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SPICE IN RELIGION.
Of spices great abundance; neither was
there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba
gave King Solomon.—2 Chronicles, ix., !).
What is that building out yonder
glittering in the sun? Have yon not
heard? It is the house of the cedar of
Lebanon. Solomon, the King, has
just brought to it his bride, a princess
of Egypt. You see the pillars of the
portico and the tower glittering with
one thousand shields fastened on the
outside of the tower, five hundred of
the shields manufactured at Solomon’s
order and five hundred shields won in
battle by his father, David. See how
many blaze in the sun. Solomon comes
up the ivory stairs of his throne be
tween lions in statuary, and sits on the
back of the golden lion, the face of the
bronzed beast turned toward the people.
Solomon’s family is so large and he
has so many attendants that tho caterer
has to provide one hundred sheep per
day, and throe oxen, besides the birds
and the venison. The officers were
very important officers, who had to
gather the straw and the barley for the
horses, for I hear 4,000 horses neigh
ing and pawing in the royal stables.
Tradition says that Solomon was an
early riser and that he always rode out
at daybreak; and, when clothed in
whitejapparel and drawn by the swift
est horses of the realm, and followed
by mounted archers in purple, as the
cavalcade dashed through the streets
of Jerusalem, it must have been a spec
tacle worth getting up at five o’clock
in the morning to look at. Solomon
was not like many of the kings of our
day—crowned imbecility-—but all the
splendor of his palace and of his reti
nue was eclipsed by his intellectual
power. Why, he seemed to know al
most everything. He was the first
great naturalist that the world ever
saw. Peacocks from India strutted
the bysaltic walk, and apes chatted
among the trees, and the deer stalked
the parks, and there were aquariums
of foreign fish, and there were aviaries
of foreign birds; and these birds, tradi
tion says, were so well tamed that Sol
omon could walk from one end of the
city to tho other under the shadow of
their wings as they hovered and flitted
about him. Moreover, he had a great
reputation for enigmas, and riddles and
conundrums, which he propounded and
which he answered. He and his neigh
bor, King Huram, would sit by the
hour and propound enigmas and ask
riddles, and when one failed to answer
he had to pay for it in money. The
Solomonic navy visited all the nations
of the known world, and of course the
sailors, when they got into those foreign
ports, talked over these wonderful enig
mas and riddles and conundrums which
Solomon propounded, and the news got
clear down to Queen Baucas of Abys
sinia, and curiosity was aroused in re
gard to him, and she said: “I’ll test
that man, and I’ll send some puzzles
for him to answer, and I’ll send some
conundrums for him to solve.” And
so she sent up among other things a
diamond with so small a hole in it that
it could not be penetrated by a needle,
and she asked Solomon to thread that
diamond; and tradition says he took a
small worm and placed it at the open
ing in the diamond, and the worm
crawled through, leaving the thread in
the diamond. Then she sent a goblet
to Solomon, saying: “Fill this with
some water that poured not from the
sky nor rushed up from the deep.”
And Solomon put a slave on the back
of a horse and galloped lum around
and around and around the park until
the horse was exhausted, and from the
perspiration he filled the goblet. She
sent also to Solomon five hundred boys
in girls’ dress and five hundred girls in
boys’ dress, to see whether he would
be cheated bv the description. Solomon
watched, and when he saw them wash
their faces, by tho manner in which
they applied the waterto their faces he
found out the cheat. When Queen
Baucus had her curiosity excited to the
last degree, she said: “I’ll go up and
sec lor myself.” Here come the caval
cade—horses and dromedaries, chariots
and charioteers, flying ensign and blaz
ing symbols, and a great procession.
The air is saturated with the perfume.
She brings cinnamon and cassia, and
frankincense anl myrrh, and all the
sweet spices of the earth. As the pro
cession comes up to the gate the armed
guard inhale the perfume. Queen
Baucus alights in an atmosphere be-
witched with the aroma. As the drom
edaries arc driven up to the storehouse
of the King, and the bundles of cam
phor are unloaded, and tho sacks of
cinnamon and the boxes of spices are
opened, the purveyor of the King’s
palace discovers what 1 this morning
announced in my text: “Of spices great
abundance: neither was there any such
spices as the Queen of Sheba gave to
King Solomon.” Now, all this leads
me to say that Solomon was a type of
Christ, and that the Queen of Sheba
was a type of the genuine truth-seeker.
But I go farther this morning, and tell
you that the sweet spices "“that she
brought to the King are a type of the
holy spicery of onr Christian religion.
