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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1915)
niK OMAHA SUNDAY lVA): OCTOHEU 17, 1915. 9 A f "Billy" Sunday Preaches on the Text of "A Lesson from Solomon" Tlllr" Sunday preached Saturday ntirht and had Rntten toirrther from every lanil on "A Lesson from Solomon " He .aid. th. finest rslnttnRs and th. cholcrst Trxt: Eccleslastrs i. i, "What profit sculpture that ha could find. He had tha hath a man of all hla labor which ha finest china that inen could make and taketh under tha un?" moner oould buy. Ha had all kinds of This question was asked and answered bric-a-brac, and tha best of cut glass, by Solomon, and its roeanlna; la, "AVhat And yet, while ' hla army of servant, does a man ret out of Ufa If he lives awaited his pleamira and beautiful dsn only for tha things which tha world can dng women trol graceful measures upon glva himr' !tn r,ch floora nd 11 tha glories of tha If any man has aver been abla to glva Palaca to pleaaa him as ha lolled at ease, an answer out of his own wisdom an h cr,pd ou " experience, that man wa. Solomon. doleful words. "All la vanity and vexa- Ha was on; who was born with a silver " P,rJJ- ....... spoon in his mouth. Solomon wa. a f a-! Pf f id- bubble that had vored .on of one of tha greatest men In looked upon the wreck the Bihla-of David, who wa. a man after u V lMm through Brt.lfl- v. . ... cation of hla testes and appetite, ha - - "Al was a man who Just suited Ood. "All la vanity and vexation of said: spirit." Every man want, to be satisfied. I do. So do, you. Everyone la reaching, out for happiness and peace and rest. There are men in this Tabernacle now who have Solomon wa made king of tha greatest kingdom In tha world when he was stilt a young man, but he had hla father to help him and advise him. He had knowl- . A . ' " . " ... tried many things In pursuit of happiness, had before or haa ever had since. He had Tm " an Invincible army that he haa on.y to nnA some of you have not command and It would obey. He had only found what h mlgM A wh(J to-express a wish and It wa. gratified. are hore are ff the of ,tcrnlty. e naa weaun sucn a. n There ara men looking me In the face known before. When tho Queen of Sheba came to Je rusalem to him she looked upon the beauty of his wonderful palace, the mag. who will have '1915'' carved on their tomhatonea. f The past I. simply a memory, the future nn uncertain! v. Na matter if vour hair nlflcence of hla army, the numbers of Kray no mRltef wh(lt your rnk ac men who served him. the wealth of gold count B r,me of you must say, ' I have and preclou. things that surrounded him not founj happiness. I am a failure. All and .ha went back home and said: "Tha ,, canity and vexation of spirit." half has not been told me." .; j .why don't you be a man? Why don't Solomon wrote I,0n0 proverb, and 1.0t you ,ow a man', courage and take up tongs, and-they are full of wisdom.. If na the cros. of the Son of God? Why don'l hasn't qualified to speak as an expert, i you rt9 to what you might be? how rrte where I can go to find one. ' . r y were all meant for better things. Lot u. examine hla qualifications as a ' -you were never meant for the slop and witness. lie had only to reach 'out hi. barrels of tha devil, soft Jeweled hand for anything he wanted , Why do you let the devil control you? and It was there. He had experienced the J Why do you. let him make you a pawn to describe a rilnbow, you know aboU how straight he'll get It. Solomon said: "Tnder the nun." He wanta us to know that be was looking at thing, and not speaking from a low and worldly viewpoint. He didn't mean that labor for Ihe higher and better things Is without profit. Not much. He knew that these are the only things worth while. If you take away the church. If you take away the hope tf Immortality, If you take away the blessings of rellKlon: If you destroy all hope for the future, you turn thl. world Into a hell. If we blot out all knowledge except what we get through our senses. If we blot out all knowledge of Christ, if we Mot cut all that which In man tells him that there la a Ood and hereafter. If wo blot out all these things then every grave would hold a suicide. One week after Fob Ingersoll delivered his lecture on suicide In New Tork they fished twenty-fVve suicides out of the old reservoir, and within a month there had been 1 suicides. Tou are Just beginning to learn some thing about your soul when you find thnt nothing worldly will satisfy your soul. No Happiness Found In Din. Nothing under tho sun Is ours for more than a brief moment. We have It Just for a little while, then It Is gone