Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 8 May 1891 — Page 3

HUMDRUM ABOLISHED. SERMON PREACHED BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. A Stirring Exhortation to Christians to Make Their Religion Lively, Based Upon the Visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon the Great King. The capacity of the New Brooklyn Tabernacle was fully tested by the vast audience which assembled to hear Dr. Talmage in his handsome and spacious church. His subject was “Humbrum Abolished,” and his text II Chronicles ix, 9: “Os spices great abundance; neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.” What is that building out yonder glittering in the sun? Have you not heard? It is the house of the forest of Lebanon. King Solomon has just taken to it his bride, the PrfnceSsof Egypt. You see the pillars of the portico, and a great tower, adorned with one thousand shields of gold, hung on the outside of the tower —five hundred of the shields of gold manufactured at Solomon’s order, five hundred were captured by David, his father, in battle. See how they blaze in the noonday sun! Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his throne between twelve lions of statuary, . and sits down at the back of the golden bull, the head of the bronze beast turned toward the people. The family and attendants of the king are so many that the caterers of the place have to provide every day one hundred sheep and thir-, teen oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping dud pawing of four thousand fine horses in royal stables. There were important officials who had charge of the work of gathering the straw and the barley for thesehorses. King Solombn was an early riser, tradition says, and used to take a rideout at daybreak; and when in his white apparel, behind the swiftest horses of ail the realm, and followed by mounted archers in purple, as the cavalcade dashed through the streets of Jerusalem I suppose it was something worth getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to look at. Solomon was not like some of the kings of the present day—crowned imbecility. All the splendor of his palace and retinue was eclipsed by his intellectual power. Why, he seemed tp know everthing. He was the first great naturalist the world ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted ' the basaltic walk, and apes chattered in the trees and deer stalked the parks, and there were aquariums with foreign fish and aviaries with foreign birds, and tradition says these birds were so well tamed that Solomon might walk clear across the city under the shadow of their wings as they hovered and flitted about him. More than this, he had a great reputation for the conundrums and riddles that he made and guessed. He and King Hiram, his neighbor, used to sit by the hour and ask riddles, each one paying in money if he could not answer or guess the riddle. The Solomonic navy visited all the world, and the sailors, of course, talked about the wealth of their king, and about flie riddles and enigmas that he made and solved, and the news spread until Queqn Balkis, away off south, heard of it, and sent messengers with a few riddles that; she would like to have Solomon sol.e, and a few puzzles which she would like to have him find out. She sent among other things to King Solomon, a diamond with a hole so small that a needle could not penetrate it, asking him to thread that diamond. And Solomon took a worm and put it at the opening in the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leaving the thread in the diamond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon, asking him to fill it with water that did not pour from the sky, and that did not rush out from the earth, and immediately Solomon put a slave on the back of a swift horse and galloped him around and around the park until the horse was nigh exhausted, and from the perspiration of the horse the goblet was filled. She also sent King Solomon five hundred boys in girls’ dress, and rive hundred girls in boys’ dress, wondering if he would be acute enough to find out the deception. Immediately Solomon, when he saw them wash their faces, knew from the way they applied the water that It was all a cheat. Queen Balkis was so pleased with the acuteness of Solomon that she said, “I’ll lust, go and see him for myself.” Yonder it comes—the cavalcade—horses and dromedaries, chariots and charioteers, jingling ‘harness and clattering hoofs, and blazing shields, and flying ensigns, and clapping cymbals. The place is Saturated with the perfume. She cinnamon and saffron and calamus and frankincense and all manner of sweet spices. As the retinue sweeps through the gate the armed guard inhale the aroma. “Halt!” cry the charioteers/ as the wheels grind the gravel in front of the pillared portico of the king. Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere bewitched with perfume. As the dromedaries are driven up to the king’s storehouses, and the bundles of camphor are unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon, and the boxes of spice are opened, the purveyors of the palace discover what my text announces, “Os spices, great abundance; neither was there any such spices as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.” Well, my friends, you know that all ° theologians agree in making Solomon a type of Christ, and making the Queen of Sheba a type of every truth seeker, and ,1 shall take the responsibility of saying that all the spikenard and cassia and frankincense which the Queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon are mightily suggestive of the sweet spices of qur holy religion. Christianity is not a collection 3f sharp technicalities and angular facts Mid chronological tables and dry statistics. Our religion is compared to frankincense and to cassia, but never to nightshade. It is a bundle of myrrh. It is a lash of holy light It is a sparkle of "00l fountains. It is an opening of apaline gates. It is a collection of spices. Would God that we were as wise in taking spices to our Divine King as Queen Balkis was wise in taking the spices to the earthly Solomon! What many of us most need is to have the humdrum driven out of our life and the humdrum out of our religion. The American and English and Scottish church will die as humdrum unless there be a change. I must confess that a great deal of the religion of this day is utterly insiped. There is nothing piquant or elevating abqpt it. Men and women go around humming psalms in a minor key, and culturing melancholy, and their worship has in it more sighs than rapture. We do not doubt their piety. Oh, no. But they are sitting at a feast wnere the cook has forgotten to season the food, Everything is flat in their experience and in their conversation. Emancipated from sin and death and hell, and on their way to a magnificent heaven, they act as though they were trudging on toward an everlasting Botany bay. Religion does not seem to agree with them. It seems to catch in the windpipe and become a tight strangulation instead of exhilaration. All the infidel books that have been written from Voltaire down to Herbert Speficer. have not done so much damageto our Christianity as lugubrious Christians. Who wants a religion woveruout of the shadows of the night? Why go growling on your way to celestial enthronement? Come out of that cave and

sit down in the warm light of the San of Righteousness. Away with your odes to melancholy and Hervey’s “Meditations' Among the Tombs.” Then let our songs abound. And every tear be dry; We’re inarching through Emmanuel’* ground To fairer worlds on high. I have to say, also, that we need to put more spice and enlivenment in our religious teaching, whether it be in the prayer meeting, or in the Sabbath school, or in the church. We ministers need more fresh air and sunshine in our lungs and our heart and our head. Bo you wonder that the world is so far from being converted when you find so little vivacity in the pulpit and in the pew? We want, like the Lord, to plant in our sermons and exhortations more lilies of the field. We want fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesquipedalion words; and When we talk about shadows, we do not want to say adumbration; and when we mean queerness, we do not want to talk about idiosyncracies; or if a stitch in the back;' we do not want tq,talk of lumbago, but in the plain vernacular preacn that gospel which proposes to make all men happy, honest, victorious and free. In other words, we want more cinnamon and less gristle. Let this be so in all the different departments of work to which the Lord calls us. Let us be plain. Let us be earnest. Let us be common sensical. When we talk to the people in a vernacular they can understand they will be very glad to come and receive the truth we present. Would to God that Queen Balkis would drive her spice laden dromedaries in all our sermons and prayer meeting exhortations. More than that, we want more life and spice in our Christian work. The poor do not want so much to be groaned over as sung to. With the bread and medicines aud the garments you give them, let there be an accompaniment of smiles and brisk encouragement. Do not stand and talk to them about the wretchedness of their abode, and the hunger of their looks, and the hardness of their lot. Ah! they know it better than you can tell th .t. Show them the bright side of the if there be any bright side. Tell them good times will come. Tell them that for the children of God there is immortal rescue. Wake them up out of their stolidity by an inspiring laughi and while you send in help, like the Queen of Sheba, also send in the spices. There are two ways of meeting the poor. One is to come into their house with a nose elevated in.disgust, as much as to say: “I don’t see how you live here in this neighborhood. It actually makes me sick. There is that bundle; take it you poor, miserable wretch,, and make the most of it. Another way is to go into the abode of the poor in a manner which seems to say: “The blessed Lord sent me. He was poor himself. It is not more for the good I am going to try to do you than it is for the good you can do me.” Coming in that spirit the gift will be as aromatic as the spikenard on the feet of Christ, and all the hovels in that alley will be fragrant with the spice. We need more spice and enlivenment in our ohurch music. Churches sit discussing whether they shall have choirs, or. precentors, or organs, or bass viols, or cornets. 