Christianity is not a collection of sharp
technicalities and of chronological
tables and of dry statistics. It is a
collection of spices. It is cassia, it is
frankincense, it is spikenard, it is the
rippling of cool fountains, it is the
opening of opaline gates, it is all sweet
spices. Would God that Queen Baucus
would drive her spice-laden drome
daries through our holy religion.
There are a great many people to whom
life is insipid; it is a monotone. They
get so tired of this treadmill way of
living. Here are men who have been
climbing, walking, bargaining, gain
ing, losing, talking, explaining twenty
years, thirty years, forty years, fifty
years, seventy years. Oh, the horri
ble monotony, some of you say, I will
tell you what is the matter: You need
your religion spiced up with enliven
ment. You are seated at a feast in
which the cook has forgotten to season
the food. Oh, if, when you have your
losses, there should flash through your
soul the idea of heavenly gain. Oh,
if, when you are betrayed of the world,
you could realize the unfailing friend
ship of Jesus Christ. Oh, if, when
busiuess is dull, you could see flitting
in and out of your office and shop and
factory and banking house ministering
angels of God, your life instead of be
ing a stupid monotone would boa glo
rious inspiration, penduluming between
calm satisfaction and high rapture.
Nobodj’ doubts your religion. You
are a Christian.' But you have an in
sipid sort ol religion. You want it
spiced up—more enlivenment. You
want the Queen of Sheba to drive her
spice laden carivan through your re
ligion. How women can keep house
year after year with no religion is to
me a mystery. This perpetual plan
ning for the meals, this mending of
garments that soon 3gain will be rent,
this scattering of the dust which soon
again will settle, this deploring of
breakages and this supervising ot tardy
subordinates, and this working day in
and day out, and yeai in and year out,
until the hair silvers and the shoulders
stoop and the spectacles fall from the
eye and the grave breaks open under
the thill sole of the shoe—it is an aw
ful monotony. But suppose Christ
comes into your nursery, into your
drawing-room, into your parlor, into
your kitchen and take possession of the
whole house. Then womanly duties
are cheerful and happy duties. Then
Martha quits Martha and sits at the
feet of Christ. Then Deborah is witeie
she can help Lapidoth and Hannah
where she can make a coat for young
Samuel, and Miriam can watch her
brother, and Rachael is glad she can
help her father water the stock, and the
widow of Sarepta is glad that the
cruse of oil is all the time being replen
ished. Oh, woman having in your
pantry a whole nest of boxes filled with
condiments, why do you not put into
your heart and your head the spicery
of our holy religion? Martha, Martha,
thou art careful and troubled; but one
thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen
that good part, which shall not be
taken away from her.
Yes, I go further, my friends, and
say that much of the religion of this
day is an insipid religion. There is
not anything piquant or enlivening in
it. Men and women go humming psalm
tunes in a minor key and culturing
melancholy, and call tiiat religion, and
there is iti their worship more sadness
than rapture. It ought not to be so.
Emancipated from sin and death and
hell, and on their way to a magnificent
heaven, they trudge on as though they
were going to an everlasting Botany
Bay. All the infidel book written from
the time of Voltaire to Herbert Spencer
have not done Christianity so much
harm as lugubrtous Christians. Their
religion does not seem to agree with
them. It gets in the wind-pipe and
is to them strangulation rather than
exhilaration. Ah, my friends, yon
need to have your religion brightened
up. You want some of the condi
ments of this religion put into your
experience.
“Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We’re marching through Emanuel's ground
To fairer world on high.”
Come out of that cave and sit in the
light ofthe sun of righteousness. Away
with your odes to melancholy and Har
vey’s Meditations Among the Tombs.
Yes, my friends, we need more of
spice and enlivenment in the discharge
of onr duty as teachers in pulpits, in
Sabbath schools, in prayer meetings
and everywhere where we have a word
to say for Christ. Do you wonder that
the world is so far from being convert
ed, when there is so little vivacity in
pew and pulpit? We need fewer rhe
torical elaborations, and fewer sesque
pedalian words, and when we want to
speak of shadows do not say adumbra
tion, and when we want to speak of a
stitch in the side, do not say lumbago.
Let us talk to the people in plain ver
nacular and present this Gospel in lan
guage they can understand, this Gos-
pel which proposes to make all men
honest and happy and victorious and
free. In other words, in our religious
teaching we want more cinnamon and
less gristle.
Yes, we want more of the spice of
this holy religion in our Christian
work. When you go among the
hovels of the poor do not begin to dis
course to them about their wretched
condition, about the hunger of their
looks and the hardness of their lot.
