Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-06-22

monte justice means unless you In I'M
agination go and see one OF the orien-
tai rulers holding court In the far east.
Now, the eastern court was not like
the western courts. The kings did not
appoint certain judges to dispense Jus
tice, but on certain days they them
selves went into a large open audience
place as the great moguls OF Delhi
used to do. Perhaps can best de-
scribe for you this audience place Of
King Solomon by describing for you
the judgment hall of Akbar the Great
as l saw IL. This audience place, liter
ally speaking, IS no hall at all. The
blue dome OF heaven is It's ceiling. The
pillared columns of marble, which find
their anchorage In the most exquisite
OF mosaic floors, merely lift themselves
up for adornment aud not to support
any roof. This reception hall was once
one mass of jewels and precious stones.
These precious stones were not tossed
together in heaps as an Italian hod car
rier tumbles bricks into a pile. They
were arranged in most exquisite de-
signs with reference to size and color.
There in jewels the artist pictured the
plumage of the birds strutting about
in the gardens and the colors OF the
flowers lifting up their red lips to be
kissed by the setting sun and OF the
rainbows playing among the. fountains.
There in this wonderland was the pea
cock throne upon which Akbar the
Great sat, which throne alone was sup
posed 70 be worth $4,000, 900. 1t was
in such an open hall OF justice that
King Solomon used to sit. and any one
who wished could come direct to the
king and get justice.
Let us for little while enter the Je-
rusalem court today. The great He
brew king has been hearing applicant
after applicant. He begins to look
weary with his work. No sooner Is his
last case finished than he turns sharply
and says, "who is next?" With that
two women come forward. They are
both immoral or bad women, yet each
laid claim to little boy as her own.
What did King Solomon do? Did he
say. 1T makes no difference how this
Judgment goes: they are only social
outcasts anyway" oh. no. that was
not Solomon's way. He said to him.
self: II must help the true mother. I
must give her back her baby. So I
must be sure and make right deci-
sion. / can only do this by subter-
fuge."
The True Mother.
Then he turns in an Indifferent way
and says to the executioner: Don't let
Us be bothered any more about this
matter. Let Us compromise the case.
Cut the baby in two and give each
claimant half" The true mother at
once falls on her knees and begins to
beg fer the life of her child. "Oh. my
king, my king. my good kingr' she
said. Save the life of my baby. Let
this woman have the child If necessary.
but save my baby alive" The other
woman uttered not one word of pro-
test. She merely turned and said: "All
right. Let the king kill the child. that
il be neither thine or mine" No sooner
did she say this than ut once In that
open court Solomon, with flashing eyes,
said: "Give the baby to the weeping
woman. She Is the true mother" Was
judgment ever better rendered? Could
a better illustration be presented to
show how Christ is always the friend
OF the weak and the helpless?
Christ Is such a Saviour that though
we may come TO him without friend
and reeking with sin as social lcpers.
though We may have sinned not only
seven times, but seventy times seven.
yet IL we VIII only come In his dear
name pleading for forgiveness at the
cross he will forgive and he will save
u.s. He will not only save one who
comes pleading for mercy. but he will
save ALL
In the great money center OF Hol-
land. In the city OF Rotterdam. there
stands building called the House OF
Thousand Fears" During the Hol-
iand-Spanish war OF 1872, when Rotter.
dam was sacked by a foreign foe, 1000
men. women and children were sun
posed to have concealed themselves
within these walls. At the door OF this
house the owner killed kid and sprln-
kled the blood upon the doorstep. When
the invading soldiers came to this house
and saw the blood they supposed the
house had been sacked, and they mass.
ed on. Those .Hollanders in the blouse
or Thousand Fears" found safety
through the blood or a Kid. In this
world OF sin and sorrow hundreds Of
millions or poor mortals have found
safety through the sacrifice OF the Di-
vine Lamb. In the Judgment hall of
christ. Jesus will always save those
who have come pleading for mercy
through his blood. as King Solomon
was always the friend and the savior
or the weak and the helpless in the
great royal Judgment hall OF the Jers-
salem capital
4 world's CArsst.
When we talk about King Solomon
blessing his swn people we also find
Christ the Saviour OF the Jew. When
We find King Solomon welcoming the
queen of Sheba to his court we find
Christ the Saviour of the gentiles as
We'll Jesus did not simply come 10 be
Hebrew Christ. He came to be 4
worlds Christ. Can you not find this
symbol in the glorious welcome which
the ruler OF the Davidic capital gave to
this beautiful. dusky queen of the
southland2
'Oh. what is the use OF bothering
with the queen OF Sheba p 1 hear some
OF the cabinet ministers say to the
king. she is from a country way off
10 the south. We can never get any
trade from her. If there was a canal
cut through the Suez isthmus, that
might be different. But all intercourse
With that nation must come ovar,and