Pike County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 May 1891 — Page 4

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‘HUMDRUM ABOLISHED." Sermon Delivered by Rev. Ti DeWitt Talmage in Brooklyn. The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to Klt| Solomon Typical or the Christian's Search After the Troth—The Half was Not Told. The following sermon was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage in the new Brooklyn tabernacle on the subject of “Humdrum Abolished,” the text being: or spices moat abundance; neither was there any sncii spice as the queen of Sheba gave King Salomon.—Chronicles il.,91 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 princess of 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 ortlbr, live hundred were captured by David, his father, in battle. See how they blase in the noonday sun. * Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his throne, between twelve lions in statuary, and sits down on the back of the golden hull, 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 palace have to .provide every day one hundred sheep and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and the venison. I hear the stamping and the pawing of four thousand fine horses in the royal stables. There were important officials who had charge of the work of gathering the straw and the barley for these horses. King Solomon was an early riser, tradition says, and used to take a ride out at daybreak; and when, in his white apparel, behind the swiftest horses of all the realm, and followed by mounted archers in purple, as the cavalcade dashed through the streets of-Jerusa-lem, I suppose it was something worth getting up at five 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 were eclipsed by his intellectual power. Why, he seemed to know everything. He was the first great naturalist the world ever saw. Peaeocks 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 Soloitfon might walk clear across the city under the shadow of their wings as they hovered and flitted abont him. More than this, he had a great reputation for the conundrums and riddles that he made guessed. He and King Hiram, his neighbor, used to sit by the ^^^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 abont the wealth of their king, and ribout the riddles and enigm:# that he made and solved: and the news spread until Queen lialkis. away off south, heard of it, and sent messentwith a few riddles that she would to have Solomon solve, 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 of the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leaving the thread in the diamond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon, asking Kim 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 girl’s dresses, wondering if he would be acute enough to find, out the deception. Immediately Solomon, when he saw them wash their faces, knew from the vfay they applied the water that it was all a cheat.

Queen llalkis was so pleased with the acuteness of Solomon that she said: “I’ll just go and see for myself.” Yonier it comes—the cavalcade—horses and ilromedaries, 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 brings nnnamon, and saffron, and calamus, and frankincense, and all manner of sweet spices. As the retinue sweeps iirough the gate, the armed guards inaale the aroma. “Halt!” cried the iharoteers, as the wheels grind the 'ravel in front of the pillared portico )t the king. Queen llalkis alights in an atmosphere bewitched with perfume. Vs the dromedaries are driven lap to the king’s storehouses, and the bundles of •amphor are unloaded, and the boxes of spices are opened, the purveyors of :lfc palace discover whsat my text anaounces: “Of spices, .great abundance; neither was there any such Spices as the jueen of Sheba gave- to King Solomon.” Well, my'friends, you know - that all hcologians agree in making Solomon a ;ype of Christ, and making the Queen >f Sheba a type of every truth-seeker; tnd I shall take the responsibility of laying that all the spikenard, and caslia, and frankincense which the Queen >f Sheba brought to King Solomon are nightily suggestive of the sweet spices >f our holy religion. Christianity is not i collection of sharp technicalities, and ingular fact,s, and chronological tables, ind dry statistics,, Our religion is com>ared to frankincense and to cassia, but lever to' night-shade. It is a bundle of nyrrh. It is a dash of holy light. If* s a sparkle of cool fountains. It is a ollection of spices. Would God that ve were as wise in taking spices to onr Jivine King as Queen llalkis was wise n taking the spices to the earthly Solouon! What many of us most need is to lave the humdrum driven out of our life, ind the humdrum out of our religion. l’he American, and English, and Scotish church will die of humdrum unless here be a change. An editor from San •’rancisco, a few weeks ago, wrote me aying he was getting up for his paper i symposium from many clergymen dismissing, among other things, “Why do lot people go to church?” and he vanted my opinion, and I gave it in me sentence: “People do not go to ihureh because they eanSiot stand the tumdruin.” The fact, is that most peoile have so much humdrum in their r jrldly calling that they do not want o have added the humdrum of religion. Ve need in all our sermons and. exhorations and songs and prayers more of vliat Queen llalkis brought to Solomon, tamely, more spice. The fact is that the duties and cares f this life,' coming to ns from time to itute, are stupid often, and inane, and itolerable. Here are men who have cen bartering, and negotiating, climbtg. poundipg, hammering for twenty ears, forty years, fifty years. One rent long drudgery has their life been, heir face anxious, their feelings beam bed, their days monotonous. What necessary to brighten up that man’s fe, and to sweeten that acid disposito put sparkle into the man’s

