Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-06
THE VEIL OF MODES7Y.
The Pleasures Renowned by Queen
Vashti for a Principle More
Regal than Kings,
Driven Forth In Poverty and Ruiz, and
Yet TO Receive the Applause Of
Future Generations.
The NHmes of the Wives of Kings Die With
Them; a 8Teat n ans Wlts's Name
Livss Always,
snecisI to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Feb. 5-The annual
pew-letting in Brooklyn tabernacle has
Just taken place, and tie rental exceeds
sill 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 truthfully say he cannot
attend church here for lack of means.
II this immense structure were twice
SIS large it would not contain all who de-
sire TO worship here. By the time TIE
service begins the streets are blocked
with people going away.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D.,
the pastor, preached this morning the
fifth Of q "SeIies OF Sermons TO the
Women Of America, with Important
Hints to Men" His subject was: "Tne
Veil Of Modes,Y," and his text: Esther
l., u: "The Queen, Yashu, refused to
Gomez
If you will accept my arm will escort
you into throne-room. In this fifth
sermon OF the series OF sermons there
are certain Womsnly eXcellencies which I
wish to commend, cut instead of putting
them ia dry abstraction, 1 present you
their impersonstion in one who seldom,
If ever, gets sermonic recognition.
We stand amid the palaces Of Shushan.
The pinnacles are adsme with the morn
ing light. The columns rise fashioned
sud wreathed, the wealth of empires
flashing from the grooves; the ceilings
adorned with images Of bird and beast,
and scenes of proWess and conquests. The
Wslis are hung with shields, and en-
blsz0ned until it seems that the whole
round OF splendors is exhausted. Each
arch is q mighty lesp of architectural
achievement. Golden stars, shin
! ing down on glowing arsbes-
que. Hangings of embroidered work
in which mingle the blueness
and the Wilderness of the sgafoSm. Tapes
tries huUg on silver rings, wedding TO-
gether the pillars of marble. Pavilions
reach out in every direction. These for
repose, filed with luxurisnt couches, in
which weary limbs sink until all fatigue
/ is submerged. These for carousGl, where
kings drink down kindom at one sWsl-
low. Amazing spectacle! Light of
silver dripping down over stairs Of ivory
on shields Of gold. Floors of stained
marble, sunset red and night black, and
iulsid with cleaning pearl. Why, it
seems as il q heavenly vision of amethyst,
and scinth, Snd topaz, and chTysoprasus
had descended and Rlighted upon Shus-
han. 1t seems as If bilIow of celestial
glory had dashed clear over
heavens battlements upon this
metropolis OF Persia. In con-
neCtion with this palace there is q gar
den, where the mighty men of foreign
/ lands are seated at banquet. Under
the spread Of oak and linden ard acacia
the tables are arranged.
THE BREATH CT HLNBYSUCKLR
aud frsnKincense fills The air. Fountains
lean up into the light, the spray struck
through with rSinbnws falling in crystal
lie baptism upon towering shrubs-then
rolling down through channels OF marhls,
aud widening out here and there iltJ
pools swirliug with the finny
tribes OF foreign uailms,
bUrdered with scarlet anemopies
hypericums, and many colored ranuncu-
lus. Meats CT the rarest bird and beast
smoking up amid wreaths OF aromstics.
The vases filed with Epricots and al
mands. The baskets piled up with april
cots, and dates, and figs, and oranges,
and pomegrGnaVes. Melons tsstefully
| tWined with leaves OF scacla.
The bright waters Of Eulacus filing the
urns, and sWesting outside the rim in
flashing beads amid the traceries. Wine
from the royal watts Of Ispahsn ard
Shiraz, in bottles OF tlnged shell,
snd lily-shsped cups OF sill
yer, and ftgons and tsnksIds Of
solid gid. The music rises higher, and
the rtvelrY breaks out into wilder trans
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and touched the brain, and louder than
sl other voices are tne hic cough of the
inebrietes, the gabble of fools, and the
soDg of the drunkards.
Ia another part of the palace Queen
Vsshu is entertaining the prince sses of
P5rsis st banquet. Drunken AtGsuerus
SAWS to Mig servants: "You go out
sud fetch Vashti from that banquet with
the women, and bring her TO Ihis ban
guet with the men, and let me display her
beauty" The servants immediately
start 10 obey the Kings commsnc; but
there was rule in Oriental society that
10 woman might appear in public with
Gus having Der face yelled. Yet here was
I mandate thst no one dare dispute, de-
mEndiug tbut Vashti come in unveiled
before the multitude. However, there
was in Vashu'S soul q priuciple
more regal than Ahasuerus,
more brilliant tnan the gold
Of Shushan, OF more wealth tksn the realm
# Persia, which commanded her to DISC
hey this order of theIKing; and so Sll the
righteousness, and holiness, and modesty
q her nature rises up into one sublime
Refusal She says: 81 will not go into
The banquet unveiled" OF course, Aha
iuerus was inturiSte, and Vashti, robbed
Api her position and her estate, is driven
forth in poverty and ruin to suffer the
lcorn Of ns,ion, and yet to receive the
pplause Of after generations who shall
Use up to admire this
MARTYR TO KINGLY IHsoLRECE,
We'll, the last vestige Of that feast is
Zone; the last garland has faded; the last
krch has fallen; the last tsnkard has been
bestroyed, and SnushSn is ruin; but az
hong as the world stands there Will he
fmultitudes Of men and women, familiar
with the Bible, who will come into this
pic ure gallery of God ana admire the
Divine portrait OF Vashn the queen,
Vashti the yelled, Vashti the sacrifice, |
Vashti the silent.
In the first place, want you to look |
upon Vashii the Queen. A blue ribbon,
rayed with white, drawn around her fore
head, indica ed her sueeDlY position 1t
Was no small honor 20 be Queen in suca
realm as th.t. Hark 10 the rustic OF her
robes See the blszs OF her jewels! And
vet, my friends, 1t is not necessary to
have nSlsce and regal rnha in order 10 be