‘AN EVERLASTING NAME’ (Isaiah 56:5b)
‘The Visit of The Queen of Sheba to Solomon’ Edward Poynter (1890) Ever since King Solomon brought ‘apes and peacocks’ (I Kings 10:22b) to His wondrous court, all chimpanzees ( a species of great ape native to the forest and savannah of tropical Africa) have been schooled rigorously in the history of the great king’s land. The most famous of the teachers of the chimpanzees was a stern scholar named ‘Co-Co’. (The chimpanzees called him by that name because he threw coconuts at any young, inattentive student with unerring accuracy.) When Co-Co taught us it was not enough to have…