life there dashed a gleam of an eternal gain! if between the betrayals of life there came the gleam of the undying friendship of (Thrist; if in dull times in business we found ministering spirits flying to and fro in our office, and store, and shop, every-day life, instead of being a stupid monotone, would be a glorious inspiration, penduluming between calm satisfaction and bigh rapture. How any woman keeps house without the religion of Christ to help her is a mystery to me. To have to spend the greater part of one’s life, as many women do, in planning for the meals, in stitching garments that will soon be rent again, and deploring breakages, and surpervising tardy subordinates, and driving off dust that soon again -will settle, and doing the same thing day in and day out, and year in and year out, until their hair Bflvers, and the back stoops, and the spectacles crawl to the eyes, and the grave breaks open under the thin sole of the shoe—oh, it is a long monotony! Hut when Christ comes to the drawing-room, and comes to the kitchen, and comes to the nursery, and comes to the dwelling, •then how cheery become all womanly duties. She is never alone now. Martha gets through fretting and joins Mary at the feet of Jesus. All day long Deborah is happy because she can help Lapidoth; Hannah, because shecan make a coat for young Samuel; Miriam, because she can watch her infant brother; Rachael, because she can help her father water the stock; the widow of Sarepta, because the cruse of oil is being replenished. 0 woman, having in your pantry a nest of boxes containing all kinds of condiments, why have you not tried in your heart and life the spicery of our holy religion? “Martha! Martha! thou art careful and troubled about many things; but one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her.” I must confess that a great deal of the religion of this day is utterly insipid. There is nothing piquant or elevating about it. Men and women go around humming psalms in a minor key, and culturing melancholy, and their worship has in it more sig*hs than rapture. We do not doubt their piety. Oh, no. But they are sitting at a feast where the cook has forgotten to season the food, Everything is flat in their experience and in their ponversation. 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 an exhilaration. All the infidel books that have been written, from Voltaire down to Herbert Spencer, have not done so much damage to our Christianity as lugubrious Christians. Who wants a religion woven out 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 Sim of Righteousness. Away with your odes to melancholy anil Hervey's “Meditations-Among the Tombs. ” Then let our songs abound, And every tear be dry; We’re marching through Kmmanual’s ground To fair worlds on high. 1 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. Do you wonder that the world is so far ftom 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 sesquipedalian 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 idiosyncrasies; or if a stitch in the back, we do not want to talk of lumbago; but, in the plain vernacular preach that Gospel which proposes to make all men happy, honest, victorious and. free. In other words, we want more cinnamon and less

• U uxt VUV Ml ent 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 irT a vernacular they can understand, they will be very glad to come and receive the truth we present. Would to God that Queen lialkis would drive her spiceladen dromedaries into 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 and 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 them. Show them the bright side of the thing, 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 laugh, and while yon send in help, like the Queen of Sheba also send in the spices. There are two ways of meeting the ooor. One is to come into their house with a nose elevated in disgust. as much as to say: “I don't see how yon 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 chureh music. Churches* sit discussing whether they shall have choirs, or precentors, or organs, or bass-viols, or cornets; I say, take that which will bring out the most inspiring music. If we had half as much zeal and spirit in our 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 n ot 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 churchmusic will be a hundred years from now, when the coming generation shall wake up to Its duty. > I promise a high spiritual blessing to anyone who will sing in church, and who will sing so heartily that the people all around can not help but sing. Wake up! all the churches from Bangor to San Francisco and across Christenlom. It is not a matter of preference; t is a matter of religious duty. Oh, for lfty times more volume of sound. .." K

