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THE VEIL or MODESTY
Dr. Talmage Preaches the Sixth
of the Series of
SERMONS TO THE WOMEN OF AMERICA
Brooklyn, February 5. —The annual pew
letting’n Brooklyn Tabernacle has just taken
Jilace. ml the rentaf exceeds all previous
years, Im the best pews five, six, seven and
eight hundred dollars were paid. But parts
of the house are kept free, so that no one can
truthfully say that he cannot attend church
here for lack of means.
If this immense structure w ore twice as largo
|t would not contain all who desire to worship
J»ere. By the time the service begins the
Street h are blocked with people going away.
The Kev. T. De Witt Talmage, l>. !>., the
pastor, preached this morning the fifth in the
•‘Serbs of Sermons to the Women of America,
with Important Hints to Men.” His subject
was, ‘ iho Veil of Modesty,” and his text,
Esther 1, 12, “The Queen Vashti refused to
tome.”
If you will accept mv arm I will escort you
Into a throne-room. InJ this fifth sermon of
ihe aeric.t of sermons there are certain woman
ly excellencies which 1 wish to commend, but
Instead of putting them in dry abstraction. I
present you their impersonation in one who
Seldom if ever gets sermonic recognition.
We -land amid the palaces of Shushan.
The pinar les are aflame with the morning
light 'ihe columns rise festooned and
wreathed, the vw-idth of empires flashing from
the grooves. tlie ceilings adorned with images
of bird and bea*t, and scenes of prowess and
non quest. The walls arc hung with shields,
nud emblazoned until it seems that the whole
round <>( splendors is exhausted. Each arch
ji a might} leap of architectural achievement.
Golden stars shining down on glow
ing arabesque. Hangings of embroidered
work in which mingle the ..blueness
of the sky. the greennuHS of the gras-, and the
whiteness of the sen foam. Tapestries hung
on silver rings, wedding together the pillars of
marble Pavilions reaching out in every di
rection These for repose, filled with luxu
riant conches, in which weary limbs sink un
til all iai igue is submerged. These for ca
rousal. where kings drink down a kingdom at
one -wallow. Amazing spectacle! Light of
ailvt-r d’-ipping down over stairs of ivory on ,
shield' of gold. I loorsof stained marble, sun
fi'.-t red ami night black, and inlaid with gleam
ing pv;.rl. Why, it seems as if a heavenly vis
j< n < i amethyst, ami jacinth, and topaz, and
« hry .opia-ms had descended ami alighted upon
tdmshnii h seems as if a billow of celestial
giosy had (hushed deal over heaven's baltlo
inenH upon this metropolis of Persia.
Ju connection with this palace there
Is a garden, where the mighty men of
foreign lands are seated nt a
banquet I ndrr the spread of oak, and lin
den. and a« a< ia, the tables are arranged. The
liiealh oi hones sin khi and frank'license tills
Urn an i-duntains leap up into the light, the
epiny striii l. thiough with rainbows falling in
» -jtalline bapl ism upon flowering shrubs
then rolling down through channels of marble,
un i widening out here and there into pools
awirlitig with the tinny tribes, of foreign
uquuriumH. bordered with scarlet anemones,
hypcri. tuns, and many colored ranunculus.
M» als of rarest bird and beast smoking up
amid wreaths of aroma*ics. The vases tilled
v Ith apricot ’ and almonds. The baskets piled
lip with apr.cots, and dates, and tigs, ami
oranges, and pomegranates Melons tasteful
ly twined with leaven of acacia. 'The bright
waters of I ulaeus filling the urns, and sweat
ing outshle the rim in flashing beads amid the
tra.-ern m. Wino from the royal vats of Ispahan
ami Shiraz, in bottles of tinged
wliell, and lily-shaped cups of silver,
uni Itagons and tankards of
solid gold. The music rises higher, and the
revelry breaks out into wilder transports, and
Ihe w ine has flushed the cheek and touched
the brain, and louder Ilian nil other voices are I
the hiccough ol the inebriates, the gabble of
fo<ds, and the song of the drunkards.
In another part of the palace Queen Vashti
lb entertaining the princesses of Persia at a
banquet I>i unken Ahasuerus says to his ser
vants ou go out and fetch Vashti from that
banquet wi’n the women, and bring her to this
banquet with the men, and let me disphiv her *
beaut} ’ The servants immediate!} start to !
obey the king s command ; but there was a
rule in Oriental society that no woman might
appear in public without having her face
veiled Yet here was a mandate that no one
dare dis'>ut> . demanding that Vashti come in .
unveiled before the multitude However,
there was in Vushti's soul a principle more ;
ixu’al than Xhasuer .*, mere brilliant than the
g i ' S’anHn. of ni »re wealth than the
realm *f Peis a, which r. mmanded her to dis
obey P oisb rof the ki:cf and so all the
right, s- .mid h<mr.-. ami modesty of.
her n. terr n-e ap mto o tl .. > ibhino refusal.
bh»‘- ■ - I • .il not go into the banquet un- !
vetio.• <»t ir>«- Xu i-in rus was infuriated ;
and L rob hd of h< i p oiti m and her <•-
tat- H.. n t-.rth m pi. .-ih and rain tostf.
f-r • . andt to receive the
appl.o.' i after g* i - who shall rise up
tuM i. rv 'n;s marivt to kingly insolence
V. .<ftb.it I. .St , it .t|„.
1 • «1.1 U'u: tin- I.lst ircii hl- l.i’l-
«» it" .-.I l.Uikald l.»» b... „ .ffixtrojeJ, ;.n i
bl. is'i .ti is a r tt but ,1. long ..s the world
Sinjxi- *'»• ••• will I** mult tu«i« - «d men an I
iau. .ar with 11. t Bible, who will
:••- ' i .
tiii’- I ■ . j (.la • d \ a-htl, th qU<"»U.
