National Republican., 1888-02-06
WOMEN, Be MODEST.
THE FIFTH OF REV. DIR. TALNAGEs =
SERIES OF SERMONS.
Under the Law Women Have Not
Equal Opportunities with Men in
This Country for Advancement.


in Brooklyn Tabernacle has just taken place,
and the rental exceeds all previous years
For the best pews FIVE, six, seven, and eight
hundred dollars were paid. But parts Of the
bouse are kept free so that no one can truth
fully say that he Cannot attend church here for
lack OF means.
II this immense structure were twice as
large II would not contain ali who desire to
worship here. By the time the service begins
the streets are blocked with people going
away.
The Rev. 7. De witt Talmage, D. D., the
pastor, preached this morning the fifth In the
"series Of Sermons to the women of America,
with important hints to men," His subject
was, 'The Veil Of Modesty," and his text,
Esther !, l2; 1.-THE Queen Vashti refused to
come"
II you will accept my arm will escort you
into q throne room. In this fifth sermon of
ly excellencies which wish to commend, but
instead OF putting them in dry abstraction,
present you their impersonation in one who
seldom II ever gets sermonic recognition.
1--WE stand amid the palaces Of shuahan.
The pineeles are afame with the morning
light: The columns rise festooned and
the grooves the ceilings adorned with images
of bird and beast and scenes of prowess and
conquest. The walks are hung with shields
the whole round of splendors is .ex-
hausted; Each arch IS mighty, leap
Of arehiteetural achievement. Golden
Hangpgs OF embroidered work in which
mipgle the blueness OF the sky, the greenness
Of the grass, and the whiteness Of the sea foam.
Tapestries hung on silver rings, wedding to-
Rether the pillars OF marble. Pavilions reach
ing out in every direction. These for repose,
wear weary Vim limbs sink Until pfAs ali faigue is sub
merged, These for carousal, where kings
dInk down kingdom at one swal:
silver Hv Dripping down over stairs OF ivory on
shields Of gold. Floors of stained marble,
sunset red, and night black, and inlaid with
cleaning pearl, Why, 1t seems as If q heavenly
visions OF amethyst and jaelnth and topaz and
chyrsoprasus had descended and,alighted upon
Shushan. 1t seems as If billow of celestial
Satiiements upon this metropolitan Of
hs5s msn Of en snS snSsn are seated Tsfss n
"a banquet Under the spread of oak, and
linden, and acacia the tables are arranged.
The breath OF honeysnckile ana irankincehse ,d S
the spray struck through with rainbows fall
ing In crystalline baptism upon Towering
Of Of marble, mar and widening out here and there
into pools swirling with the, flnny tribes,
of foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet
Of brd Sss
smoking up amid wreaths OF aromatics: The
vases filed with apricots, and almonds; the
UhtbeIS plltu WNudpllCuts, anu uhtts, hLu nBs,
and oranges, and pomegrantes. Melons TASTE
fully twined with leaves Of acacia. The bright
waters Of Eulaeus filing the urns, and sweating
the traceries. Wine from the royal vats OF
Ispahan ana Shiraz, in bottles of tinged sirell
Q and lily-shaped cups of silver, and fagoons
higher, and the revelry breaks out into wilder
transport, and the wine has flushed the
cheek and touched the brain, and louder than
all other voices are the hiccough OF the in
ebriates, the gabble of fools, and the song OF
In another part of the palace. Queen. vashti
is entertaining the princesses of Persia at a
banquet. Drunken Ahasuerus says to his SER
wants; you go out and fetch yashti from that
banquet with the women, and bring her to
this banquet with the men, and let me display
her beauty" The servants Immediately start
to obey the Kings comma command; but there was I,
Rsh' face seeeaF veied uOc YET whGns Sere hayn
q mandate that no one dares dispute, demand:
ha hefe @as IN
soul q principle more regal than Ahasuerus,
more brilliant than the gold Of shushap,. Of
commanded her to disobey this order OF the
king; and so all the Righteousness and
holiness and modesty Of her ma ma
She says s Will 'S no. Uus into the bsnquei %
unveiled" Ofcourse Ahasuerus was infuriate
and yashti, robbed Of her position and her es-
the applause of after generations. who shall
s to dre IN e aa maryf yesee aS SaSS
faded; the last arch has fallen, the last
taniard has been destroyed, and shushan is
aruin; but as long as the world stands there
Will be multitudes of men and women, ia
miliar with the Bible who will come into this
picture gallery ofGod and admire the divine i5
yelled, Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the silent
In the first place, want you 70 look upon
Nashti the queen blue ribbon, rayed iyoWt6 VIII
her queenly position. TWAS no small honor
to be queen in such a realm as that. Hark Il
the rustic 81 her robes See the blaze o. ae
to have palace aud regal robe in order to be
queenly. When / see q woman with stout faith
in n%ng hsr foot gsn al gS
right forward % serve Christ and the race by
grand and glorious service, I say "Iha
ooa The upon
tioy; ana whether she came up from tn
shIAty on the commons or the mansion Q
.ss soh ha hsIa5e queen Eesb Vssh pr wha VIA
6f Scotland. or Elizabeth oi England
compared with the worth of some of our Chris
tian mothors, many of them gone into glory
who put her ali into the Lords treasury? !? or O
Jephthah's daughter, who made q demonstra
tion Of unseltish patriotism? orof Abigail, witt
IGbCueu tuB ueTub anu uOCkb VI uuhDuuu
poor old, helpless Naomi? or of Mrs. .-Adomrair
Judson, who kindled the lights Of salvation
Hemans, who poured out her holy soul i
words which will forever be associated witt
hunters horn, and captiyes chain, and brida
the dying day? and scores and hundreds .
women, unknown on earth, who have give
water to the thirsty, and bread to tn
hungry, and medicine to the SICK an
smiles to the .discouraged-the foot
steps heard along dark lane, and in govern
mept Hospital aud n 1n amshouse e. GorridoI
robe--there may be no palatial surroundings
She does not need them for all eharitabl
men viii unite he.yn Win the cra;Skling lips
lazaretto in greeting her as sic passes Hail
hail Queen Vashti.'
Among the queens whom honor honor are tn IN
upon their brow the coronet. They are til
sisters and the daughters of our towns an
cities, selected out ofa vast number Of appl
and moral endowments. There are in none {
your homes woman more worthy; These pei
sSSnssCme Of them out oiIslIluent home
Others, finding that, father is older than h
used to be, and that his eyesight and strengt
tighten his load But tell you the history
the majority of the female teachers in tn
public schools when ! say, Father is dead,
were comfortable before, are thrown on the
own resources.
II is hard for men to earn living In tn
day, but II is harder for women-their healt
not so rugged, their arms net SO strong, the
opportunities fewer. These persons, att
tfGmblingly going through the ordeal of a
examination as their qualifications TO teact
half bewildered step over the sill of III
public school to do two things-instruct tn
young and earn their own bread. Her wor
is wearing to the last degree The manag
ment OF forty or fifty hdgety and intractab
children, the suppression of their vices an
the development of the excellencies, the maj
agement Of rewards and punlshments, II
sending of so many bars of soap and fin
tooth combs on benignant ministry, the brea
ing of go many wild colts for the harness