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A QUEEN I)ETIII!()NE1>. DR. TALMAGE TELLS THE STORY OF THE BEAUTIFUL VASHTI. Practical I.ts»o:is Urnwn From Her Sad Life For All Conditions and All Times. A Queenly Martyr to Kingly Insolence. A Woman to Imitate. |Copyright, lb98, bv American Press Asso ciation. I Washington, July 8.—Dr. Tnlmngo in this discussion tells the story of :i beautiful queen dethroned, and draws ptactical lessons for all conditions and nil times; text, Esther i, 11-12, “Bring Vashti, the queen, before the king with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to look upon. But tho Queen Vashti re fused to come.” Wo stand amid the palaces of Shu- shau. The pinnacles arc aflame with tho morning light. The columns rise festooned and wreathed, the wealth of empires flashing from the grooves; the ceilings adorned with images of bird and beast and scenes of prowess and conquest. Tho walls are hung with shields and emblazoned until it seems that the whole round of splendors is ex hausted. Each arch is a mighty leaf of architectural achievement. Golden stars shining down on glowing arabesque. Hangings of embroidered work in which mingle the blueness of tho sky, tho greenness of tho grass and the white ness of ^tiie sea foam. Tapestries hung on silver rings, wedding together tho pillars of marble. Pavilions reaching out in every direction. These for repose, filled with luxuriant couches, in which weary limbs sink until all fatigue is submerged. Those for carousal where kings drink down a kingdom at one swallow. Amazing spectacle! Light of silver dripping down over stairs of ivory on shields of gold. Floors of stain ed marble, sunset red and night black, and inlaid with gleaming pearl. In connection with this palace there is a garden where tho mighty men of for eign lands are ssattsl at a banquet. Un der 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 into crystalline bap tism upon flowering shrubs—thou roll ing down through channels of marble and widening out here and there into pools swirling with the finny tribes of foreign aquariums, bordered with scar let anemones, hypericums and many colored ranunculi. Meats of rarest bird and boast smok ing up amid wreaths of aromatics. Tho vases filled with apricots and almonds. The baskets piled up with apricots und tigs and oranges and pomegranates. Melons tastefully twined with leaves of acacia. The bright waters of Eulams -—'filling the urns and dropping outside the rim in flashing beads amid the traceries. Wine from the royal vats of Ispahan and Shiraz in bottles of tinged shell and lily shaped cups of silver and flagons and tankards of solid gold. Tho music rW's higher, aud the revelry breaks out into wilder transport, and tho wine has flushed tho cheek aud touched the brain, and lender than all other voices are the hici U cf tho inebriates, tho gabble of fools and the song of the drunkards. Bidden to tho Banquet. 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 the wom en and bring her to this banquet with the men and let mo display her beauty. ’ ’ The servants immediately 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 hero was a mandate that no one dare dispute demanding that Vashti come in unveiled before tho mul titude. However, there was in Vashti’s soul a principle more regal than Almsue- rus, more brilliant than the gold of Shushau, of more wealth than the realm of Persia, which commanded her to dis obey this order of tho king, and so all the righteousness and holiness and mod esty of her nature rise up into one sub lime refusal. She says, “I will not go into tho banquet unveiled.” Ahasuerus was infuriate, aud Vashti, robbed of her position and her estate, is driven forth in poverty aud ruin to suffer the scorn of a nation and yet to receive the ap plause of after generations, who shall rise up to admire this martyr to kingly insolence. Well, the last vestige of that feast is gone. Tho last garland has faded, the last arch has fallen, the last tankard has been destroyed, aud Shushau is a ruin, but as long as the world stands there will be multitudes of men and women, familiar with tho Bible, who will come into this picture gallery of God aud admire the divine portrait of Vashti tho queen, Vashti the voilwd, Vashti tho sacrifice, Vashti the silent. Vauhtl tho Queon. In tho first place, I want yon to look upon Vashti, the quoon. A blue ribbon, rayed with white, drawn aronnd her forehead, indicated her queenly posi tion. It was no small honor to be queen in such a realm as that. Hark to the bustle of her robes. See the blazo of her jewels. Aud 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 aud tho race by u grand and a glorious service, I say, “That woman is a queen," and tho ranks of heaven look over the battlements upon tho coronation, and whether she comes