News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-03-03

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add more than fifty per cent. to wha1
has been related 1t exceeds every
thing that | could have expected
The half-the half was not told me =
Learn from this subject what {
beautiful thing it is when social posi-
ton and wealth surrender themselves
to God. When religion comes to &
neighborhood the first to receive il
are the women. Some men say it is
because they are weak minded.
say it is because they have quicker
perception of what is right, more ar
dent affection and capacity for sub
Inner emotion. After the women
have received the Gospel then all the
distressed and the poor of both sexes,
those who have no friends, accept
Jesus Last of all come the people OF
aff1uence and high social position.
Alas, that it is sol
SURRENDER ALL TO GOD.
If there are those here today who
have been favored of fortune or, as ]
might better put it, favored of God,
surrender all you have and all you
expect to be to the Lord who blessed
this Queen of Sheba. Certainly you
are not ashamed to be found in this
queens company. ! 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 building public baths in
Constantinople and toiling for the
alienation of the masses; Queen Clio
tilda, leading her husband and three
thousand 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 Rock of Ages" in Windsor
castle, and Queen Victoria, incognita
reading the Scriptures to a dying
pauper.
/ bless God that the day is coming
when royalty will bring all its
thrones, and music all its harmonies,
and painting all its pictures, and
sculpture all its statuary, and a1chi-
lecture all it's pillars, and conquest
all its scepters, and the queens of the
earth in long line of advance, frank
incense filling the air and the camels
laden with gold, shall approach Jeru-
salem, and the gates shall be hoisted,
and the great burden of splendor
shall be lifted into the palace 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 in Abyssinia, or some say in the
southern part of the Arabia Felix In
either case it was a great way off
from Jerusalem. To get from there
to Jerusalem she had to cross a coun-
try infested with bandits and go
across blistering deserts. Why did
not the Queen of Sheba stay at home
and send a committee to inquire
about this new religion, and have the
delegates report in regard to that re-
hgion and wealth of King Solomon?
She wanted to see for herself and
hear for herself She could not do
this by work of committee. She felt
she had soul worth ten thousand
kingdoms like Sheba, and she wanted
a robe richer than any woven by
oriental shuttles, and she wanted a
crown set with the jewels of eter-
nifty.
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 I see that |
caravan, dust covered, weary and ex-
hausted, trudging on across the des- |
ert and among the bandits until it |
reaches Jerusalem, 1 say, There is
an earnest seeker after the truth"
But there are great many of you,
my friends, who do not act in that |
way. You all want to get the truth, |
but you want the truth to come to |
you. You do not want to go to it.
There are people who fold their arms
and say: Il am ready to become a
Christian at any time. If am to be
saved l shall be saved, and if l am to
be lost [ shall be lost" All, Jerusa-
lem will never come to you! You
must go to Jerusalem The religion
of the Lord Jesus Christ will not
come to you. You must go and get
religion.
Bring out the camels; put on all
the sweet spices, all the treasures of
the hearts affection. Start for the
throne. Go in and hear the waters
of salvation dashing in fountains all
around about the throne. Sit down
at the banquet-the wine pressed
from the grapes of the heavenly
Eschol, the angels of God the cup
bearers. Goad on the camels; Jeru-
salem will never come to you; you
must go to Jerusalem.
The Bible declares it, 1.-The queen
of the south"-that is, this very
woman I am speaking of = 1.-The
queen of the south shall rise up in
judgment against this generation
and condemn it, for she came from
the uttermost parts of the earth to
hear the wisdom of Solomon, and.
behold a greater than Solomon is
here" God help me to break up the
infatuation of those people who are
sitting down in idleness expecting to
be saved. ''Strive to enter in at the
straight gate. Ask, and it shall be
given you; seek, and We shall find;
knock, and itshall be opened to you"
Take the kingdom of heaven by VIC
lence. Urge on the camels.
Again, my subject impresses me
with the fact that religion is a sur
prise to any one that gets it. This
story of the new religion in Jerusa-
lem, and of the glory of King Solo
mon, who was type of Christ-that
story rolls on and on, and is told by
every traveller coming back from
Jerusalem. The news goes on the
wing of every ship and with every
and you know a story en-
arges as it is retold, and by the time
hat story gets down into the south
ern part of Arabia Felix, and the
queen of Sheba hears it, it must be a
story. And yet this
queen declares in regard to it, al
,hough she had heard so much and
laf her anticipations raised so high,
he half-the half was not told her
RELIGION A WONDERFUL SURPRISE.
So religion is always a surprise to
my one that gets it. The story of
5race-an old story. Apostles :
Preached it with rattle of chain; |
martyrs declared it with arm of fire;