X asi.tj the w.ivd. \Ashutha sa lime, \ a>hti
th-: -• I lit
11* t‘ • ! t p act Iw ot you to l-»ok ui«»n
v ad;l! the t, n Ald ritd>on. rayed wth
vh;t< drawn armnd her foii.hvad. mdi-aud
l*er qm rn . jt w<t s»n » small honor
t
the r .v , i -r r >• « ; •• a<• of her
And jet, l. v fnvm’-. .t bet be. es-
•kry to I.a** • i 4h i n order to
laj a • -■-•’. A \\ b« ;i I .. |v• .■ ,ui w.:h st mt
fa th m< r 1 p itti. g I fi- 1 upon all rm an-
X.«» i ‘ -•>. ’ godh*ei di-plav. g ling
ngh- eChrifl
grnn land gl--rimwMjrvire. 1 say ‘That w
ic.au • •. • ‘, n. and the ranksof heaven look
over the b nth ments upon th<'*. ronotion and
WhetUi i '*hf t •■me uu fmm (he shanty on the
commons or the mansion of the fashion i do
Square. I greet her with the shout; ‘ All
hall Qi con X’aditi ” W hat glorv was then*
on th. biow of M oy of Scotland, or Elizabeth
<d I ugland. m Margaret ol France, or Lathe
ritro of Bus-;a. . umpired with the worth of
home ot our ( Io istian mothers, many of them
cone into gk»r> ot of that woman mentioned
in the s-ripturvs, who put her all into the
I<M I ic.o. i v .i oi Ji pihah a daughter,
v i.o made a demonsti.ition ot unselfish patri
otism ‘ or of \bigail. wh.» rescued the herds
and Ika ks of her husband * -or of Huth who
toiled under a tropical sun for |n»or. old, help-
JesH Xnomi? or of Mrs. Adomrain Judson,
Who kindled the lights of salvation amid the
darkness of Burmali ? or of Mrs lleiuatis,
vho imured vut her lu.lv soul in words which
Will forever be assuciateii with hunter's horn,
nud eupti.e's chain, ami bridal Lour and
lute's throb, and curfew s knell at the dying
din and scores and hundreds of women, un
hn u n on u.utli. who have given water to the
thirsty, and bread to the hungrv,
ami medicine to the sick, arid
amUes to the discouraged their foot
steps he.nd along dark lane, and in govem
tneiit hospital, ni:U m alms-house corridor, and
by pti.on grate ' 1 here may be no royal robe
there may Is- no palati il surrvumlitigs. She
sloes i;..i m-ed them.- for all charitatdo uieti
wih unite with the crackling lips of (ever
struck hospital ami plague-blotched lazaretto
in greeting her as she passes: "Hall! hail!
Wueeu Vasl.ti."
Among the queens whom I honor are the fe
inale diiv-.-.ehool teachers of this land. 1 put
up .11 tb.-ir brow the coronet. They are the
si-' iml the d.iughlers of our towns and
' ted out of a v.vst number of appli
. .is<- of their especial intellectual
nnd im- a endow mems, Theto are in none
1,1 ' women mot• w oithy. TLc<e
I" 1 ' '"m ot th. a,, .me out troi'n aUiuent
n" l '"' nig to, l.mg as n useful pro-
niMon: vth.-is. t n Hug ,| lAt father
U ■ .del than he used to be,
«ud that . . eyesight ac 1 strength nr« not id
fo.«d Hut l tell you ll 'l'dsi'rjoi"th.-ma!
Lhtt utUUu IN teutlltnl tint ttUlHv. th At uaid C«JIU-
fortabte before are thrown on their own re
sources.
It is hard for men to earn a living in this
day, but it is harder for wonnm—their health
not so rugged, their armsnot so strong, their
opportunities fewer. These persons, after
tremblingly going through the ordeal of an
examination as to their qualifications to teach,
half bewildered step over the sill of the public
school to do two things—instruct the young
and earn their own bread. Her work is wear
ing to the last degree. The management of
forty or fifty fidgety and intractable children,
the suppression of their vices and the develop
ment of their excellencies, the manage
ment of rewards and punishments, the
sending of so many bars of soap and fine-tooth
I combs on benignant ministry, the breaking of
so many wild colts for the harness of life, sends
her home at night weak, neuralgic, unstrung,
i so that of all the weary people in yoix cities
for five nights of the week, there are none
more weary than the public school teachers.
; Now, for God’s sake, give them a fair cliance.
' Throw no obstacle in the way. If they come
: out ahead in the race, cheer them, if you
want to smite any, smite the male teachers;
they can take up the cudgels for themselves.
: But keep your hands off of defenseloss women.
I Father may be dead, but there are enough
brothers left to demand and see that they get
justice.
Within a stone's throw of this building there
died years ago one of the principals of our
public shook. She had been twenly-tiw vears
at that post. She hud left the touch of reiine
ment on a multitude of the voting. She had.
out of *her slender purse, given literally thou-
Handfl of dollars for the destitute who,came un
: der her observation as a school teacher. A de
’ cea-ed Bister’s children were thrown upon her
I hands, and she took care of them. She was a
kind mother to them, while she niothereda
I whole school. Worn out with nursing in tho
' sick and dving room of one of the household.
1 she herself camo to die. She dosed the school
, book and at the same time tho volume of her
Christian fidelity, and when she went through
the gates, they cried :
“These are they who came out nf great trib
ulation, and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of tho Lamb.”
