long-maned and round-limbed, and
he resolved to purchase them, giving
:Ss5 apiece for them, putting the best
of these horses in his own stall and
selling the surplus I'd foreign poten-
tates ut great profit
He heard that there was the best OF
timber on Mount Lebanon, and he sent
out 1870, 600 men to hew down the forest
and drag the timber through the mount
ain gorges, to construct 1t into RATS to
be foated 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 sont 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 luxu-
RANT wing. He sent out people to
catch them and bring them there, and
he put them into his cages.
Stand back now and see this long
train of-camels coming up to the kings
gate, and the OK trains from Egypt,
gold and silver and precious stones,
and beasts Of every hoof, and birds Of
every wing, and fishof every scale!
Here we find ourselves amid collec-
ton of buildings on which the king
had lavished the wealth of many en-
-pirea The genius of Hiram, the archi-
tect. and Of other artists Is here seen in
the long line Of corridors and the sus-
pended gallery and the approach Of the
throne. Traceried window opposite
traceried window. Bronzed ornaments
bursting into lotus and lily and pome-
granite. Chapters surrounded by net.
work of leaves in which imitation fruit
seemed suspended rs in hanging bas-
kets. Three branches-so Josephus
tells us-three branches sculptured on
the marble, SO thin and subtle that
even the leaves seemed to culver. A
laver capable of holding five hundred
- ,t- h,,v. bias
OK heads, which gushed with water and
filled the whole place with GOODNESS
and crinoline brightness and musical
plash. Ten tables chased with chariot
wheel and lion and cherubim.
Solomon sat on q 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 shutters of gold, and
they cut their fruits with knives of
gold, and they washed their feet in
basins of gold, and they scoOped out
the ashes with shovels of gold, and
they stirred the altar fires with tongs
of gold. Gold reflected in the wateri
Gold flashing from the apparel! Gold
blazing in the CROWN Gold! gold! gold.
or course the news of the affluenee OF
that place went out everywhere by
every caravan and by wing Of every
.ship, until soon the streets Of Jerusa-
lem are crowded with curiosity seek
,ers. What Is that long procession APP
proaching Jerusalem? ! think from
the pomp of It there must be royalty
in the train. / smell the breath Of
the spices which are brought rs pres
.sents, and / hear the shout Of the drivers
and / see the dust-coVered caravan
showing that they come from far
Z away. Cry the news up 70 the palace.
The queen Of Sheba advances Let the
mighty men of the land cone out on
fha nalnca corridors