The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-03-11

tlful tnlng IL Is Wnen sOcIdl pOSltlOn
and wealth surrender themselves to
God. When religion comes to neigh
borhood, the first to receive it are the
women. Some men say it is because
they are weak-minded. 1 say it is be-
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
poortof both sexes, those who have no
friends, accept Jesus. Last of all come
the people of affiuence 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 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 Feodorova, queen OF Russia;
Marie, empress of France; Helena, the
imperial mother of Constantine; Area
dia, from her great fortunes building
public baths in Constantinople and
toiling for the elevation of the masses;
Queen Clotilda. leading her husband
and the three thousand of his armed
warriors to Christian baptism; Eliza
beth, of Burgundy, giving her jeweled
glove to beggar, and scattering great
fortunes among the distressed. Prince
Albert singing Rock of Ages" in
Windsor castle, and Queen Victoria in
cognita reading the Scriptures to a
dying pauper
l bless God that the day is coming
when Quality will bring all its thrones,
and music all its harmonies. and paint
ing all its 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, frankincense filling the air
and the camels laden with gold, shall
approach Jerusalem, 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 parts of Arabia Felix. In
either case it was a great way off from
Jerusalem. To get from there to Jeru-
salem she had to cross a country in
tested with bandits. and go across
blistering deserts. Why did not the
queen of Sheba stay at home and
send a committee to inquire about the
new religion, and have the dele
gates. report in regard to that religion
and wealth of King Solomon? She
wanted to see for herself and hear for
herself. She could not do this By work
ef committee. She felt she had soul
worth ten thousand kingdoms like
Sheba, and she wanted robe richer
than any woven by Oriental shuttles,
and she wanted crown set with jew
els 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 sec
that caravan, dust covered, weary and
exhausted, trudging on across the de-
sert and among the bandits until it
reaches Jerusalem. say, There is an
earnest seeker after truth.
But there are great many of you,
nv 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 get it There are people
who fold their arms and say: II am
ready to become a Christian at any
time; if 1 am to be saved l shall be
saved, and if 1 am to be lost l shall be
lost" Ahl Jerusalem 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 cupbear-
ers. Goad on the camels; Jerusalem
will never come to you; you must go to
Jerusalem. The Bible declares it:
THE Queen of the South"-that is this
very woman l am speaking of-"the
Oueen of the South shall rise up in
Judgment against this generation and
condemn it; for she came from the up'
permost parts of the earth to hear the
| wisdom of Solomon; and, behold; g
greater than Solomon is here"
God help me to break up the infatu-
alton of those people who are sitting
down in idleness expecting to be saved.
s'Strive to enter in at the straight gate
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek
and We shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened to you" Take the Kingdom o.
Heaven by violence. Urge on the camels
Again. my subject impresses me with
the fact that religion is surprise to
anyone that gets it. This story of the
new religion in Jerusalem and of the
glory of King Solomon, who was ;
type of Christ-that story rolls on anC
on, and is told by every traveller com
| ing back from Jerusalem. The new:
goes on the wing of every ship and will
every caravan, and you know a story
enlarges as it is retold and by the tim'
that story gets down into the southern
Arabia Felix and the queen of Sheb;
hears it, it must be tremendous story
And yet this queen declares in regar'
to it, although she had heard it so mucl
and had her anticipatioas raised 81
high, the half-the half was not tolC
her
So religion is always surprise t.
any one that gets it. The story O
grace-an old story. Apostles preached
it with rattle of chain; martyrs de
clared it with arm of fire; death bed