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>MIMMMW8WWt*IMWW I DR. TALMABE’S SERMON; | Washington, Nov. 22. lSSS.—A re sounding call goes out In this sermon of Dr. Talmsgr. If heeded It would be revolutionary for good. His subject is "Young Men Challenged to Nobility,” end the text: 2 Kings t>:17: "And the latrd opened the eyes of the young man." One morning In Dothan, a young theological student was scared by find- j Ing himself and Elisha the prophet, upon whom he waited, surrounded by a whole army of enemies, But venerable Elisha was not scared at all, because he saw the mountains full of defence for him, In chariots made of fire, drawn by horses of Are a supernatural ap pearance that, could not he seen with the natural eye. So the old minister prayed that the young minister might see them also, and the prayer was an swered, and the I,ord opened the eyes of the young man. and he also saw the Aery procession, looking somewhat, I suppose, like the Adlrondacks or the Alleghanleg In autumnal resplendence. Many young men, standing among I he most tremendous realities, have their eyes half shut or entirely closed. May <»od grant that my sermon may open wide your eyes to your safety, your opportunity, and your destiny! A mighty defence for a young man Is a good home. Home of my hearers look back with tender satisfaction to their early home. It may have been rude and rustic, hidden among the hills, and architect or upholsterer never planned or adorned It. But all the freseo on princely walls never looked so entic ing to you as (hose rough-hewn raf ters. You can think of no park or i. arbor of trees nlanted on fashionable country-seat so attractive as the plain brook that ran In front of the old farm-house and sang under the weep ing willows. No barred gateway, adorned with statue of bronze, and swung open by obsequious porter In full dress, has half the glory of the Old swing gate. Many of you have a second dwelling-place, your adopted home, that also Is sacred forever. There you built the first family altar. There your children were born. All those frees you planted. That room Is sol emn, because once In It, over thp hot pillow, flapped the wing of death, l/'nder that roof you expert to lie down and die. You try with many words to tell the excellency of the place, but you fail. There Is only one word In the language that ean describe your mean ing. It Is home. Another defence for a young man Is Industrious habits. Many young men, In starting upon life In this age. ex pect to make their way through the world by the use of their wits rather * than the toll of their hands. A boy now goes to the city and fails twice before he Is as old as his father was when he first saw the spires of the great town. Sitting In some office, rented at a thousand dollars a year, he Is waiting for the bank to declare its fc dividend or goes Into the market, ex r peeting before night to be made rich by the rushing up of the stocks. But rluck seemed so dull he resolved on some other tack. Perhaps he borrowed from his employer's money drawer, and forgets to put it back, or for merely the purpose of improving his penman ship, makes a copyplate of a merchant's signature. Never mind; all Is right in trade. In some dark night there may come in his dreams a vision of the penitentiary; but It soon vanishes. In a short time he will be ready to retire from the busy world, and amid his flocks and herds cultivate the domestic /virtues. Then those young men who once were ms scnouiinaies, ana Knew no better than to engage In honest work, will come with their ox-teams to draw him logs, and with hard hands to heave up bis castle. This is no fancy picture. It Is everyday life. I should not wonder if there were some rotten |ieams In that beautiful palace. I should not wonder if dire sickness should smite through the young man, or if God should pour into his cup of life u draught that would thrill him with unbearable agony; if his children should become to him a living curae, making his home a pest and a disgrace. I should not wonder if he goes to a miserable grave, and beyond It Into the gnashing of teeth. The way of the un godly shall perish. y My young frlruds. there is no way to genuine success, except through toil, either of head or hand. At the battle of Crecy, In 1346, the prince of Wales, finding himself heavily pressed by the enemy, sent word to his father for help. The father, watching the battle from a windmill, and seeing hts son war not wounded and could gain the day tf be would, sent word. "No, I will not com*. Let the boy win hla spurs, fur, If God will, 1 desire that this day be hla with all Its hoaors " Young man, fight your own battls. all through, ami you ghall have the victory. Oh. It la a battle worth fighting! Two unman hs of old fought a duel, I'barle* V