The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-04-08

ters the palace. She washes ut the
bath She sits down at the banquet
The cup bearers bow. The meat
smokes. You hear the dash OF waters
FROM the molten sea. Then she rises
from the banquet and walks through
the Conservatives, and gazes on the
architecture, and she asks Solomon
many strange questions, and she learns
about the religion of the Hebrews, and
she then and there becomes n servant
of the Lord God.
She is overwhelmed. She begins to
think that all the spices she brought
and all the precious woods which are
intended to be turned into harpS and
! psalteries and into ratings for the
cnuseway between the temple and the
palace, and the $780, 600 in money
she began to think that all these pres
ents amount to nothing in such place.
and she is almost ashamed that she has
brought them, and she says within her
self: Il heard a great deal about this
wonderful religion of the Hebrews, but
find it far beyond my highest antici-
pations. 1 must add more than fifty
per cent to what has been related. 1t
exceeds everything that / could have
expected. The half-the half was not
told me-" tE
Learn from this subject what beau
tiful thing it is when social position and
wealth surrender themselves to God
When religion comes to a neigh bor-
hood, the first to receive it are the
women. Some men say IL is because
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cause they have quicker perception Of
what is right, more ardent affection
and capacity for sublimer emotion
After the women have received the
Gospel then all the distressed and the
proof Of both sexes, those who have no
friends, accept Jesus. Last of all
come the people of affluence and high
social position. Alas, that it is so?
If there are those here to-day who
have been favored OF fortune, or as
might better put it, favored of God,
surrender all you have and all you ex-
pect TO be to the Lord who blessed this
Queen of Sheba- Certainly you are
not ashamed to be found in the queens
company. l am glad that Christ has
had his imperial friends in all ages
| Elizabeth Christina, queen Of Prussia;
Maria Feodorovna, queen of Russia;
Marie, empress of France; Helena, the
imperial mother of Constantine;
Arcadia, from her great fortunes build
ing public baths in Constantinople and
toiling for the alienation of the masses:
Queen Cloulda, leading her husband
and 8, 600 of his armed warriors to
Christian baptism; Elizabeth of Bur
gundy; giving her jeweled glove to a
beggar and scattering great fortunes
among the distressed; Prince Albert
singing Brock of Ages" in the Windsor
castle, and Queen Victoria, incognita,
reading the scriptures to dying pau
per.
/ bless God that the day is coming
when royalty will bring all its thrones,
and music all its harmonies, and paint
ing all it's pictures, and sculpture all its
statuary, and architecture all its pill
lars, and conquest all its scepters, and
the queens of the earth. in long line of
advance, franincense filing the air and
the camels. laden with gold, shall APP
proach Jerusalem, and the gates shall
be hoisted, and the great burden of
splendor shall be lifted into the place of
this greater than Solomon.
Again, my subject teaches me what
is earnestness in the search of truth.
Do you know where Sheba was? 1t
was Abyssina, or some say in the south
ern part of Arabia Felix. In either case
it was great way off from
Jerusalem. To get from there to
Jerusalem she had to go across
country infested with bandits,
and go across blistering deserts.
Why did not the queen of Sheba stay at
home and send committee to inquire
about this new religion, and have the
delegates report in regard to that re-
ligion and wealth of King Solomon?
She wanted to see for herself. ard hear
for herself. She could not do this by
work of committee. She felt she had
a soul worth ten thousand Kingdoms
like Sheba, and she wanted robe
richer than any woven by Oriental
shuttles and she wanted crown set
with the jewels of eternity Bring out
the camels. Put on the spices. Gather
up the jewels of the throne and put
them on the caravan. Start now; no
time to be lost Goad on the camels.
When see that caravan, dust-covered,
weary and exhausted, trudging on
across the desert and among the ban
dts until it reaches Jerusalem. ! say
There is an earnest seeker after the
truth"
But there are a great many of you,
my friends, who do not act in that way
You all want to get the truth, but you
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not want to go to it. There are people