Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-16

talklng about ner beloved, so DEAD IN
love with him is she. II sat down I'M
etc. stay me with such t1agons, for
l am love sick" And turning to the
court ladies who had tried to make
her fall in love with Solomon, she
tiers of Jerusalem, by the roses and
the binds of the field that you stir
not up nor awake love till he
please"
Act 2. Scene 1. och. 2:S-17). Rem
| iniscences Left to herself for a few
voice of her beloved And then there
courses through her mind the last
visit he made and the events Of 1t.
| She remembers what he said to her
and even the little snatch of a pop
ular song of the day that he sang
Take us the foxes, etc."-and with
| sigh that expressed her supreme JOY
in the mutual ownership she says,
MY beloved is mine and am his;
| he feedeth among the lilies. Until
away, turn, my beloved, and be like
a young roe upon the mountains of
| Betha." Scene 2. och. 3:1-5). She
falls asleep-and dreams about her
shepherd lover; and when she awakes
and finds it all a dream, she turns
to the court ladies', who are among
her, marveling at her beauty, and says
again, Il charge you, O we daughters
of Jerusalem, that ye do not try TO
make anybody fall in love until it
sacred a thing to be awakened AT
will.
Scene (Ch. 8; SLID: The scene
has changed and King Solomon is
returning to Jerusalem in royal
full shulamite girl will finally yiela
to his ,entreaties that he is actual
ly coming in a marriage procession.
AS the procession approaches one
e efsen ana ds speaR anohs wbo strains his
that cometh, etc?" Behold his bed,
it's Solomon's;" "They ali hold
swords" etc, etc, until the process
sion is out of sight.
Act 3, Scene l, och. 4: 10: They
are now in the palace in Jerusalem.
solomon courts the Shulamite girl
the second time, calling attention to
her beauty, as if that would win her
but she Interrupts and refuses him
again, saying, Until the day breaks
me to the mountains of myrrh and
to the hill of frankincense"-for
that was where her beloved was and
her thoughts.
self and her thoughts she reverts
again to an interview with her be-
loved. She recalls the very words he
said and signs that they might be
realized. Awake, o North wind, and
come thou South; blow upon my gar
den.. Let my beloved come into this
garden and eat his pleasant fruit"
Scene 8, och. 5: 2-6: 81: She drops
asleep again and dreams of her be-
loved. She dreams that she escapes
men of the c1ty-and walked again to
find 1t a dream, with the court ladies
apout her again, and again she
charges them not to make her love
solomon. She must have been talk
ing ag;ui in her sleep about him for the
court ladies have had their curiosity
aroused, What, is thy beloved more
than any other beloved?" they ask.
And that sets her tongue awagging.
aI rne fhRiefesf o among. ten thousan9,
keen,,,eyed, magnificent physique.
etc. she raves over him. Oh, how
aead In love is she with that Shop
nerd boy. My" they say, I'VE would
My beloved has gone down to the
garden of spices. l am my beloved's
and he is mine.
Act 4, Scene 1. och. 6: 4-7-1O):
Solomon woos her the third time, and
seen at Mahanaian and kidnapped. He
tlatters her until she can stand ~
no longer, for shc has no thoughts
Of Of any any but her shepherd lover.
finally Solomon says, ''the smell of
Of thy mouth like the best wine"-
For my beloved" she stamps her
foot and says. Il am my beioved's
AND of MS desire is toward me-
she she says this in bursts her shepherd
lover. He has been a regular Pink
crton detective and traced her all
the way to the palace, and now
Ipursts in the room and folds her in
retires.
Scene 3, och. 81: Gives us a
description of the marriage and the
PRIDE pride's prayer; their return to their
r,ortnern NJ G 4hn home and the re,
the curtain falls as the loving cou-
pie make haste to the home Of tn,
snepherd lovers on the mountain
Of spices.
This story when has no mention
or God in the whole of it, yet was
inspired by God to set the seal of
MS approval upon the pure love Of
one man and one woman. And it was
greatly needed to offset the poIyga-
NOUS influences of Solomon's many
alliances. ''
There's a wonderful lesson in it
was so much in love with her shep-
nerd lover that no temptation with
the big King Solomon couls attract
her from him for one moment, And
Wnen these temptations came she al
ways resisted them by saying, Il am
my beloved's and he is mine" The
devil can be driven away from YOU
TOO, If you will just say to him II
tneIong to Jesus Christ and He be
And then she loved him so that
she talked about him on all OCCASIONS,
she dreamed of him by day and by
night so much so that she made the
court ladies want to know him, too
Are you as dead in love with Jesus
Christ as chat? All, that He may
pc to you the chiefest among ten
thousands and altOrathe 1nualE