Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-29

1 JcfuSdltlu arc CTOWitd Will tbhtJoatJ
seekers. What is that long process
sion approaching Jerusaleml ] think
from the pomp Of it there must be
royalty in the train. / smell the
breath of the spices which arc
brought as presents, and ! hear the
shcst of the drivers, and see tho
dust covered caravan showing that
they come from far away.
Cry the news up to the palace.
The Queen of Sheba advances. Let
I'll the people come out to see. Let
he mighty men of the land come
out on the palace corridors. Let
Solomon come down the stairs Of the
palace before the queen has aliglted.
Shake out the cinnamon. and the
saffron, and the calamus, and the
frssnlzincense, and pass it into the
treasure house. Take up the dia
monds until they glitter in the sun.
THE QUEEN OF sIIEBA 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 conservatories,
and gazes ON the architecture, and
she asks Solomon many strange ques
tions, and she learns about the re-
iigion 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 psalteIies 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
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. j must
add more than fifty per cent. to what
has been related. 1t exceeds every
thing that l could have expected.
The half-the half was not told me"
Learn from this subject what a
beautiful thing it is when social posi-
ton and wealth surrender themselves
to God. When religion comes to
neighborhood the first to receive it
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
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
affluence and high social position.
Alas, that 1t Is sol
sURRENDER ALL no GOD.
II 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 n dying
pauper.
bless God that the day is coming
when royalty will bring all its
thrones, and music all it's harmonies,
and painting all its pictures, and
sculpture all it's statuary, and aIchi-
lecture all its pillars, and conquest
all it's scepters, and the queens of the
earth in long line of advance, frank.
incense filing the mir and tho 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
IL earnestness in the search OF truth
Do you know where Sheba vast 1t
was IN Abyssinia, or some say In the
southern part of the Arabia Felix. Ia
either case Il was a great way OH
from Jerusalem. To get from there
10 Jerusalem she had 10 cross coun-
try infested with bandits aud 60
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 20 that no
hgion and wealth OF King Solomonl
She wanted 30 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 hllo Sheba. and she wanted
a robe richer than any woven bV