The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-08-14
TALMAeE's SERMON
In Which Ee Corrects False Notions
Ablut Rsligiol.

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religion and represents it as being Joy
inspiring instead Of dolorcus; text Il
Chronicles *, 9, COS spices great
abundance; neither Was there any such
spice IS the queen Of SHEDS gave KDg
Solomon"
What is that building out yoDder
glittering in the sun? Have you not
heard? tits the house of the forest Of
Lebanon. King Solomon has just
tsken to it his bride, the princess Of
Egypt. You see the pillars Of tie por
tioo and s great tower, adorned with
1000 shields ;of gold hung OF the out
side of the tower-500 Of TIE SHIELDS
Of gold manufactured st Solomon, s or
der, 500 we're csptured ky David, his
father, in battle. Sse bow they blaza
in the MONDAY sun! ,
Solomon goes up the ivory stairs o.
bis throne between u lions in ststuary
and sits down on the back Of the gol-
den bull, the head Of the huge beast
turned toward the psople. The lam ly
and the attendants Of the king are so
many that the caterers Of the palace
have to provide every day 100 sheep
and Is oxeD, besides the birds and the
vsnigon. ! hear the stamping aud paw.
ing Of 1000 ine horses in the royal
stables. There were important ch ,lsis
who had charge Of the work Of gather
ing the straw and the barley for these
horses. King Solomon was an early
riser, tradition says, and used to take a
ride out st dsybresk, and when, in his
white sppsrel, behind the sWifsest
horses Of sll the realm and followed by
mounted archers in purple, as the cavsl
csde dashed through the streets OF
Jerusalem I suppose it was something
worth getting up at 5 o'clock IN the
morning to look at.
Solomon was rot like some Of the
kings Of the present day-crowneo I'M
becility. All the splendors Of his pal
ace and retinue were eclipsed by his in
tsllectual power. Why, he seemed to
know everything. He was the first
great naturalist the world ever saw.
Pescocks from India strutted the bas-
attic walk, and apes chsttereo IN the
trees, and deer stalked the parks, sno
there were aeusriuns with foreign f 81
and aviaries with foreign birds, and
tradition says these birds we're so we'll
tanned that Solomon might walk clear
across the city under the shadow Of
their wings as they hoverea and fitted
about him.
More than this. He had 8 great
reputation for the conundrums and rid
dies that he made and gussed. He and
King Hiram, his neighbor, used to sit
by the hour and ask riddles, each one
paying in money Il he could not an.
swer or guess the riddle. The Sylo:
monic nsvy visited al the world, and
the sailors, Of course, talked sbout'the
wealth of their king and about the rid
dies and enigmas that he made and
solved, and the news spread unit!
Q1ean Bslkis, away off south, heard ot
it and sent messengers with a few rid
dies that she would like to have Solo
mon solve and few puzzles thst she
would like to have him find out. She
sent, among other things, to King Sol.
omon 8 diamond with hole so small
that needle could not penetrate it,
asking him to thread thst diamond, and
Solomon took worm snd put 1t at the
opening in the diamond, and the worm
srswled through, leaving the thread in
the diamond. The queen also sent a
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 q
slave on the bsck Of a sIift horse and
galloped him sround and around the
park until the horse was nigh exhausted
and from the perspirstion Of the horse
the goblet was filed. She also sent to
King Solomon 500 boys in girls dress
and 500 girls in boys dress, wondering
if he would be acute enough to ind out
the deception. Immediately Solomon,
when he saw them wash their faces,
knew from the way they applied the
water that it was ali cheat.
How any woman keeps house without
the religion of Christ to help her is q
mystery to ms. TO have to spend the
greater part Of ones life, IS many wo.
men do, in planning For the meals and
stitching garments that will soon be
rent again and deploring breakages and
supervising tardy subordinstes and
driving off dust that soon again will set
tie and doing the same thing day In
and day out and year in and yesr out
until the hair silVers and the back
stoops and the spectscles crawl to the
eyes and the grave breaks open under
the thin sole Of the shoe-od, it is 8
long monotonyi But when Christ
comes to the drawing room and comes
to the kitchen and comes to the nucs-
cry and comes to the dwelling, then
how cherry become all Womanly duties!
She is never alone nov. Martha gets
through fretting and joins Mary at the
feet Of Jesus. Ali day long Deborah
is happy because she can help Lspi-
doth, Hannah because she csn make a
coat for young Samuel, Miriam because
she can watch her infant brother,
Rachel because she Gan help her father
water the stock, the widow Of Ssrepts
because the cruse Of oil is being replon-
ished. D woman, having in your psa-
try 8 nest Of boxes containing al kinds
Of condiments, Why nsVs you not tried
in your heart and life the spicery Of
our holy religion? Martha, Marths,
thou art careful and troubled about
many things, but one thing is needful,
and Mary hath chosen that good part
which shall not be taken a|sy from
her."
Imust confess that grest deal cf
the caligion Of this day is utterly in
sipid. There is nothing piquant or
ele7ating about it. Men and women go