The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-07-31

..-- miserable failure Of life.
.. knew ali that was worth
IL. ..- time; and, it is prob
......a as he lived in Jeru-
... WIS the king Of Il great
..#I into the notion, that.
....n -houId come TO pass,
could possibly be an i'm
...u what had already been
If Hts time. he said there
....- new under the sun ana
his opinion that nothing
......l beer would come to pass,
which might come after
but a repetition of what
... words he thOught-if we
10y what he says-thc
cached its zenith in wis
-.atuesS.
If himself he said: 'Lo,
....... tn great estate and have
...... wisdom than all they that
..... before me III jerusalem"
~ certain that Solomon and
.. ..m held q very exalted posi-
..... estimation of the nations
.t..9t. and his wisdom aston
... we'll rs eXtOrted the admira-.
the world. He wrote 1900
....... and l.oVo songs, in which he
..... d. knowledge Of men and
.he acquisition of which
.... cost him a great deal of
....n was charged with
sutton, but, it must be ad-
That few men ever lived more
......gautIy or luxuriantly. But, he
Vs.. Well afford IT, as his annual
.... tn gold was six hundred and
.--x talents. A talent being equal
..I pounds sterling, or $50, 000,
q. .t.r snug sum Of about twenty
of dollars.
t.Y. taking into consideration the
.-naf ne had 700 wives and 800
.rH5ue-. all of them used to high
.. .aI for whom he had to build
# required that he should keep
Ha bank account.
=. had twelve officers travelling
r sal. Israel providing Victuals for
.uI his household.
81 day. it required, to feed his
... 40 bushels Of fine -four, $50
of meal. ten fat oxen, twenty
n ont IF the pasture, 100 sheep,
harts, and rOe-buckS and -fal-
...., and fatted fowl, to say moth
~ The extras.
Y... ,.porI of SOIOmOn'S high living
ont. and to crafty u WomanS
ia-itv. the Queen of Sheba went up
.a. about it. After bchOldlng the
.rnifceuce and glory of the JeWlSh
iraI. and enjoying for a season the
agurr Of listening to SOlomOn,S WIS
g.. and uartaking of his royal nos
'r:ry she was so impressed with
she ate, saw and heard as to
O. ~cxurcssion to the remark: "Ihe
+ was not told me-
admitting the majesty, pOmp ana
ry which the queen behold, to nave
M above and beyond those of other
cg and kingdOms-eVen greater
N The world had hitherto seem
may ask the question, whence and
whom came such GreatneSsE l
NOT suppose the queen looked pack
What she saw, nor puzzled her bfalfl
h the faded pages of that history
ph Law away back in the ages past,
corning SolOm0n'S poor XII
There We're the great temple, the
gnffcent palace with its throne OF
a rovaI parsonage possessing Wis
p which astOniShed the world;
aI~ ana SI'ltIlNt'1 bit ~
never before been accumulated
any former pOtentate, which so
cd and b~eWildered the queen she
NOT think Of how they all came
be did not take into consideration.
fa.t hat the call of Abram was
first movement in the long challl
Incidents and events, toward NJ
of the temple. and of the
,hIishment of a throne whose
dazzled the world.
{ did not occur to, her that 1t re-
time. patience. hardship and
to build a temple and to
&C. a king on the summit of Il
.tness. the like Of which words
p too feeble to describe. she VAS
bus wo VINO look back on the foot
of Abram. as he iOurneyed from
toward the land he knew not
.#u understand that every step ne
|a Was in the direction or Iile
ou which the glory OF the Ioid
rn he manifested.
doubt whether Solomon. himself
Iana3nt as he must have been WIN
history of his people. had ne
rarn To tell the story of Israel $
..r -ft anu 10 give SICoi W 49,
Iaarfng ancestors whose sacrifice,
aud @Utforing made 1t poSSlple IOl
go set UpOn a throne.
lsu other mOrtala whose heads are
j. giddy by altitude. he might haVe
o-Ml il was dangerous to look
from his lofty eminence, lest ms
.r buuld have a fall, did he tell
o.. the once loWly condition OF
ancestry from whom and by
"" .|' his greatness came
Course / don't know it to be Il
I.ut I doubt very much whether,
conversation with the queen, he
Studded to his ancestors who
".. lu a brick yard. under task
'-. and We're whipped on the
...eE. ON the contrary, it is not
"..aIIe (Whcther designedly or
f..t he made the impression on
.."Hish@d visitor that his lineage
. ..toz to the gods and that royal
"| ItIod every vein.
|uI /. of course. dazed as she was
Is" much spIendOr and magnlficence
@#@ hut to ready TO absorb any
H.--Iou that pride might have
i."t%m nature has always been the
&c., ana it is not unfair nor unsafe
."'.g" Solomon by the conduct OF
.""3 mrrtaIs.
~. aIi know that the human nature
"ir age spends most of IT'S time
.'l.Ig to get the best fOremost-cr
.aa.g" the figure, III trying to make
#.. believe that We are not only
s'. IUmpkins,' but that we sprang
49, pumpkins which grew on the
-i#aI vine.
have heard of a lady who prides
SELF upon the fact that she can
". her ancestry back to Dan, ana
|"I"itates herself with the IDEA
.3.."a to her good looks, she par
-. -L.htlN of S0lnmOn'S