The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-02-10

estate of the deceased husband ana HVlhR
widow.
all the States concerning wOmanhood. Instead
of fiying off to the discussion as to whether Oh
not the giving of the right of voting to woman
j will correct these laws let me say to men, be
gallant enough, and fair enough; aud honest
enough and righteous enough, and GOd-lovlng
enough to correct these wrongs agalnst We
| men by your own masculine vote. DO mol
wait for woman suffrage to come, If 1t eVer
does come, but so far as you can touch ballot
boxes. and legislatures, and congresses begin
the reformation But until justice is done to
your sex by the laws of all the States, and
women OF America take the platforms and the
| pulpits, and no honorable man will charge
Vashti with having lost her veil.
Again: l want you this morning to con-
slider Vashti the sacrifice. Who is this
that | see coming out of that palace
gate of Shushan! 1t seems to me that
l have seen her before. She comes homeless.
| hOuseess, friendless, trudging along with a
broken heart. Who is shea 1t is Vashti
| the sacrifice. 0, what change it was from
regal position to wayfarers crust A little
| while ago approved and sought for; now none
| so poor as to acknowledge her acquaintance
! ship Vashti the sacrifice: All, you and l
! have seen it many time. Here is home en-
palaced with beauty All that refinement,
! and books, and wealth can do for that home
| has been done but Ahasuerus, the husband
! and the father, is taking hold on paths of SIM
He is gradually going down. After a while
| he will founder and struggle like wild
/ beast in the hunters net-further away from
| God further away from the right. Soon the
bright apparel of the children will turn into
rags; soon the household song will become
the sObbing of broken heart. The old story
over again. Brutal Centaurs breaking up
the marriage feast of Lapithae The house
full of outrage, and cruelty, and Accumulation,
while trudgiug forth from the palace gate
are Vashu and her children. There are homes
represented in this house this morning that
arc in danger of such a breaking up. O.
Ahasuerus, that you should stand in a home,
by dissipated life DESTROYING the peace and
comfort of that home. God forbid that your
children should ever have to ring their hands,
and have people point their finger at them as
they pass down the street, and say: There
goes a drunkard's child.n 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-fask. should come forth and up
root that garden, and with a blasting,
blistering, all-cOnsuming curse, shut for
ever the palace gate against Nashti and the
children.
Oh the women and the men of sacrifice are go-
ing to take the brightest cOronals of heaven!
This woman OF the text gave palatial resi-
dence, gave up all for what she considered
right Sacrificed Is there ANYTHING more
sublime? steamer called the prairie Belle"
engineer declared he would keep the bow of
the boat to the shore till all were off and he
kept his promise. AT his post, scorched aud
blackened, he persisted, but lie saved all the
passengers. Two verses OF pathetic poetry
describe the scene, but the verses are little
rough, and SO [ changed word or two:
Through the hot black breath of the burning.
Jim BludsO voice heard.
And knew he would keen his word
And sure's you're rne, they all got off
u q q r. yS fp
And Bludso's ghost Went up above,
nj In the smo e Of the ,Prafrl Belle
Ia run my chance with Jim,
That wouldn't shake hands with him.
He'd seen his duty, dead sure thing,
And Christ is not going to too hard
On a man that died for men"
Once more: | 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 there will be no vOcifcrAtOn. Some
times i'll life 1t is necessary to make a retOrt;
sometimes in life it is necessary to resist; but
there are crises when the most triumphant
thing 10 do is to keep silence. The philOsO-
pher, confident in his newly discovered princl-
pie, waited for the coming of more in
telligent generations, willing that men
should laugh at the lightning rod, and
cotton'gin and steamboat - waiting for
long years through the scoffing of philo- |
sophical schools, in grand and magnificent
silence. Calico, condemned by mathemati-
clans, and monks, and cardinals caricatured
everywhere, yet waiting and watching with
MS telescope, to see the coming up of stellar
reiDfOrccments, when the stars in their courses
would fight for the Coperncan system, then
sitting down in complete blindness and deaf |
mes to walt for the coming on Of the genera |
lions who would build his monument and bow !
at his grave. The refOrmer, execrated by his .
fastened in pllorv. the slow
q OnhiIp huro
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 Attliction, enduring without any
the sharpness of the pang and the
violence of the storm, and the beft of the
chain, and the darkness of the night-walting
until a divine hand shall be put forth to
soOthe the pang and hush the storm and re-
lease the captive. wife abused prosecuted.
and a perfect exile from every earthly comfort
waiting, waiting, until the Lord shalI gath
er up His dear children in heavenly home,
and no poor Nashti 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
confirmation when
"Ances tn -onged his chariot wheel
Ana blre Him to His throne:
The glorious work is done"
An Arctic explorer found a ship floating
1elplessly about among the icebergs, and go
ne on board he found that the captain was
frozen at his lOL-bOOk, ard the helmsman was
rozen at the wheel, and the men on the look
>ut were frozen in their places. That
vas awful but magnificent An the Arctic
blasts aud all the icebergs could not drive
hem from their duty. Their silence was
ouder than thunder. And this old ship of
he world has MANY at their posts in the awful
hill of neglect and frozen of the worlds
corn, and their silence shall be the eul0gv Of
he skies, and be rewarded long after this
craft of the planet shall have
made its last voyage.
| thank God that the mightiest influences
re the most silent The fires in furnace OF
factory, or of a steamship, roar though they
'nlr move a few shuttIes or a few thousand {
Ons. but the sun that warns a world rises
md sets without a Crackle. or faintest sound
Travellers visiting Mount Etna having heard '
4 the glor.es OF sunrise on that peak went
~ TO spend the light here. and see the sun
ise next morning. but when il came IN II T
Tas So far behind their anticipatOus they 6
ctually Kissed H.. The miChtiest influences
o-day are like the planetary system-com- !
Ietely silent Don't hiss the sun!
., woman. does not this story Of Vashtl y
he queen, Nashti the yelled. Nashti the sacri- 2
ce, Easbti the silent, move your souli Nv r
ermon cOpverges into the one absorbing hope :
hat none 0f Won NAV be- shut out OF the nal :