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* . Hit* VASHTI THE VEILED. REV DR TALMAGE COMMENDS MOD ’ v 1 ESTY IN ■ . '.- • •■..'.■> ' -. * ■ ' ■. l ?,!£? r, (Copyright, 189®, by American Press Asao cla M w - -mt m. (■. Washington, July B.—-Hr. launftge in this discussion tells the story of a beauti ful aueen dethroned and draws practical mi queen uvumv*. < lessons for aU conditions and all times; text, Esther 1, 1 », reyaTto show the people and the princes « _* frw alia waa fair in lrw»t iivwivi • hut Queen toTomeV We stand amid the palaces erf Shush an. The pinnacles are aflame with the morn ing light. The columns rise festooned and wreathed, the wealth of empires flash ing from the grooves, the ceilings adorned with Ireugm of bird and beast and scenes of prowess and conquest. The walls axe hung with shields and emblazoned until it seems that she whole round of splendors Is exhausted. Each arch is a mighty leaf of architectural achievement. Golden star, fibininsp (tawn nn r/lnwlnty nrrfhAcnnn Hangings of embroidered work hTwhleh mingle the blueness of the sky, tho green ness of the grass and the whiteness of the These filled with" luxuriant couches, in which weary limbs sink until all fatigue is submerged. Those for ca rousal Where kings drink down a king dom at one swallow. Aniatein g spectacle 1 Light of silver dripping down over stairs of ivory on shields of gold. Floors of stained marble, sufiset red and night black and inlaid with gleaming pearl. In connec tion with this palace there is a garden where the mighty men of foreign lands are seated at a banquet. Under the spread of oak and linden and acacia the tables are arranged. The breath of honeysuckle and frankincense fills the air. Fountains leap up into the light, the spray struck through with rainbows falling hito crys talline baptism upon flowering shrubs, then rolling down through channels of marble and widening out hero and there into pools swirling with the finny tribes of foreign aquariums, bordered with scar let anemones, hypericums and many col ored ranunculi. " Meat, of rarest bird and beast smoking up amid wreaths of aromatics. The vases filled with apricots and almonds. The baskets piled up with apricots and figs and oranges and pomegranates. Melons taste fully twined with leaves of acacia. The bright waters of Eulteus filling the urns and dropping outside the rim in flashing beads amid the traceries. Wino from the royal vats of Ispahan<md Shiraz, in bot tles of tinged shell, and lily shaped cups of silver and flagons and tankards of solid gold. The music rises higher and the rev elry breaks <Jut jnto wilder transport, and the wine has flushed the cheek and touch ed the brain, and louder than all other voices are the hiecough of the inebriates, the gabble of fools add the song of the drunkards. A Woman Wronged. In another part of the palace Queen Vashti is entertaining the Princess of Persia at a banquet. Drunken Ahasuerus says to his servants, “You go and fetch Vashti from that banquet with tho women nnd bring her to this banquet with the men and let me display her beauty. ” The servants immediately start to obey the king’s'bommand, but there was a rule in oriental society that no woman might ap pear In publlo-without having her face veiled. Yet here was a mandate that no one dare dispute, demanding that Vashti come In unveiled before the multitude. However, there was lx Vashti’s soul a principle more regal than Ahasuerus, more brilliant than the gold of Shushan, of more wealth than the realm of Persia, which commanded her to disobey this or der of the king, and so all the righteous ness and holiness and modesty of her na ture rise up into one sublime refusal. She says, “I will not .go into the banquet un veiled.” Ahasuerus was infuriate, and Vashti, robbed of her position and her estate, is driven forth in poverty and ruin to suffer the scorn of a nation, and yet to receive the applause of after generations, who shall rise up to admire this martyr to kingly insolence. Well, the last vestige of that feast is gone, the last garland has faded, the last arch has fallen, the last tankard has been destroyed, and Shushan is a ruin, but as long as tho world stands there will be multitudes of men and wom en familiar with the Bible who will oome into this picture gallery of God and ad mire the divine portrait of Vashti the queen, Vashti the veiled, Vashti the sacri fice, Vashti the silent. In the first place, I want you to look upon Vashti the queen. A blue ribbon, rayed with white, drawn around her fore head, indicated her queenly position. It was no small honor to be in such a realm as that. Hark to tho reustle of her robes! See the blase of her jewels, and yet it is not necessary to have place and regal robe in order to be queenly. When I see a woman with stout faith in God putting her foot upon all meanness and selfishness and godless display, going right forward to serve Christ and the race by a grand