Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 9, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 July 1896 — Page 6

TALMAGE’S SERMON. Drawn From the Humiliation of Queen VashtL XMrertsd to Some Typos of th« i—Likened Unto the Queen Usd She -Lost Her VeU.” r. T.DeWitt Talmage delivered the following sermon upon “Womtn’s Op* portunities” before his Washington exmgregationc, taking for his text: To hrtac Vashti the queen before the Msa with the crown royal, to shew the mad the princes her beauty ;for she wan - to took os. But the queen Vashti refused st the kins’* commandment by his tins; therefore was the kins very .aadhl* anger burned in him.—Esther L. 11-12 Weatand amid the palaces of Shu* ahan. The piuacles are aflame with the morniag light. The columns rise festooned and wreathed, the wealth of --empires flashing from the groves; the ceilings adorned with images of bird and beast, and scenes of prowess ■ and conquest- The. walls are hung with shields, and emblazoned until it :*eems that the whole round of splen* •dors is exhausted. Each arch la a mighty leap of architectural achievement. Golden stars, shining down on .glowing arbesque. Hangings of embroidered work in which mingle the blueness of the sky.the greenness of 4he grass and the whiteness of the seafoam. Tapestries hung on silver rings, wedding together the pillars of marble. Pavilions reaching out in every direction. These for repose filled with luxuriant couches, into which weary limbs sink until all fatigue is •abmerged. These for carousal, where flings drink down a kingdom at one •wallow. Amazing spectacle! Light o| silver dripping down over stairs of ivory on shields of gold. Floors of ataioed marble, sunset red and night

tola.dc. and inlaid with gleaming pearl. Why. it seems as if a heavenly vision of amethyst and jacinth and topaz and ,clvrysoprasus had descended uud alighted upon Shushan. It seems as if a billow of celestial j glory had dashed elcar over Heaven’s ! battlement-' upon this metropolis of j Persia. lu connection with this palsee 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 ta- i ble-s are arranged. The breath of j honeysuckle and frankincense fills the '' air. Fountains leap up into the light, j the spray struck through with rain- ! bows failing in crystailin.e baptism upon flowering shrubs—then rolling 1 -down through channels of marble, j and widening out here and there into pools swirling with the tinny tribes' of foreign aquariums, bordered with acarlet anemones, hypericutns and many-colored ranunculus. Meats of j rarest bird and beast smoking up\ amid wreaths of aromatics. The j vases filled with apricots and almonds, j The baskets piled up with apricots and j dates, and figs, and orauges,.and pome- j grannies. Melons tastefully twined j with leaves of acacia. The bright wa- j tors of Eulaeus filling-the urns and 1 •wealing outside the rim in flashing ! beads amid the traceries. Wine from the royal vats of Ispahan and Shiraz, in bottle* of tinged shell, and lily.shaped cups of silver, and flagons and tankardi£»of solid gold. The music j rises higher and .the revelry breaks | amt into wilder transport, and the I wine lias flushed the cheek and touched the brain, and louder than all other j voices are the hiccough of the iuebMateti, the gabble of fools, and the song j • of the drunkards. In another part of the palace. Queen ! Vashti is entertaining the priueesses of 'Persia at a banquet. Dtunken Alias- j •aerut says toTiis servants: ‘‘You go; out and fetch Yashti from that ban- 1 «jncL with the \Vomen, and bring her to this banquet with the men, and let | me display her beauty." The servants I immediately start to obey the king’s eoinutaud; but there was a ’ rule in' oriental society tliat no woman -might ; ■IHM-ir in public without having her I fni- veiled. Yet here was •« mandate 1

