The Washington herald., 1918-02-24
EVENING SERMON
Lesson from Solomon

despond, crying out to tho four
fIushers and the 'pikers that are try
ing to follow his lead.
Nothing but n Lemon.
Go back, you fools, go back! There
Is nothing in it, 1t is all vanity, 1t Is
nothing but a lemon. Go back! Go
back!
Then he took to hitting the booze.
He had a molten sea that contained
22,21O gallons of wine and this mol
ten sea rested upon the backs OF
twelve golden oxen, three standing
with their faces to the north, three
to the south. three to the east and
three to the west.
And he loved strange women. There
is where he struck out. They soon
had him hanging over the ropes, with
his tongue out. He had 100 wives and
300 concubines. Why, he made old
Brigham Young look like a BUSH
whacker. And he laid hold on folly
with both hands, and he said, at is
all vanity and vexation Of spirit"'
Then he goes to building great
houses, chief of which Is his mag
NllCu DCehA
1t took seven years to build il, II took
the combined efforts of $4,000 stran-
gers-just to build it. 1t took 10000
men eleven years just to cut down
the trees and there were $1,000 fel-
lows that did nothing but hew and
shape the wood.
Temple Cost Half Billion.
Its courts and apartments would
hold 100000 people, % tabernacles
the size OF this. The people could
get into Solomon's Temple and get
under the roof and under the
porches. So you think you've got
something here, but wait a min
ute. 1t had 1,453 columns of pure
Parian marble, 2,906 balusters or
columns and the building cost ac-
cording to our standards of gold
and silver, $500. 100000.
He had $4,000, 100000 worth of
gold and silver on the floor, on the
walls, covering the doors. and the
images made to represent doves and
all of that sort and fruit of all
kinds. He had 200 targets of pure
gold. 600 shekels OF gold in each
target and they were valued at
81. 200, 900 according to our stand
ard of gold.
He had 300 targets of gold and
they were worth 100000. and
when he had completed the tenn
pie, the glory OF God filled it so the
priests could not enter to worship
there Then he turned his talent
to wealth and the making of a
beautiful city of Jerusalem.
He planted Vineyards and gardens
and these were all like Fairyland
and like tales Of magic, he produced
orchards and vineyards
Vanity and yexatiOn.
My friends, he gathered all of that
and all of his women and his con-
cubines and his horses and his bill
| lions of gold and his great temple
that would shield and cover three
hundred thousand people, all of this
only tickled his fancy for a little
| time, and I see him strolling among
the flowers, plucking a rose, taking
Whit at it and casting it away.
| pulling off an orange or apple or
pomegranate, a cluster Of grapes,
taking a bite and throwing them
away and 1 hear the footsteps as he
walks through the palace over the
golden floor, beneath the great flash
ing dome covered with pure gold and
he withheld not his heart from any
| joy and he cried out,
1T is all vanity and vexation Of
SPIRIT"
What profit hath a man Of all his
labor which he taketh under the
SUM-"
What does a man get out Of life If
he only lives for what this life can
give him? What benefit is it to a
man if he simply lives for the graft
fication Of his desires in this life.
Immediately he takes another
fancy. He had servants born in his
house. He had great possessions of
great cattle and he gathered gold and
silver. He had men singers and wo-
men singers, the delights of the sons
of men, musical instruments of all
kinds and he withheld his heart not
from any joy. 1t there was anything
he wanted, he got it. He didn't re-
strain himself from any desire or am
bition in life and he probably became
an art collector and he fed on the
beautiful and the artistic and the es-
thetic and antique.
And while his singing men and sing
ing women were warbling and while
his musicians were playing, and while
he is lying voluptuous on a princely
! couch, he seems TO float in the air
and he drinks to the very full of all
the delights and pleasures, suddenly
he is almost dying from disappoint-