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VISIT OF QUEEN
OF SHEBA
One of the Twelve Storira of Solomon.
BY THE "HIGHWAY AND BYWAY”
PREACHER
(Copyright* PA*#, by the Author, W. A. fc.ii.oii.)
Scripture Authority.—Kings, 10:1-13.
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SERMONETTE.
*k ‘‘Behold, a greater than Solo
^ mon is here.” Do you hear the
^ challenge of Scripture? A con
templation of this story of Solo
mon and appreciation of his wis
dom and glory bring with them
nothing but condemnation in
£ that we can discern the splen
ic- dors that marked his life and
» reign while at the same time
S we miss the beauty and charm of
the son of God, the greater than
Solomon.
$ “The queen of the south shall
rise up in the judgment with
>,i this generation and shall con
demn It.”
And the judgment
«jfe will be just, for how can we es
cape when we have neglected
Sto great opportunity of seeing
and knowing him who is called
% “Wonderful, Counsellor, The
2 Mighty God, The Everlasting Fa
ff' ther, The Prince of Peace?”
s*. True it is of the world as Isa
lah declares: "When we shall
gC see him, there is no beauty that
jg we should desire him. He is
j>V despised and rejected of men, a
man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief; and we hid as it
I
were our faces from him; he
was despised and we esteemed
fhim not.” It is not that the
beauty and the glory and the
power are not there, but it Is
jje that we turn our faces from
him who would reveal all these
f things to us, aiycT see only the
temporal things of life.
Having earij we hear not. But
/-l?*t»ot so with the queen of Sheba,
jjf thi country far, far to the south,
for when tidings came of a
certain King Solomon, and of
his wisdom and the splendors of
site
his kingdom, she listened to the
4’i story, and determined that she
would prove to her own ears
and her own eyes that all she
And so
^ had heard was true,
she came!
2jj CAME! Do you grasp the sig
% nificance of that word? Where
you are now dwelling in ease
and contentment you will never
^ be able to know that these
sjfe things which are spoken of the
greater King Jesus are true.
Ph You have heard the reports.
^ You have been told ever and
s* over again by those who have
£ come straight from the presence
3b of King Jesus that he and he
^ alone can satisfy the heart of
man. and yet you have been
content to stay where you are
3* in the far country of sin. Why
£•, not, like the queen of Sheba,
& come and prove whether the
things you have heard are really
$ 50 7
*£ King Solomon received the
y queen of Sheba because she
came a6 an honest Inquirer. He
% was willing that she should see
& and hear and know. And the
greater than Solomon invites
j*. the most searching kind of hon
y est investigation and testing.
* “Prove me," is the invitation.
***** -U 5
X.
THE STORY.
«|JUT what if the story is true?" j
D and as the question kept press- I
ing itself in upon her, she tapped her 1
daintily sandaled foot impatiently upon
the polished marble floor, as though
she demanded answer from the very
*%. stones at her feet. But no answer
'clime to her ears but the soft, muf
fled tap of her foot upon the floor.
“It all comes from listening to the
idle tales of the wanderer and adven
turer,” she exclaimed at last impa
tiently; and then almost in the same
breath she added:
“But what if the story is true?
How I wish I knew
“This King Solomon of Israel must
be a wonderful person," she contin
ued musingly to herself, as she
threw' hecself upon the low divan and
gave free rein to the thoughts which
crowded Into her troubled heart. “And
his God must be even more wonderful
|han the gods ol Sheba.
“But no,” she added hastily, “this
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cannot be. Ret me not De aisioyai to
my pods and my land. What fairer
land could they pive than the spice
laden fields, the polden sands of her
rivers and the precious stones? Sure
ly the God of Israel cannot have done
more.”
“Rut your pods never divided the
waters of a miphty river, nor threw
down the walls of a city," came back
the answer as snatches of the story
of the nation of Israel, came to her
mind as they had been related to
her but a few days before by the
traveler.