They know it a great deal better than
yon can tell them. Tell them of some
thing better. Tell them how the Lord
is going to come for the rescue of His
children. Rouse up their stolidity with
a merry laugh,and after yon have given
them the bread and the medicine and
the clothing, give them also the spice
of this Christian encouragement. There
are two ways of going into destitution.
One way is going in with a manner
which seems to say: “Well, I don’t
know how you stand it in this miser
able neighborhood, it makes me sick;
there is a bundle of clothes, you poor,
miserable wretch—make the best it.”
Better not go into such a place unless
you have with you the spice of the
holy religion of Jesus Christ. All
the charity yon give with your hand
will be outdone by the gloom of your
countenance or the incapacity of your
heart. Another way of going into
the houses of destitution is by one’s
manner practically saying: “The bless
ed Lord sent mo to you; Christ Him
self was poor, and He is in sympathy
with all poor; I come not only to give
you something, but I expect to get
your prayer.” With such a gift as
that there is a fragrance like spikenard
that came to the feet of Christ, arid all
the hovels of that alley will breathe
the fragrance of this holy spice of the
Christian religion. Yes, we want more
ot this spice and enlivenment in church
music. How many churches there are
discussing whether they had better
have choir or precentor, whether they
had better have bass violin, or organ,
or cornet. I say, take that which will
give tho most [inspiring music. Nine
out of ten people in church do not sing,
atul the tenth who does sing sings so
softly nobody knows it. German
chorals in the great German cathedrals
overpower the music in I’rotestant
churches in America, and yet Germany
has not received anything at the hand
of Christ compared with what America
has received; and shall the acclaim o?
Berlin be louder than the acclaim of
our American cities? Wake up, all
churches of Jesus Christ, from Bangor
to Sail Francisco and across Christen
dom! Soft music and exquisite music
have their places, but never can take
the place of great congregational har
monies. St John gave his idea of
.vhat ought to be its reesonance and its
power when he listened to the temple
services ot Heaven and said: “I heard
a great voice as the voice of a great
multitude, as the voice of many waters,
as the voice of mighty tliundevings.”
Hallelujah! for the Lord God omni
potent reignetli. People have told me
they sometimes hear the music of this
church out on Fulton street. I wish it
might have an additional momentum
and power which would make them hear
it half-way down to the ferry. Oh, for
fifty times more volume of holy sound
than has ever arisen amid these arches.
I promise more spiritual prosperity to
that man, to that woman, who will
sing the praises of God, and sing them
with enough earnestness to lei people
know they are singing. A sermon can
be answered, an exhortation can be scof
fed at, but the five thousand voiced ut
terance ol Christian praise is irresista
ble. Oh, that Queen Baucus of Aby
sinia would drive her spice laden cara
vans through all our church music.
Now, tny friends, I want to impress
upon yon the fact that religion is per
fume, is sweetness. “Ah!” says some
one, “I never thought it that; 1 rather
considered it something repulsive; it
seemed to me malodorms; I didn’t
want any of that religion, or if 1 had
any of it 1 would want just enough of
it to get through with.” Why, my
brother, it is redolence now, and it is
redolence forever. Just put that re
ligion on the stand beside the sick pil
low. Ah! how it sweetens the hitter
cup, What a glow it casts on the
gloom of the turned lattice. What a
balm for the aching side. What a
soft bandage for the temple stung with
pain. Samuel Rutherford in tortures
of body shouted the praises of God.
Richard Baxter, with greater and more
wonderful complications of diseases
than any man ever suffered, wrote at
tho same time his wonderful book call
ed The Saint’s Everlasting Rest. This
light struck Bunyan’s dungeon, the
! light of tho shining gate of the shining
city. Anu this religion is the best of
all medicines. It is good for the rheu
matism, it is good for the neuralgia, it
is good for the heart disease, it is good
for consumption, it is a good catholicon
for all disorders. This will help heal
all sorrows. Why were you so sad
! this morning when you came to the
house of God? Oh, there is a burden
on yonr soul that for years has not
been lifted. Sometimes you feel like
saying with Lord Macauly: “If I had
a whole month of such days as 1 have
spent, I would like to get down into
the narrow crib of my grave like a
weary factory child.” And sometimes
in the sorrow ol your life you have
said: “Oh, how sweet must be the
1 dust of tho valley to the lips of a weary
1 soul. Oh, if I could only have my
f last slumber and pull over me the cov
| erlct of the green grass and of violets.