and glorious service, I say, “That woman is aqueen,” and the ranks of heav en look over the battlements upon the cor onation, and whether she comes up from the shanty on the commons or the man sion of tho fashionable square t greet her with the shout, “All hail, Queen Vaehtft” Thlip to Consider. ■ What glory was there on the brow of Mary of Scotland, or KHvAbeth of Eng land, or Margaret of France, or Catherine of Russia compared with the worth of some <rf our Christian mothers, many of them gone into glory; or of that woman Mentioned tn the Scriptures who put her -Shinto the Lord’s treasury; or of Jeph- Wft’s daughter, who made a demonstra- Kof unselfish patriotism; or of Abigail, who rescued the herds and flocks of her husband; or of Ruth, who toiled under a tropical sun for poor, old, hslpleasYfaomi; or of Florence Nightingale, who went at midnight ft) stanch the battle wounds of the Crimea; or of Mrs. Adoniram Judson, who kindled the lights of salvatiqn amid the darkness of Burma; or of Mrs. Hernans, who poured out her holy soul in words which will forever be associated with hunter’s horn, and captive’s chain, and bridal hour, and lute’s throb, and our few’s knell at the dying day, and scores and hundreds of women unknowm on earth Who have given water to the thirsty, and bread to the hungry, and medicine to the government hospital and in'toLtoouse corridor and by prison gate? There may be no royal robe. There may be no pula- ■ tial surroundings,. She does, not need I them, for all charitable men will unite Sn n v±H? 0^: Hai‘u | QUO 6& VftßAui I Again, I want you to consider Vashti I u nd* 11'" 8 rtbefore Ahas faoe the delicacies of oriental society, and the very men who in their intoxication de manded that she come in their sober mo ments would have despised her. As some flowMS seem to thrive best la the dark lane and in the shadow and where the sun does not seem to reach them, so God ap points to most womanly natures a retiring and unobtrusive spirit. God once in awhile a , thro ?°' OT a Miriam to strike the timbrel at the front of a host, or a Marie Antoinette to <fuell a French mob, or a Deborah to stand at the front of an armed battalion, crying out: “Upl Up! This is the day in which the Lord will deliver Sisera into thy hands. ’’ And When the women are called to such outdoor work and to such heroic positions God prepares them for it, and they have iron in thefr soul, and lightnings in their eye, and whirlwinds in their breath, and the borrowed strength of the Lord omnip otent in their right arm. They walk through furnaces as though they vrere hedges of wildflowers and cross seas as though they were shimmering sapphire, and all the harpies of hell down to their dungeon at the stamp of womanly indig nation - --xX- ■••••■= ■’j-z • Vashti Unrolled. But these are the exceptions. Generally Dorcas would rather make a "garment for the poor boy, Rebecca would rather fill the trough of tho camels, Hannah would rattier make a coat for Samuel, the He brew maid would rather give a prescrip tion fpr Naaman’s leprosy, the woman of Sarepta would rather gather a few sticks to cook a meal for famished Elijah, Bhebe would rather carry a letter for the Inspired apostle, Mother. Lois would rather educate Timothy in the Scriptures. When I see a woman going; about her daily duty, with cheerful dignity presiding at the table, with kind and gentle but firm discipline f presiding in the nursery, going but into the world without any .blast of trumpets, following in the footsteps of him who went about doing good, I say, “This is Vashti with a veil on.” . But when I see a woman of unblushing boldness, loud voiced, with a tongue of in finite clitter clatter, with arrogant look, passing through the streets with the step of a walking beam, gayly arrayed in a very hurricane of millinery, I cry out, “Vashti has lost her veil." When I see a woman struggling for political prefer ment, trying to force her way on up to conspicuity amid the nqasoullne dema gogues, who stand with swollen fists and bloodshot eyes and pestiferous breath to guard the polls, wanting to go through the loaferlsm and defilement of popular sovereigns, who crawl up from the saloons greasyantWoul and vermin covered to de cide questiane of justice and order and civilization-—when I see a woman, Y say, ftbeteitata M'yrres thnpgh-all hor rible scum to get to public place and pow er, I say: “Ah, what a pity! Vashll has lost her veil!