up from the shanty on the commons or the mansion of the fashionable square I greet her W’ith tho shout, “All hail, Queen Vashti 1” Wlat glory was there on the brow of Mary of Scotland, or Elizabeth of Eng land, or Margaret of Franco, or Cather ine of Russia compared with the worth of aumo of our Christian mhthers, many of them gone into glory; or of that THE LEDGER: GAFFEEY, 8. JULY 7, 181)8. woman mentioned in tho Scriptures, who put her all into tho Lord’s treas ury; or of Jephthah’s daughter, who made a demonstration of unselfish pa triotism; or of Arigail, who rescued tho herds aud flocks of her husband; or of Ruth, who toiled under a tropical sun for poor, old, helpless Nnomi; or of Florence Nightingale, who went at midnight to stanch the battle wounds of tho Crimea; or of Mrs. Adoniram Judson, who kindled the lights of sal vation amid the darkness of Burma; or of Mrs. Homans, who poured out her holy soul in words which will forever bo associated with hunter’s horn, and captive’s chain, aud bridal hour, and lute’s throb, and curfew’s knell at the dying day, and scores and hundreds of women, unknown on earth, who have given water to the thirsty, and bread to the hungry, aud medicine to the sick, ami smiles to the discouraged, their footsteps hoard along dark lane, and in government hospital, and in almshouse corridor, and by prison gate? There may bo no royal robe, there may be no pala tial surroundings. She does not need them, for all charitable men will unite with the crackling lips of fever struck hospital and plague blotched lazaretto in greeting her as she passes: “Hail, hail, Queen Vashti!’’ Stit;np of Wouiaaly Indijrnation. Again, I want you to consider Vashti the veiled. Had she appeared before Ahasuerus and his court on that day with her face uncovered she would have shocked all the delicacies of oriental so ciety, and the very men who in their intoxication demanded that sho come in their sober moments w’onld have de spised her. As some flowers seem to thrive best in the dark lane and in (he shadow and where tho sun does not seem to reach them, so God appoints to most womanly natures a retiring aud unob trusive spirit. God once in awhile does call an Isabella to a throne or a Miriam to strike tho timbrel at the front of a host or a Marie Antoinette to quell a French mob or a Deborah to stand at the front of an armed battalion, crying out: “Up, up! This is the day in which the Lord will deliver Siaera into thy hands.” And when the women are call ed to snch outdoor work and to such heroic positions, God prepares them for it, and they have iron in their soul aud lightnings in their eye aud whirlwinds in their breath, and tho borrowed strength of the Lord omnipotent in their right arm. They walk through furnaces as though they wore hedges of wild flowers, aud cross seas as though they were shimmering sapphire, and all the harpies of .hell down to their dungeon at the stamp of womanly indignation. But these are the exceptions. Gener ally, Dorcas would rather make u gar ment for the poor boy; Rebecca would rattier fill the trough of tho camels; Hannah would rather make a coat for Samuel; the Hebrew maid would rath er give a prescription for Naaman's lep- ros/, the woman of Sarepta would rath er gather a few sticks to cook a meal for famished Elijah; Phebewould rath er i irry a letter for the inspired apos tle ; Mother Lois would rather educate Timothy in tho 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 presiding in the nursery, go ing out into tho world without any blast of trumpets, following in the foot steps of him who went about doing good —Isay, “This is Vashti with a veil on." But when I see a woman of unblu.-.h- iug boldness, loud voiced, with a tongue of infinite clitter clatter, with arrogant look, passing through tho streets with the step of a walking beam, gayly ar rayed in a very hurricane of millinery, I cry out, “Vashti has lost her veil!" When I see a woman, struggling for po litical preferment, trying to force her way on up to conspicnity amid the mas culine demagogues who stand with swollen fists and bloodshot eyes aud pestiferous breath to guard the polls, wanting to go through the loaierism aud defilement of popular sovereigns who crawl up from tho saloons greasy and foul aud vermin covered to decide questions of justice and order and civi lization—when I see a woman, I say, who w’auts to press through all that horrible scum to get to public place and power, I say: “Ah, what a pity! Vashti has lost her veil!" When I see a woman of comely fea tures and of adroitness of intellect and endowed with all that tho schools can do for her aud of high social position, yet moving in society with supercilious ness aud hauteur as though she would have people know their place, and with an undefined combination of giggle aud stmt aud