Amidst the silence of this audience this
morning there are hundreds of breaking
(hearts. A widowed soul with a little
child moved to the far West because
she heard that the wages were larger
there. Arriving at the West the moth
er sickened and died. The overseer of
the poor came, took her body, put it in
a box, put the box in a wagou, and
trotted off briskly toward the cemetery.
The little child, the only child, came
out on the street, bareheaded, barefoot
ed, and ran after that wagon, crying
until her voice was heard all through
the street, “Bring back my mother!
bring back my mother!” And it is
said the people of the villiage sobbed
aloud in grief and sympathy. It seem
ed a peculiar scene, but there are hun
dreds of you chasing tin dead! Now,
is there no peace? Has God turned us
out on a desert *o die? Are we mock
ed in our griefs? Is there no comfort?
Is there no fountain where this thirst
of soul can be healed? There is Res
urrection and rennion. “They shall
hunger no more, neither thirst any
moie, nor any heat, for the Lamb which
is in the midst of the throne shall lead
them to living fountains of water, and
God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes.” There is the sweetness of
consolation. There is tho halm of
Christian hope. There are the sweet
spices of our holy religion. Someone
wondered why an old German Chris
tian philosopher was always so happy
and contented notwithstanding his
hardships were very great and his loss
es wonderful. Some ons said, “I’d
find out the secret of that old Chris
tian philosopher’s happiness; I cannot
see how he should be so happy, when
so many misfortunes are around him.”
So this man secreted himself in the
house of the old Christian philosopher
and he gave this testimony: He said
the old philosopher went to his room in
the evening, took a chair by the stand,
opened the Bible and read chapter after
chapter, and hour after hour, until his
face was all aglow with good news
from heaven. After a while the clock
struck twelve at night. The old phil
osopher closed his Bible and arose ami
said: “Blessed Lord, we are on the
same old terms yet. Good night, good
night!” The secret was out. Com
munion with God, peace of Christ,
consolation of the Holy Ghost. These
are the things that make the soul
happy. Well, brethren, all this is
promised you heie. 1 cannot tell you
w'nat will yet come and the revelation
that may be made of this holy religion.
Some of you have read ofthe Taj Ma
hal of India, perhaps the most won
derful building ever constructed, it
took twenty thousand men twenty years
to build it. It cost sixteen million
dollars to build it, that representing
five times, at least, of that amount of
money here. Its walls were of marble.
They were inlaid with cornelian from
Bagdad, turquoise from Thibot, jasper
from Persia, and precious stones from
all lands. A traveller says that it is
an enchanted castle of burnished silver.
The walls are two hundred and forty
feet high, and from that height there
starts a cupola or dome thirty more
feet. That dome lias the most wonder
ful echo in all the world, and every day
that echo is tested by travellers who
stand far beneath with liar;), ot trum
pet, or flute. The sound strikes above,
and then it comes down music like
that ot angels. The building is sur
rounded by a garden of tamarind, and
yams, and palm trees, and floral beau
ties, from the whole earth ransacked
for that purpose. But all that is only
the tomb of a dead empress. It is
nothing compared with the grandeurs
that God hath builded for your immor
tal spirit. Oh, the blessed home of
the righteous. Oh, the foundations ol
gold. Oh, 'he arches of victory, the
capstones of praise, the dome echoing
and re-echoing with the hallelujahs of
all the ages. There is a garden around
about it, the garden of God, and the
springing fountains are tlie bottled
tears of the church in the wilderness,
and the crimson of the flowers is the
deep hue caught np from early martyi
doms, and the fragrance is the players
of all the saints, and tho aroma puts
into nothingness the spikenard and the
cinnamon, and the cassia, and the fran
kincense which Queen Baucus of Abys
sinia flung to the feet of Solomon.
“When shall these eyes thy heaven built
walls
And pearly gates behold;
Thy boulevards with salvation strong,
And streets ot shining gold?”
Through obduracy of heart and re
jection of Christ, who makes that sal
vation possible, shall any of us fail of
that spectacle? I fear, 1 fear. The
queen of tho south shall rise up against
this generation in judgment and con
demn it. She came from uttermost
parts of the earth to hear the wisdom
of Solomon, and behold a greater than
Solomon is here. God grant that by
practical experience we may find relig
ions ways to be ways of pleasantness
—a perfume now, a perfume forever.
Of spices there was great abundance;
neither was there any such spice as the
Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
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four bottles of your medicine, my
skin is well, clean and smooth as ever.
Henry Knochi:.
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