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GAFFNEY.
Washington, Aug. 4.—In this dis
course Dr. Talmage corrects some of
the false notions about religion and
represents it ns being joy inspiring in
stead of dolorous; text, II Chronicles
lx, 9, “Of spices great abundance; nei
ther 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 tak
en to it ids bride, the princess of
Egypt. You see the pillars of the por
tico and a great tower, adorned with
1,000 shields of gold, hung on the out
side of the tower, 500 of the shields of
gold manufactured at Solomon’s order;
500 were captured by David, ids fa
ther, in battle. See how they blaze in
the noonday sun!
Solomon goes up the Ivory stairs of
ids throne, between 12 lions In statu
ary, and sits down on the hack of the
golden hull, the head of the huge beast
turned toward the people. The fam
ily and the attendants of the king are
so many that the caterers of the palace
have to provide every day 100 sheep
and 13 oxen, besides the birds aud the
venison. I hear the stamping and paw
ing of 4,000 fine horses in the royal sta
bles. There were important officials
who had charge of tie* work of gather
ing the straw and the barley for these
horses. King Solomon was an early
riser, tradition says, ami used to take
a ride out at daybreak, aud when In Ids
white apparel, behind the swiftest
horses of all the realm and followed by
mounted archers in purple, as the cav
alcade dashed through the streets of
Jerusalem 1 suppose it was somctldug
wortli getting up at 5 o’clock lu the
morning to look at.
Solomon was not like some of the
kings of the present day—crowned im
becility. All the splendors of ids pal
ace and retinue were eclipsed by Ids
intellectual power. Why, he seemed to
know everything. He was the llrst
great naturalist the world ever saw.
Peacocks from India strutted the ba
saltic walk, and apes chattered in the
trees, and deer stalked the parks, and
there were aquariums with foreign tisli
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 liitted
about him.
Solomon’s Wisdom.
More than tills, he had a groat repu
tation for the couuiidrums and riddles
that he made and guessed. He add
King Hiram, his neighbor, used to sit
by the hour and ask riddles, each one
paying in money if he could not an
swer or guess the riddle. The Solomon
ic navy visited all the world, and the
sailors, of course, talked about the
wealth of their king and about the rid
dles and enigmas that be made and
solved, and the news spread until
Queen Halkis, away off south, heard of
it and sent messengers with a few rid
dles that she would like to have Solo
mon solve and a few puzzle’s that she
would like to have him And out. She
sent, among other things, to King Sol
omon 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 immedi
ately Solomon put a slave on the hack
of a swift horse and galloped him
around and nroufld the park until the
horse was nigh exhausted; and from
the perspiration of the horse the gob
let was filled. She also sent to King
Solomon 500 boys In girls’ dress and
500 girls in boys’ dress, wondering if
he would he 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 llalkls was so pleased with the
acuteness of Solomon that she said,
“I’ll Just go and see him for myself."
Yonder it comes—the cairacade—horsi
ami dromedaries, chariots and chart
eers, jingling harness and clatterl
hoofs and blazing shields and flying
signs and (jHBhMUMftfrals. Ths
is
been 1 wittering, climbing, pounding,
hammering for 20 years, 40 years, 50
years. One great, long drudgery lias
their life been, their faces anxious,
their feelings benumbed, their days
monotonous. What Is necessary to
brighten up that man’s life and to
sweeten that acid disposition and to
put sparkle into the man’s spirits? The
spleery of our holy religion. Why, if
between the losses of life there dashed
the gleam of an eternal gain, If lie-
tween the betrayals of life there came
the gleam of the undying friendship of
Christ, if in dull times in business we
found ministering spirits flying to and
fro in our office aud store and shop,
everyday life, instead of being a stupid
monotone, would lie a glorious inspira
tion, pendulumlng between calm satis
faction and high rapture.
