The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-02-09
TIE WESTERN SENTINEL: THURSDAY FEBRUARY g. 1888

e7oI'iler, ouuiiuent ms nswIy d1seov-
cred principle, waited for the coming of
more intelligent generations, willing that
, men should laugh at the lightning rod.
and cotton gin and misunderstanding for
long years through the scoffing of philo-
aophcai schools, in grand and magnificent
silence Calico, condemned by mathe-
lnaticians, and monks, and cardinals,
caricatured everywhere, vet waiting and
watching with his telescope. to see the
coming up of stellar re-enforcements
which the stars IN their courses would
hight for the Copernican system; then
sitting down in complete blindness and
deafness to wait for the coming on of
the generations who would build his
monument and bow at his grave. The
reformer, execrated by his contempo-
raries. fastened in a pillory, the slow
fires of public contempt burning under
him. ground under the cylinders of the
printing press, yet calmly waiting for the
Gay when purity of soul and heroisnl of
character viii get the sanction of earth
and the plaudits of heaven. Affection,
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 the night-waitine
until a divine hand shall be put forth to
soothe the pang. and hush the storm, and
release the captive. A wife abused, per-
secuted, and perpetual exile from every
earthly comfort-waiting waiting until
the Lord shall gather up his dear children
IN a heavenly home, and no poor Vashti
will ever be thrust out from the palace
gate. Jesus, in silence, and answering
not word, drinking the gall. bearing
the cross, in prospect of the rapturous
contamination when
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 ship float
ing helplessly about among the icebergs,
and going on board he found that the
captain was frozen at his logbook, and
the helnsman was frozen at the wheel.
and the men on the lookout were frozen
In their places. That was awful, but
magnificent. All the Arctic blasts and
all the icebergs could not drive them
from their duty. Their silence was
louder than thunder. And this old ship
OF world has many at their posts in the
awful chill of neglect, and frozen of the
worlds scorn, and their silence shall be
the eulogy of the skies, and be rewarded
long after this weather beaten craft of q
planet shall have made its last voyage.
fiuences are the most silent. The fires in
furnace of a factory or of a steamship
roar though they only move q few shut
ties or few thousand tons, but the sun
that warns a world rises and sets with
out crackle or faintest sound. Tray
elers visiting Mount Etna, having heard
OF the glorles of sunrise on that peak,
went up to spend the night there and see
the sun rise next morning, but when it
came up it was SO far behind their an
ticipations they actually Missed il The
m1ghtlest influences today are like the
planetary system-completely silent.
Dent hiss the sum-
Oh, woman! does not this story of
Vashti the queen. Vashti the yelled,
VashG the sacrifice, Vashti the silent,
move your soul? NV sermon converpea
INTO the one absorbing nope That none OF
you may be shut out of the palace gate
of heaven. You can endure the hard
ships, and the privations, and the cruel
1es, and the misfortunes of this life, If
you can only gain admission there.
Through the blood of the everlasting
covenant, you go through those gates or
never go at ALL
When Rome was besieged the daughter
of its ruler saw the golden bracelets on
the left arms of the enemy, and she sent
word to them that she would betray her
city and surrender it to them if they
would only give her those bracelets on
their left arms. They accepted the prof
fer, and by night this daughter of the
ruler of the city opened one of the
gates. The army entered, and, keep
ing their promise, threw upon her
their bracelets. and also their shields,
until under weight she died Alas,
that all through the ages the same folly
has been repeated, and for the trinkets
and gittering treasures of this world men
and women swing open the portals of
their immortal soul for an everlasting
surrender, and die under the shining
encouragement
Through the rich grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ may you be enabled to ini-
tate the example of Rachel, and Hannah,
and Abigail, and Deborah, and Mary,
and Vashh. Amen!