Queens are all such, and whether the world
acknowledges them or not, heaven acknowl
edges them. When Scarron, the wit and ec
clesiastic, as poor as he was brilliant, was
alwnit to marry Madame do Mafnrenon, he
was asked by the notary what he pronosed to
settle upon inademoisdle.| The reply was:
“Immortality! the names of the wives of
kings die with them ; the name of the wife of
Scarron will live always.” In a higher and
better sense, upon all women who do therduty
God will settle immortality. Not the. immor
tality of earthly fame, which is mortal, but the
immortality celestial. And they shall reign
forever and ever. Oh, the opportunity which
every woman has of being a queen!
The longer I live the more I admire good
womanhood. And I have come to form my
opinion of tho character of a’man by his ap
preciation or non-appreciation of woman. If
a man have a depressed idea of womanly char
acter he is a bad man, and there is no excep
tion to the rub*. The writings of Goethe can
never have such attractions ior me as Shaks
peare, because nearly all the womanly charac
ters of the great German have some kind of tur
pitude. There is his Mariana, with her clan
destine scheming, and his .Mignon, of evil pa
rentage, yet worse than her ancestors, ami his
Theresa, the brazen, and his Aurelia of many
intrigues, and his I'hilino, the termigant, and
his Melina, the tarnished, and his baroness,
and his countess, and there is seldom a woman
ly character in all his voluminous writings
that would be worthy of residence in a respect
able coal cellar, yet pictured, and dramatized,
and emblazoned till all the literary world is
compelled to see. No. No. Give me Wil
liam Shnkspeare’s idea of woman ; and I see
it in I >esdeim»na, and Cordelia, and Rosalind,
and Imogen, ami Helena, and Hermione, and
Viola, and Isabella, ami Sylvia, and Perdita,
all of them with enough faults to prove them
human, but enough kindly characteristics to
give us the author’s idea of womanhood, his
Lady Macbeth only a dark background to
bring out the supreme loveliness of his other
female characters.
Oh, women of America! rise to your oppor
tunity.
Be no slave to pride, or worldlineas, or sin.
Why ever crawl in the dust, when you can
mount a thione? Be queens unto God for
ever. Hull, JV'ashti I
Again: I want you to consider V'ashti the
veiled. Had she appealed before Ahasuerus
and his court on that da}, with her face uncov
ered, she would have shocked all the delica
cies of Oriental soeietv, a id the \o y men, w ho
in their intoxication demanded that she come,
in their sober moments would have despised
her. As some flowers seem to thrive best in
the dark lane and in tho shadow, and where
the sun does not serin to reach them, so < lod
appoints to most womanly natures a retiring
ami unobtrusive spirit. God, once in a while,
does call an Isabella to a throne, or a Miriam
to strike the timbrel at tho front of a host, or a
Marie Antoinette to (inell a French mob, or a
Deborah to htand at th( front of an armed bat
talion, crying out. “I p! Ip! This is the
day in whi< h the Lord will deliver Sixinu. inu*
thy hands.” And when women are called to
such outdoor work, and to such heroic posi
tions, God prepares them for it ; and they have
inm in their xml. and lightnings in their eye,
and whirlwinds in their breath, and the bor
rowed strength of the Lo,d Omnipotent in
their right arm. They walk through furnaces
as though they were hedges of wild flowers,
and cros* seas as though they were shimmering
sapphir<‘, and all the harpies of hell sink down
to their dung at the stamp of their wo
in inly indignation. But there are exceptions.
<.» nci.clly, 1 >or< as would rather make a gar
ni' nt fi»r the poor boy; Rebecca would rather
fill the trough for the camels Hannah would
rather make a coat for Samuel;
the Hebrew maid would rather
give a prescription for Nauman's
leprosy the woman of Sarepta w »uhl rather
gather a few sticks to cook a meal for famished
Elisha. riielM? w<»ul<l rather carry a 1 tier to |
tip- inspired apostle . Mother Louis would rather ;
edu ate Timothy in the scripture’s. When I '
s- v a woman g««hig about her daily duty w th i
> b.cerfrj dignity presiding at the table with i
kind ami gmth', but firm discipline presiding
in the nni M ry, going out into the world w ith
out any blast ot trumpets, following in the
footsteps of Him who went about doing good -
1 »ay “This is \ aahti with a veil on.” But
when I *< ea woman of unblushing iMildm-ss.
loudly vo;c«»d, with a tongue ol infinite clitlvr
clnttoi. with anogsnt look, passing through
the streets with a mascuHne -swing, gailv ar
rayed in a very hurricane of millinery. 1 cry
out "\luditi has lost her Veil.” When I
‘<t‘.4Woman struggling for political prefer
ment, ami rejm ting the duties of home as
insignificant, and thinking the offices
of wife, mother and daughter of no im
portance, and trying to force her way on up
into eonspicinty, 1 sav. “Ah, what a pity;
Vashti has hoi her veil ’ When 1 see* a
woman of come'.} h atures. and of adroitness of
i intelhs t. and « ndow. d with all that the schc.Mil
! can do (or one, and of high social position, yet
moving in soc et\ with superciliousness and
hauteur, as though sho would hate people
know the ir pla< e. and an undefined combina
tion of giggle, and strut, and rhodoimmtado,
endowed with allopathic quantities of talk
but only homeopathic' infinitesimals of sense,
the terror of dry goods clerks and rail
road conductor*, discoverers of significant
meanings in plain conversation, prodigies of
badness and innuendo, 1 sav; “Vashtihas
lost her veil.”
But do not misinterpret what 1 siy into a
depreciation of work of those glorious and
di\mely called who will not bo under
stood till after they are dead ; women like Su
san B. Anthony, who aie living theii life for
tho betterment of the condition of their sex.