This traveler had come on one of
the trading ships which had touched
at a near-by port, and the wonderful
stories of the land from which he
had come had reached her ears and
she had sent for him. And he had
come, glad of the chance to tell to the
beautiful queen of the land of Sheba
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Israel, of the God of Israel and his
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he land which he had given to hh
people, and of the wonderful king
whom God had established upon the
hrone. And when he had gone and
he first thrill of the story had been
spent, she found doubt creeping into
aer heart.
it was naught but the fair dream of
i romancer. No land could be bet
ter than her land. No gods were
better than the gods of her fathers
ind her fathers' fathers. She would
aot prove disloyal to them. But al
vays while she sought thus to bring
nerself back to rest content with what
she already possessed, there persist
ed this question:
“Wliav if the story is true?”
"And how shall l ever know wheth
er it is true or not?" she asked her
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self at last.
“Why not go and see?” An incredu
lous little laugh burst from her lips
at the very thought of such a thing,
and to prove that It was impossible
she began to run over in her mind
the many seemingly Insurmountable
things in the way of such a long,
hard and perilous journey. She
might just as well give up her people
and her kingdom as to undertake such
a journey, for while she was gone,
«bat. might not happen?
"Hut what if the story is true?”
rame back the question again and
again. And it gave her no peace. To
every reason great and small which
she could think of why she should noL
on the journey, the question kept
coming back with redoubled force:
i "What if it is true?”
If it is true," she exclaimed at last,
! with an air of decision, "I want to
know. And how shall I know save as
I go and see for myself? Did I send
a deputation to this King Solomon, i
should have only their cay-so. If
| Israel has such a king and such a
God, I must see and know for my
self, if I would be satisfied."
"And so would you go?” she Rsked
herself at last. “Yea, I would," she
exclaimed with an air of decision.
| Rising hastily as though that matter
was now settled, she summoned her
waiting maid.
"Go, Felica, and dispatch messen
gers to the port. I would see the
j traveler who came thither on the
ship and who told such wonderful
stories of the land from which he
came. Make haste, for If I remember
rightly the boat was to have sailed
this day.”
Thus admonished Felica quickly had
the swiftest runner on his way, and
that evening he had returned, bring
ing with him the traveler whose
stories had so aroused the fair queen.
"How can one make the journey to
thy land?" she demanded, eagerly.
"What,” exclaimed the man. won
deringly, “would you face the fa
tigue and danger of so long a jour
ney ?”
Yes, yes, the queen responded.
“Thy stories have roused in me a
spirit which will not be stilled. I
must go and prove thy words.”
“And thou shalt not be disappoint
ed." was the confident response.
One month later found the queen
of Sheba well on her way to the !
land of Israel. Her determination to
make the long, perilous journey had
come as a surprise and shock to her
people, but when they realized her
earnestness of spirit and desire to
learn the truth of the wonderful
things she had heard, they had at
last heartily entered into her plans
and had laden her camels with the
richest treasure which her kingdom
afforded, for, said they:
| "Our queen shall carry off her best
to the land where the great and
| mighty God rules."
Rut., oh, the wearisomeness of that
; long journey. Had not her desire
been so great she would have turned
back more than once. But it was
when on the burning sands of the
desert that the greatest test came.
There was murmuring among her
! great retinue of servants and she was
weary and faint, and their water was
almost exhausted. Should she go on
or should she turn back? Did not her
own country offer all that her heart
could desire?
"Rut I would know of this wonder
ful King Solomon, and of the God who
has his dwelling place in the midst of
his people,” she cried almost in
despair at last. “Yea, I will keep my
face set steadfastly toward this land
of Israel, though I perish in the at
tempt.”
And with the final resolve and the
putting away of the temptation to
turn back there came peace to h^r
heart and she said, softly: “Perhaps
the God whom I seek will bring me
back this way after 1 have seen all
' the wonderful tilings of which I have
heard.”
• Yes,” said the queen, lifting her
eyes and looking about her. “Yes, I
thought I was not mistaken. This is
the place. Ah. how near I came to
turning back in my quest, and how
glad I am now that I kept on. What
wonderful things have I heard and
seen. Truly the God of Solomon is the
one and only CJod. Not half was told
tne of all the wisdom and prosperity
which the God of Israel has given his
servant Solomon. And now I go back
to my land, and the God of Solomon
shall be my God, and he shall be the
God of my people, for I have seen and
do know that there are no gods like to
the God of Israel." s
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