and b'rnncls, and thn stake* were kingdom*. Milan and burgundy. You fight with sin. and the stake Is heaven or hell Do hot get tho fatal Idea that you are s genius that, therefor* thero l* Wo need of do*# application It I* here whom aiuillludea fall The curse of this age U the geniuses men sllii enor mous self con< eit and sgottsat and aotbiag else I had rather he aa tea *t*aa an sagi-; plain ami plodding and useful rather ikts high (lying gad good for nothing hut its pick out the eyes of car sees* fitraovdinary ca pacity atthoot uwrh Is ssiraordianrjr failure Thor* la no hot** tor lhat p* * saw aha begin* bin tvstliid is live hr hla alt* fas the prohahiltty la that he has a* any It sis net safe ft’ V tni even la hla enfalWa mat# to have aathiag ta d*» and therefore God aa mended him ta he a farmer and hwtl* culturist. He was to ress the gar den and keep it. and hi he and his wife obeyed the Divine ijunetlon and been at work, they *’0'd not have been sauntering under tl» trees and hankering after that frul which de troyed them and their Psterlty; a proof positive for all ages Urome that j those who do not attend tohelr busi ness are sure to get Into tnltlilef. I do not know that the pMigal In Scripture would ever have .pen re claimed had he not given upiis Idle hAhlts and gone to feeding s«ne for a living The devil does not s often attack the man who Is busy *|i the , pen, and the bonk, and the trow< and j the saw, and the hammer. He Is rrald j of those weapons. But woe t< the ■ man whom this roaring lion n«ets with his hands In his pockets! This is the statement of a man ejo has broken this Divine enactment:‘I was engaged In manufacturing on t# I,chigh river. On the Sabbath I use* to rest, hut never regarded Ood in It. One beautiful Sabbath when the noise was all hushed, and the day was all that loveliness could make It, I sat down on my piazza, and went to work inventing a new shuttle. 1 neither stopped to eat nor drink till the sun went down. By that time I had the Invention completed. The next morn ing I exhibited it, and boasted of my day’s work, and was applauded. The shuttle was tried, and worked well, but that Sabbath day s work cost me thirty thousand dollars. W» branch ed out and enlarged, and the curse of heaven was upon me from that day on ward." While the Divine frown [mist rest upon him who tramplps upon this statute, Clod's special favof will I* upon that young man who scjupuloualy observes It. This day, prtperly ob served, will throw a hallowel influence over all the week. The sorfc and ser mon and sanctuary will holdback from presumptuous sins. That young man who begins the duties ol life with either nerret or open msren^'i uh. holy rlay, 1 venture to prjphesy. will meet with no permanent successes. God's curse will fall upon bis ship, Ills store, his office, his studp, his body, and his soul. The way the wicked he turneth upside down. In one of the old fables it was said tjat a wonder ful child was born in Bagdad, and a magician could hear hj> footsteps six thousand miles away. Put I can hear In the footstep of that young man on his way to the house (j worship to-day the step not only of j lifetime of use fulness, but the onfimlng step of eternal ages of happhcss yet millions of years away. , A noble Ideal an j confident expec tation of approximating to It are an In fallible defense. Til- artist completes In his mind ihe grelt thought that he wishes to transfer tl the canvas or the marble before he ties up the crayon or the chisel. Thckrchitect plans out the entire structuil before he orders the workmen to f'gln, and though there may for a loK while seem to he nothing but blundring and rudeness, he has In his mini every Corinthian wreath and Gothic ireb and Byzantine capital. The poet arranges the entire plot before he begiis to chime the first canto of tingling hythms. And yet, strange to say. thlre are men who at tempt to build thdr character without knowing whether in the end it shall be a rude Tartar'sltent or a St. Mark's of Venice—men wl)n begin to write the intricate poem of1 their lives without knowing whether i|t shall be a Homer's "Odyssey" or a rhymester's botch. Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are living without any great life-plot. Booted and spurred and plumed, and urging their swift courser In the hottest haste, 1 ask: “Hello, man. whither away?" His response is, “Nowhere.” Rusk inlo the l__ ,.u»« ,. f flk/xon m unit u nnn onH taking the plane out of the man's hand or laying down the yardstick, say. •‘What, naan, Is all this about so much stir and sweat?” The reply till stum ble and break down between teeth and lips. Every one's duty ouglt only to be the filling np of the mail plan of existence. Let men be consstent. If they prefer misdeeds to correit courses of action, then let them drat out the design of knavery and criflty and plunder. Let every day's falsehood and wrongdoing be added u» coloring to the picture. Let bloody leeds red stripe the picture, and the douds of a wrathful God hang down hgtvlly over the canvas, ready to break oit In clam orous tempest. Let the waters be chafed and froth-tangled, ind green with Immeasurable depths. Then take a torch of burning pitch anl scorch In to the framo the right nane of It the soul's suicide. If one entulng upon sinful directions would only in his mind or ou paper, draw iut in awful reality this dreadful ptetu'e. he would recoil from It and say : "Am I a Dante, that by my own life I ahoild write an other Inferno'?” But If you are re solved to live a life euch as G»mI sad good men will approve, do not let It be a vague dream, an injeflulte deter mination. but. In your wind. or upou paper, sketch it In alt II* minutiae You cannot know the chiuges to which you may be subject but you may know wkat always will be ri|>tt and alwaye will be wrong lad jratleaeee and charity and veracity aw! faith stand In the heart of the sketch On some still brook s hank make a lamb and lion Be down together Draw two or three of the treee of life, not lute > stricken, nor n» gu»* l n«r wind strlpped. but with thwh verdure wav ing like the paints of heaven On the darkest cloud place die rainbow that |llli«kVh *| |||«f tjMttft gjv HI Y*‘"4 ***4 ***t prim ill* mi* mi tb* ft4t«* Ta# *||| J4i |l 4 *i»4 i« 4# **> fltM<i*t'*4ti • Ur j 4v * ft IIW flti* leys, and are at their wits' end. They sail by no chart, they watch no star, they long for no harbor. Many years ago word came to me that two Imposters, as temperance lec turers, had been speaking In Ohio. In various places, and giving their erpe rlenre, and they told their audience that they had long been Intimate with me, and had become drunkards by dining at my table, where I always had liquors of all sorts. Indignant to the last degree I went down to Patrick Campbell, chief of Brooklyn police, saying that I was going to start that night for Ohio to have those villlans arrested, and I wanted him to tell me how to make the arrest. He smiled and said: "Do not waste your time by chasing these men. Ho home and do your work, and they can do you no barm." I took his counsel, and all was well. l-ong ago I made up my mind that If one will put his trust in Ood and be faithful to duty, he need not fear any evil. Have Hod on your side, young man, and all the combined forces of earth and hell can do you no damage. And this leadK me to say that the mightiest defense for a young man Is the possession of religious principle. Nothing can take the place of It. He inty have manners that would put to atame the gracefulness and courtesy of a Ix»rd Chesterfield. Foreign lan guages may drop from his tongue. He nuy be able to discuss literature, and lais, and foreign customs. Ho may wl«!d a pen of nnpqualed polish and poser. His quickness and tact may qualify him for the highest, salary of the counting house. Ho may bn as sbafj> os Herod and uh strong an Hanwon. with as fine locks as those whiijh hung Absalom, still he is not sale from contamination. The more, elegant his manner, and the more fas cinating his dress, the more peril. 8a tai does not care for the allegiance of I n row arui> dun iimuBie irciuft. no cannot bring him Into efficient service. Bit he loves to storm that castle of character which has In It the most spoils and treasures. It was not some crazy craft creeping along the coast with a valueless cargo that the pirate attacked, but the ship, full-winged and tagged, plying between great ports, carrying its millions of specie. The more your natural and acquired accom plishments, the more need of the reli gion of Jesus. That does not cut in upon or hack up the smoothness of dis position or behavior. It gives symme try. It arrests that in the soul which ought to be arrested, and propels that which ought to be propelled. It fills up the gulleys. It elevates and trans forms. To beauty it gives more beauty, to tact more tact, to enthu siasm of nature more enthusiasm. When the Holy Spirit impresses the image of God on the heart he does not spoil the canvass. If in all the multi tudes of young men upon whom reli gion has acted you could find one na ture that had been the least damaged, I would yield this proposition. * * * Many years ago I stood on the anni versary platform with a minister of Christ who made this remarkable statement: "Thirty years ago two young men started out in the evening to attend the Park theater, New York, where a play was to he acted in which the cause of religion was to be placed In a ridiculous and hypocritical light. They came to the steps. The con sciences of both smote them. One started to go home, but returned again to the