, 1876-03-25
THE WOMAN IN SCARLET.
scathing Rebuke OF The Leading Women
i'm Warrington SOciety-" VashiI ha.
LOST Her SeiIT-sermOn Of Rev. L. DE
Wit Tafmage.

1 SNNNhHshs heSSuhN VI lhC Ir&ulnk W omen
i'm Washington SOciefy-" VashiI has
LOST fIer HeiIT-sermOn Of Rev I. DE
Wit Taimage.
The Brooklyn tabernacle was thronged in
every part st the principal service The dis
course OF the pastor, Rev. T. Do Witt Tai.
mage, was directed 70 women. The text
was taken from Esther, l., 0 and IL inclusive,
descriptive of the banquet Of Abasuerus,
wherein the King commands that the Queen,
Ysshti, shall be brought before the M ultitude
of men unveiled. She refuses and is there
upon driven forth in poverty and ruin, to
suffer the scorn of nations and yet to receive
| the applause of aftsr generations, who shall
rise up 20 admire this martyr of kingly inso-
lence. All, it was no small woman TO be
queen of such q realm as Vashti, said the
preacher. When l see a woman with stout
faith in God, putting her foot upon all mean
ness and selfshness and goddess display, going
right forward to serve God and the race BY a
grand and glorious service, say, " That
woman is a queen" and the ranks of heaven
look over the battlements upon the coronation,
and whether she come up from
THE sHANrY ON THE CoMMoNs,
or the mansion Of the fashionable square, I
greet her with the shout, All hail Queen
Yashti" What glory was there on the brow
of Mary of Scotland, Or Elizabeth of England,
or Margaret Of France, or Catherine of Rus
sia, compared with the worth Of some Of our
Christian mothers, many of them gone into
gloryT Or of that woman mentioned in the
scriptures who put her all into the Lords
treasury; or of Jeptha's daughter, who mnde
demonstration of unsslish patriotism or of
her husband or of Ruth, who toiled under
tropical sun fOr poor, old, helpless Naomi; or
of Florence Nightingale, who went at mid
night TO staunch the battle wounds Of the Cri-
mea, and of scores and hundreds Of women
unknown on earth?
Had Vashti appeared before Ahasuerus and
his court on that day 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 moments would have
despised her God once in a while does call
an Isabella 10 a throne, OF a Miriam TO strike
the timbrel at the front of host, or Marie
Antoinettc to quell French mob. or De-
borah TO stand at the front of armed
battalion.
WHEN WOMEN ARE CALLED
10 such outdoor work and TO such heroic posi-
tions God prepares them for 1t, and they have
iron In their soul and lightning in their eye,
whirlwinds in their breath and the borrowed
strength Of the Lord omnipotent in their
right arm. They walk through the furnaces
as though they were hedges Of wild flowers
But these are the exceptions. When l see
woman going about her daily duty with
cheerful dignity, presiding at the table with
kind and gentle, but firm discipline, presld-
ing in the nursery. going out into the world
without any blast Of rrumpets, folio" ing IN
the footsteps of Him who went about doing
GOOD. I saw " This Is Vashti with q veil on"
But when see a woman with unblushing
boldness. loud voiced, with tongue OF INN
mite clatter, and clstter with arrogant locks
pa.sin, through the streets with the step OF a
walking m-naushter)- )-gayly arrayed IN
a very
HURRICANE or MILLINERY,
7 crv ont. 1" Vashti has lost her veil" When
I sea a woman struggling for Political prefer
ment, anxious to hsrangue popular assem-
bIies trying to force her way up to the ballot
box amidst the blasted masculine demagogues
who stand with swollen fists and bloodshot
eve and pestiferous breath to guard the polls,
going through the loaferism and beastlines7
of popular sovereigns, who crawl up from the
saloons greasy and foul and vermin covered,
and damned with every pollution and de-
bauchery, TO decide questions OF justice and
order and ciyilization-when l See such
woman say, " All, what pity, Fashti has
lost her vsiI' lApplanse.)
When I see q woman of eomely features
and Of adroitness Of intellect, and endowed
with all that the schools can do for one, and
of high social position, yet walking, moving
in society with superciliousness and hauteur
as though -he would have people kno" their
Dlsea. and an underlined combination Of gig
ole and strut, endowed with sliopa,hecal
opantities Of talk, bat Only homGPathical
in6pitesimals OF sense, the terror Of drv goods
clerks and railroad cord rductors-,laughterj-
dis,oyerer of insignificant meanings IN plain
conversation. prodigies Of badInage and Inu-
-ndo. I say "VashJi has lOet her veil.
When see the
LEANING WOMAN N WASHINGTON SOCIETY
maintaining her position by gathering up
bri,es from the trading posts, running the
risk Of running the reputation OF her husband
. hose life had again and again been lmPer-
rill.i for the life Of the government, and
xbo lived an honorable and 8 just and pure
Iif. and had a cousecrated purpose, yet Tor
the purpose Of keeping up with goddess dis
pIsy, ri.kipg all this and standing thus iass
week. with both hands full Of bribes, IN the
r,--snee Of an sstoni-hed United States and
an a.tounied world, say to the Presiden''
and to the Cabinet, and to the Senate Cham
ber. and to the House Of Representatives.
Z. Took lookl Vsshri has lost her veil.
The reverend gentlemen next considered
the lesson hich was 10 be adduced from the
s.If sacrifice taught by the text. wherein the
oueen pzye mp her legal position rather than
be guilty of On undisoised obvdisaee' She
wss silent as she went forth from the palace
e,ste. The Lesson 70 her sex Was prudence IN
expression of prejndicrs and constant guard
over their conversation