It in quite impossible to say all that is to be said about Solomon la one sertion. He needs a series. It will be enough if we find some one thing that sume up his career and has s lesson for us, And that I think I find io this way, by asking how it came about that a man of whom it could be said that "he loved the Lord," that be was a religions, pious man when be was a young king of twenty years old, coold come to have the other words of my eocond text written about him when he was an old man.
And Solomon did that which is evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father." How coald such " men sod such a good man undergo sach an ebrious religions decline? The controversy as to whether Solomon was saved at last think not. fathers with their traer and more hops-fol faith, believed that be was, And they were no doubt right. Bat the point is, what vad thing it is that it wax ever possible for auch a controversy to arise, With all bik early promise, with his vision of God, and his father's example, there ought to have been no bility of doubting Solomon's salva-
Now it seems to me that precisely the same thing that happened to So-
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