How any woman keeps house with
out 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 wo
men do, in planning for the meals, and
stitching garments that will soon bo
rent again, and deploring breakages,
and supervising tardy subordinates,
and driving off dust that soon again
Avill settle, and doing the same thing
day In and day out and year in and
year out uutil the hair silvers, and the
buck 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 nurs
ery, and comes to the dwelling, then
how cheery becomes 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 she can make a coat
for young Samuel; Miriam, because she
can watch her Infant brother; Ituchcl,
because she can help her hither water
the stock; the widow of Sareptu, be
cause the cruse of oil is being replen
ished. O woman, having in your pan
try a nest of boxes containing all kinds
of condiments, why have you not tried
lu your heart and life the spleery of our
holy religion? “Martha, Martha, thou
art careful aud troubled about many
things, but one thing is needful, aud
Mary hath chosen that good part which
shall not be taken away from her.”
Joyful Clirlatlanlty.
I must confess that a great deal of
the religion of this day is utterly in
sipid. There is nothing piquant or ele
vating about it. Men and women go
around humming psalms in a minor
key and cultivating melancholy, and
their worship has lu it more sighs than
raptures. We do not doubt their piety.
Oli, no! Hut they are sitting at a feast
where the cook lias forgotten to season
the food. Everything is flat In their
experience ami in their conversation.
Emancipated from sin aud death and
hell and on their way to a magnificent
heaven, they act as though they were
trudging on toward an everlasting Hot-
any Bay. Religion does not seem to
agree with them. It seems to catch In
the windpipe and become a tight stran
gulation Instead of an exhilaration.
All the Infidel hooks that haVe been
written, from Voltaire down to Her
bert Spencer, have not done so much
damage to our Christianity as lugubri
ous Christians. Who wants a religion
woven out of the shadows of the night?
Why go growling on your way to celes
tial enthronement? Come out of that
cave and sit down In the warm light
of the Sun of Righteousness. Away
with your odes to melancholy and Her-
vey’s “Meditations Among the Tombs!”
Then let our tongs abound
And every tear be dry;
We’re marching through Emmanuel’s ground
To fairer worlds on high.
I have to say also that we need to
put more spice and eullveument in our
religious teaching, whether It he in the
prayer meeting or in the Sunday school
or in the church. We ministers need
more fresh air and sunshine In our
lungs and our heart aud our head. Do.
you wonder that the world
from being converted wlv
little vivacity in the
pew? We want, li
in our sermons
lilies of the fl]
rhetorical eh
quipedallan
about sliai
ad umbra;
queenii
Idiosyi
back
lum
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in our church music. I'^m-hea sit dls-
cuxslug whether they shah lM , vd c i, 0 i rs
or precentors or organs or has. v | 0 i s or
cornets. I say, take that wlii(^>
bring out the most inspiring music. If
we had half ns much zeal nud spirit In
our churches as wc have In thesong.i
of oi r Sunday schools, it would qu be
long before the whole earth Would
quake with the coming Cod. \\hy,
nine-tenths of the people in churclydo
not sing, or they sing so feebly Hat
the people at their elbows do not kn<»v
they are singing. People mouth aiU
mumble the praises of Cod, hut thea?
is not more than one out of a hundrel
who makes a Joyful noise unto tin
Rock of Our Salvation. Sometimes, ,
when the congregation forgets Itself
and is all absorbed in the goodness of
Cod 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 peo
ple all around cannot help Imt sing.
Wake up, all the churches from Bangor
to Ran Francisco and across Christen
dom! It is not a matter of preference;
it is a matter of religious duty. Oh,
for 50 times more volume of sound than
lias ever yet rolled up from our church
es! Corman chorals in Cerman cathe
drals surpass us, and yet Cermany lias
received nothing at the hands of Cod
compared with America. And ought
the acclaim in Germany be louder than
that of America? Soft, long drawn out
music Is appropriate for the drawing
room and appropriate for the concert,
hut St. John gives an idea of the sono
rous and resonant congregational sing
ing appropriate for churches when in
listening to the temple service of heav
en lie says: “I beard a great voice, as
the voice of a great multitude and as
the voice of many waters and as the
voice of mighty thunderlngs. Halle
luiah. for the Lord Cod omnli>otout
reiguetb!”