forever. There la no happiness posnlbla without the hope of eternity. The thing you think Is haprlness mocks you as It fllw away. Nothing under the sun will satisfy a human soul. If this world were meant to be our home, the things of this world would satisfy us, but the world Isn't meant to be our home, and tta things are not enough to give us peace. Give u. what we want and still we are not astls- tlcd. Oreed for gain will never be satisfied by wea'th. Greed for honor will not be satisfied with distinction. If wo destroy faith In Ood there Is no real happiness. What does a mole know of sunrise and what does a person living In a cellar know of a mountain? The best that the world can give la a bubble. What we see In the world depends en tirely upon our viewpoint. It Is not pos sible for a man standing on his head to tell of the beauties of the rainbow. Take away tha Hlhle from Ihe world and all hope of the future, goes. Tut nothing In It. place hut atn and there would be little use to live. It would banish all hope of heaven and make of It a bell. Destroy all that tell, of heaven and there I. but despair remaining. What doe. the mole know about sun shine? What doe. a man down In a pit know about the flowers? The best heaven you ran build for yourself without Christ Is nothing better than an anteroom to hell. Solomon at I set looked above. Hla view, point changed. He saw something be yond. A ' man who could see but little was taken up Into the blue and from that height could see distinctly. After all of thl. he came to the conclusion. "Fear Ood and Keep His Commandments." sNoah looked beyond when for 110 year, he built the ark without a cloud In the sky. Abraham likewise, looking for a city, looked beyond. Moses, wilting to suffer reproach, waa looking beyond. Joahua. too. who de clared "Aa for tne and my household, we will serve the Lord." Job saw the heights s. he said, "Though He slay me, yet will I keep Ills Commandments." It wa. the same with Samuel, Eira. Nehetnlah, I'snlel and "tephen. All looked beyond, saw God's gn:y. They viewed things from nn earthly viewpoint. Jesus looked beyond when He snld, ' t go to my Father and will preptire a place for you." Tou are made to he kings, to be the sons of God; It was not Intended that you should prepare yourselves for hell. What doe. a man get out of1 this llfu It he ehooaea earthly thmga? Tou should prepare for higher things. How many of you are brave ami cour ageous enough to walk .own here and stand with me and look at things higher than tha sun? (Copyright, WHItam A. Sunday.) t' Th. Pe.'. -Swapper mluma. S. M. Felton Plays Golf at the Country Club With Wattles President 8. M. Felton of the Chicago Great Western railroad la spending tha day In Omaha a. the guest of Gurdon W. Wattles, a director of the mad. After a golf game at the Country elub, this afternoon, the vtattlng railroad head will be the guest or honor at a banquet at Hotel Fontenelle at T o'clock, when twenly-flv. prominent Omaha busi ness men will haa-e a chance to get ac quainted with him. W. It. McCord of Omaha I. alm a di rector of the Great Western and helped entertain President Felton Friday, when he arrived In his private car from Chi cago. Ho will leave for Kansas City late tonight. City Discontinues Issue of Blanks to House Number Agent Publicity given by The Pee of the operations of a private cltlnen circulat ing, In the South side, ' official notices bearing the rubler stamp signature of the city engineer resulted In City Engi neer Hruce giving this young man a letter which explain, his work. The laauanca of th city', blanks to thl. man ha. been discontinued. Th Utter read, a follows: Th bearer, Mr. H. S, Hums, Is not an etnHove of th City of Omaha. He la. however, supplied by this affile with th im'nnaff data t teaue correct nous numbers on certain streets In what was formerly South Omaha. It la ortlonal with th property owner as la whether a buys at number from Mr. Bursa, or isewbr. Payment on Bonds Swells Clearings N1TW TORK. Oct. H. The flrtrt pay ment on th Anglo-French $5f.tt.,oi bonds, made yesterday by managara of the syndicate underwriting tho losue, nnd other factors, swelled the bank clearing of the New Tork clearing house. It was announced today, to th unprecedented total of mora than rMJ.ffW.M& This mean, that this great sum, represented by check a passed through the clearing house within the last twenty-four hours The previous record, made November i, 1W9, was r.WO.Oot, For Piteh SuSorcs f';';' f Sample Pack a a f a P ryrasaM Fit) Treat meat K OSTereil Free t Prev What I UI IM for Yen. Pyramid Til Treatment r-lvea quick re lf, atop. Itch, log, bleadlnc; Of protruding