Those of you who think that women have, un
der tho laws of this country, an equal chance
with mon. are ignorant of the laws. A gen
tleman writes mo from Maryland, saying;
“Take the laws of this state. A man and
wife start out in life full of hope In every re
spect , by their joint efforts, and
as is frequently the case, through
the economic ideas of the wife,
succeed in accumulating a fortune, but they
1. c\e no cb.ildr. u . i’k > rc.u h « ’.I ag
ain! then the husband dies. What d» os the
law of this state do then? It says to the wid
ow, Hands off your late husband’s property,
do not touch it; the state will find others to
w hom it will give that; but you, tho widow,
must not teueli it. onlv so much as will keep
life within your aged body, that you tnav Ihe
to see those others enjoy what tightful.y should
l»e your own ” And tlit' state seeks the rela
tives of the deceased husband, whether they
l>e near or far, whether they were ever hoard
of before or not. and transfers to them, singly
or collective!} , the estate of the de eu>od hut
band and livfng widow.
Now, that is a specimen of unjust laws p all
tha stAtas cuncartuiui womanhood. lm» ead of
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1888.
' flying off to the discussion as to whether or not
! the giving of the right of voting to woman will
I correct these laws, let me say to men, be gal-
I lant enough, and fair enough, and honest
I enough, and righteous enough, and God-loving
enough to correct these wrongs against women
by your own masculine vote. Do not wait for
woman suff rage to come, if it ever does come,
but so fur as you can touch ballot boxes, and
legislatures, and congresses begin the reforma
tion. Hut until justice is done to your sex by
the laws of al] the states, ami women of Amer
ica take the platforms and tiio pulpits, and no
honorable man will charge Vashti with having
lost her veil.
Again : 1 want you this morning to consider
Vashti the sacrifice. Who is this that i see
coming out of that palace gate
of Shushan? It seems to ms hat
1 have seen her before. She comes homeless,
houselnss, friendless, trudging along with a
broken heart. Who is she? It is Vashti the
sacrifice. O, what a change it was from regal
position to a wayfarer's crust. A little while
ago approved and sought for row none so poor
as to acknowledge her acquaintanceship.
Vashti the sacrifice. Ah, yon and I have seen
it many a time. Here is a home empalaced
with beauty. All that refinement, and books,
and wealth can do for that home has been
doeu; but Ahasuerus, tho husband
and the father, is taking hold on
paths ot sin. Ke is gradually
going down. After a while he will flounder
and struggle like a wild beast in the hunter's
j net —further away from God, further away
| from tho right. Soon the bright apparel of
the children will turn to rags; soon the house
hold song will become tho sobbing of a broken
heart. The old story over again. Brutal Cen
taurs breaking up the marriage feast ol La
pithar. The house full of outrage, and cru
elty, and abomination, while trudging forth
from the palace gate are Vashti and her chil
dren. There are homes represented in this
house this morning that are in danger of such
a breaking up. O, Ahasuerus, that
you should stand in a home, by a
dissipated life destroying the peace and com
forts of that home. God forbid that your chil
dren should ever have to wring their hands,
and have people point their finger at them as
they pass down the street, and say: “There
goes a drunkard’s child.’’ God forbid 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 flask, should come forth and uproot
that garden ; and, with a blasting, blistering,
all-consuming curse, shut forever tho palace
gate against Vashti and the children.
Oh, the women and tho men of sacrifice are
going to take the brightest coronals of heaven!
This woman of thetextgave palatial residence,
gave up all for what she considered right.
Sacrifice! Is there anything more sublime?
A steamer called the “Prairie Belle,’’ burning
on the Mississippi river, Bludso, tho engineer,
declared he would keep the bow of the boat to
the shore till all were off, and lie kept his
promise At his post, scorched and blackened,.
ho perished, but he saved all the passengers.
Two verses of pathetic poetry describe the
scene, but the verses are a little rough, and so
I changed a word or two:
‘Through the hot black breath of the burning
Jim Bludso's voice was heard.
And they all had trust In his stubbornness,
And|knew he would keep his word.
And sure's you’re born they all got off
Aloro the smoke stacks fell;
And Bmdso's ghost went up above.
In the smoke of the ‘Prairie Belle.'
Be weren’t no saint, but at Judgment
I’d run my chance with Jim, •
'Longside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn't shake bands with him.
He'd seen his duty, a dead sure thing,
And went for it there and then,
And Christ is not going to be too hard
On a man that died for men.”
Once more: I want you to look a»Vashti
the silent. You do not hear any outcry from
this woman as she goes forth from the palace
gate. Krom the very dignity of her nature you
know there will bo’ no vociferation. Some
times in life it is necessary to make a retort;
sometimes in life it is necessary to resist: but
there are crises when the most triumphant
thing to do is to keep silence. Tho philoso
pher, confident in bis newly discovered princi
ple, waited for the coming of more Intelligent
generations, willing that men should laugh at
tho lightning rod and cotton gin
and steamboat—waiting for long
years through tho scoffing of philo
sophical schools, in grand anil magnificent
silence. Galileo, condemned by mathemati
cians, and monks, and cardinals, car
icatured everywhere, yet waiting and
watching with his telescope, to see tho
coming up of stellar reinforcements, when the
stars lit their courses would fight for the Co
pernican system; then sitting down in com
plete blindness and deafness to wait for the
coming on of the generations who would build
his monument and bow at his grave. Tho re
former, execrated by his contemporaries, fas
tened in a pillory, the slow fires of public con
tempt burning under him, ground under the
cylindersol tho printing press, yet calmly
waiting for the day when puri
ty ol soul and heroism of char
acter will got the sanction of earth
and the plaudits of heaven. Affliction, en-
Muring without any complaint the sharpness of
the pning, and the violence of the storm, and
tho heft of the chain, and the dark
ness of the night—waiting until a
divine hand shall bo put forth to
soothe the pang, and hush the storm, and re
lease the captive. A wife abused, persecuted,
and a perpetual exile from every earthly com
fort—waiting, waiting, until the Lord shall
gather up His dear children in a heavenly
home, and no p or Vashti will ever be thrust
out from the palace gate. Jesus, in silence,
and answering not a word, drinking the gall,
bearing the cross, in prospect of the rapturous
consummation when
“Augi-b thronged His chariot wheel,
Anil bore him to his throne;
Tien swept their golden burps and sung,
Tlie gio: i<ii:s work is done.”