rhodomoutade, endowed with allopathic quantities of talk, but only homeopathic infinitesimals of sense, the terrnr of dry goods clerks aud railroad conductors, discoverers of significant meanings in plain conversation, prodi gies of badinage aud innuendo, I say, “Vashti has lost her veil!” A Quaanlj Sacrifice. Again, I want you this morning to consider Vashti the sacrifice. Who is this that I see coming ontof that palace gate of Shushau. It seems to me that I have seen her before. Sho comes home less, 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 ap proved and sought for; now none so poor as to acknowledge her acquaint anceship. Vashti the sacrifice! Ah, you aud I have seen it many a time. Here is a home empalacod with beauty. All that refinement aud books aud wealth can do for that homo has been done, but Ahasuerus, the husband and tho father, is taking hold on paths of sin. He is gradually going down. After awhile he will flounder and strug gle like a wild beast in tho hnn^r’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 tho marriage feast of Lapi- tha>. The house full of outrage am. cruelty and abomination, while trudg ing f"rth from the palace gate arc \ ashtl aud her cL dren. Tin re arc bonu s in all parts d this land that are iu dan ger of such 11< aking up. Oh, Ahu.su'ms, that yon should stand in :v In .ac, by a dissipated life destroying the peace and comfort of that homo. God forbid that your children should over have to wring their bauds and have people point tin ir finger at them as they pass down the street aud 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 glass should come forth aud uproot that garden, and with a lasting, blistering, all consuming curse shut forever tho palace gate against Vashti and the children. Firesides of Christendom. 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 ssiw the campfires all through tho valleys and all over the hills. It was a weird spec tacle, those campfires, aud I stood and watched them, and tho 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 campfires begin to lower, and they continued to lower un til they’ were all gone out and the army slept. It was imposing when I saw the campfires. It was imposing in the dark ness when I thought of that great host asleep. Well, God looks down from heaven, aud he sees the firesides of Christendom and the loved ones gather ed around these firesides. These are tho campfires where wo warm ourselves at the close of day aud talk over tho bat tles of life wo have fought aud the bat tles that are yet to come. God grant that when at last these fires begin to go out ami continue to lower until finally they are extinguished and the ashes of consumed hopes strew the hearth of the old homestead, it may be because we have— Clone to sleep that last sleep From which none ever wake to weep. Now wo are an army on the march of life. Then we shall be an army bivouacked in the tent of tho grave. Vashti the Silent. Once more. I want you to look at Vashti the silent, x'ou do not hear any outcry from this woman as she goes forth from the palace gate. From tho very dignity of her nature you know there will lie no vociferation. Some times in life it is necessary to make a retort, sometimes iu life it is necessary to resist, but there are crises when tho most triumphant thing to do is to keep silence. The philosopher, confident in his newly discovered principle, waiting for the coming of more intelligent gen erations, willing that men should laugh at the lightning rod and cotton gin and steamboat and telegraph, waiting for long years through the scoffing of philo sophical schools in grand and magnifi cent silence,. Galileo, condemned by mathemati cians aud monks and cardinals, carica tured everywhere, y T et waiting and watching with his telescope to see tho coming up of stellar re-enforcements when the stars in their courses would fight for the Copemioan system, then sitting down in complete blindness and deafness to wait for tho coming on of the generations who would build his monument and bow at his grave. The reformer, execrated by his contempo raries, fastened in a pillory, tho slow fires of public contempt burning under him, ground-under the cylinders of the printing press, yet calmly waiting for the day when purity of soul aud hero ism of character will get the sanction of earth aud the plaudits of heaven. Afflic tion enduring without any complaint tho sharpness of tho pang and the vio lence 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 soot lie the pang and hush tho storm aud release tho captive. A wife abused, persecuted and a perpetual exile from every earthly comfort, waiting, waiting, until the Lord shall gather up his dear children iu a heavenly home, and no poor Vashti will ever bo thrust out from the palace gate. Jesus, in si lence aud answering