door, and yet had not courage to enter, and finally departed. But the other young man entered the pit of the theater. It was the turning point in the history of these two young men. The man who entered was caught In the whirl of temptation. He sank deeper and deeper In infamy; he was lost. That other young man was saved, and he now stands before you to bless God that for twenty years he has been permitted to preach the Gos pel." “Rejoice, O young man, In thy youth, and let thy heart oheer thee In the days of thy youth; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. WORTH KNOWING. Locusts are doing much damage tc the crops In Argentina. The army of India now numbers 280, i»00 men, of whom 180,000 are native soldiers. Chichester cathedral. England. Is 411 feet In length. 161 feet wide and 271 feet high. Next year la the centennial of the stovepipe hat, whlrh drat came Into common uee lu Paris. Two wealthy Hebrews of llagdad now own all that remains of the an cient town of llabylon. Three hundred thousand tuna of vegetables, valued at 188,600,000, were sold In tbedty of Paris In 1866. till couples living wttbln a circuit of one mile at Milford, N H , have cele brated tbelr golden wedding annlver varies. A floral bicycle was the funeral trib ute recently made by a le-wiaton (Met hot ■ bouse for bereaved c> c Inmnntac friends of a young wan who bud ,lv*d there. W u ke I beard a pretty compliment to Hamlin, the a* tor. U* day dnuee strka ante ke possesses Ike art wkteh ><•»• cate art. flicks That's a fact. You'd never kiss be bad any Ikotua frnaarrtpi ' There dueea’I seem la be moth af a I demand fur seats to mis performance.'* | mid the star No," said Ik* » *»»(*' I ke ke ran ovee n handle of dead head I *ppi Scat tone “nothing bat mtnertv Yk'aealaatnn P sr I Tmarenif Me slapped reading Me I * fbvlk k*; * I lillV »**• M ***** WlMNI I grit! It Hn lit) «t i ffl* 9 1 ***** IMi Itittfwt FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Nome I'p-to-ilute Hint* Almiit (‘ullltrft t Ion of tl»e Noll himI Ylclri* Thereof Horticulture. Viticulture mihI Flori culture. K think that the most Important point In manures Is to make good ma nure, and a great deal of It.and If kept front losing Its vir tues till well-rotted, there Is little dan ger of much loss in applying. If only good sense be used. We do not wish to be understood as saying that, manure should he always rotted before being applied; on the con trary, we, as a rule, turn under our manure while green, If the ground be ready, for under such practice no loss can well occtir. We always seek to ap ply our long manure to slow growing rro|ts, and our short-rotted manure to those of quick growth. Kxcept. as top dressing for meadows, we prefer to get all of our manures under the surface, but not deep- two Inches Is hotter than six. We know It Is very fashionable of late years to urge farmers to spread their manure broadcast In Winter, to tie plowed under In spring. From an ex perience derived from small experi ments, we cannot urge It. Wo are frank to say we have not the courage to try the experiment on a large scale, for It Is so contrary to all our Ideas of good practice. We fear too much of It would feed fish ill Rock river which we should never catch. We would cer .It.. .t. _... l/.ni<lnn for any time, manure In small piles. If. distributes the fertility unequally, and Is the source of much waste. So few men, except those to whom manure la money—who must have It or forego any Income—so few except those can be made to realize or know the extent of their material resources that we have purposely refrained from calling atten tion to many apparently insignificant but really Important sources of ma nures; for we did not wish to subject ourselves to the look of Incredulity, or maybe ridicule, believing that we could more successfully draw attention and promote Investigation Into these mat ters by treating only of those methods of which all will admit, the value. But If no more, we would at least urge the careful saving of manures after the methods described, because we know them to be profitable, and we know, if they are carried out, that not only will you reap bountifully from the fatness of your land, but also that when you shall end your days and your children receive their inheritance, that it shall not he a barren, hut a garden.