* When I see a woman of comely features and of adroitness of Intellect and endowed with all that the schools can dn for her and of high social position, yet moving la society with superciliousness and hauteur, as though she would have people know their place and with an undefined com bination of giggle and strut and rhodo montade, endowed with allopathic quanti ties of talk, but only homeopathic infin itesimals of sense, the terror of dry goods clerks and railroad conductors, discoverers of significant meanings in plain conversa tion, prodigies of badinage and innuendo, I say, “Vashti has lost her veil." Man’s Cruelty. Again, I want you this morning to con sider Vashti .the sacrifice. Who is this that f see coming out of that palace gate of Shushanf It seems to me that I have seen her before. She comes homeless, houseless, friendless, trudging along with a broken heart. Who is she! It is Vashti the sacrifice. Oh, what a change it was from regal position to'a wayfarer’s crust! A little while ago approved and sought for. Now, none so poor as to acknowledge her acquaintanceship. Vashti the sacrifice. Ah, you and I have seen it many a time! Here is a home empalaccd with beauty. All that refinement and books and wealth can do for that home has been done; but Ahasuerus, the husband and the father, is taking hold on paths of sin. He is gradu ally going dawn. After awhile he will flounder and struggle like a wild beast in the hunter’s net—farther away from God, farther away from the right. Soon the bright apparel of the children will turn to rags; soon the household song will be come the sobbing of a broken heart. The old story over again. Brutal centaurs breaking up the marriage feast of Lapi th®. The house full of outrage and cruel ty and abomination, while trudging forth from the palace gate are Vashti and her children. There are homes in all parts of this land that are in danger of such break stand in a home by a dissipated life, de stroying the peace and comfort of that home! God forbid that your children should ever have to wring their hands and have people point their finger at them as they pas down the street and say, “There goes a drunkard’s chil<w” Godforbid that the little feet should ever have to trudge the path of poverty and wretchedness! God forbid that any evil spirit born of the wine cup or the brandy glass should come forth and uproot that garden, and with a lasting, blistering, all consuming curse shut forever the palace gate against Vashti and the children. Ufe’i Campfires. One night during our civil war I went to Hagerstown to look at the army and I stood on a hilltop and looked down upon them. I saw the campfires all through the valleys and all over the hills. It was a weird spectacle, those campfires, and I stood and watched them, and the soldiers Who were gathered around them were no doubt talking of their homes and of the long march they had taken and of the battles they were to fight, but after awhile I saw these cwnpfires begin to lower, and they oontliyxed to lower until they were all gone out, and the army slept. It was imposing when I saw the campfires. It Wm imposing in the darkness when I Jhmight of that great host asleep. Well, God looks,down from heaven and he sees the firesides of Christendom and the loved ancs gathered around these firesides. These are the campfires where we warm battles that are yet to come God grant that when at last these fires begin to go out and continue to lewer until finally old homesteacHt may be because we have— Gone to sleep that sleep " 'From which none ever wales to weep. !■ • .. . - Now we ate an army oh iho march d life ThenTWeshal! ’■> an army bivouacked in tho tent of the grave the silent. You do not hear any outcry from this woman as she goes forth from the palace gate. From the very dignity of crises when thqmost triumphant thing.to do is to keep sflonce. The philosopher, confident in his newly discovered princi ple, waiting for the coming of more intel ligent generations, willing that men | should laugh at the lightning rod and cot ton gin and steamboat and telegraph, waiting for long yeaYs through the soeff-' ing of philosophical schools in grand and magnificent silence. .. .. :; Galileo, condemned by mathematicians and monks and cardinals, cartcMhred ev erywhere, yet waiting and watching with; his telescope to see the coming up of stel lar re-enforcements, when the stars in their courses would fight for the Coper nican system, then sitting down in com plete blindness and deafness to wait for eomloff on of tho iron s who would build his monument and bow at his grave. The reformer, execrated by his contemporaries, fastened In a pl lory, the slow fires of public contempt burning un der him, ground under the cylinders of the printing press, yet calmly waiting for the day when purity of soul and heroism of character will get the sanction of earth and the plaudits of heaven. Affliction enduring without any complaint tW sharpness of the pang, and the violence of the storm, and the heft of the chain, and the darkness of the night, waiting until a divine hand shall be.put forth to soothe the pang, and hash the storm, and release the captive. A wife abused, persecuted andlv perpetual exite from every earthly wmfort, wtfiting, waiting until the Lord shall gather up his dear children in a heavenly home and no poor Vashti will ever be thrust out from the palace gate. Jesus, in Silence and answering not a word, drinking the g