An Arctic explorer found a chip floating
helplessly about among the icebergs, and going
on board he found that tho captain was frozen
to death at his log book, and tho helmsman
was frozen at ihe wheel, and tho men ou the
lookout were frozen in their places. That was
awful but niagnifieent. All the Arctic blasts
and all the icebergs could not drive them from
their duty. Their silence was louder than
thunder. And this old ship of a world has
many nt their posts iu the awful chill of neg
lect, and frozen of the world's scorn, and their
silence shall lie the eulogy of the skies, an 1 be
rewarded long after this weather-beaten craft
ol a planet shall have made its lust voyage.
1 thank God that the mightiest influences
are the most silent. The fires in a furnace of
a factory, orof a steamship, roar though they
only mine a few shuttles or a few thousand
tmis. but the sun that warms a world rises and
sets without a crackle.or faintest sound. Trav
elers visiting Mount Etna, having heard of the
glories of sunrise on that peak, went up to
spend the night there, and see the sun rise
next niiiiuing, but when it camo up it was so
far behind their anticipations they actually
hissed it. The mightiest influences today are
like the planetary system—completely silent.
Don't hiss the sun!
O, woman! does not this story of Vashti the
queen, \ ashti tho veiled, \ ashti ihe sacrifice,
\ ashti the silent, move your soul ’ Mv ser
mon converges into the one absorbing’ hope
; that none of you may be shut out of the pal
i ace gate of heaven. You can endure the hard
ships. and the privations, and the cruelties, and
the misfortunes of this life, if you can only
gain admission there. Through tho blood of
! the everlasting covenant, you go through
> these gates, or never go at all.
\\ hen Koine was besieged tho daughter ot
its ruler saw the golden bracelets on the left
arms of the enemy, and she sent word to them
that she would Itetray her city and stttrender
I It to them if they would only’ give her those
bracelets on their left arms’. They accepted
■ the proffer, and by night this daughter of tho
I ruler of tho city opened one of the gates. The
army entered, and. keeping their promise,
threw upon her their bracelets, and also
their shields, until under their weight she died.
Alas, that all through the ages the same folly
has been repeated, and for the trinkets and
glittering treasures of this world men and
Women swing open the portals of their immor
tal soul for an everlasting surrender, and die
| tinder the shining stibmergi inent.
I Through the rich grace of our I ord .Testis
Christ may you be enabled to imitate the ex
ample of Rachel, and Hannah, and Abigail.
. and Deborah, and Mary, and Vashti. Amen!
lancers < lived.
Dr A G Wollard. of Richmond Va . is
has ing great success in euringt aneera He has
cured hundreds pronounced incurable by other
physicians. Send for pamphlet wilh reler
cnees nnd certificates The doctor can be
tumid it hts office, No T \ nt!i Sixth strict
inhere he ti permanently . s at •.!>, Kichtnonil
V a wkS
MCltl.D’S DISPENSAHY 3IEVXCAL ASSOCIATION.
1 LJ Lune
[COCYBIGUT, 1887. ]
H Iff turbed and unrefreshinw sleep, con- liable to set in and, sooner or later,
OkH W ebc| r stant, indescribable feeling of dread, induce a fatal termination.
ril a jiw UsUia S orof impending calamity? Dr. Pierce’s Golden Msdical
If you have all, or any consider- Discovery acts powerfully upon
Do you feel dull, languid, low- able number of these symptoms, you the Liver, and through that great
spirited, lifeless, and indescribably are suffering from that most common blood-purifying organ, cleanses the
miserable, both physically and of American maladies—Bilious Dys- system of all blood-taints and im
mentally; experience a sense of pepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated purities, from whatever cause aris
fullness or bloating after eating, with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The ing. It is equally efficacious in
or of “goneness,” or emptiness of more complicated your disease has acting upon the Kidneys, and other
stomach in the morning, tongue become, the greater the number and excretory organs, cleansing, strength
coated, bitter or bad taste in mouth, diversity of symptoms. No matter ening, and healing their diseases,
irregular appetite, dizziness, fre- what stage it has reached. Dr. As an appetizing restorative tonic
quent headaches, blurred eyesight, Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis- it promotes digestion and nutrß
“floating specks” before the eyes, covery will subdue it, if taken ac- tion, thereby building up both
nervous prostration or exhaustion, cording to directions for a reasonable flesh and strength. °ln malarial
irritability of temper, hot flushes, length of time. If not cured, com- districts, this wonderful medicine
alternating with chilly sensations, plications multiply and Consumption has gained great celebrity in
sharp, biting, transient pains here of the Lungs, Skin Diseases, Heart curing Fever and A®ue Chills
and there, cold feet, drowsiness Disease, Rheumatism, Kidney Dis- aud Fever, Dumb and kin
after meals, wakefulness, or dis- | ease, or other grave maladies are quite dred diseases.