—A. M. Garland. Corn hn Furl. The speculators on the Chicago board of trade were somewhat stirred up a few days ago by a dispatch to the ef fect that the school directors In a school In northern Iowa had contracted for a supply of corn for the winter fuel at the school house Instead of a supply of coal, says Wallace’s Farmer, It left the impression on the minds of the dealers that corn was at Its lowest point and that when it became cheap enough to be used as fuel the consump tion would be Immensely increased. In all this they were exactly right. While not very much coin may be used as fuel In the atate of Iowa, yet furth er west where the distance from the cheaper than soft coal for fuel, there li no reason why tin farmer should not burn his corn. It is much easier to sit by the etove. red hot with corn, and road the papers on a cold day than It Is to haul the corn five or ten miles tc town and sell It at ten cents a bushel and buy hard coal at ten dollars a ton, We do not know the relative quantitlec of heat given out by a ton of hard coal and a ton of corn, but a Ion of corn cob and all, which is the form In which It is used for fuel, would l>e worth ai ten cents a bushel $2.85, and we would take our chances on getting more heal out of corn at this rate than coni al ten or eleven dollars a ton. When th« railroads find that corn boa sunk tu the point where It takes the place ol fuel, they will see the necessity, wheth er they think they can afford It or not of roducini; rules of freight both on corn and coal. Very cheap grain means, no matter what pooling agree ments may be entered Into, a steady decline In freights and railroad earn tnga, and It la not difficult to see that there la a point that nan be readily reached where the cheapness of lh« farmer's products means an entire wip ing out of the value of the stock uf tb« grauger railroad*. To this couipleiioa have we come at last! A Stagy la grail Muss. From report of Missouri llorllcultu rai (twisty: llow are fruit buds formed upon tree* preparing to grow their irtl erupt Fur a study of this subject an appti | tree twig from a tree that has bean ae< I tn ea orchard four or Sve yearn will I shew tbs general method upon out 1 common fruit trees At the nail of sack leaf that Is, Just above the base ol ( each leaf stalk there Is a bud Them buds appeal to be nourished each hi Its own leaf fur the development ul 1 each bud seems te correspond tn atse j . I* >r and cbaravier tu that of Ms leal goad leaves producing goud hod# so« pour leaven poor bode. It la the fum ( licit uf leaves to perform their part Is | storing the hud* and let tola il twtg< with which I he end growth of treet should he gorged tu the hill If the i etpgod each spring dap. ad open la < surplus store to give size and vigor to the flrst foliage produced, only such buds can develop Into fruit spurs and fruit buds as were sufficiently strong to do so. and only those fruit buds well nourished tbls season can expand Into good bloom next season. Subsequent growth modifies the fruiting method, and there are some differences In va rieties about producing fruit buds, but a large share of tree fruits lay the foun dation of productiveness along the same lines for the growth of their flrst crops. In all cases, whether fruit spurt, are produced or not, fruit or blossom buds arc formed the year previous to that of fruit production, and are direct ly dependent upon the foliage for their character, and sometimes for two or three seasons preceding. In this mat ter of the growth of fruit buds, a tree fruit differs from raspberries, black berries and grapes, for they produce bloom upon branches grown the same season. Kvery orcbardlst should be able to determine what Influences cause trees to produce fruit buds. This ar ticle Is designed is a study In this di rection and should be supplemented by observations In the orchard, of trees In fruit, and belter yet by a study of the philosophy of tree growth." lUnallaUi llirila While there may be and undoubtedly arc some Injurious birds, (here Is no doubt but Ihat the majority of our commoner small birds arc In the long run decidedly beneficial, the Injurious Inserts they destroy more than paying for the fruit and cereals they consume. Kxdudlng the Kngllsh sparrow, a for eigner for whom we have little or no sympathy, there Is perhaps only one bird which really stands on dangerous ground, and I refer to the so-called "sap-sucker," or "un-sucklng wood pecker.” Till* title Is only deserved, It must be noted, by one bird, not by the entire group of woodpeckers. And vel ii recent Imtlctln from the denurt mont of agriculture at Washington, D <!., claims that the trees are punctured uni) the sap Induced to flow by this bird, In order that the sweet Juice may attract Insects upon which the bird hits bee,!! aeon to feed. During certain sea softs of the year the "sup-sucker” sub sists very largely upon Insects. Most fruit growers, however, no mutter how humane they are theoretically, are not going to look quietly on while robin) and other birds In hordes are eating tt| their berries, and they have resource to their shotgun. This Is a matter which the entomologist will have to leave to their own consciences, Mllileuctl (irapes. Some Reasons grapes are seriously