Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 3 March 1892 — Page 7

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For There's No Other Way of Getting: It— ...Don't Wait for Something to Turn •I": Up—Dr. Talmage's Sermon.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn Sunday. Text—I Kings x: 7. He said:

Solomon station a throne of ivory. At the seating place of the throne, on each end of the steps, a brazen lion. Why, my friends, in that place they trimmed their candles with snuffers of gold, they cut ^heir fruits with knives of gold, and they washed their faces in basins of £old and they scooped out the ashes \nth shovels of gold, and they stir'7 red the altar fires with tongs of gold.

Gold reflected in the water! Gold Cashing from the apparel! Gold blazing in the crown! Gold! gold! gold!

Of course the news of the affluence of that place went out everwhere by every caravan and by wing of every ship, until soon the streets of Jerusalem are crowded with curiosity seekers. What is that long proses'4t? sion approaching Jerusalem? I think from the pomp of it there must be royalty in the train. I smell the -V' breath of the spices which are brought as presents, and I hear the shout of the drivers, and I see the dust-covered caravan showing that I1' they come 'rom far away.

Cry the news up to the palace. The Queen of Sheba advances. Let all the people come out to see. Let |?'s the mighty men of the landc:.me out fe on the palace corridors. Let Solomon come down the stairs of the palace before the Queen has flighted.

Shake ont the cinnamon, and the saiTron, and the calamus, and the frankincense, and pass it into the casure house. Take up the diamonds until they glitter in the sun. ||ft The Queen of Sheba alights. She enters the palace. She washes at the bath. She sits down at the ban-

quet. The cup bearers bow. The meat smokes. You hear the dash of the waters from the molten sea. Then she rises from the banquet and walks through the conservatories.

and gazes on the architecture, and she asks Solomon many strange questions, and she learns about the religion of the Hebrews, and she then and there becomes a servant of the Lord God.

She is overwhelmed* She begins to think that all the spices she brought and all the precious woods which are intended to be turned into harps and psalteries and into railings for the causeway between the temple -A and the palace, and the $180,000 in money—she began to think that all these presents amount to nothing in such a p!ace, and she is aln^t ashamed that she has brought them. and she says within herself: "I great deal about this wonderfttl religion of the Hebrews, but I find it far beyond my highest anticipations. I must add more than 50 pel cent, to what has been related.

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It exceeds everything that I could have expected. The half—the half was not told me."

Learn from this subject what a beautiful thing it is when social position and wealth surrender themselvs to God. When religion comes to a neighborhood, the first to receive it arc the women. I say it is because they have quicker perception of what is right more ardent affe.'tion und capacity for sublimer emotion. After the women have received the Gospel then all the distressed and the poor of both sexes, those who have no friends accept Jesus last ol all, come the people of affluence and high social position. Alas, that it is so?

If there are those here to-day who have been favored of fortune, or, as I might better put it, favored of God, surrender all you have and all you expect to be to the Lord who blessed this Queen of Sheba. Certainly you are not ashamed to be found in this Queen's company. I am glad that Christ has had his imperial friends In all ares—Elizabeth Christina, Queen of Prussia Maria Feodcrovna, Queen of Russia Marie, Empress of France Helena, the imperial mother, of Constantino Arcadia, from her great fortunes building public baths in Constantinople and toiling for the alleviation of the masses Queen Clotilda, leading her husband and 2,000 of his armed warriors to Christian baptism Elizabeth of Burgundy, giving her jeweled glove to a beggar, and scattering great fortunes among the distressed Prince Albert singing "Rock of Ages" in Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria, incognita, reading the Scriptures to a dying pauper.

I* bless God that the day is coming when royalty will bring all its thrones and music all its harmonies, and painting all its pictures, and sculpture, all its statuary, and architecture all its pillars, and conquest all its scepters, and the Queens of the cartli, in long line of advance, frank incense filling the air and the camels iaden with gold, ohall be hoisted aud the great burden of splendor N& shall be lilted into the palace of this

greater tb&c Solomon.