n lliniln ,Davto G. Lown, Esq., of St. Agathe, Manitoba. "'I Mrs. I. V. Wf.bbkr, of Forte’tfrc, Cattarauma
B l fills Canada, says: “About one year ago, being I|VEQ I Co., N. F., writes: "i wish to sav a tow w-v-da
■ kL? troubled with a terrible bilious attack, fluttering - iin praise of your ‘Golden Medical
fITTAuX of tl, °. 'l'.’ 111 ’ 1 ’ poor v r< ' st a^ n ! ! -; ht ’ t’! c - 1 1 c ??, n - USEASE. I nnd ’Pleasant Purgative Pellets.' For five
M l lffijA. noticed the . use of .your .*Golden .Medical. Dis- g previoll3 to takint! . thenl j was a e . rpnr
. I AT c 2, very „ and Peheta. and derived the very high- had a severe pain in my right side continually:
est benefit therefrom. wa ?, unable to do my own work. lam happy to say I am now
=1 Mrs. Molmf. E. TAir-OR, of Cannelton, Ind., weU an,i strong, thanks to your medicines.”
Malarial » »(eA
CrVCD the world - 1 » ave to my little girl and I | ‘Golden Medical Disco ver rnvf?!nilv OU T
■ EVER. it cured her of tho malarial fever.'- j HjrAfi jP’JC I desire to testify to the prreat. relief ntforJed
Dyspcpsia.-TnERESA A. Cass of Springfield. Mo writes: l^ g «mgh^a"Tds.
“I was troubled one year with liver complaint, dyspepsia, wise found it. al! that could be desired, its etnnloyriient havine
and sleeplessness, but your Golden Medical Discovery uniformly availed to promptly cheek any attacks of that kind.
T yraEamim™ Mrs. Mbiassa Atwatep., of Sfetihan, ITas/ifna-
I >„' „ I Mrs- Elizabeth J. BnsnwAW. of Sidncm Ohio, RyQPFriQiA S ton Co., Maine, says: "I was afflicted with dys-
L VEH I writoß: “W little b °y was BO afflicted with liver g wivri.) OiH B pepsia. nervous and general debility, tor which
I I trouble and other diseases that our family pliysi- B SUH I I took your ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ and
DISEASE I c .' an said he couM llot Ilve - ln fact, they all g Rr!J |‘Favorite Prescription,'six bottles of each. That
i j thought so. I gave him Dr. Pierce’s Pellets and 8 Hrot] itu E was some two years ago. It cured inc so that I
a: i-rt- they saved his life. We have also used the‘Golden u i» § have not had a sick day since. I had been in very
Medical Discovery ’ for throat and bronchial trouble, nnd found &nraxa«as?rMenS poor health for a number of years, and took
P° riect relics that we can also recommend it very much medicine from physicians, but received no beneiit from
highly. them.'*
“ FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE,”
Thoroughly cleanse the blood, Blotch, or Eruption, to the worst! poisons are, by its use, robbed ot
which is the fountain of health, by Scrofula. Salt - rheum, “ Fever- their terrors. Especiallj" has it
using Dr. Pierce's Golden Med- sores,” Scaly or Rough Skin, in manifested its potency in curing
ical Discovery, and good, diges- short, all diseases caused by bad Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils,
tion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits, and blood, are conquered by this Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Scrofulous
bodily health and vigor will be powerful, purifying, and invigor- Sores and Swellings, Hip-joint Dis
established. ating medicine. Great Eating ease, “ White Swellings,” Goitre,
Golden Medical Discovery Ulcers rapidly heal under its be- or Thick Neck, and Enlarged
cures all humors, from a common nign influence. Virulent blood- Glands.
A medicine possessing the power to cure such inveterate blood and skin diseases as the following testimonial
portrays, must certainly be credited with possessing properties capable of curing any and ail skin and blood
diseases, for none are more obstinate or difficult of cure than Salt-rheum.
our n't'iriisa I tt, Columbus, Onro, Aug. 18th, 1887. my fancy, and seeing that it was essentially a blood-purifier, I im
uuLl-Hißliiin h Worlds Dispexsahy Medical Associa- mediately recommcndedit to the old lady who had been so long a
■nib. uiii a tion, 683 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.: sufferer from salt-rheum. She commenced taking it nt once, and
I Gentlemen— For several years I have felt it took one bottle, but seemed to be no better. However. I realized
j, Itobe my duty to give to you the facts in rcla- that it would take time for any medicine to effect a change tor the
HItFIiM&TISM I tion t 0 the complete cure of a most aggra- better, and encouraged her to continue. She then purchased a
iiiiuMKiMiioin, g vated ease of salt-rheum, by the use of your half-a-dozen bottles, and before these had all been used she began
u,> ■ ■■>■ ‘Golden Medical Discovery? An elderly lady to notice an improvement. After taking about a dozen bottles she
relative of mine had been a great sufferer from salt-rheum for was entirely cured. Her hands were perfectly well and as smooth
upwards of forty years. The disease was most distressing in her and healthy as a child’s. Her general health was also greatly
hands, causing the skin to crack open on the inside of the fingers improved; the rheumatism entirely left her, and the catarrh waa
at the joints and between the fingers. She was obliged to protect almost cured, so that it ceased to be much annoyance. She has
the raw places by means of adhesive plasters, salves, ointments and enjoyed excellent health from that day to this, and has had no
bandages, and during the winter months had to have her hands return of either salt-rheum or rheumatism. 'The Discovery"
dressed daily. The pain was quite severe at times and her general seems to have entirely eradicated the salt-rhemn from her system,
health was badly affected, paving tho way for other diseases to She is now over eighty years old, and very healthy for one of such
creep in. Catarrh and rheumatism caused a great deal of suffering extreme age.
in addition to the salt-rheum. She had used faithfully, and with I have written this letter, of which you can make any use you
the most commendable perseverance, all the remedies' prescribed see fit, hoping that some sufferer from salt-rheum might ehance to
by her physicians, but without obtaining relief. She afterwards read it and obtain relief by using your ‘Golden Medical Discovery"
began treating herself by drinking teas made from blood-purify- —for ‘Golden ’itis in its curative properties, and as much abovu
mg rootsnnd herbs. She continued this forseveral yearsbutde- the multitude of nostrums and so-called ‘patent medicines,' so
rived no benefit. Finally, about ten years ago, I chanced to read zealously- flaunted before the public, as (jold is above the baset
one of Dr. Pierce's small pamphlets setting forth the merits of his metals. Respectfully yours.