that no one dare dispute, demanding that Vashti come in unveiled before | the multitude. However, there was ; in Va&hti's soul a principle more regal ] than Ahasuerus. more brilliant than the(fold of Slmshan. of more wealth than the realm of Persia, which com■Handed her to disobey this order of the \ kiny, and so all the righteousness and holiness and modesty of lier nature rise* up into one sublime refusal. J>he j ‘•ays: **1 will net go into the banquet | «nveiled.Of course. Ahasuerus whs j infuriate; and Vashti. robbed of her j position and her estate, is driven forth ! la poverty and ruin to »uffer the scorn of a nation, and yet to receive the ap- 1 plan sc of after generations who shall i rise up to admire this martyr to king-1 ly insolence. Well, the last vestige of 1 that feast is gone; the last garland has faded; the last arch has fallen; the last j tankard has been destroyed;: and Shush an is a ruin; but as long as the world I Clauds there will be multitudes of men and women,'familiar with the Uible, I who will come into this picture gal-! iery of Clod, and admire the divine ; ^portrait of Vashti the queen. Vashti; the veiled, Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti ( the silent la the first place. I want you to! look upon Vashti, the queen. A bine ■ aribboo, rayed with white, drawn! aroood herr forehead, indicated her] queenly position. It was no small j honor to be queen in inch a realm as ’ that Clark to the rustle of her robe! 1 See the blaze of her jewels! And vet, j my friends, it is not necessary to have j .a palace and regal robe in order to be -queenly. When 1 see a woman with j strong faith in God, putting her foot j ape all meanness and selfishness and j godless display, going right forward! ho nerve Christ and the race by a j pul and glorious service, I shy; ; •“That woman is a queen," and the ranks of Heaven look over the battle- ‘ hsents upon the coronation, and ; whether she come up from the shanty •oh the commons or the mansion of ■the fashionable aauarc. 1 great her

with the shout: “All hail! Queen Vashti.” What glory was there on the brow at Mary of Scotland, or Eliza!>eth of England, or Margaret of France, or Catherine of Russia, compared with the worth of some of our Christian mothers, many of them gone into glory?—or of that woman mentioned in the Scriptures, who put all her money into the Lord’s treasury?— or of Jephtha’s daughter, who made a demonstration of unselfish patriot- ; ism?—or of Abigail, who rescued the | herds and flocks of her husband?—or of Ruth, who toiled under a tropical sun for poor, old, helpless Naomi?—or of Florence Nightingale, who went at 1 midnight to stanch the battle wounds of the Crimea?—or of Mrs. Adoniram Judson, who kindled the lights of salvation amid the darkness of Burmah? —or of Mrs. Heinans, 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 curfew’s knell at the dying day?—and scores and hundreds of women, unknown on earth, who have givpn water to the thirsty and bread to the hungry and medicine to the sick and smiles to the discouraged—their footsteps heard along dark lane and in government hospital and in alms house corridor and by prison gate? There may be no royal robe—there ^may be no palatial 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.” Again: I wantyou to consider Vashti the veiled. Had she appeared before Ahasuerus and his court j»n that daj\ with her face uncovered, she would have shocked all the delicacies of oriental society, and the very men who in their intoxication demanded- that she come, in their sober momeuts would have dcspi-ed her. As some flowers seem to thrive best in the dark