1 say, take that which will lying out the most inspiring music. If we had half as much zeal and spirit in lour churches as we have in the songs of our Sabbath schools it would not be long before the whole earth would quake with the coming God. Why, in most churches nine-tenths of the people do not sing, or they sing so feebly that the people at their elbows do not know they are singing. People mouth and mumble the praises of God; but there is not more than one out of a hundred who makes “a joyful noise” unto the Rock of Our Salvation. Sometimes when the congregation forgets itself, and is all absorbed in the goodness of God or the glories of Heaven, I get an intimation of what church music will be a hundred years from now, when the coming generation shall wake up to its duty. I promise a high spiritual blessing to any one who will sing in church, and who will sing so heartily that the people all around cannot help but sing. Wake up! all the churches from Bangor to San Francisco and across Christendom. It is not a matter of preference, it is a matter of religious duty. Oh, for fifty times more volume of sound. German chorals in German cathedrals surpass us, and yet Germany has received nothing at the hands of God compared with America; and ought the acclaim in Berlin be louder than that in Brooklyn? Soft, long drawn out music is appropriate for the drawing room and appropriate for, the concert, but St. John gives an idea of the sonorous and resonant congregational singing appropriate for churches when, in listening to the temple service of Heaven, he p says: “I heard a great noise, as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings. Hallelujah, forthe Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” Join with me in a crusade, giving me not only your hearts but the mighty uplifting of your voices, and I believe we can, through Christ’s grace, sing fifty thousand souls into the kingdom of Christ. An argument they can laugh at, a sermon they may talk down, but a vast audience joining in one anthe’m is irresistible. Would that Queen Balkis would drive all her spice ladden dromedaries into our church music. “Neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.” Now, I want to impress this audience with the fact that religion is sweetness and perfume and spikenard and saffron and cinnamon and cassia and frankincense, and all sweet spices together. “Oh,” you say, “I have not looked at it as such. I thought it was a nuisance; it had for me a repulsion; I held my breath as though it were malodor; 1 have been appealed at its advance; I have said, if I have any religion at all, I want to have just as little of it as is possible to get through with.” Oh, what a mistake you have made, my brother. The religion of Christ is a present and everlasting redolence. It counteracts all trouble. Just put it on the stand beside the pillow of sickness. It catches in the curtains and perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens the cup b( bitter medicine, and throws a glow oi| the gloom of the turned lattice. It is a palm for the aching side, and a soft bandage for the temple stung with pain. It lifted Samuel Rutherford into a revelry of spiritual delight while he was in physical agonies. It helped Richard Baxter until, in the midst of such a complication of diseases as perhaps no other man ever suffered, he wrote “The Saint’s Everlasting Rest.” And it poured light upon John Bunyan’s dungeon—the light of the shining gate of the shining city. And it is good for rheumatism, and for neuralgia, and for low spirits, and for consumption; it is the catholicon for all disorders. Yes, it will heal all your sorrows. Why did you look so sad to-day when you came in? Alas! for the loneliness and the heartbreak, and the load that is never lifted from your soul. Some of you go about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote, “If I had another month of such days as I have been spending, I would be impatient to get down into my little narrow crib in the ground like a weary factory child.” And there have been times in your life when you wished you could gpt out of this life. You have said, “Oh, how sweet to my lips would be the dust of the valley,” and wished you could pull over you in your last

slumber the coverlet of green grass and daisies. You have said: “Oh, how ' beautifully quiet It must be in the tomb. I wish I was there.” I see all around about me widowhood and orphanage and childlessness; sadness, disappointment, perplexity. If I could ask all those to rise iq this audience who have felt no sorrow and been buffeted by no disappointment—if I could ask all such to rise, how many would rise? Not one. A widowed mother, with her little child went West, hoping to get better wages there, ‘ and she was taken sick and died. The overseer of the poor got her body and put it in a box, and put it in a wagon, and started down the street toward the cemetery*at full trot The little child —the only child—ran after it through the streets, bare headed, crying. “Bring me back my mother! bring me back my mother!” And it was said that as the people looked on and saw her citing after that which lay in the box in the wagon—all she loved on earth—it is said the whole village was in tears. And that is what a great many of you aro doing—chasing the dead. Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all this sorrow that I see about me? Yes, the thought of resurrection and reunion far beyond this scene of struggle and tears. “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun lig)it on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” Across the couches of your sick and across the graves of your dead I- fling this shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis, driving up to the pillared portico of the house of cedar, carried no such pungency of perfume as exhales to-day from the Lord’s garden. It is sweetness. It is comfort. It is infinite satisfaction, this Gospel I commend to you. Some one could not understand why an old German Christian scholar used to be always so calm and happy and hopeful when he had so many trials and sicknesses and ailments. A man secreted himself in the house. He said, “I mean to watch this old scholar and Christian,” and he saw the old Christian man go to his room and sit down on the chair beside the stand and open the Bible and begin to read. He read on and on, chapter after chapter, hour after hour, until his face was all aglow with the tidings from Heaven, and when the clock struck twelve? he arose and shut his Bible, and said: “Blessed Lord, we are on the same old terms yet Good night. Good niglitr” Oh, you sin parched and you trouble pounded, here is comfort, here is satisfaction. Will you come and get it? I cannot tell you what the Lord offers you hereafter so well as I can tell you now. “It doth not yet appear what we shall be.” Have you read of the Taj Mahal in India, in some respects the most, majestic building on earth? Twenty thousand men were twenty years in building it. It cost about sixteen millions of dollars. The walls are of marble, inlaid with carnelian from Bagdad, and turquoise from Thibet, and jasper from the Punjaub, and amethyst from Persia, and all manner of precious stones. A traveler says that it seems to him like the shining of an enchanted castle of burnished silver. The walls are two hundred and forty-five feet high, and from the top of these springs a dome thirty more feet high, and that dome containing the most wonderful echo the world has ever known, so that ever and anon travelers standing below with flutes and drums and harps are testing that echo, and the sounds from below strike up, and then come down, as it were, the voices of angels all around about the building. There is around it a garden of tamarind and banyan and palm and all the floral glories of the ransacked earth. But that is only a tomb of a dead empress, and it is tame compared with the grandeurs which God has builded for your living and immortal spirit Oh, home of the blessed! Foundations of gold! Arches of victory! Capstones of praise! And a dome in which there are echoing and reechoing the hallelujahs of the ages. And around about that mansion is a garden—the garden of God—and all the springing fountains are the. bottled tears of the church in the wilderness, and all the crimson [of flowers is the deep hue that was caught up from the carnage of earthly martyrdoms, and the fragrance is the prayer of all the saints, and the aroma puts into utter forgetfulness the cassia, and the spikenard, and the frankincense, and the world renowned spices which the Queen Balkis, of Abyssinia, flung at the feet of King Solomon. W hen shall these eyes thy heaven built walls And pearly, gates behold. Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong, And streets of shining gold? Through obduracy on our part, and through the rejection of that Christ who makes Heaven possible, I wonder if any of us will miss that spectacle? I fear! I fear! The queen of the south will rise . up in judgment against this generation and condemn it, because she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is here! May God grant that through your own practical experience you may find that religion’s ways are ways of pleasantness, and that all her paths are paths of peace—that it is perfume now and perfume forever. And there was an abundance of spice; “neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to King An Irish Gentlewoman in the Famine Times Miss Kate bought her Indian meal and established a store in her kitchen, which meal was sold under the market price. As long as the people could buy, they purchased. Miss C and her sister knew the circumstances of every family on the testate; when a farmer who still had something left approached, and, in Irish phrase, “made a poor mouth,” Miss Kate stopped him briskly: “There’s the dun cow’s calf, Higgins; we’ll give you tjie worth of that in meat You know every penny we get will go for more meal.” Soon they were obliged to guard the door of the impromptu shop. Policemen stood outside to keep back the horde of frenzied, dying creatures, lest they should rpsh in and fall upon the whole stock or provisions. “Never was Ireland more bloody, more riotous, than now,” wrote Miss C . They had no fear of their own people’s violence, —they could be made to understand that the supplies must be husbanded, —but out of caves and bogs squalid, emaciated shades crawled to the merciful ladies who were feeding the poor. When they sat down to the niggardly meal,Zas plain now and (hardly more plentiful than the portion they served to the starving, they had to have the shutters drawn in order not to see the ranks of wolfish eyes glaring in at the table. — Century. The Editor’s Explanation. •We are late this week, dear brother,” writes a Georgia editor. “On Monday last we hired a horse and buggy for $3 1 and started out on a collection tour. Afterjtraveling four days, the horse died with the blind staggers, and we had to foot it seven miles, having collected seventy cents during our trip. We are not complaining, however, as this sort of thing is not new to us. We have been in the newpaper bnisness seven yean.*