Al, bearing tho cross, in prospect of the rapturous consumma tion when— Angels thronged his ehariot wheel And bore him to his throne, Then swept their golden harps and sung, “The glorious work is done!" Oh, woman, docs not this story of Vashti the queen, Vashti the ve'iled, Vashti tho sacrifice, Vashti the silent, moVe your soul? My sermon, converges into the one absorbing hope that none of yon may be shut out of the palace gate of heaven. You can endure the hardships, and the priva tions, and the cruelties, and the misfor tunes of this life if you can only gain ad mission there. Through the blood of the everlasting covenant you gothrough those gates or never go through at all. God forbid that you should at laStrbe banished from the society of angels, and banished from the companionship of your glorified kindred, and banished fprever. Through the rich grace of our Lord’ jesus Christ laaKyou to enabled to totetatto ple es Khchel adt RanfiaE and Abigail and Deborah and Mary and Esther and Vashti. . Bauarta and Ckrirtlan Manea. On our ride to Xochlcalco we chanced upon a valuable piece of Information, which I do not feel like withholding from this superstitious age, and I think it will be of great Use to opr mind curists and healfire. When I wondered at the size oi the buzzards we encountered, our guide, who was a volunteer guide and a man of standing and perfectly trustworthy, in formed me that this bird was really a crow and not a buzzard, as I had thought, and it is not merely an ornamental and thiev ing bird. This is wfiat he told ihe : If any man has heart disease or is threat ened with it, organic or otherwise, all he needs to do is to catch one of these crows and make a companion of him, a real in timate. He must keep him by him con stantly, let him eat from the same plate at table and sleep with him at night. When this intimacy is established, all the man’s heart disease and tendency to it will leave the man and pass into the crow. The tes timony to this fact is abundant and ad mits of no doubt, and the singular thing about the miracle is that the crow Js noi injured. The crow, by an entirely mental process common in all mind cures, absorbs the heart disease and sustains no harm and asks no pay for his work. This Christian Science crow is, te bo sure, a Mexican, but I suppose that any kind of crow with us would do as well.— Charles Dudley Warner in Harper’s Mag azine. Farm Work For Imbeciles. The state of Ohio has decided to inau gurate a new experiment in the treatment of Imbeciles. Hitherto threse wtokmlnded unfortunates have been housed In great asylums, where, under the constant care of trained attendants, they have received elementary classroom instruction. Whil« this system developed the intellectual re sources of the imbecile, weak and waver ing as they were, there was no opportu nity to build up the physical energies. Gymnasium exercises failed to meet the re quirements. The state legislature has recently ap propriated $150,000 for the purchase of n farm and the establishment of an imbecile village in connection with it. Instead of a great aslyum there willoe a great num ber of cottages, each in charge of a com petent attendant It is proposed to develop the minds of the members c* the colony by classroom work and tijeir bodies by outdoor exercise in practical farming. They will thus have the same mental stim ulus as before, and Will also have the ad vantage of pure’air, physical exercise And the healthful incentive of sustained work along practical lines. The result of ths experiment will be watched with interest —Pathfinder. Something Mew to Bite AU The following advertisement appeared in a recent number of Le Figaro. In the original it is tastefully surrounded with a border of molars and canines: “To Persons Possessing Old False Teeth. —We have the honor to inform you that we are about to open, an establish meat in France for the purehase of false teeth out of use. If you possess any, send them to our address. By return mall vou Wilt receive a check for the highest aripunt we can give, andJf the price docs net'sult the objects will be returned. ” This proposition is signed with the firm name, and thereto is appmided the further information that the house was founded in 1833 at Ipswich (Angieterre). Mendicant—Could ye give me a carfare, dJPawerby— You know you want it for (lightly)-Wotcver you says, boss; you’re payin for it—Brooklyn Life, of a sanitary millennium, to find that after all we can “catch cold.” The great <iis ffom which wo suffer are associated with ■nifllncr and anti nf fmrta thn nhillfn whink w saasva waaw v* wess UMvaa vvx w aa wm the first sign of our be what is more interesting still, they have made ft dear tlu.t In regard to various dlseasM which aro known to bo caused by micro organisms, and if seciallr in rouare to pneumonia, wo x W y the owm- Sto e D n.K the microbes to take root. Resent demonstrations as the presence ing such animals to a thorough chill wJN bring on pneumonia, is very suggestive and makes it probable that in many of tho ailments which resalt from “catching cold’* ft (ioncurre>nt infection from wikbouk is not necessary. Tho healthier and the jjleaner the man, both inslds and out, the more, no doubt, wiltehe bo able to bear ex apsure without 111 consequences, but for those people whose tissues are already charged with infective micro organisms a mayevidently set up disease. *ißin»z*CK oiory. Rudolph Lindau, In the Deutsche Revue, te»s some stories about Prince Bismarck thatthave not been told In detail before. In May, 186«, Bismarck, then only count, wps passing through Unter den Linden, vyheq he heard behind him the report of a revolver.