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Rh and Benaiah Solomon’s servant, and said unto them, “Take you Solomon and put him on my own ass and bring him down to Gihon and let the prophet and priest annoint him King over Israel and. blow ye the trumpet, ‘Long live King Solomon.’&hairsp;”

David’s choice pleased the Lord and I need not stop here to relate the story, and grandeur of Solomon’s reign. But suffice to say that no King of Israel before or after him ever reached the high tide of magnificence and splendor his kingdom enjoyed during his day. The Queen of Sheba said, “The half was never told.” It was at this coronation David uttered these sublime words and charged Solomon. But the charge was as full of significance to men of today as it was to him. Show thyself a man.

Show Thyself a Man Physically. No man is a real man who is physically weak or disable, the body is the house in which the real man lives, and every defect in it causes pain and affliction, and detracts from his usefulness, thus curtailing his services to himself his family, race and his country. To keep a sound body one must live according to the laws of nature. I am not a doctor, and I do not here