Counteract* AH Trouble,
Join with me iu a crusade, giving me
not only your hearts, hut the mighty
uplifting of your voices, ami I believe
we can, through Christ’s grace, sing
5,000 souls into the kingdom of Christ.
An argument they cun laugh at, a ser
mon they may talk down, but a 5,000
voiced utterance of praise to Cod is
irresistible. Would that Queen Halkis
would drive all her spice laden drome
daries into our church music. “Nei
ther was there any such spice as the
queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.” ,
Now. 1 want to impress you with the
fact that religion is sweetness and per
fume 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 ns though it were a malodor. I
have been appalled at its advance. I
have said, if I have any religion ut 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 n
present and everlasting redolence. It
counteracts all trouble. Just put it on
the stand beside the pillow of sickness.
It catches in the curtains aud perfumes
the stilling air. It sweetens the cup of
hitler medicine aud throws a glow on
the gloom of the turned lattice. It Is a
balm for the aching side aud a soft
bandage for the temple stung with
pain, it lifted Samuel Rutherford Into
a revelry of spiritual delight while he
was lu physical agonies. It helped
Richard Baxter until, lu the midst of
such a complication of diseases as per
haps no other man ever si ffered, he
wrote “The Saint’s Everlasting Rest.”
Aud it pourtl light upon John Hun*
yan’s dungeon,itimllgbt of the shining
gate of the sblj^^^ji^^^jtjs good
for r hen mat
for low spl^
the a
hopeful When he had sfrtniauy trials
and sicknesses and ailments: wan
secreted himself in the house, fte said,
“I mean to watch this old scholar an<T
Christian.” And he saw the old Chris
tian man go to his room aud sit down
on {lie chair beside the stand and open
the Bible and l*egln 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 12 he arose and
shut ids Bible and said: “Blessed Lord,
we are on the same old terms yet. Good
night. Good night." 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 I<ord offers you hereafter so
well as I can tell you what lie offers
now. “It doth not yet appear what we
shall be.”
Home of the Bleimed.
Have you read of the TuJ Mahal in
India, lu some respects the most ma
jestic building on earth? Twenty thou
sand men were 29 years lu building it.
It cost about $19,000,000. The walls
are of marble, inlaid with caruellan
from Bagdad and turquoise from Tibet
and Jasper from the Punjab and ame
thyst from Persia, and all manner of
precious stones. A traveler said that
it seemed to him like tlie shining of tin*
enchanted castle of burnished silver.
The walls are 245 feet high, and from
the top of these springs a dome 30 more
feet high, that dome containing the
most wonderful echo the world has
ever known, so that ever and anon
travelers standing below with ilutes
and drums and harps lire testing that
echo, and the sounds from below strike
up and then come dowii ns it were the
voices of angels all around about the
building. There is around It a garden
of tamarind aud 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 whjch God lias
builded for your living am] immortal
spirit.
Oh, home of the blessed—foundations
of gold, arches of victory, capstones of
praise and a dome iu which there are
echoing and re-echoing the halleluiahs
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 lu
the wilderness, and all the crimson of
the flowers is the deep line that was
caught up from the carnage of earthly
martyrdoms, and the fragrance is the
prayer of nil tue saints, and the aroma
puts info utter, forgetfulness the cas
sia and the spikenard and the frankin
cense and the world, renowned spices
which Queen Halkis of ^Abyssinia flung
ut the feet of King Soldmou.
When shall these eyes thy tauren built wslls
And pearly gates behold, ’
Thy bulwarks, with salvation Btfong,
And streets of shining gold?
Through obduracy ou our V ! U't‘ and
through the rejection of that Christ
who makes heaven possible I wonder
if any of us will miss that spectacle?
The queen of the south will rise up In
judgment against this generation and
condemn it because she came froiu the
uttermost parts of the earth to hear the
wisdom of Solomon, and, behold, a
greater Solomon is here!