A Wonderful Printing- Proas. A Georgia hand-press that really saw George Washington will be exhibited at the great World’s Fair. It is at present in the office of the Lee County News, and is in a remarkable state of preservation. Curious heiroglyphics are carved upon its iron frame. Among them “G. W. His x mark,” can he plainly seen. There; is not an older or more curiously constructed hand-press in the country. It was used as a battering nftn during the Revolutionary War; put together afterward and made to do service as a cotton-gin; later on it was a corn-sheller, and* still later it served its time as a cane-grinding machine. It has a personal acquaintance with every editor in the State, and with many generations of them gone be* fore. — Atlanta Constitution. O! the Misery of It. Human wretchedness touches bottom in sea sickness. Life is held a feather’s weight by the unfortunate afflicted with it. 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FOR FIFTY YEARS. Swift Specific S. S. S. has a record enjoyed J?y no other medicine. Considered Wonderful. g s Over Mr ’ Henry V. Smith, of Belmont, West IS Virginia, says: “He considers his cure PTTR.TIT.V tllty years of Scrofula by S. S. S., one of the most VEGEif hppn wonderful on record. He had the disease TART-E, it iidb uccu of the worst type all his life until he was AND curing ah 22 v ears ol age. and his whole youth was IS HABM. ■ e, . , embittered by it. Os course he had all LESS sorts 01 Diooa sorts of treatment, but nothing benefited TO THE trouble from him P ermanenl, y unti| *ook s. s. s. most which cleansed the poison from his sys- DELICATE an ordinary tem, and cured him sound and well.” CHILD. pimple to the worst types of scrofula and blood poison. Books on Blood and Skin Biaeasee Free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ca. r «xrenot‘f , he^ a ' in NHesE “ e burdens ca-n lessen FES Bu RDEN A P 0 LJ d cake of’scouring * ec * f° r i P urpos es •• • What would you give for a Friend who would take half your hard work off your shoulders and do it ivithout a murmur ? What would you give to find an assistant in your housework that would keep your floors and walls clean, and your kitchen bright, and yet never grow ugly pver the matter of hard work ? Sapolio is Just such a friend and can be bought at all grocers. BV* DOWN WITH HIGH PRICES. WHY not buy from the Largest Factory of Ths WNMOERFUL world, and oAYt Dealers’ profits. REFRIGERATIRS S> Over 1,000 Articles > HrrTlES^^^^^?° ld direct to consumers, thereby V- Onr New Brake WBSiJWirICTWIi ou all Coaches, \. «■* me cueits. tricycles. * rri6C aM> CMHINMIBII ~ ■ THE Jit ’Sv WONDERFUL XWWno IWlli LUBUR6 CHAlßX><’'’« WO IWi Combines a room-full F'teF of Chairs in one, besides making a Lounge, Bed, orConcn^ CHAIRS. Invalid appliances of every LIBRARY DESKI. Fancy Chairs, Rockers, Ac. IS* Write at once for Catalogue. Send stamps and mention poode wanted. THS LUBURC MANUFACTURING CO. PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Dept. A, 101 No. 381. 383, 326 North Bth Street. ■■■ TDISO’B KEMEDI l-'OK CATAKlUl.—best. Easiest to use. HI y cheapest. Belief is immediate. A cure Is certain. For K » Cold in the Head it has no equal. It is an Ointment, of whioh a small particle is applied to the ■ noatrila. Price, 60c. Sold by druggists or sent by mail. 1 Address, E. T. Hazkltink, Warren, Pa. , MB Chicheßtsr‘3 English, Rfd Onoss Bmnd A MB TEHHYROYMi * PurtiS JwaSiWL THSOhIOINALANO OXNUINt. Tte only Bast, Bare, ud rdtetu Pill tor uH. CHiCHtsTtn

s■ « : Talk’s cheap, but wheh it’s backed up by a pledge of the hard cash of a financially responsible firm, or company, of world-wide reputation for fair and honorable dealing, it means business f Now, there are scores of sarsaparillas end other bloodpurifiers, all cracked up to be the Jjest, purest, most peculiar and* wonderful, but bear in mind (for your own sake), there’s only one guaranteed blood-purifier and remedy for torpid liver and all diseases that come from bad blood. That one —standing solitary and alone—sold on trial* is Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. If it don’t do good in skin, scalp and scrofulous diseases —and pulmonary consumption is only lung-scrofula—just let its makers know and get your money back. Talk’s cheap, but to back a poor medicine, or a common one, by selling it on trial* as “ Golden Medical Discovery ” is sold, would bankrupt the largest fortune. Talk’s cheap, but only “Discovery ” is guaranteed. “German Syrup” ForThroat and Lungs “ I have been ill for Hemorrhage “about five years, “have had the best Five Years, “medical advice, “and I took the first “ dose in some doubt. This resulted in a few hours easy sleep. There * * was no further hemorrhage till next “day, when I had a slight attack “ which stopped almost immediately. By the third day all trace of “ blood had disappeared and I had “recovered much strength. The “fourth day I sat up in bed and ate “my dinner, the first solid food for “two months. Since that time I “have gradually gotten better and “ am now able to move about the “house. My death was daily ex“pected and my recovery has been “ a gffeat surprise to my friends and “ the doctor. There can be no doubt . “about the effect of German Syrup, “ as I had an attack just previous to “ its use. The only relief was after “ the first dose.” J.R. Loughhead, Adelaide, Australia. • ©

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