affected by mildew. The vines may suffer severely one season and be en tirely exejnpt the next, owing to a dif ference In the weather. It has been ascertained that mildew of the most se vere form and frequent occurrence oil native grapes Is caused by an excess of moisture on the foliage, chiefly be cause of heavy, continual dew. local ities where heavy dews are of less fre quent occurrence are most favorahh for successful grape culture. It ha) been found by experiments that plant) protected by a suitable covering which will arrest the upward radiation ol heat and prevent dew on their foliagt will be exempt from mildew, although surrounded on all sides by mildewei vines. The relation of rot to rnlldeu has not been definitely ascertained, bui it has been observed that fruit on vlnei where the trellises are covered to pre vent ini blew are less affected by ro than those less protected. Some va rletles of grapes are much more llabli to mildew than others, and should hi avoided. Tree* Tlmt Whistle. The musical or whistling tree 1 found in the West Indian Islands, 1] Nubia and the Soudan. It has a pent liar shaped leaf and pods with a spll o ropen edge. The wind passing throi these send out the sound which give the tree Its peculiar name. In Barba does, there Is a valley filled with thes trees, and when the trade winds blot across the Islands u constant moaning deep-toned whistle Is heard from II which In the still hours of the nigh has a very weird and unpleasant el feet. A species of acucia, which grow very abunndantly in the Soudan, I also called the whistling tree by th natives. Its shoots arc frequently, b the agency of the larvae uf Insect! distorted In shape, and swollep to globular bladder from one to tw Inches In diameter. After the Insec has emerged from a circular hole li the side of this swelling, the opening played upon by the wind. Iiecomes musical instrument, equal In sound t a sweel-to ned Bute.—Tit-Hit*. Dorset Points. Both the rstnti an ewes possess horns, adding dignity an grace to their appearance. The ram have large, handsome, symmetricall curved horns, which with their brigli eyes and open countenances, make a "fine a head as ran be found In tb world." While some breeder* seem t pay little or no attention to the bur we consider It of great Importance an have always selected and bred for symmetrical born of proper else an shape and sue own a strata with ei repttonally fine barns. A well br* tioreet should have a whit* and ful face, ptak noae and lips, white an rather short legs, a loag body, a »kur< j wall set a*» h. brisket well forwart I full shoulder* a straight and brow i herb, riba well sprung and deep, hear thigh There should be a tuft of wes : en the forehead wad the tower par I of the body well ousted Kst bang* Ivory failure* The rows may he i I the »ery heat dairy breed.and may ha* I pwrfsel cate aad treatment, and If ys* trotter la mad*, the enterprise la a tall 1 ora. No health? row • *«t gore bn I 41*4 *|*v i B4Il to k#tini I mm in er4*f 4u tad tatter I 1 Ptitl»that j htefe# 4||*t |t toitif (|| I ?*** jp mat* gt«v*t tail*# ilatM b ! ltoo to* »M til 44irj isMfii » omtol ! THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON IX.NOV 29—THE FAME OF SOLOMON. Uold*n Ten: “Behold, t Greater Than Solomon I* Here*' — Matt. I8!4t—• Meeker* After Light — The (Jneen of Sheba. KTIJRNINO now to the hlatory, we take up the narrative where we left It In l,caaon VII. Thla leaaon re quire* a review of the leaaona concern ing Solomon, In or der that we may ap preciate what the queen of Hheha waa aeeklng and what alie found, and aleo that we may aee In thla alory another aafeguard for Solomon Hgalnal falling. It aeema aa If the Lord, aeelng Ida great danger from wealth and power, and that lie waa talking on lh« very verge of a precipice, not only ap peared to him again In a dream ll«ea*nn til), with Iirlghl promlaea and earneat warning* Inn uaeil thla vlall of Sheba'* queen aa Hll additional aafeguard. for Holomon would In* reminded of hla reli gion* dutlea gnd privilege, and Of the fact that the honor of (toil and of true religion throughout the world were In hla keeping. Jeaua lilmaelf need thla alory for an II luetiatlon (Matt. 12: 12). and we may wleely ue« It In the aame way to leach acme very Important leaaon*. making tn« application* aa we go along and not wall ing till ihe end of the alory. The aeeilrm Include* the alory of the vlall of the queen of Hheha an told In t King* III: |.J0 and 2 I'hron. 0: 1-12. »°* gether with a review of Holomon'* great ne*n lii the remainder of theae chapter., 11 letorlcal Helling Time. About B SII2-WI. After the twentieth year of Solo mon'a reign II King. II: 10): and ten yeara after the cumplellon of the Temple. Place: ' ’ ■ * urniuin, Will I e nUI'/muii . royal pHlaie, (2) Hheba. or Hcbaea. » wealthy region In Southern Arabia, bor dering oil the Red Hea It was l.EOO to 2.000 intle* from Jerusalem. Solomon a Kingdom hail an urea of 60.000 square miles, ami a population of about 6,000,000 Israelites (aeeordltig to Chronicles). The glory of (he kingdom was now at Ha height. The text of lo-day's lesson, with ex planatory notes. Is us follows: V. I. "When the queen of Sheba.” "Sheba wax a country In Arabia Kell*, famous for Its truffle In gold, frankin cense, and precious stones.”