May Cod grant that through your
oSvn pm<4ie»t experience •^fcu'mfty tttNT
that religion’s ways are ways oFFImui-
antness and that all her patBs’ are
40>uths 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 of
Sheba gave to King Solomon,”
[Copyright, mi, by Louis Klopsch, N. V.]
THE TRUSTEES ERRI
AiiapiaceftS'ine.
Woman’s proueneta to stick a pin
wherever conveniep^ has proved ft se
rious matter to oueiteamship compa
ny. The line decided some time ago
to place the most^wern air filled
rubber mattresse^^^k^berths of
biggest
were
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“*o Siijx Mr. T/iIbctt. i»"»l Ho Correct.* the ]
F.rror*,. i
• . ICorrespondenee Qf Th" Laager.)
fhtfefckLy. Aug 1—Mh Epjtok:—
I want to roQjrti ugy sincerest thani s
to it E. Piiftef, -JV. IX jfJaaton and
\. H. Moorft wfro ..efluBtitute th<
board of school-ifustees for liuilulo
for th) f o *le attempt they mad*
in Tuesday’s Ledger to antwe r
the charge ot extravaganceJn the use
of public money I made af.aiHBt them
4omu time ago. I am cehfi lent that
Mr. Porter wrote the articlo, and 1
believe that he was beside himself
mentally, or he never would have
written it. Therefore I will ask the
public to be generous iu its oriticism
towards him for the errors lie has
made.
I shall not attempt to say very
much except to correct the errors of
the trustees. “Tney say for the last
four years they have run the school
on an average of nearly five months,
and hud two first grade teachers with
diplomas from reputable colhgis and
employed them at a salary of from
.-ixty to sixty-five dollars per month
for the two.
! As will bo seen elsewhere this was
.in error of the compositor, ns it
should have read from $60 to $75 per
tr.o ith.—Ed ]
The first year these teachers took
charge of the school they received a
salary of ^ixty dollars per mouth.
1 have it on good authority that the
uext year these teachers agreed o
give twenty-five dollars in monthly
installments towards building a new
school house provided the trustees
would raise their salaries from sixty
to seventy five dollars par month aud
I think the treasurers report will
show that they drew seventy dollars
per month and the other, five dollar*
per month wjts.-rfr»1W) out by the
trustees and applied tcHt^fd buildin
t ie school house, and the
the treasurers report show tha
drew seventy-five doliars per r
And lust year the trustees em
one of the same teachers at seven
dollars per month and he employed
assistant at twenty-five according
their statement but that assists
only taught six or eight wuolte h
nearly.all the balanmt of the tei
some of the scholars were employe
to assist when one was needed, bu
the treasurers report shows that G
P. Hamrick drew out of the school
fund $25 25 at one time and $28 ut
another lime, and ran four and a half
or five months. On yesterday a re
liable gentleman informed m
his daughter taught S'/veral^d^y
that this Cod fearing miffisu r w
is now trying to lead the sinful peo
p’e of Buffalo into the Kingdom of
Heaven paid her tbe pitifyl sum of
one dollar while he was hinuelf
drawing $3 50 per day out of the
county treasurery or about fifty cents
per hour. ),he attandunce of th.
jehooi, fast winter wap rather small
dometimes falling b<-iow thirty schol-
s and mostly small children.
Id the nan ecf coaimon o ise was it
cessary to employ an assistant
cber for such a small school or
t^pay $70 per month t5* -jun wliei
ofrher schools of that size . cost ~
orura than $30 or $10 ’ "
m^nth.
./fhesa,trustees pay the
county suporintemlante
a *ery poor tribute pf r
viting an investigatl
wtil get a -
But one of
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In 1895, none; in 1900,^60,00^
boxes; that’s Cascarets Candy •Ca
thartic’s jump into popularity/ The
people hive cast their verdict. Best
medicine for the bdwels in the world.
All druggists, ioc.
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