drals surpass us, and yet t many has received nothin# the hands of God compared u America; and ought the acclaim in 1 lin be louder than that in Brookl Soft, long-drawn-out music is ap] priate for the drawing-room and ap] priate for the concert; bnt St J gives an idea of the sonorous and r nant congregational singing ap] priate for churches when, in listei to the temple service of Heaven, says: “1 heard a great voice as voice of a great multitude, as the v< of many waters, and as the voice mighty thunderings. Hallelujah, the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth! Now I want to impress this audie with the fact that religion is sweeti and perfume, and spikenard, and fron, and cinnamon, and cassia, frankincense, and all sweet spices gether. “Oh!” you say, “1 have looked at it as such. I thought it' a nuisance; it had for me a repuisioi held my breath as though it were n odor; 1 have been appalled by its vance; I have said, if I have any relig tt all, 1 want to have just as little t as is possible to get through with.” what a mistake you have made, brother. The religion of Christ i present and everlasting redolei It counteracts all trouble. Just it on the stand beside the pil of sickness. It catches in the tains and perfumes the stifling air. sweetens the cup of bitter medi and throws a glow on the gloom of turned lattice. It is a balm for aehing side and a soft bandage for temple stung with pain, if lifted S uel Rutherford into a revelry of sp ual delight while he was in phys agonies. It helped Richard Bax until, in the midst of such a comp] tion of diseases as perhaps no ol man ever suffered, he wrote Saint's Everlasting Rest.” And poured light upon John Bunyan’s d geon—the light of the shining gate! the shining city. And it is good rhuematism, and for nueralgia, and low spirits, and for consumption; it the catholicon for all disorders. Y it will heal all your sorrows. A widowed mother, with her lit child, went west, hoping to get bet wages there; and she was taken s and died. The overseer of the poor | her body and put it in a box, and pul in a wagon, and started down the str toward the cemetery at full trot. 1 little child—the only child—ran afte: through the streets, bare-headed, c ing: “Bring me back my mother! br: me baek my mother!” And it was s that as the people looked on and s her crying after that which lay in box in the wagon—all she loved earth—it is said the whole village \ in tears. And that is what a gr many of you are doing—chasing dead. Dear Lord, is there no peasement for all this sorrow tha see about 'me? Yes, the thou of resurrection and reunion beyond this scene of struggle and te: “They shall hunger no more, neit thirst any more, neither shall the light on them, nor- any heat; for Lamb which is in the midst of I throne shall lead them to living fJ tains of water, and God shall wipe

kcaio tucu cjrs. auiuaovv 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 peace. It is sweetness. It is comfort. It is infinite satisfaction, this Gospel I commend to you. Some one could hot understand why an old German Christian scholar used to he 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 13 he arose and shut his Bible and said: “Blessed Lord, we are on the same old terms yet. Good night, good night.” Oh, you sin-parched and you troublepounded here is comfort, here is satisfaction. AVill you come and get it? I can not tell you what the Lord offers y->u 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 million dollars. The walls are of marble, inlaid with cornelian from Bagdad, and turquois 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 topof these springs a dome thirty more feet high, 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. 0, home of the blessed! Foundations of gold! Arches of victory! Capstones of praise! And a dome in which there are echoing and re-echoing the hallelujahs of the ages. And around about that mansion isa 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 the flowers is the deep hue that was caught up from the carnage of earthly martyrdoms, and the fragrance is the prayer of the saints, and the aroma puts into utter forgetfulness the cassia and spikenard, and the frankincense, and the world-renowed spices which Queen Balkis of Abyssinia flung at the feet of King Solomon. When ahall thnaa «va( The ITAnvnn.hnllt

walla And pearly gates behold, Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong, j And streets of shining gold? Through obduracy on our part, and through the rejection of that Christ who makes Heaven possible, 1 wonder if any of us will miss that spectacle? 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 Clod grant that through your own practical experience you may find that religion's wayB 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 their any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.” —There is constant complaint of the lack of morals in politics. There is noplace yet discovered, even out of politics, wher* there U ir oyer |«ppi#< =-Jaterior.

