Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-29

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THE QUEEN OF sHEBA ARRIVES.
The queen of Sheba alights. She
enters the palace. She washes at the
bath. She sits down at the banquet.
The cupbearers 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 ques-
tons, and she learns about the re-
igion of the Hebrews, and she then
and there becomes a 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 causeway between the temple
and the palace, and the one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars in money
she begins to think that all these
presents amount to nothing in such
a place, and she is almost ashamed
that she has brought them, and she
says within HERSELF II heard a great
deal about this wonderful religion of
the Hebrews, but find it far beyond
my highest anticipations. l must
add more than fifty per cent. to what
has been related. 1t exceeds every
thing that | could have expected.
The half-the half was not told mew
Learn from this subject what
beautiful thing it is when social posi-
ton and wealth surrender themselves
to God, When religion comes to a
neighborhood the first to receive it
are the women. Some men say it is
because they are weak minded. l
say it is because they have quicker
perception of what is right, more ar
dent affection and capacity for sub
liner 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
afllucnce 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. 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 building public baths in
CoEstantinople 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 tho Scriptures to a dying
pauper.
/ bless God that the day is coming
whom 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 its pillars, and conquest
all its sceptors, and the queens of the
earth in long line of advance, frank
incense filing 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 carnostness in the search of truth.
Do you know where Sheba VASE 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 Jcrusalom To get from there
to Jerusalem she had to cross q coun-
try infested with bandits and go
across blistcring deserts. Why did
not the Queen of Sheba stay at home
and send committee to inquire
about this new religion, and have the
report ii regard to that re-
hgiou and wealth of King Solomon2
She wanted to see for herself and
hear for herself. She could not do
this by work of committee. She felt
She had a soul worth ten thousand
like Shcba, and she wanted |
a robe richer than any woven by |
shuttlos, 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 timo to be lost Goad |.
on the camcls. When | see that |
caravan, dust covered, weary and ex-
trudging on across the des-
ert and among the bandits until it
reaches Jerusalem | say, "There is
an earnest seeker after the truth"
But there are n great many or you,
my friends, who do not act in that
way. You all want to get the truth,
but you want the truth to como to
you. You do not want to go to it,
Whore are nnOnlo who fold their arms |