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Again, my subject teaches me what is earnestness in the searth of truth. Do you kro' where Sheba was? It was in Abe sain ia, or some say in the southern pi? of Arabia Felix. In eithei case it was a great way off I from Jerusalem. To get from there to Jerusalem she had to cross a ^%Tjtry infested V'bh bandits, and

ross b' storing deserts. Why ti -t the Q"..en of Sf.eba stay at

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quire about this new religion, and have the delegates report in regard to that religion and wealth of King Solomon She wanted to see for herself, and hear for herself. She could not do this by work of committeeShe felt she had a soul worth ten thousand kingdoms like Sheba, and she wanted a robe richer than any woven by Oriental shuttles, and she wanted a crown set with the jewels of eternity. Bring out the camels. Put on the spices. Gather up the jewels of the throne and put them on the caravan. Start now no time to be lost. Goad on the camels. When I see that caravan, dust covered, weary and exhausted, trudging on across the desert and among the bandits until it reaches Jerusalem, I say: "There is an earnest seeker after the truth."

But tlie. area great many of you, my friends, who do not act in that way. You all want to get the truth, but you want the truth to come to you you do not want to go to it. There are people who fold their arms and say, "I am ready to become a Christian at any time if I am to be saved I shall be saved, and if I am lost I shall be lost." Ah! Jerusalem will never come to you you must go to Jerusalem. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ will not come to you you must go and get religion. Bring out the camels put on all the sweet spices, all the treasures of the heart's affection. Start for the throne- Go in and hear the waters of salvation dashing in fountains all around about the throne. Sit down at the banquet—the wine pressed from the grapes of the heavenly Eschol, the angels of God the cupbearers. Goad on the camels! Jerusalem will never come to you: you must go to Jerusalem. The Bible declares it: "The Queen of the South" —that is this very woman I am speaking of—ilthe Queen of the South shall rise up in judgment against this generation and condemn it, for she came f.orn the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solo non and behold! a greater than Solomon is here." God help me to break up the infatuation of those people who are sitting down in idleness expecting to be saved. "Strive to enter in at the straight gate. Ask, and it shall bo given you seek, and ye shall find knock, and it shall be opened to you." Take the Kingdom of Heaven by violence. Urge on the camelsl

Again, my suoject impresses me with the fact that religion is a surprise to any one that gets it. This story of the new religion in Jerusalem and of the glory of King Solomon, who was a type of Christ, that story rolls on and on and is told by every traveler coming back from Jerusalem. The news goes on the wing of every ship and with every caravan, and you know a story enlarges as it is retold, and by the time that story gets down into the southern part of Arabia Felix and the Queen of Sheba hears it, it must be a tremendous story. And yet this queen declares in regard to it, although she has heard so much, and had her anticipations raised so high, the half—the half was not told her.

So religion is always a surprise to an}' one who gets it. The story of grace an old story. Apostles preached it with rattle of chain: martyrs declared it with an arm of fire: deathbeds have affirmed it with visns of glory, and ministers of religion have sounded it through the lanes and the highways, and the chapels and the cathedrals. It has been cut into stone with chisel, and spread on the canvas with pencil and it has been recited in the doxology of great congregations. And yet when a man first comes to look on the palace of God's mercy, and to see the royalty of Christ, and the wealth of the banquet, and the luxuriance of His attendants, and the loveliness of His face, and the joy of his service, he exclaims with prayers, with tears, with sighs, with triumphs: "The half—the half was not told me!"

I appeal to those in this house who are Christians. Compare the idea you had of the joy of the Christian life before you became a Christian with the appreciation of that joy you have now, since you have become Christian, and you are willing to attest before angels and men that you never in the days of your spiritual bondage had any appreciation oi what was to come. You are ready to-day to answer, and if I gave you an opportunity in the midst of this assemblage, you would speak out and say in regard to the discoveries yen have made of the mercy, and the grace, and the goedness of God: "The half—the hall was not told me!"

Well, we hear a great deal about the good time that is coming in this world, when it is to be girded with salvation. Holiness on the bells of the horses. The lion's mane patted by the hand of a babe. Ships of Tarshish bringing cargoes for Jesus, and the hard, dry, barren, winterbleached, storm-scarred, thundersplit rocks breaking into floods of bright water. Deserts into which drome daries thrust their nostrils, because they were afraid of the simoon—deserts blooming into carnation roses and silver-tipped lillies.