Golden Medical Discovery ’ and other medicines. The name struck F. W. Wheeler, 183 21st St?"
«Biiii,»>,!ia»ii> ■<»! F Asbury Howell, Pastor of the I Skin Disease— The “ Democrat and Nows.”
iNniREITiDU M. E. Church, of Silverton, N. J., sn.ys; “I was II fl IFRRIRIF of Cambridge, Maryland, says: “Mrs. Eliza.
• nUlUuo I lull) afflicted with catarrh and indigestion. Boils j 8 Poole, wife of Leonard Poole, of Witt-
Rffil ? nKd blotches began to arise on the surface of 8 arui inTiqU iamsburg, Dorchester Co., Md., has been cured
!lu>uu. skin, and I experienced a tired feeling and ; | Ura LIUI >un ß of ba<l cose of Eczema by using Dr. Pierce's
Di nTPUl dullness. I began the use of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. The disease ap-
DLUI Lnt J. Golden Medical Discovery as directed by him pcared first in her feet, extended to the knees, covering tho
■mi- rrajgßMsxxai. f or guc ij complaints, mid in one week’s time 1 whole of the lower limbs from feet to knees, then attacked tho
began to feel like a new man, and am now sound and well. The elbows and became so severe as to prostrate her. Alter being
‘Pleasant Purgative Pellets' are the best remedy for bilious or treated by several physicians for a year or two she commenced
sick headache, or tightness about tho chest, aud bad taste in the tho use of the medicine named above. She soon began to mend
mouth, that I nave ever used. My wife could not walk across the and is now well and hearty. Mrs. Poole thinks the medicine has
floor when she began to take your ‘Golden Medical Discovery? saved her life and prolonged her days.”
Now she can walk quite a little ways, and do some light work.” Mr. T. A. Ayres, of East Ifew Market, Dorchester Co., Md..
- , .. vouches for the above facts.
so— Mrs. Ida M. Strong, of Ainswortn, Did., writes: _ „ . „ „ „ , _
NID Ir.HIT “MyUttle boy hud been troubled with hip-joint Sore Eyes.— Mrs. Sarah A. Turner, of Ogden City, I tah Ter-
lilr'UUlAl disease for two years. When he commenced the ritory, says: “My eldest child was cured, nearly three years ago,
Rinrinr use of your ‘Golden Medical Discovery' and of sore eyes, being at the time nearly blind, by your‘Golden Med-
UISLASL. ‘Pellets? he was confined to liis bed, and could ical Discovery? and following the directions in your book.
HIM.IMIIII. nui not be moved without suffering great pain. But T „ . « .
now. thanks to your ‘Discovery? he is able to be up all the jk n.-tl, I r, IB , A , AC D °n- N S ! Esq «';„o*
time, and can walk with tho help of crutches. He does not suffer I A Rjn (j! [JFR | pockland Co., A. 1., writes. Hie Golden
any pain, and can eat and sleet, as well as anyone. It has only g M yau WUWMI ‘ | Medical Discovery' has cured my daughter
been about three months since he commenced using your medi- ot a very bad ulcer. Three bottles healed
cine. 1 cannot find words with which to express my gratitude for it up perfectly.
the benefit be has received through you. Goitre, or Thick Neck.— Julia P. Beckwith, of U>7 West
Fever-sores.— Alice H. Chawford, of Siow Rapids, Duma Grau Street, Elmira, N. I'., writes: "After the use of your ‘Golden
Vista County, lowa, writes: “Six years ago I was cured of ‘Fever- Medical Discovery’ and ‘Favorite Prescription, together with
sores’ by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.” your good advice, my neck has now become perfectly well.
CONSUK9PT9ON,WEAK LUNGS, SPITTING OF BLOOD.
* Golden Medical Discovery wonderful combination of tonic, it promptly cures the severest
cures Consumption (which is Scrof- or strengthening, alterative, or Coughs it strengthens the system
ilia of the Lungs) by its wonder- blood-cleansing, anti - bilious, pec- and purifies the blood.
ful blood - purifying, invigorating toral, aud nutritive properties, is The nutritive properties of ex
aud nutritive properties. From unequaled, not only as a remedy tract of malt and cod liver oil
its marvelous power over this ter- for Consumption, but for all are trifling when compared with
ribly fatal disease, when first of- Chronic Diseases of the Liver, those possessed by the “Dis
fering this notv world-famed rem- Blood, and Lungs. For Weak covery.”
edv to the public, Dr. Pierce Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Short- It rapidly builds up the system,
thought seriously of calling it his ness of Breath, Bronchitis, Cliron- and increases the flesh and weight
“Consumption Cure,” but aban- ic Nasal Catarrh, Severe Coughs, of those reduced below the usual
doned that name as too restrict- Asthma, and kindred affections, standard of health by “wasting
ive for a medicine which, from its it is a sovereign remedy. While diseases.”