Pile, hemorrhoids and all rectal troaMea, In th privacy of your own home. le. a box at all druggists. A single box often cures. Free epic far trial With booklet mailed fre In plala wrapper. If yon. aead ua coupon be low. VW'.K KAMPLK (til" IDS PTHAMin rmca compant. H? rvramld Rldg., Marshall. Mich. Klnd'y send me a Fro sample ff Pyramid rile Treatment, In plain rn4'Pr. Kama Ftreet City .. Stat Rent Your Vacant House by Use of Bee Want Ads. Desi 11JUO lb WM rvwuiti iui m uimu . bave. s Tnlrty-Tfcird Deare Sport. i . Be had taken all th degree, of pleasure and Invented a few of his own. H waa. a thirty-third degree aport. i Hla courtier, and .errant, were not prlng chicken not by' any meajis they were high-brow., every one of them. iNo higher station ever has been reached' by a human being than waa reached by Solo mon. He had 40,000 horses and ,000 horsemen. His dally provision. 'for the palace -alone were 115 bushel, of fine flour, 656 bushel, of meal, 20 oxen, 100 sheep and hart, 'roe buck, fallow deer and fatted fowl.. He was not only .bora with a tlver spoon in his mouth, but It had a diamond unburst handle1 to- it. Now listen. Here wa. a fellow , who had it all. Just listen and you'll hear what ha had - to- .ay" before . be got through. ' .Solomon was . Sloe observer, Juat as his father, David, wa.. He .aid: "I have Men all thing, under the sun." Listen, and you'll hear a story tonight that -will dazzle yotx ' ' At some time In our live, we have en vied men of great fortune or of high acholarchiPr-aad w hava thought that It we' only could have or know as much a. they do; wa would hav a foretaste of heaVen. ' . . , Solonon had-th. greatest fortona In the world sod he wa. the wisest among men. Hi fat.bnlj" exhausted the' wet) ot knowl edge, but ha pulled out th pump, .' He .Was alway. wanting to learn something. He - wa. so anxious to know jnore that he gave hi teacher, nervous prostration. After he had found out ' Juat what wealth can do, he aatd: "Let', see what pleasure can do," and the way he went to it would make a base ball fan at the world's series look like a clothing dummy. Ho jumped into Ms magnificent coach and he went at a speed that would throw dust into the eye. of Barney Oldfield. He speeded along the rose-lined road that seemed so promising of Joy, but after a while a wheel of the chariot broke, and down it came, and Solomon wa. down In the mud. , , Then he cried out a. a warning to fol lower, on the aame road: "Stopl BtopI Go back! All thl. i. vanity and vexation of spirit!" Had Brig-ham YonnaT Backed Off the Boards. When Solomon had found out that there la nothing in these thing, ho went and tried wine. He hit up th boose, Ho tried a lot of things. He bad a - great natatorlum built, and 'It wa. .up ported by great lions. That', where he took the count. He had 700 wive, and 800 concubine. He had Brlgham Young, th Mormon, backed off the boards by 350. He wasn't satis fied yot, and after he had gotten out of these things all that he could get. he said la th bitterness of hi. soul: "Vanity, vanity, all Is vanity." Ha constructed the great building known a. Solomon'. Temple. It took ten year, to bui'.d It. It took 10,000 men eleven rear. Just to cut the tree, that were needed, and It took W.000 hewer, of wood and 70,000 men Just to prepare the boards, and there were 80,000 squared atone. In Ui building. Then, after It wa. all completed, he declared a festival of .even day. In cele bration of th finishing ot the work and 130,000 sheep and a lot of oxen were killed and eaten at the dedicatory festivities. The roof of that wonderful building was of olive wood covered with the purest gold and it daisied the eye. of everybody who looked upon it. The build ing and Its courts would accommodate SOO.OOO people, or twenty time. a. many a. thl. tabernacle will hold. The pillars were of the purest margle that could bo had. Th gold on the Inside of the bulldlcg was worth a billion dol lar, and the silver waa valued at that The 200 targets bur t24O.00O.0uO worth ot gold. Then after Solomon had constructed this great building he turned hi. talent, to the waking of Jerusalem into a beau tiful city. He planted tree, from every clime end flower, of every kind and nu were there. These were kept green all th year around by stream, brought from reservoirs In the mountains. But these pleased Solomon's fancy for only, a little while, and soon he waa weary of them. I can see him as he walk. In the beautiful garden, among the tree., looking at the flowers and plucking a pomegranate here nnd there and I can sea him rrlng hla hand., and I can hear hlra say, "All Is vanity and vexation of .plrit." . Had