lane and in the shadow, and where the sun docs not seem to reach them, so God appoints to most womanly natures a retiring’ and unobtrusive spirit. God once in awhile does call an Isabella to a throne, or a Miriam to strike the timbrel at the front of a host, or a Mario 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 Siscra into thine hand.*’ j And when women are called to such outdoor work'snd to such heroic posir , tions, God prepares them fit for it; and they have iron in their souls, and lightning in their eyes, and whirlwinds in their breath, and the borrowed; strength of the Lord Omnipotent in ■ their right arm. They walk through furnaces as though the}’ were hedges of wild flowers, and cross seas as though they were shimmering sapphires; and all the harpies of hell down to their dungeon at the sta|pp\ of her ; womanly indignation. Hut tlifcse are j the exceptions. Generally, Dorcas j would rather make a garment for 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 Naaman's leprosy; the tvoraan of Sarepta would rather gather a few sticks to cook a meal for faminished Elijah; Phebe would rather carry a letter for the inspired apostle; mother Lois would rather educate Timothy in tha Soriptures When I see a woman going about her daily duty—-path cheerful dignity presiding at the table, with kind and gentle, but firm discipline, presiding in the nursery, going out intd the world without any blast of trmnpets, following in the footsteps of j 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 infinite 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: *‘Vasl-*i 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 do for one. amt of high social position. yet moving in society with superciliousness anti hauteur.’as though she would have people know their place, and an undefined combination of giggle and strut and rhodomontade, endowed with allopathic quantities of talk, but only homeopathic infinitesimals of sense, the terror of dry goods clerks and, railroad conductors, discoverers of significant meaning in plain conversation, prodigies of badinage and innuendo—I say: '‘Look! look! Vashti has lost her veil." -Again. I want you to consider j Vashti the sacrifice. Who is this I see coming out of the palace gate of Shu- . shan? It seems to me that 1 have ] seen her before. She comes homeless, houseless, friendless, trudging along with a broken heart. Who is shb? It 1 is Vashti the sacrifice. Oh, what achange it was from regal position to wayfarer's crust! A little while ago, approved and sought for; uow, none ] so poor as’ to acknowledge her ac- ! quaintanceship. Vashti the sacrifice! Ah! you 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 ! done; bnt Ahasueras. the husband j and the father, is taking hold on paths j of sin. He is gradually going down. After awhile he will struggle and j flounder like a wild beast in a hunter's ] net—further away from God, further . away from therig*st. Soon the bright apparel of the children will th$n to j rags; soon the household song will be- j come the sobbing of a broken heart. j The old story over again. Brutal Centaurs breaking up the marriage feast j of Dapithae. The house full of outrage ! and cruelty and abomination, while) trudging forth from the palace gate j are Vashti and her children. There \ are homes that are in danger of such a j breaking up. Oh, Ahasuerus! that you j should stand in a home, by a dis- j si pa ted life destroying the peace and comfort of that home. God forbid that i

jour children 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 lirtle feet should ever have to truge the path of poverty and wretchedness! God forbid that any evil spirit born of the wine-cup or the brandyglass 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! During the war I went to Hagerstown to look at the army, and I stood in the night on a hill-top and looked down upon them. I saw the campfires all through the valleys and all over the hills. It was a weird spectacle. those camp-fires, and I stood and watched them and the soldiers who 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 awhilie 1 saw those camp-fires begin to lower; and they con lined to lower, until they were all gone out, and the army slept. It was imposing when I saw the campfires; it was imposing in- the darkness when I thought of that great host asleep. Well, God looks down from Heaven, and He sees the firesides of Christendom and the loved ones gathered around these firesides. There are the campfires where we warm ourselves at the close of the day. and talk over the battles of life we have fought and the battles that are j-et to come. God grant that when at last these fires begin to go out and continue to lower un til finally they are extinguished.and' the ashes of consumed hopes strew the hearth of the old homestead, it may be because we have Gone to sleep that last long sleep From which none ever awake to weep Now we are an army on the inarch Of life. Then we will ixe an army bivouacked in the tent of the grave.

