The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-02-10
THE VEIL OF MODESTY.
TALMAGE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE IN
THE TABERNACLE.

ting In the Brooklyn Tabernacle has JUS
taken place, and the rental exceeds all pre
! VlouS years. Forthe best pews, five, six.seyel
and eight hundred dollars were paid. Blu
parts of the house are kept free 50 that n
one can truthfully say that he cannot atten,
church hercrfor lack Of means.
Ii this immense structure were twice a
large II would not contain all who desire t
worship here. By the time the service begins
the streets are blocked with people going
away.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Tamage, ID, the pas.
Tor preached this morning the fifth in the
series ofSermons to the Women of America
with Important Hints to Men" His subject
was; "The Veil of Modesty," and his text,
Esther |, II: ''The Queen Vashti refused to
come"
IL you Will accept my arm I will escort you
into throne-ro0m. In this fifth sermon of
Inc series of sermons there are certain women
excellencies which wish to commend. but
instead of putting them in dry abstraction. I
present you their impersonation IN one who
seldom If ever gets sermonic recognition.
we stand amid the palaces of Shushan.
Inc plnnacles are afame with the morning
l'snl. 1he columns rise feStOOned and wreath
co. Inc wealth of empires flashing from the
grooves; the ceilings adorned with images of
DIrd ana beast, land scenes of proves and con-
quest The walls are hung with shields, and
emolazoned until 1t seems that the whole
round OF splendors is exhausted Each arch
is a mighty leap of architectural achievement.
Golden stars, shining down on glowing
AraueSque. hanging of embroidered
WORK IN which mingle the blueness
OF the SKY, the greenness of the grass, and the
Wnlteness Oh the sea-foam. Tapestries hung
on silver rings, wedding together the pillars
o. marble. PaVilliOns reaching out in every
| direction. These for rep0se, filled with Iuxu-
rant couches, in which weary limbs sink until
| all fatigue is submerged. These for carousal.
"here kings drink down a kingdom at one
swallow Amazing spectacle! Light of sill
yer 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, it seems as if a heav-
emily vision Of amethyst, and jacinth, and to-
paz, ana chrysoprasus had descended and
alighted upon Shushan. 1t seems as if a hill
low of celestial glory had dashed clear over
heavens battlement upon this metropolis of
fersla. In connection with this palace there
IS garden, where the mighty men of foreign
Iands are seated at a banquet. Under the
spread of oak and linden, and acacia, the ia
Dies are arranged. The breath of honey
suckle and trankincense fills the air. Foun-
talns leap up into the light, the spray struclx
through with rainboWs falling in CRYSTALLINE
Daptlsm upon towering shrubs-then rolling
down through channels of marble and widen
ing out here and there into pools swirling with
the hnny tribes, Of foreign aquariums' Dor
uefeu with scarlet anemOnies hypericums, and
many-c0l0red ranunculus Meats of rarest
Dlrd ana beast smoking up amid wreaths of
aromatics. The vases filed with apricots and
Alnlonus' The baskets piled up with apricots,
md
GRANTEES: Melons tastefuly twined with
leaves Of acacia. The bright waters of Eu-
iaeus nlling the urns, and sweating outside
the rim in flashing beads amid the tracerfes.
VINE from the royal watts of Ispahan and Shiraz
In bottles of tinged she'll and lily-shaped
cups OF silver, and fagons and tankards of
sollu gold- The music rises higher, aud the |
reVelry breaks out into wilder transport and |
the wine has flushed the check and touched
the brain, and louder than all other voices are |
the hlccOugh OF the inebriates, the gable of |
TOOLS and the song of the drunkards.
In another part of the palace, Queen
Vashtl is entertaining the princesses of Per-
ala at banquet. Drunken Ahasuerus saws
% % MS servants: you go out and fetch
Vashti from that banquet with the women
and bring her to this banquet with the men,
ana let me display her beauty" The ser.
wants Immediately start to obey the kings
command; but there was rule in Oriental
society that no woman might appear in pub
Tic Without having her face yelled Yet here
was mandate that no one dare dispute. de-
handing that Vashti come in unveiled before
me multitude. However there was in
VashtPs sOnl q principle more regal than
Ahasuerus, more brilliant than the gold of
Shushan, or more wealth than the realm of
Persia, which commanded her to disObev this
order of the king; and so all the righteous.
ness, and holiness, and modesty of her nature
rises up into one sublime refusal She save.
1 VIII not 20 into the banquet unveiled" OF
course AhasuerOs was 1nfuriate; and Vashti
robbed Oh her position and her estate is drly-
en- forth in poverty and ruin to suffer the
scorn OF nation, and vet to receive the an.
plauSe OF after generations who shall rise nm
TO admire this martyr to kindly inso,ence
Weli' the last yestige Of that feast is gone:
me last garland has faded; the last arch has
fallen; the last tankari has been DESTROYED,
and Shushan is ruin; but as long as the
world stands there will be multitudes of men
and women familiar with the Bible. who will
come into this picture-gallerg of God aud
admire the Divine portrait Of Vashti the queen.
' asht the yelled, Nashti the sacrifice, Vashti
the silent.
In the first place, want you to look upon
ashtl The queen. A blue ribbon, rayed with
white, drawn around her forehead indicated
neT Queenly position 1t was no small honor
70 De queen IN such realm as that Hark 10
the rustic OF her robes! See the blaze Of her
Jewels! And vet, my friends, il is not neces-
sary to have palace and regal robe in order to
pe queenlV. When l see woman with stout
faith in God, putting her foot upon all mean.
ness, and selishness and goddess display
going right forward to serve Christ and the
race by grand and glorious service, | saw:
That woman is queen" and the ranks OF
heaven look over the battIements upon the
coronation; and whether she come ND from
the shantY on the commons or the mansion Of
the fashionable square, | greet her with the
shout: "All haill Queen VashtL" What
glory was there on the brow Of Mary of
Scotland or Elizabeth Of England, or Marga-
ret of France, or Catherine of Russia, com
pared with the WORTH of some OF our Christian
mothers many of them gone into glory a-or
Of that woman mentioned in the Scriptures
v ho put her all into the Lords treasury .-or
Of Jephthah's daughter, who made a demon
stration Of unselfSh patriotiSmi-or OF abb
gail who rescued the herds and focks of her
husbandl-or Of Ruth, who toied under a
tronical sun for poo.. old, helpless Naomi
Or OF Mrs. AdOmrain JudSon. who kindled the
lights Of salvation amid the darkness of Bur
maht-or Of Mrs. Hcmans, who poured out
her holy soul in words which will forever be
associated with hunters horn, and captive's
chain, and bridal hour, aud lute's throh and
curfew's knell at the diving davl-and
scores and hundreds of women, unknown on
earth, who have given water 10 the thirsty
and bread 10 the hungry, and medicine to the
sick. and smiles 10 the discouraged-their foot
stems hpa r1 alOnC~ A RI j., Z