Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-08-09
Seeing For Oneself.


Queen Balkis was so pleased with the |
acuteness Of Solomon that she said an |
just 90 and see him for myself" Yon- |
der it comes-the cavalcade-horses and
dromedaries, chariots and chariOteers,
juggling harness and gathering hoofs and
blazing shields and flying ensigns and
clapping cymbals. The place is saturated
with the perfume. She brings cinnamon
and saffron and calamus and franklin
cense and all manner of sweet spices. As
the retinue sweeps through the gate the
armed guard inhales the aroma. HALT"
cry the chariOteers as the wheels grind
the gravel in front of the pillared porticO
of the king. Queen Balkis alights in an
atmosphere bewitched with perfume. AS
the dromedaries are driven up to the
kings stOrehOuses, and the bundles Of
camphor are unloaded, and the sacks Of
cinnamon and the boxes of spices are
opened, the purveyors of the palace dis
cover what my text announces, "Of
spices, great abundance; neither was
there any such spice as the queen Of
Sheba gave to King Solomon"
Well, my friends, you know that all
thcologians agree in making Solomon Il
type of Christ and in making the queen
of Sheba type of every truth seeker,
and | will take the responsibility of say
ing that all the spikenard and cassia and
! frankincense which the queen of Sheba
brought to King Solomon are nightly
suggestive of the sweet spices of our holy
| religion. Christianity is not a collection of
sharp technicalities and angular facts and
| chronological tables and dry statistics.
| Our religion is compared to frankincenSe
and to cassil, but never to nightshade.
1t is a bundls of myrrh. 1t is Il dash of
holy light. 1t is a sparkle of cool fOun-
tains. 1t is an opening of opaline gates.
1t is a collection of spices. Would God
that we were as wise in taking spices to
our Divine King as Queen Balkis was
wise in taking the spices to the aithly
Solomon.
The fact is that the duties and cares OF
this life. coming to us from time to time
are stupid often and inane and intoler
able. Here are men who have been bat
tering, climbing, pounding, hammering
for 20 years, 40 years, 80 years. ON
great long drudgery has their life been
their faces anxious, their feelings be
numbed, their days monotOnOus. Wha
is necessary to brighten up that man
life and to sweeten that acid disposition
and to put sparkle into the mans spirits
The spicery of our holy religion. VIII!
if between the losses of life there dashe
the CLEAN of an eternal gain, if betwee
the betrayals of life there came til
CLEAN Of the undying friendship of Chris
if in dull times in business we fOun
ministering spirits flying to and fro
our Office and store and shop, everyda
life instead of being a stupid mOnotOI
would be a glorious inspiration, pend
luming between calm satisfaction al
high rapture.
Christ Brings Cheerfulness.
How any woman keeps house withO
the religion of Christ to help her is
s. mystery to me. To have to spend t
u greater part of ones life, as many v
men do, in planning for the meals a
stitching garments that will soon be re
again and deploring breakages and
pervising tardy subordinates and drivi
off dust that soon again will settle a
= doing the same thing day in and q
IT out and year in and year out until
hair silvers and the back stOOps and
= spectacles crawl to the eyes and
- grave breaks open under the thin sole
Of the shoe-oh, it is long monotOny!
@, when Christ comes to the drawing 70
an and comes to the kitchen and comes
~ the nursery and comes to the DWELL
NC then how CHEEKY become all wOmanly
% ties! She is never alone now. Mar