■ ' " " Mrs. Ruth A. Sicki.es, of Ocean Port. Monmouth
Lung Medirail'D’iS?crv'ki e our\anfily < sor < thelast > two CuliuH OF the benefit I received from two bottles of
niKiqt yetws. mffl find n’otbing < to'iqual it. One of fjV[ YEARS V'cotmh'of a-ffl’dyspep-
UIStASt. our children had the ptnumonia. and one lung V h*?,i er n EnEr
■' ■"■■■ '■» iK-came consolidated, but by the use of the ‘Dis- STAKDIHG t iii/ I have aDo used Dr Pierce's Fxtiac*
covery’ she bos entirely recovered, and is now in good health. OHMUINU. o " bC^*L r ’ Pcppe?, in my
("T"" ■■■■■■“ Solomon Butts, of North Clayton, Miami family, with good effect."
I Co.. Ohio, writes: “I have not the words to Raised Blood.—L. H. Cox. Esq., of TEate? Centre, N. Y. s
vuiwuiiii nun. | express my gratitude for the good your writes: “I was troubled with pain in the chest, and raised
‘Gohlen Medical Discovery’ has done my quantities of blood, and was unable to da any work for sevt ral
wife. She was taken w ith consumption, and after trying one doc- months, but after taking three bottles of your‘Golden Medical
tor after another I dually gave up all hope of relief. Being very Disco ver v,' and several vials of the ‘ Pellets,’ I am now able to
poor and having bat one dollar in the world, I prayed to God that a 0 considerable work, and gain very rapidly."
be might show me something; and then it seems ns though some- u .
thing did tell me to get your ‘Golden Medical Discovery.' My I i B Mrs. Martha Owen, of Cat J'.acc, Jtisycr Co., Mo.,
wife took it as directed, and as a ivsult she is so she can work now. I I UNG I ‘I was treated for several years by some
we I I of the best physicians for consumption without rc-
A Wasting Diseaae.— ‘Watson F. Cuirke, Esq., | I ceiving any benefit. Soon after I commenced taking
ll&INFn of (Box 10P, Summrrsi.k. Prince Edrcard Inland, | UluLAuti | Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite
Os n C<V>.. writes: “ I would like to give you a slight II h Prescription all the symptoms of consumption van-
/n testimonial for the benefits which 1 have reoeiwd ished. 1 wish also to report the cure of one of my neighbors who
au i uunuu. f roni your preparations during the past twelve was a great sufferer from womb disease, and was p* rmanenUy
months, when I commenced taking your‘Gold- cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription."
on Medical Di/eovcry ’ I did so at tho solicitation of J. A. Gor mile, na o
druggist, of this place. He had sold mo many other preparations, I I ART F E 17» i ™
always recommending your ‘ Discovery.’ which I did not take, I I Colorado, writes: I R-tl that I cann<>t say too much
owing to prejudice. However, I finally took his advice and your I lin praise ot your Goi<*cn -.fedteal DlcoU’H, for
medicine, and have never been sorry for either, as lam to-day a I fiiinun I I - thnt it is of golden worth, it hits
healthy man, while on>* year ago 1 was not able to work and was I | | helped both my husband and mjsclf. Two 5 P **J*J
a burden to myaelf. At that time I weighed 122 pounds, and t< - - 11,1 1,1 1 ago Mr. Stowell was aftllctcd with vbat appeared
day 1 weigh 147 pounds. Then 1 used to eat about one meal a day, to be asthma, and our altitude be ing 80 high, oiinc.uJty fa
and now can oat four or five if I dared to. After all these twne- breathing attendant upon this distressing malady was greatly in
fits. how can 1 refrain from adding my testimonial, unsolicited, creat'd, began to improve at otice after conimenci„g the
to the thousands already in your possession." nse of your ’Discovery, .was entirely cun. 1 by tins bonier-
. ful medicine. As for mvself, 1 have used it Tor nenous and
Client IM sc ho. E. B. Norman. Esq., of Anon. Georgia, sars: ,-,. neri i debilitv, ard for an affection of the kidneys and bladder*
“I think the ’Golden Mistical Discovery’ is the best mediciue . in( j j found that it was without a rival for these complaints,
for pain in the chest that I have ever known. lam sound and \y e are now never without your ‘Discovery.’"
\hiil ---j',,* I* t* lo ‘Discovery. I NiCKUN. of Marlborough, N. F., says: “When I
Lu ainon"! W. 11. Davis. Esq., of BrUriUc, Florida., ! first began taking your ‘Favorite Prcseription,’ ‘Golden Medical
1 WaRTH SIGDU I writs: “I have taken your wonderful ya—— h— i--« Dieeovery, and ‘P< dvta, I was so weak I
inuntn QIUUU i . Goh]en D-scowry’ and hf\< been I A ntle HiinTinu I co ul ‘J not be <-n mv feet but af< v? minutes
I A RfiTTI r I eun dos the worst ca.-o ol < msumpt.on. I J uCJJSUMPTICH. I a time. Tney di«f me a great ueal o. good,
I A DuTTLEa lam now sound and well, and have only spent I I end I tane pleasun* in expressing niy grati-
num mbui thn*c dollar*, and I would not tak-' three tude to you for the excellent hcaltii I now
thousand doiars and b. nut back where I was. I am endeavor- enjoy. When I first wrote you I was eoiu to be m the *.rst stags
lUf to have all my neighbors keep your remedies ia the bouse." ' t ot consumption."
Goldeu Medical Discovery Is Sold by Druggiate. Price SI.OO per Bottle, or 6ix Bottles for $5.00.
WORLD S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Propr's, No. 663 Main St., BUFFALO, N.