Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-16

congresses, begin tho rofOfmattoos o06
until justice II done 10 your sex By Tie
lhws Of all the States, women e
america, take the platforms and the ps1.
pits, and no honorable man will charge
Vashti with having lost her val.
Again. want you this morning 20 eou-
slider Vashti the sacrifca Who - this
that see coming out Of that palace gate
Of Shushani It seems to mo that have
seen her before. She comes homelessy
houseless, frisudless, trudging alone With
Q brokon heart, Who Il she! IL il Vashd
the sacrifice O. wlas . change IL wes
from regal position to Q wsyfarer's cruise.
A little while ago approved ana souenS
for; now mono 50 poor ~ to acknowledge
her acquaintanceship. Vashti the sacrsnse.
All, you and have seen IL many .
time. Here 10 . homo empalaced with
beauty. All that refinement. and books,
and wealth can do for that home has been
done; but Ahasuerus, the husband ana
the father, is taking hold on paths o. sts.
He 10 gradually going down. After . time
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 to rags; soon the house,
hold song will become the soobtn4
of broken heart. The old story over
again. Brutal Centaurs breaking up tho
marriage feast of Larit' % The house
full Of outrage, and cruelty and abcmins-
tion, while trudging forth from the palace
gate are Vashti and her children. There
are homes represented in this house this
morning that are in danger Of such .
breaking MP. O, AhNsuerus, that You
~ L. hVy diaVfVA tad
life destroy ing the peacs aud comfort Of
that home. God forbid that your ehil.
dren should ever have to ring their hands.
and have people point their finger at
them rs they pass down the ssr.st
and say: "There goes q drunkarPs
child" God forbid that the liz.
tie feet should ever have to trudgs the
path of poverty and wretchedness. q d
forbid that any evil spirit, born OF tlss
wine cup or the brandy flask. should
come forth and uproot that garden, and,
with q blasting, blistering, all-consumio9
curse, shut forever the palace gate against
Vashti and the children.
oh the women and the men Of sacrincs
are going to take the brightest coronals
of Heaven. This woman Of the text gave
up palatial residence, gave mp ali Tor
what she considered right. Sacrifice! IL
there anything more sublime!
A steamer called the Prairie Belle, burn
ing on the Mississippi river, Bludso, the
engineer, declared he would keep the bow
of the boat to the shore till all were on,
and he kept his promise. At bis post,
scorched and blackened. he persisted, but
he saved all the passengers. Two verses
of pathetic poetry describe the scene, bus
the verses are q little rough, and 20
changed q word or two:
Through the hot, black breath Of the burning
Jim Bludsos voice was heard,
And they all had trust in his stubbornness,
And knew he would keep his word.
And sure's you're born, thev all goto6
Afore the smoke-staeks fell:
And Bludso's ghost went up above
In the smoke Of the Prairie Belle.
He weren't no saint, but at Judgment
I'd run my chance with Jim
Iongside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn't shake hands with him.
He'd seen his duty. dead sure thing,
And went for it there and then,
And Christ is no. g ing to be too hard
On man that died for men.
Once more. I want you to look %
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 vociferation. Sometimes in life 10 II
necessary to make . retort; sometimes In
life it is necessary to resist; but there arc
crises when the most triumphant thing
to do is to keep silence. The philosophsr,
confident in his newly discovered prin.
telligent generations, will ny that
,no- ,bouIA 1anUb AZ tho 1f~ht>
ming rod and cotton gin and
Misunderstanding for long years
through the scofEing and philosophical
schools, in grand and magnificent silence.
Calico, condemned by mathema ticians.
and monks, and cardinals; caricatursd
everywhere, yet waiting and watching
with his telescope to see the coming up o.
stellar rein forcements. when the stars h
their courses would fight for the Cooper.
nican system; then itting down in com
plete blindness and deafness to wait fos
the coming ON of the generations whs
would build his monument and bow 81
his grave. The reformer, execrated BY
his cotemporaries, fastened in pillory,
the slow 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 hero
is m OF character will get the sanction Of
of earth and the plaudits of Heaven. Az
Fiction, enduring without any complaint
the sharpness Of the pang. and the
violence of the storm, and the heft Of the
chain, and the darkness of tho night
waiting until . divine hand shall
be put forth 10 soothe the
pang and hush the storm, and 70
lease the captive. A wife abused, perss-
cuted, and q perpetual exile from every
earthly comfort-waiting, waiting until
the Lord shall gather up his dear chill
dren in . heavenly home, and NO poor
Vashti will ever b., thrust out from the
palace gate. Jesus, in silence, and ~.
swering not . word. drinking the gall,
bearing the cross, in prospect Of the rept.
urous contamination whom
Angels thronged His chariot wheel,
And bore Him to His throne;
Then swept their golden harps and sung
The glorious work Is done.
An Arctic explorer found Q ship Aoat.
ing helplessly about among the icsbergs.
and going on board he found that the
captain was frozen at his log.book, and
the belmsman was frozen ct the wheel.
and the men on the lookout were frozsn
in their places That was swfui, but mag
niHcent All tho Arctic blasts and oil the
icebergs could not drive them from their
duty. Their silence was louder than
thunder. And this old ship Of world
has 'msny at their posts in shs swfu1
chill Of neglect, and frozen Of the worlds
scorn, and their silence shall b the
eulogy Of the skies, and b rewarded
long after this weather.bsaten craft Of .
planet shall have made its last voyage
thank God that the mightisst inhur