not a word, drink ing the gall, bearing the cross, in pros pect of the rapturous consummation when— Alltel* thronged his chariot wheel And bore him to his throne, Then swept their golden harps and sang, “The glorious work is done*!" Oh, woman, docs not this story of Vashti the queen, Vashti the veiled, 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 tho privations and tho cruelties and the miufortuues of this life if you can only gain admission there. Through the blood of the everlasting covenant you go through those gates or never go through at all. God forbid that you should at last be banished from the so ciety of angels aud banished from tho companionship of your glorified kindred and banished forever. Through the rich grace of our Lord Jesus Christ may you be enabled to imitate the example of Rachel and Hannah aud Abigail and Deborah aud Mary aud Esther and Vashti. Frieutl »i»«l f'o*. At a recent sitting of the French academy, the member* met in tho vesti bule on their way out two sisters of charity seeking alms. Everybody gave them something, but the amis, not hav ing perceived that M. do Hornier had contributed his share, solicited from him a second time. Naturally M. de Homier politely protested that he had done his duty. “I believe him,” said M. Coppoe in the ear of M. do Heredia, "but I did cot see it.” "Aud I,” replied M. do Heredia, "I saw him, but I dto cot believe it” Plenty to Do. “I thought you told me, Witson, thaS you intended to do business just the same after you had moved into the sub urbs. I know you have plenty, but I always thought you one of those nu n who infiet upon dying in tho huriK.-.j. ” 1 Yon Vi right about it, my ol M fri/snd. I believe that it would he im possible for mo to avoid spending at least two or throe hours a day on ’change, but my time is completely tak en up, and 1 haven't looked at a market report for a month. ” “Wouldn’t believe it if any one else told me. How do you exist?” “I'm having young trees set out, get ting a garden ready, superintending tho building of a barn, watching them pave tho street and having u continued kick with the assessors, who seem to think that my property is worth all I paid for it.” “Yen’ll soon have all that off your hands. I was afraid you might have left us permanently.” “Oh, I’ve only commenced. I have a Jersey ccw, a pointer pup, a tandem, two Berkshire pigs and a kodak, be sides”— “Never mind. Tho cow, the pup and tho kodak are enough. I’ll just tell tho boys that it’s all off, so far as trade with you is concerned. Yon have throe fads that will keep yon busier than a coon in a bee trio.”—Detroit Free Press. The Undertaker’* Chair*. “I see in the windows of undertak ing shops,” said Mr. Stuybolt, “a pla card which says that campstools aud foldingchairs are to hire there, deliver ed by express wagon. I infer from this that chairs must be hired out for other than funeral purposes, for festive occa sions, in fact, as indeed I know of no reason why they should not be. “But they must lead a varied life, tho chairs—funeral one day and wed ding, it may bo, the next. They know v’heu they start where they’re going— that is, they know the nature of the oc casion. They can tell that by the wag on they go in. If when they are carried out they find themselves put into the black wagon of the undertaker, they know it’s a funeral they’re going to. If they are put into just a plain, ordinary delivery wagon, they know that they are going to a wedding or a party or some gathering of more or less gayety, but they cannot tell what will happen next. “Well, I don’t know that there’s anything so very remarkable about this after all. The experience of the chairs is like that of the people who sit on them. They have their days of smiles and their days of tears.”—New York Sun. Her Impression* of Ancels. The wife of a well known senator took her little daughter, u 4-year-old damsel, to a matinee once to see “Jack and the Beanstalk.” A week or so aft erward sho was discovered pirouetting and lifting her petticoats before a che- val glass. Her father reproved her and told her it wasn’t a pretty way to do. “Why,” said tho child, “I saw’tho angels do it.” “Tho angels!” exclaimed her father. “Why, where?” “When mamma and I went to heaven that day,” said the child. The father explained that tho fancied heaven was only the theater. The little girl’s face fell. “Aud wasn’t they angels?” sheasked. “No,” said tho father; "they were just girls. ” Tho child put on an air of intense disgust. "Well,’’she said, "I fink they ought to be taked homo aud spanked, ’cause they wasn’t dressed any more than an gels. ”—Lewiston Journal. Quern Victoria’* Marked I’ocm. Here is a funny story told of a hap pening at the English court; Sir Theo dore Martin had been requested by Vic toria to read aloud from "Tho Ring and tho Book. ” Sir Theodore was courtier enough to make a cautious study before hand of the poem, and he placed mar ginal notes as danger signals against passages of doubtful propriety. The marked copy chanced to come in to the hands of a rather thoughtless court lady. "I have so enjoyed this wonderful work,” she said to a friend, "aud it has been such an advantage to read it after the queen, for she has placed marks against the most beautiful parts, and, oh, what exquisite taste the dear queen has!” she added, pointing to the danger signals of Sir Theodore Mar tin.