unco more: 1 want you to look at Vashti- the silent. , You do not hear any outcry from this woman as she goes forth from the palace gate. From the very dignity of her nature you know that there will be no vociferation. Sometimes in life it is necessary to make a retort: sometimes in lif^ it is necessary to resist; but there hre crises when the most triumphant thing to do is to keep silent. The philosopher,_ confident in his newlydiscovered principle, waiting for the coming of more intelligent generations, willing that men should laugh at the lightning-rod and cotton-gin and steamboat—waiting for long years through the scoffing of philosophical schools, in grand and magnificent silence. Galileo, condemned by mathematicians and scientists, caricatured everywhere, yet waiting and watching with his telescope to see the coming of stellar reinforcements, when the stars in their courses would fight for the Copernican system; then sitting down in complete blindness and deafness to wait for t#he coming on of the generations who would build his monument and bow at his grave. The reformer, execrated by his contemporaries, fastened in a pillory, the 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 and heroism of character will get the sanction of earth and the plaudits of Heaven. Affliction, enduring without any complaint the sharpness of the pang and the violence of the storm, and the left of the chain and of the darkness of night. Waiting until a divine hand shall be put forth to soothe pang and hush the storm and release the captive. A wife abused, persecuted, and a perpetual exile from every earthly comfort—waiting, waiting, nntil the Lord shall gather all His dear cliiidreu 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 gall, bearing the cross, in prospect of the rapturous consummation when Angels thronged His chariot wheel And bore Him to His throne; . Then swept their golden harps and sung The glorious work is done.

Oh. woman, does not this story of Vashti the queen, Vashti the veiled, Yash'ti the sacrifice, Vashti the silent, move 3’our soul? My sermon converges iuto the one absorbing hope that none of .von may be shut out off the palace gate of Heaven. You canl^ endure the hardships' and the privations and the cruelties and the misfortunes of this life, if you can only gain admission there. Through the blood of the everlasting covenant you go through these gates, or never go at all. God forbid that you should at last be banished from the society of angels, and banished from the companionship of your glorified kindred, and banished forever. Through the rich grace of our Lord Jesus Christ may you l*e enabled to imitate the example of Rachel and Hannah and Abigail and Deborah acd Mary and Esther and Vashti. Amen. J Jay In Worship. The Hebrew worship, we are apt to think, was awe-inspiring and therefore gloomy: but it had, nevertheiesa, large room for gladness. The magnificent collection of Psalms which have come down to us give token that the element of joy predominated in the worship of their assemblies. To this day we can find no better expression of exultant emotion than these songs, supply. We do not think we are wrong in asserting that the tone of public worship to-day is quite below' that of the Hebrews, and certainly below that of the early Christians in gladness. In our hymns and liturgies we use their words; but it is seldom that in the worship of a modern congregation one is conscious of the exultant note of joy. ArUtoc rarjr. An aristocratic life can be lived in a hut as well as oh a throne, and it consists in kingliness and knightly kindliness that serves and suffers, that consumes self and conserves the other self, an altruistic copy of Divine righteousness, as it is given to us in the person of Christ.—Rev. JS. T. Lee, Presbyterian, Cincinnati. (X

HE WOULD GIVE AN aRM for m Stfkt of HU Country'* Flaf One* More, 8mf Owen Milton, A Prisoner In ; Cnb»—How Gen. Olivers, Governor of Cshsnse For trees. Tried to Balldbai* Hint \ Into Re Test Inf tbe Name ef a Letter j Writer. New York, July * —A Herald special from Key West, FI a., says: There was a sensational scene In the Cabanas fortress, Havana, on June 13, ji which Owen Milton, the American raptured on the Competitor, and Gen. Dlivera, governor tof the prison, were principals. Gen. Olivera had received tn anonymous letter from Key West (or Milton containing $10, and had mmmoned the prisoner to his 1 office. Describing what happened, Milton, in a letter to a friend here says: “Gen. Olivera shotted the ; letter and money and said ConsulGeneral Lee wanted to know the name : >f the writer. I refused to disclose I the writer’s name, and Gen. Olivera ; threatened to run his sword through j »e. Again he demanded the writer’s ! same. I told Olivera I would fur

