The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-07

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 By this time the Israelites had become so amalgamated with the Caanitss that they had begun to use their alphabet and
 
 this literary and educational movement of Solomon we are told in the morning lesson His collection excelled the wis dom of the children of the east and all the visions of the Egyptians" We are now learning what this means in our dis covery of the great libraries in the buried enples of BabyIonia, Assyria, Sabea and Siinea: as well as the ancient writings of the Egyptians. The temple was not only a seat of worship. of courts, of records. of finance but also of learning and library. So when Solomon undertook to build a temple to Jehovah he made Him the pa- tron of books and learning. Solomon also made great advance over the men of learning who preceded him. flor he was wiser than all men; than Ethan, and Heman. and Calcol. and Darda. Zerathites of the school of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about"
 The form of these writings was gnomic and lyric poems; and he is said to have spoken 3Oc0 proverbs and 1o05 songs The earliest literature of every people is po- etry. and in an age when there can be but few who can read and write, knowledge must circulate largely through oral recitation, and poem is more easily and accurately carried in the memory than prose. We are told also that his collection treated of trees. from the cedar of Lebanon even unto the hysop that groweth out of the wall; of beasts, of birds. Of creeping things, of fishes; but from the earlier literature which has come down to us we have little or nothing of this botany and zoology. It was probably so crude that it was superseded by the better knowledge of subsequent days; or was so secular that 1t did not appeal to scriptures.
 We are told that so great was the fame of Solomon's learning that the kings of the earth sent hither messengers to learn of it for their own purposes of ruling Egypt, Assyria, Babylonia, Minea sought to import the learning of Jehovahs king <t.1 -l.fr