Everything:, bat NotblnsT Pleaeed Hies. Just think of It! He had great wealth why. In one year SiO.OoO.CuO in gold came to him from th mine, of Ophlr and cam aa a gift. Ha had gratified hi. every whim. He had taated of every pleasure of which he could think or that ethers could sug gest to him. He had denied himself noth ing. . . Ha bad probably been aa art collector upon the board on which he play, his garnet I. there any bread In rum? Ask the poor fellow, who have been .pending their earning, for drink during all theso years. Drnakard'a Blood Lend, to Cell. Ask their wive, and their children. No bread for them. - Ask the saloonkeeper. There Is "bread In it for him, but none for those who drink what he nllt. " If I had ony way, every drop of alcohol would be In hell by midnight. . Don't cheer. I would prefer that, you get Into the attitude of mind that spells action. I belleve that Ood is tired of seeing men and women longing for thing, that are not of th best. Why not give your sou', a chance to reach out higher and then make a fight to the flnlah? There wa. a specialist in London who waa called upon to attend a 7-year-old boy who had tried to kill his little sis ter. The specialist asked him why he tried such a thing and the boy answered that he felt alway. aa though he wanted to kill somebody. The specialist asked the father whether he drank. "I'm not a teetotaler," wa. the reply. "But you drink." . "I keep It In the house," answered the father. ) . . "But you drink," said1 the specialist. The father finally admitted he had been a drinking man and the specialist told hlnv that hi. boy -.would grow . "up-and kill somebody some 'day and the lather would be to blame because it wa. heredl tary with the child. If I could lift th curtain and allow some ot you men to look twenty-five year. Into the futur you would e a felon In a cell and he would be the boy who followed In hi. father", foot step, and drank and attended th dance and cursed when he should bave "been guided on the right track. Hate Cocoannt Cake. When I wa. In Wheeling, W. Va., a little girl of about year, of age came to me with a package in her band and said: s "Mr. Sunday, X want to give you this i cake. I haven't any money, but papa wa. converted at the meeting, and I baked this cake, and I want to give It to vou." It was a cocoanut cake. If there', any thing that I despise It U cocoanut eake. but I took It and I 'Said: "I'll try som of It right now." And I did. That was a great test ot my love, but I made food. The little girl .aid: Tve got a new daddy at home, now." Won't some of you go horn a new daddy tonight? Won't you take home a new husband? Won't you take home a new eon? Tou men take Jesus bom. with you, t when you go In My, "Wife, here'. Jesus." At a meeting one night a doctor .aid, "1 hav served the devil for fifty year. I settled up tonight and I bad nothing coming." Tou .ettle with th devil and you'll bave nothing coming. Carnegie My. that there ar no happy multl-mllllonalres. Andy ought to know, for be', got the dough. He My.. "If any man can glvo me an option on life ha can name his price and we will not C squabble." If you want to find .tarvatlon ot the heart of the worst kind you don't need to go to the aluins. , Solomon Come, to Higher View point. Solomon said: "All la vanity and vexa tion of spirit." Was he dyspeptic? Was the world gloomy to him becauM he wa. "busted?" No. I. there nothing but evil In wealth? Solomon Mid so many things that stand in contrast to what he said about the vanity of things. Are we to think that Solomon got bi. wire, crossed? No. i Solomon did not contradict him self.' When he .aid: "What profit hath a man of all hU labor." he added, "which ha taketh under the sun?" That explains It to me: It make. It all clear. I can see what Solomon waa thinking about when he Mid that. He Mid: "Under the sun." He meant to ask what profit Is there In laboring for worldly tblnga lie bad come to a higher viewpoint. Many a man talk. a. If he stood on the mountain, of virtu when he really Is In the qftagmlr of .in. When a man , stands up and tell, me that the whiskey trad helps bustnea. -1 know that h 1. talking from the standpoint of the brewer and saloonkeeper. , I know that he Is not talking from the tandDoInt of the drunkard', wife a. with her little children about her the j looks out upon l"a from aaualor, and j want. I know that he 1. not talking from thai standpoint of the drunkard's mother, a. she weep. In sorrow and pray for her wayward boy. What a man My. .how. hla viewpoint, and when you know a man', lewpo.nt you know what ha will My. 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