j aish it to Gen. Lee in person. ; The Spaniard saw that ][ had i penetrated his purpose, and stormed In a terrible manner, swinging his sword about my head. Finally he | ordered me back to the prison, jtelling ! the guard not to let me escape. £)livera j used Lee's name without authority and 11 have learned he has tried jto trap | other prisoners in a similar minner.*’ Milton says new prisoners are being, j thrust into the Cabanas daily. Almost | svery new prisoner has a story of ali Leged Spanish atrocities to relate. Cip- | rian Perez, one of the late arrivals, tells of an alleged massacrfe near Cuanajay. Spanish guerrillas, the prisoner says. raided an estate near that place on June 20. burning buildings and shooting Jose G<bnza'lez, Sera fin Caravaja, Pedro Hanero, Jose Castro, Juan Gonzalez. Meregito Perei ! and Julian Castenada. Perez also reI ports that two women were killed. Milton says he fears he will never | live to return home. “I would give,” ! ! he says, “one of my arms for a sight.of | j the United States flag.” - I | LIEUT. CLARK EXONERATED Did HU Duty When He Ordered Private Weaver Shot. Omaha, Neb., July 3.—The board oi j officers appointed by Col. ^Andrews, : commandant at Fort Niobrata,‘ to in- ! [ vestigate the killing of Private Weaver by a guard on orders of Lieut. Clark, j have replied to headquarters that Lieut. Clark was perfectly justified in his action. Weaver shot and killed Scfrgt. Livingston last Saturday morning ahd was shooting at others when Lieut. Clark called upon him to lay down his gun and surrender, and he; refused. Lieut. Clark then ordered a jguard tc >hoot aud wound Weaver, \yhich the guard did, but he struck a vital spot and Weaver died. An officer at headquarters (said that I there never been a particle of suspicion, but that Lieut. Clark ivas right! in his order, and had he not given it,! thus placing the lives of othjt-r men in danger, he would have been court-mar-tialed.

DEATH OF GEN. A. R. LAWTON. Short Biographical Sketch of Ilia Life. Clifton- Springs, N. Y., duly 3.— Gen. A. R. Lawton, of Savannah, Ga., i died at. the Clifton Springs sanitarium i yesterday morning. He had a stroke j of paralysis on Friday last, from which he did not rally. ' [ Gen. Alexander R. Lawton was born iri Beaufort district, S. C,, in 1816. He etftered West Point in 1835, having for classmates Generals Ilalleck, Stevens, Can by aud Gilmer. He was colonel of the First Georgia volunteers when, in January, 1861, he took possession of Fort Pulaski, under state authority. At the commencement of hostilities in the following April he received a j commission as brigadier-geperal in the confederate army, and (he was from that time up to the close of the rebel*} j lion in constant military service. After the fall of Richmond Gen. Lawton returned to Savanriah and reengaged in the practice oif l%w. He was minister to Austria und|er the first I Cleveland administration. I JURY FAILED TO AGREE. Mistrial la the (a»« of .lohn ll. Hart and Others at New York. New York, July 3.—Tfib jury which ^deliberated until a late hot^ Wednea. day night over the evidencf presented n the trial of John I) » Hart, Emilio Nunes, Capt. O'Brien and Miate Edward Murphy, accused of -having aided anc. abetted a military expedition to Cuba, came into the United States court and told Judge Brown that they could noli agree. Hla honor discharged thfe jury and then listened to a long argument about the bail bonds of the defendants. Excepting the case of Mate Murphy, Judge Brown directed that the bail remain £2,500 in each case} Murphy’s, bail was reduced to $500. The 11 men who have beet detained as witnesses in Lndlow Street jail were ordered discharged. THE RED CROSS Will Aid the Widow* and Orphan* Left Panatles* by the FltUtoa MUie Duaatar. Philadelphia, July 3.—It was decided eaterday bjr the executive committee of the Associated Society of -the Red Coss of Philadelphia to appeal to the public to aid the 53 widows and 180 orphans who are left penniless by the mine disaster at Pitts ton. CROP CONDITIONS As Sam mar lied by the Cliu-iunatt Hrtea Current. Cincinnati, J uly 1 —Tbjp Price Current summarizes, the crop conditions for the past week as follows: Moisture has been somewhat excessive in central regions, prejudicing the :rop situation to some extent. There has been nothing in the later information suggestive of higher wheat estimates. Corn is mostly doipg welL Oats maintain the promise of a. larger crop, Spring wheat advices hare been some shat less aaauime-. !

