Connecticut western news., 1892-03-03


 palace before the queen has alighted. Shake out the cinnamon. and the saffron, and the calamus, and the frankincense. and pass it into the treasure house. Take up the dia monds until they glitter in the sun.
 THE QUEEN OF sHEBA ARRIVES.
 The queen of Sheba aights. 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. hons, and she learns about the re hgion 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 railings 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 Il heard great deal about this wonderful religion of the Hebrews, but find it far beyond my highest anticipations must add more than fifty per cent. to what has been related. It exceeds every thing that l could have expected. The half the half was not told mar
 Learn from this subject what a beautiful thing it is when social posi- hon 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 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 affluence 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 Col, 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 fortunes building public baths in Constantinople and toiling for the alleviation of the masses; Queen Clo 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.
 I bless God that the day is coming when royalty will bring all is thrones, and music all its harmon!es, and painting all it's pictures, and sculpture all its statuary. and archi lecture all it's pillars. and conquest all it's scepters, and the queens of the earth ill 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 was2 It was in Abyssinia. or some say in the southern part of the Arabia Felix. In either case it was a great way of 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. ligion 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 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 see that caravan. dust covered, weary and ex- hausted. tI-udging on across the des- ert and among the bandits until it Jerusalem, I 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 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 l am to be saved shall be saved, and if l am to be lost shall be lost" An, Jerusa- lem will never come to youl You ..nlsrr,r,,