The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-09-09
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
Especially Prepared for The Republi-
can by DIR. u. S. Wright.
SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER ~.

SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER IL.
The Glory of Solomon's Reign. |
Kings 10:l-9;23 25. Read entire chap
ter and ii Chron. 9.
Blessed is everyone that feareth Je-
hovah,
That waIketh in his ways. Psalm 1881
THE QUEEN.
Out os this arid region two great
prophets have come; Moses whose re-
veallng genius reached its highest in it's
full fruitage in Christianity and Mo-
manned whose passion swept Journalism
before it like chaff. Just now it holds
new interest in the Wainwright
kingdom of Hedjez covering the same
territory. Religion seems an instinct
of the region for this wonderful queen
was devotee before she was ruler
Sitting at the gateway of trade be-
tween the Red Sea and the wider wa
ters. watching the shipping sail past
or unload at the quays, taking toll from
the long lines of camels that trekked
thru her roads with their varied loads,
she heard the constant hum of COM
merce dinning her ears. The clink of
coin was in the air from dawn till dusk
and the stir of business was all about
her yet thru it all she discerned that to
which many are deaf, the message of
the spirit. Solomon's venture with
Hiram carried new flag into her Wis
ion and brought new markets within
her reach but 1t was the Name of Je-
hovah" that sounded louder than all
others in her ears. Strange note to
pick out of all the din of a busy port
and only one whose soul was listening
for it could have heard it. In the mod
ern world with its smoking stocks, its
whirring spin1les, Its beating engines,
its whirling pulleys, its rumbling cars,
its thudding hammers, its screaming
saws, it's rafting crescendo of riveting
one stands appalled, at the din yet thru
all the confusion of myriad tones may
hear the speech of Him who said, my
father worketh hitherto and | work. "
Industry and commerce are Gods mod
ern angles to carry His messages to
the ends of the earth. When they bear
Gods word only of cooperation, SER
vice and goodwill, all of which they do
bear today in some proportion. then will
be fulfilled the vision of the seers and
the promise of the Christ. Those who
strain their energies to increase these
tones in all the work a-day world are
comrades of this splendid Queen who
found God in the commerce of her own
day.
THE QUEST.
Great desire must have moved this
Queen to undertake so great journey.
One can girt the globe in less time that
she occupied in either boat or camel
carriage to get from her capital TO
Jerusalem. There was gain in the in
creased trade between Jew and Sabean,
there was probable alliance between
the two, there may have been the beck
oning of orange blossoms in her dream
but for woman of her type to spend
FIVE or six months away from her own
empire in the face of the feeling of the
East that forbids large movement on
the part of womankind and in the peril
of both trip and throne open to merand-
ing force demands a passion that swept
past all barriers. Her whole soul must
have been reused before undertaking
such an adventure. She is allied with
the woman's movement just brought to
successful conclusion in our granted
suffrage, with the w. C. T. U. whose
white ribbon has been pinned to the
flag, with Womans' Home and Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary societies
whose devotion 10 expressed on every
continent and with all who are seeking
to enthrone Christ at the heart of the
world. And it is the same hunger that
underlies the swift changes in the af-
fairs of all people today. The report
of Gods plan for each and all express
ed in varying phrase from radical and
conservative alike has set nations and
men in movements as different as the
League of Nations and Bolshevism.
Never has there been such need for
clear thinking and clean living and
close study of Gods Word.
THE CONQUEST.
1t was great day in Jerusalem when
that wonderful queen entered the Da-
thru the streets to the palace. The
best that the city offered was hers.
Under the roof of that spacious build
ing she found splendor unknown to
the simple life of democratic Arabia.
The table amazed her with its variety
and service. The throng of attendants
in their court liVeries seemed to have
no limit. The passage that led to the
Temple court and sentiment of all the
symbolic worship centered there stirred
ner own UeVOutneSS 10 new uepLnS.
Solomon must have been at his best and
allowed nothing to be lacking that might
impress this wrman with the fineness
of the Hebrew civilization. Son of
David the winsome and of Bathsheba
the politics the King himself topped
everything else and LETT her with no
more spirit save admiration that ex-
pressed itself in royal gifts and in the
gracious acceptance of Solomon's boun-
ty. Was her heart satisfied? There is
no word in the record that assures one
of it. May not her imperfect teaching
at the court of Solomon lie back of the
CARRIED faith of Mohammed born be-
meath the shadow of her descendants?
THE QUACKERY.
Half truths were all she received in
Jerusalem. Jehovah was local Deity
and not world God and there was no
bearing back earth for an altar such as
Naaman carried with him. She saw the
luxury of the court but not the op-
preston of forced labor, exacting tax.
alton, and the working out of the idea
that the people were the property of
the throne. All the glitter that could
be gathered was used to gather her
eyes but the unrest beneath it was
closed book. Solomon could make gold
as abundant as paving stones but some