—Quiver. An Enterprising Druggist. There are few men more wide awake and enterprising than DuPre Drug Co., who spare no pains to se cure the best of everything in their line for their many cuitomers. They now have the valuable agency for Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consump tion, Coughs and Colds. This is the wonderful remidy that is producing such a furor all over the country by its many startling cures. It abso lutely cures Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all affections of the Throat, Chest and Lungs. Call at above drug store and get a trial bottle free or a regular sire tor 50 cents and $1.00 Guaranteed to cure or price refunded. The Hot Springs of Arkansas The Mountain-Locked Miracle of the Ozarks. The hat waters, the mountain air. equable climate and the pine forests make Hot Springs the most wonderful health and pleas ure resort In the world, summer or winter. It Is owned, endorsed and controlled by the l\ S. Government and has iiivonimodtHion* for nil classes. The Arlington and Park hotels und >A) others and 2eo eoardln^* houses are open all summer. Iluvluc an altitude of 1000 feet it I* a cool, safe and nearhr refuge durlnir the heated term In the south. For information eoiiceruinv Hot Hprinir* address C. F. Cooley. Manatier Uusiness Men’* I.eajrue, Hot Springs. Ark. For reduetsI excursion ticket* and partic ulars of the trip sen local U){cnt or address VV. A. Turk. Gen'l Pass. Atfi., t-outhern Uy. Washington, 1). C. They Love a Fire. "Thera are utauy men in London who have n positive craze for witm -sing fires, ” said an old fireman to tho writer, “and they are ready to (dart at a mo ment’s notice in any direction when nows of a fire readies them. < )f conn?:' they are men whoso time is their own, and many of them are* west end swells.’ “But the craze isn’t as fashionable as it was in my younger days. Why, in tho early seventies there wasn’t a club in tho west end that hadn’t got its ‘fire mandais,* as they were called, and there was a regular system of messen gers to carry the news of a big confla gration. It was the Prince of Wales who set the fashion, and whenever there was a big blaze he was always there with Lord Autberley or some other friend of similar tastes. No distance was too great and no night too dark or stormy to keep them away, and I’ve been told that some cf them had records of hundreds of fires, from an oilshop to the big blaze at the Alexandra palace. “The prince lost his taste for this kind of excitement long ago, but there axe dozens of the younger ‘bloods’ who wouldn’t miss a big fire for anything.” —London Standard. ..‘r?. Hn VSS must be fed on pure, rich b ** bloott. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the best nerve tonic. By enriching iho blood it makes the nerves STRONG Mothers! 'hr discom forts and dangers of I* child-birth can Js*/ be almost en- tirely evoided. Vi i Wine of Cardui -"TAL ■ relieves ex pectant moth ers. It gives tonetothegen- italcrgans.and puts them in condition to do their work perfectly. That makes preg nancy loss painful, shortens labor and hastens recovery alter child-birth. It helps a woman bear strong healthy children. Korea. Of intellectual aud spiritual Hfo there is but a feeble glimmer. For 3,000 years tho influence of China has been at its dry rotting work. The language, lit erature and moral teaching of China are the badges of refinement, have depre ciated the native tongue, and in conse quence the natural mental development, aud have drawn a line of demarkation between the aristocratic or Chinese bred and the plebeian Korean speaking classes. Of late there has been some reaction, Japanese prompted, bo that official doc uments and The Gazette are uow issued iu a mixed script, partly Enmun, the national language, and partly Chinese. This revival of tho language vs the most hopeful sign of Korea. Necessarily since the mortmain of China has kept the na tional life at its lowest ebb the reli gious teaching is Chinese too. Confucian ism is the doctrine of the upper classes, its precepts vigorously honored in the breach, just as the Ten Commandments are made conspicuous farther west.— Blackwood’s Magazine. Look! A Stitch in Time Saves nine. 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