—Kurrar. 3. "And Holomon told her all her ques tions,” her problems, enigma* and ques tions of religion. “Nothing was too deep for him In all she asked; he discovered the correct answer and gave It to her.”— Cambridge Bible. 4. "All Solomon's wisdom,” In Ids ar rangement*, the ordering of the kingdom, architectural Inventions and everything that required great skill. But especially Ills wisdom In answering hard quostlons. "And the house that In* hud built.” The reference Is probably not to the Temple, blit to the beauty and richness of hi* pal ace, us Hie particular* that follow relate lo the elegance of the style In which be lived and the admirable manner In which everything was arranged.—Prof. W. H. Oreen. 5. "And the meat of his table” 1. e,, both the great variety of food that was placed upon the king’s table (1 Kings 4: 22-2.1) and also the costly furniture of tho table (I Kings 10: 21). Ills banquets were of the most superb kind. All his pinto and drinking vessels were of gold. "The silling of his servants.” Here "servants” aiguilles the officers and distinguished persons who were privileged to sit at ths king's table, and were ranged according to rank and in large numbers at the royal banquets. "Tho attendance of his min isters." This refers most probably to those persons who stood to si rve the guests. “And their apparel" (cf. Matt, ti: 20). The rich and costly dress of East ern courtiers and attendants Is sometimes furnished by the king (Hen. 45 : 22; 1 Ham. 18: 4; 2 Kings 5: 6; Dun. E: 7; Esther 6: 8). —Pulpit Commentary. "Anil his ascent.” i the passage from the palace to the Tem ple up the Tyropean valley, referred to In 2 Kings 16: 18. This valley was a ravine over 100 feet deep between Zion and the Temple hill. The robes of the king am » described as so laden with the richest . perfumes of India und Arabia that they seem made of myrrh, and aloes, and cas sia. The Joyous music of stringed lnstru f mcnlo fl.tatu .-mini! him ntll fif iVtlTV Util ace*. The queen alia on hla right hand. In 1 robea glittering with the gold of Ophlr.” •Gelkle. “There yaa no more aplrlt, breath, in her.” Her amazement waa *o great that, as we say. It took away her t breath: she was lost in udmlration. "Ap r parently the queen had come with aomo hope that she might get the better of Sol * omon, either In her display of queenly ■ splendor or In the questions which alio 9 propounded. “—Cambridge Bible. , 6. “It was a true report." Bhe nobly aeknowledges the truth, without any ’ envy or conceit. * 7. "Behold, the half was not told me.” t Nor would she have believed it If It had been* told. Much of It could not be told In such ti way that she could really un * derstaiul It. any more than a native of * central tropical Africa could understand 9 that water could lie changed Into Ice or comprehend the working* of the tele ' phone, telegraph or the phonograph. * 8. “Happy are thy men “ Not because l of their hue clothe*, of their high posl ) tiou, of their splendid |Hisacaahm». did the . queen regard the people and tile servant* 1 at Solomon a* hlemied and happy, hut > because they could always listen to his , wisdom.Pulpit. Com. It 1* s great advan , tage to be In good famlllea. and to have . opportunity of frequent converse with * those that arc wise and good.—W. Henry. 9. “Blessed be the laird thy God.” * This shows that the queen understood Solomon to recognise all hla wlsdum and ‘ wealth as the gift of God. He was faith ■ ful to his God. and It Is tiosslble, a* Jew . lah writers claim, that she was convert ed to the true God through Solomon's * Influence “The l.urd loved Israel for* 9 ever." with a love which waa so strong p as never to fall God's tov* was Indeed an everlasting love We live under Us In ® Auettce to-day “Therefore made he thee t king “ This was the highest possible | roan pit meat to Solomon a lu A hundred and twenty lab til* (f * gold " Ahoul M."**' '*•* See *m verso | * “No such abundance of eptvea11 U. And Solomon gav* unto the queen * of Sheba all her desire " "A royal prog I rise In the hast hr alwaye necessarily ac j < •■nipaoted by a train of cosily gifts pro portioned to I be weolth and importance el the sovereign* who are to ba the don ors gad the recipients | --- CMHISTIAN BNUEAVON. 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