Excerpt from The Whole Man: Baccalaureate Sermon Preached at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, May 31st, 1891

The reign of Solomon marks the culmination of Israel's material prosperity. Inheriting from his warlike father a wide and fertile domain, and having no occasion nor desire for further conquests, he inaugurated a different policy from that of his predecessors, under which the land teemed with plenty and the people dwelt in peace. He was the first of Israel's rulers to break over that exclusiveness which is one of the most inveterate traits of the Hebrew race and to establish cordial relations with the external world. By his alliances with foreign powers and his expeditions to foreign lands he created for the only time in Jewish history a flourishing commerce. His fleets sailed from harbors on the Red sea as well as on the Mediterranean, and returning poured into Palestine the products of all lands from the ivory of India to the silver of Spain.

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