- Hb turned quickly around and, saw a young man—Ferdinand Blind it was-ialming at him with the still smok ing pistol. Bismarck ran toward the man and seized the hand fa which he held the revolver, and with tho other band ho the other and shot three times in quick succession. Bismarck felt himself wounded In the shoulder and Injured in one of bis ribs, but he held his assailant fast until several soldiers ran up and'se cured him. Then Bismarck walked quick ly to his house, which he reached long be fore any report of the affair got there. Tho countess’ it appeared, had several callers when her husband came in. He greeted them all pleasantly and asked to be excused for a few minuses on account of a pressing engagement. - Thereupon he retired to the next room and rapidly wrote out an account of the attempt on his fife, Vs sto to ttteiafe «fcM,xe4Mui ing to the drawing room, he joxed in his usual way about his unpunctuality at luncheon and ate with a good t M?Mtite. When the meaUwasJUritefed, to to the countess, Meflra tor, vWktod her “zpahlzeii” In old German way and don ’t ’you?’’ Bt»e stared at Mmjwhere upon he added: "Yes, you mustn’t bo anxious, my child. Somebody has shot at me, but it is nothing, as you see.” The Saga«l«M Bergall. Lying up close against the end of an overhanging stone on the bottom of one of the tanks at the aquarltftn was an eel about 15 inches in length- six or eight inches of the eel’s tall projected clear of the stone. Swimming about in the same tank there was a bergall about G inches in length, which presdbtly took a notion that it would like to lie in there snug against the rock and the overhanging projeotton, and it came up at the tail end of the eel and tried to wedge Itself in be tween the eel and the rook—-that la, to crowd the eel away and take its place. But the bergall couldn’t do that; there is a good deal of strength ia an eel, and this eel held its place finely. The bergall hauled off a little distance and beaded for the point where the roek and the side of the eel met and made for it under full .steam, but with tho same result; II couldn’t budgb the eel, which still clung closely to the roek. Then the bergall back ed off again and tried • change erf tactics. The eel’s head’was around on the other side of the rook, where ;t couldn’t see what was going on at the rear. The ber gall backed oft and darted for the eel’s tail and nipped it as bard as it oopld bite. The eel started as though it had been struck by lightning and tlifi around ths end of the rock and off to tho other end the tank, sotting in the water as it went letter B’a of 14 different sizes and styles, while the bergall quickly took fts place under tho overhanging rock.—New York Sun. ■- ' ■ ‘ ;>¥ The Herae Gets the Most In Btusl*. In Russia the wages'of a hone are high er than those of a man, and hence, of course, very much higher than the wages of women. Thus in the Niahni-Volga sec tion we find the average pay of man and horse to be about 72 cents per day, of man alone 84 cents—that is, 88 cento for horse and 84 cents for man. The women roeeive from IG to 20 cento. In iho central agri cultural region'fbe average is: Horse, 28 cento; man, 80 cento; woman, 18 cents. In ttie southern steppe: Horse, 86 cento; man, 26coati; woman, 16 cento. Tbh is an interesting, commentary on the standard of living of Russian agricul tural laborers. Its meaning is simply that hujnan beings are cheaper there than draft animals. In other words, it costa leas to keep them alfcc. Irrthe southern steppe five women can be eznploywd more cheaply than two heroes. Is it difficult to imagine the conditions of home life, the dearth of refining influences, the sodden, hopeless stagnation that such a state of affairs re flects? Is it any wonder that the products of such a wage stylus as this are individual degradation, social barrenneae, meager eduostion, political despotism, religious Intalereno? and generally elvHiza tira aeatefty aUbveWbiirism?—e(»«toh’« Magasine.,’ ’ J ‘? . -?< f-' Why He Looked Glum. Wife—What’s the matjer, dear? Hcaband—l bad a chance to bet 110 on a “sure fftug” this afternoon. Wife-j And you didn’t ’do it? Well, no matter. 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