The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-09-24
INSPIRING RELIGION.
Or. Talmage breaches on Solomon S
WisdOm..Sweet Spices OF
Christianity.
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copyright 1901


spice as the Queen Of Shcba gave King
Solomon
What is that building out yonder. gilt
tering IN the sun? Have Won not heard?
II Is in the house OF the forest of Lebanon.
King solomon has just taken 10 IL his
bride, the Princess OF Egypt. You see the
pillars of the portico and great tower
adorned with 1000 shields Of gold hung
on the outside OF the tower, coo Of the
shields of gold manufactured az Solomon's
order; 500 were captured by David, his
father, in battle. See how Ciey blaze in
the MONDAY sum-
y Solomon goes up the ivory stairs OF his
chrome, between twelve lions In statuary.
knd sits down on the back of the golden
I'll, the head of the huge beast turned to-
rd the people. The family and the at
ndants Of the king are so many that the
! -terers of the palace have TO provide
2 very day 100 sheep and thirteen oxen,
besides the birds and the venison. / hear
the stamping and paving of 1000 fine
Aorses In the royal stables. There were
important officials who had charge of the
work of gathering the straw and the bar
ley for these horses. King Solomon was
an early riser, tradition says, and used TO
take a ride out at daybreak, and when in
his white apparel, behind the swiftest
horses of all the realm and followed by
mounted archers in purple, as the caval-
cade dashed through the streets of Jeru-
salem / suppose it was something worth
getting up at 5 O'Clock In the morning to
look at
Solomon was not like some of the kings
OF the present day--crowned imbecility.
all the splendors OF his palace and retinue
were eclipsed by his intellectual power.
Why, he seemed to know everything. He
was the first great naturalist the world
ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted
the basaltic walk, and apes chartered in
the trees, and deer stalked the parks, and
there were aquariums with foreign fish
and aviaries with foreign birds, and tradi-
ton says these birds were so we'll tanned
that Solomon might walk clear across the
city under the shadow of their wings as
they lowered and fitted about him
More than this, he had a great reputa-
ton for the conumdrums and riddles that
he made and guessed. He and King Hi
ram, his neighbor, used to sit by the hour
and ask riddles, each one paying IN money
II he could not answer or guess the riddle.
The Solomonic navy visited all the world,
and the sailors, OF course talked about
the riddles and enigmas that he made and
solved, and the news spread until Queen
Balkis, away off south heard of it, and
sent messengers with few riddles that
she would like TO have Solomon solve and
a few puzzler that she would like to have
him find Out. She sent, among other
things, to King. Solomon a diamond with
ahole so small that n needle could not pen
citrate it, asking him to thread that dia-
mond. And Solomon took a worm and
put 1t at the opening in the diamond, and
the worm crEwled through leaving the
thread In the diamond. The queen also
sent goblet TO Solomon. asking him to
fill it with water that did not pour from
the sky and that did not rush out from
the earth, and immediately Solomon put
slave on the back of n swift horse and
galloped him around and around the park
until Ghe horse was nigh exhausted, and
from the perspiration of the horse The
goblet was filed. She also sent to King
solomon 900 boys IN girls dress and 500
girls in boys dress, wondering If he would
be acute ENOUGH to find out the deception.
Immediately olomon, when he saw them
wash their faces, knew from the way they
applied the water that it was all a cheat
Queen Balkis was so pleased with the
acuteness OF Solomon that she said. "Ill
just go and see him for myself" Yonder
1t comes-the cavalcade-horses and dro-
medaries, chariots and charioteers. ing
hing harness and Gathering hoofs and blaz-
ing shields and flying ensigns and clapping
cy abals. The place Is saturated with the
perfume. She brings cinnamon and SAT-
from and calamus and frankincense and all
manner of sweet spices. AS the retinue
WseDs through the gate the armed guard
lniiales the aroma. Halt" cries the char
ioteers as the wheels grind the gravel in
front OF the plllared portico of the king
Queen Ballus alights in an atmosphere he
witched with perfume. AS the dromeda-
rIes are driven up to the kings store
houses and the bundles of camphor are
unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon and
the boxes OF spices arc opened the pur-
veyors of the palace discover what my text
9nnounces; 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 the
ologans agree in making Solomon a tvpe
OF Christ, and in making the Queen of
Sheba type of every truth seeker, and /
VIII take the responsibility OF sewing that
All the Spiken9rd and cassia and franklin
nh HmNa
70 hlng solomon is nightly suggestive Of
the sweet spices OF our holy religion
christianity IS not collection of sharp
technicallties and angular facts and chro-
biological tables and dry statistics.
Our religion is compared TO frankincensc
and to cGssia, but never to nightshadc.
IL rs a bundle of myrrh II is a dash of
holy hight 1t is a sparkle of cool foun-
talns. 1T IS an opening of opalme gates
IT 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 earthly Solo
mon.
The fact is that the duties and cares of
TINS me, coming TO us from time to time.
are stupid often and iu8ne and intOicrablc.
Here are men who have been hlttering.
climbing, pounding. hammering for twenty
years forty years, fifty years. One great.
long drudgery has their life been. their
faces anxious, their feelings benumbed
sary to brighten up that mans life and to
sWeeten that acid disposition and to nut
sparkle INTO the mans spirits2 The suic-
eTy OF our holy religion. Why. IF between
the losses of life there dashed the CLEAN
OF am eternal gain, if between the betray.
ais OF lie there came the CLEAN of the 1in-
dying friendship of Christ. III i'm dull times
IN business we found ministcring spirits
flying TO and FRO in our office and store
and shop, everyday life instead of being
a stupid monotone. would be a glorious in.
fpirahon, pendullming between calm SAT-.
ioiaction and high rapture
How. any woman keeps house without
the religion Of Christ to help her Is a
mystery to me. To have to spend the
greater part of ones life AS many women
40, ln planning for the meals, and stitch
ing garments that viii soon be rent arafn
and deploung breakages. and supervising
Iardy subordinate, and driving oil dust
that soon again VIII settle and doing the
same thing day in and day out and wear
pa and year out until the hair silvera. and
the back stOops, and the spectaclpq crawl
20 the eyes and the grave breaks omen
unccr the thin sole of the shoc-oh IL is
long mOnotony! But when Christ corres
p the drawing room, and comes To- the
kitchen, and comes 90 the nursery. and
comes TO The dwelling, then how CHEEKY
becomes ell womanly duticsl She Del never
alone now. Martha gets through frotfrg
and joins Mary at the feet of Jesus Ai
day lone Deborah is happy because She cam
help Lapidoth Hannah, because she can
make q coat for young Samuel; Miriam.
because she can watch her infant brother:
rachel because che can help her father |
wafer tue stock, tro widow OF N1rcpta. be.