It is the old story. Every body tells it. Isaiah told it, John told it, Paul told it, Calvin told it, John Milton told it every body tells it: aud yet—and yet when the midnight shall fly the hilis, and Christ shall marshal His great army, and China, dashing her idols into the dust, shall hear the voice of God and wheel into line and India, destroying her Juggernaut and snatching up her little children from the Ganges, shall hear the voice of God and wheel into line and vinecovered Italy and all the nations of the earth shall hear the voice of God and fall into line then the Church,

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which has been toilin and struggling through tie eeiuu.'ies, ro'jed ana garlanded like a bride adorned for her husband, shall put aside her veil and look up into the face of her Lord aud King and say: "The half—the half was not told me."

Well, there is coming a greater surprise to every Christian—a greater surprise than any thing I have depicted. Heaven is an old story. Every body talks about it. There is rarely a hymn in the hymn-book that does not refer to it. Children read about it in their Sabbath-schoo! book. Aged men put on their spectacles to study it-. We say it is a harbor from the stoi'ui.

We call it our home. We say it is the house of many mansions. We weave together all sweet, beautiful, delicate exhilarant words we w^ave them into letters and then we s/oli it out in rose and lily and amar.-i) th. And yet that place is going to be a surprise to the most intelligent Christian. Like the Queen of Shtba, the report has some to us from the far country, and many of us have started. It is a desert march, but we urge on the camels. What though our feet be blistered with the way? We are hastening to the palace. We take all our loves, and hopes, and Christian ambitions, as frank incense and myrrh and cassia to the great King. We must not rest. We must not halt. The night is coming on, and it is not safe out here i.i the desei t. Urge on the camels, 1 see the domes against the sky, and the houses of Lebanon, and the temples aud the gardens. See the fountains dance in the sun, and the gates flash as they open to let in the poor pilgrims.

Send the word up to the palace that we are corning, and lhat we are weary of the march of the desert. The King will come out and say: "Welcome to the palace bathe in these waters recline on these banks. Take this cinnamon and frankincense and myrrh, and put it upon a cesser and swing it before the altar.' And yet, my friends, when heaven bursts upon us it will be a greater surprise than that—Jesus on the throne, and we made like him! All our Christian friends surrounding us in glory! All our sorrows and tears and sins gone by forever! The thousands of thousands, the one hundred and forty and four thousand, the great multitudes that no man can number, will cry, world without end: "The half—the half was not told us!"

Churning in the Winter.

Temperature is the most important element in dairy work, but unfortunately it is almost wholly ignored. A thermometer is rarely seen in an ordinary dairy, and as far as the temperature is concerned everything goes by guess-work. It is quite obvious that if a small change in temperature is injurious, the winter season calls for more than usual attention in this respect. One degree of temperature makes all the difference between water and ice, and changes a fluid into a solid substance. If so, how important a matter it must be in the management of milk and cream and the making of butter. It is in the winter that most of the trouble in butter making is met with, and these troubles may :ill be referred to injurious cnanges in the temperature. With good, clean milk, from healthy cows to start with, one may secure the best quality of butter every time in the same time, if the proper attention is given to the temperature—always providing of course, that the milk and cream are kept in pure air and are not subjected to injurious influences which might spoil the flavor of the butter. The normal temperature for setting- milk in open shallow pans or the earthen pots that are sometimes used, is 60 to 62 °. At this temperature the cream will all rise in 36 hours and thf» milk will remain sweet if the iir is pure. At the same temperature the cream will become ripe for the churn, that is, it will acquire the exact degree of sourness needed for the best churning in 36 hours if the three skimmings lire put in one jar and are gently stirred when the fresh cream is added. This will give 12 hours fortlv: cream to remain after the last skimming is added. It is then just rig'n' for making the very best quality ana the largest quantity of .butter.

Advertising Always Pays. The other day a neatly res so71 •espectable-looking man apv the streets of Philadelphia with pasteboard placard on his hat. on which were the words: "I have tried •very means to get work. Will some body please give me a situation?' Pretty soon a kind-hearted Quake: gentleman noticed him and got hin situation.

A Mean Steal.

Mew York Weekly.

Neighbor—"My! My! So the story is true, and your hu-band has really eloped with the servant girl?"

Deserted wife (weeping)—"Yes and she was the best girl 1 ever hrd too—a perfectly lovely cook, ands juiet and respectful. Dear know where I'll be able to get another."

Muzzling Oysters.

Boston Commercial Bulletin.

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