NOTES OF THE STAGE. Sir Edward Malet, late British am* bassador at Berlin, whose opera “Harold” was performed at Covent Garden last season, is at work on a new opera. The. operettas of Strauss are now all the rage hi the cities of France, where the superb finales are often encored three or four times. His latest work, “Waldmeister,” is. near its 100th performance in Vienna. Gluck’s “Orphee” has just been given for the first time at the Paris Opera Comique, arranged iq four acts, with a final tableaux. Mme. Delna was the Orpheus. It was in Paris that the opera was first performed in 1774. Barney Barnato has become the hero of a play. Under the name of Bailey Prothero he is the central figure in “The Pogue’s Comedy,” by Henry Arthur Jones, As the title indicates the pic ture drawn of the renowned money-maker is not a flattering one. Macbeth’s duel with MacDuff had serious consequences at a performance at Chatham lately. Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry’s son, who was acting Mactieth, broke his sword and gave MacDuff a bad cut on the hand. The curtain was rung down, when a rope broke, and the curtain hit a scene shifter on the head, knocking *him senseless.

FOR IDLE MOMENTS. Some Japanese magicians are so clevei that while smoking they are able to form letters and short words with the smoke that issues from their lips. Burglars entered a blacksmith’s shop in Alpena, Mich., and removed plunder weighing about two tons. Among the things stolen were two anvils. The young king of Spain was recently reciting a geography- lesson to his teacher, and described an island as “a body of land, almost entirely occupied by insurgents.” A fat imiskmt was in the habit of entering the cel\ar of W. C. Bahr, at East Marion, N. Y., and gorging itself with spring vegetables. The farmer lay in ambush one night, and with a pitchfork closed the career of the plunderer. When the Japanese are about to launch a ship, a pasteboard cage, con taining several birds, is hung over the bow. As the ship slides into the water, a string opens the cage, and the released birds make the air musical with their merry voices. The highest-priced watch made in Geneva costs $700. It records fractional parts of a second, strikes the hours and 'quarters, and plays three tunes. With gems to ornament the case, the value can, of course, be increased to several thousand dollars. THINGS TO KNOW. 1 The word “Eurasian” is a combination o^European and Asian aftd is used to designate an inhabitant of Hindustan one of whose parents is a European and the other a native of Asia. Thei number of Roman Catholics in the United States is 9,410,790. This is partially explained by the fact that membership in the Catholic church may be had at a very early age. Many wild birds indicate by a change of the tone of their voice the nearness of rain. The blackbird, for instance, whose voice is usually soft, utters a shrill cry when a storm is impending. Shepherds say that the wool of sheep furnishes an excellent indication of weather changes. When it is crisp there will be no rain. When it is limp and feels very soft to the touch a,storm i» imminent'

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Agnosticism. An atheist is a man who knows no God. An agnostic is one who, while he does not deny the existence of a God, fltaims to be very much in the dark about the matter, and when in* terrogated hems and haws and goes into scientific explanations. —Rev. P. S. Henson, Baptist, Chicago, 111. Woman's Wnrk. To men labor is a life work, and they prepare for it as such and fit themselves with a thoroughness for their task. To w6men, as a rule, work is a temporary makeshift between school and marriage. She does not fit lierseli for a lifework its men do, for her future reaches into mrrriage,—Rev. E. L. Watson, Methodist, Minneapolis, Minn Degeneration. Many churches are degenerating into mere money-making machines, fashionable clubs or bureaus of entertainment, and there is a danger that the divine life is being allowed to die out. —Rev. Dr. Cartwright, Episcopalian, Brooklyn, N. Y.

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