The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-06
VEIL OF M0DESTY.
DR.. Talmage's Sermon Yesterday,
The Story OF Queen Vashtis Devo-
ton to Her Womanliness.
How She Sacrificed Her Worldly
Position for Her Modesty.
A Women May be q Queen Without
A Women May be Queen Without
Jewels and Regal Robes.
The Quality OF scli-sacrlfce Beauti
fully Euiogized-kn Appeal to
the Women OF America
Hints to Mon.

BaooKLYN, N. Y, Feb. 5.-The annual
pew letting in Brooklyn tabernacle has
just taken place, and the rental exceeds
all previous years. For the best pews
$500, $500, 500 and $500 were paid. But
parts of the house are kept free, so that no
one can truthiully say that he cannot at.
tend church here for lack Of means.
II this immense structure were twice rs
large II would not contain all who desire
to worship here. BY The time the service
begins the streets are blocked with people
going away.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmoge, d. n, 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 Ven Of Modcsty,"
and his text, Esther l., - "Tho Queen
Vashti refused TO come
II you will accept my arm will escort
you into throne.room. In this fifth SER
mon Of the series Of sermons there are
certain womanly eScellercies which
wish TO commend, but, instead Of putting
them in dry abstraction, present you
their impcHonaiion in one who seldom, il
ever, gets sermonlc recognition.
We stand amid the palaces Of Shushan.
The pinnacles are allalne with the morn
ing light The columns rise iestooned
and wcathed, 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 an hung with shields, and emblaz.
oned until il seems that the whole round
Of splendor is exhausted. Zach arch Is Il
mighty leap Of architectural achievement.
Golden sias, shining down ON glowing
arabesquc. llmgings OF embroidered
work, Ia which nunglc the blucncss
OF the sky, the rreenncfs of the plss, and
the whitcncss OF the seniolm. Tapestries
hung on SILVER niirs, ~sasiiiny iogethcr tho
pillars OF marble. PayiiiuaR rcacling out
IN every direction. These lot repcse,
filed with luxurious couchcs, in which
weary limbs sink until nll fatigue is sub
merged. These lor Clrusal, where kings
drink down kingdom nc one swallow.
Amazing sight. Light oi silver 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, il seems ~ " heavenly
vision OF amethyst, and lacinth, and topaz,
and chrysopueus had descended and
alighicd upon Shushan. II seems as II q
bllow Of celestial glory had dashed clear
over heavens batllcments upon this me-
lropolis Of Persia. In connection with
this palace there Is a garden, where the
mighty men Of foreign lands are seated at
n banquet, Under the spread Of oak and
linden aud acacia the tables are arranged.
The breath OF honcysucklc and franklin.
censc Hills the air. Fountains leap up into
the light, the spray struck through with
minboNs, falling Ia crystalline baptism
uDon Towering shrubs then rolling down
through channels Of marble, and widening
out here and there into pools swirling with
the lnny tribes Of forign acquariums
bordcrcd with scarlet ancmOnies, hyper.
Gums and many-colorcd nnuncnlus.
Meats Of rarcst birds aud beasts smoking
up amid wrcaths Of aromnticr. The vases
filed with apncois and almonds. Tho
baskets piled up with 4pricois, and dates,
aud figs, and oranges, and pomcgranatcs.
| Melons tastefully twincd with leaves Of
acacia. The bright waters ~ Eulacus iill.
ing the urns, and sweating outside the rim
In flashing beads amid the tracerics.
| Wine from the royal watts OF lspahnn and
Shiraz, Ia bottles Of tingod shell,
and lily shaped CUPS Of sl.
yer, and flag0ns and tankaris Of
solid gold. The music rises higher, and
the rcyclry brcaks out into wilder trans.
port, aud tlc wine has flushed the cheek
and touched the brain. and louder than all
other voices ore the h.ccough Of the inc
briaics, the gabblc Of FOOLS aud the song Of
the drunkarJs.
In another part Of the palace, Queen
vashti II entertaining the princcsscs oi
Persia NJ a banquet Drunken Ahasuorus
snys 10 his servants 'Iou 20 out aud
fetch Nashti from that banquet with the
women, and bring her 20 this banquet
with the men, and Vt me display her
beauty" The servants Immediately start.
ed 10 obey the Kings command; but there
was rule In oriental society that mo
woman might appear IN public without
having her face ycilcd. Yet here was a
mandate that no or dare dispute, de-
manding that Nashti come In unveiled be.
fore the multitude. However, there was
In Vashii's soul principle more regal than
Ahasuerua, moro bdlliani than the gold Of
Shushan, 81 more wealth than the realm
OF Persia. which commnled her 20 diso'
hey this order Of tho King. aud 10 all uia
righteousness, and hollnosa, and m0dcfiy
Of her nature rises up into ono sublime 70
fusal. She nays II will not go into uhc
banquet unveiled" Ol course, Ahasucrul
was iniuriaic; and vashti, robbed Of her
position and her estate, u driven forth In
poverty and ruin 10 sulor the scorn Of 9
nation, and yet 10 receive the applause o.
after gencrations who shall riao up 70 adj
mire this martyr 10 kingly insolcncc. Wei,
the last ycstigc Of that feast u gone; the
last garland has faded. tho last arch has
fallen the last tankard has been destroyed,
and shuahan n a ruin; but ~ long a. the
world stands thcro will be mnltitudes Of
mon and women, familiar with tho bible,
who will como into this picture-gallcry o.
God, aud Admire the divine portrait o.
vashu tho Queen, Nashu the vciledi
vashii tho sacrifice, vasht the silent, .,
In the FIRST place, want YOU 70 loon
upon Vashti the Queen. A blue ribbon,
rayed with white, drawn around her lore
head, indicated her quocnly poriuon' u
was no small honor 20 BE- queen IA such =
realm a. that Hnrk b. the rustic OF hel
robcsi See the blako Of her iowchl And
yet, my iriendA II u not necessary 70 have