niK OMAHA SUNDAY lVA): OCTOHEU 17, 1915.
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"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
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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,
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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. If a mau
aland, on hi. bead In the cellar and trie.
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