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wry lur uiuaiuig u magazine worth twenty cents. A man in "Bloomington, 111., recently gave $80,000 to his children, intending to spend his declining days with them. They accepted the money and then had him put in the poor house. According to a local paper there are actually some people in Rome, N. Y., so selfish that the only way they patronize a public benefactor like the street railway is by walking between the tracks when the sidewalks are icy. On Tenter Books. Nervous people are always on tenter hooks. A slight noise smiles the drums of their ears like the clash of cymbals. The most trivial, unexpected sound drives them to the verge of distraction. But invigorated and built up with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, their supersensitiveness speedily dis appears. Dyspepsia, malaria, kidney troubles, biliousness and rheumatism are cured by the Bitters. * “How is your boy getting along at Harvardl" “first rate. He writes me that he goes to Boston every night to study the stars.”—Boston Gazette. Local applications will never cure boils, carbuncles, sores, pimples, rheumatism, iiching joints, etc. Blood impurity is the cause of these ailments, and a remedy mu t be taken that will restore the hlood to a healthy condition. Such a remedy is Dr. John Bull’s Sarsaparilla. Use it and you will have perfect health. You wrong yourself if you fail to try it. The turf will hardly lose its popularity—a race is so much a matter of course.—St. Joseph News. It is qo longer necessary to take blue pills to rouse the liver to actiop. Carter’s Little LI verPills are much belter.Don’tforget this. Even vinegar has to work to be worth anything.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. No Opium in Piso’s cure for consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c. It is a very stupid boy that doesn’t know his lines when the trout season arrives.— Du Bols (Pa.) Courier.

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Gps. A. Dubois, a well known resident of 8t Louis, says; ‘‘I hare used several bottles of Prickly Ash Bitters for biliousness and malarial troubles, so prevalent in this climate, and heartily recommend it to all afflicted in a like manner. It is the best remedy I ever used. ” “No,** said the Boston girL “I can’t say that I enjoy thunderstorms. They aresuch loud, flashy things.”—Brooklyn EageL Fits cents saved on soap; five dollars lost on rotted clothes. 1$ that economy t There is not 6 cents difference between the cost of a bar o I the poorest soap made and the best, which is as all know, Dobbins’ Electric. •

Tint centipede doesn’t know wBat ruin is; tecrhis 11181 ie*»Dos’t let your children look pale tad sickly. Don’t keep them cross, peevish aSd complaining. Keep them well’ijjf occasion-, ally giving them those dainty mudies, Dr, Bull’s Worm Destroyers, _A. ®°7 whose leg was repaired in New York by grafting some skiu from a dog, complains now that his skin barks easilv_ Boston Commercial Bulletin. When a man gets in trouble It often takes a round sum to square matters.— Yonkers Statesman. Mt friend, look here 1 you know how weak and nervous your wife is, and you know that Carter’s Irou Pills will relieVe her. Now why not be fair about it and buy her a box 1 Spring announcements are in order among tradesmen; even the organ grinder takes a turn at it.—Yonkers Statesman. Sufferers from Coughs, Sore Throat, etc., should try “Brown's Ur.,nchial Troches,” a simple but suro remedy. So d only in boxes. Price 2acts. The tugboat and the chiropodist are always looking after tows.—Boston Bulletin. Explosions of Coughing are stopped by Hale’s Honey of Horehouud and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Wise medical men do not treat somnambulism as a pillow case.—Boston Courier.

SPRAINS. Ohio & Miss.Railway. Office President and General Manager, Cincinnati, Ohio “My foot suddenly turned and gave me a Tery severely sprained ankle. The application of SU Jacobs Oil resulted at once in, a relief from pain.” W.W. Peabodt, Prest. & Gen’l Man’gr.

bruises. 746 Dolphin Street, Baltimore, Mi, Jan’y 18,1890. *i mas bruise^ badly in hip and Bide by a fail and suffered severely, St. Jacobs Oil completely cured me.” \r a. C. nanDsa, Member of State Legislature.

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