The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1896-08-22

veil " But Wneu ! 500 - VIZ [
h,,,sh;no holiness. loud-voiced, with
tonoue OF infinite Glitter clatter. with AFRO
canf look, passing through the streets VIII !.
tha stem OF a walking beam, gayly arrayed IN
a yery hurricane OF millinery, 1 cry ou., !
.svashti has lost her veil! Mnen 8
of ;ntejlect. and endowed will all that me
Schools can do for one, and OF hign sociai
position. yet moving IN society Will supo1L,
eiliousness aud bauteur. as though sne'wouiu
have people know their place. ana an unuo
aned combination of giggle and strut ana
| rhodomoptade. endowed with aliopatnid
nuantities OF talk. but only homeopathic m
| fn;tesimals of sense, the terror OF dry goous
clerks and railroad conductors. discoveries
| of significant meanings in plain CONVERSE
ton, prodigles OF badinage ana inhaen ns';,.
saw: "Look, look vashd has lost her ven!
Again, want you to consider Vasnti tne
sacrifice. Who Is this l see coming out OF
that palace gate of Shushan? 1t seems to me
that I have seen her before. sne CONES
homeless. houseless. friendless, trudging
along with broken heart. VINO ISSUE
is Vashti the sacrifice. Oh, what cnange
was from regal position to wayiarers
crust! A little while ago approved ana
sought for; now none SO poor as 10 acKnow-
edge her acquaintanceship. Vashti the sac
riflce! Alb you and have seen 1t many
time! .
Here is a home empalaced with beauty. |
All that refinement and books and wealth |
can do for that homo has been zone, put
Ahasuerus, the husband and father, Is taAins
hold en- paths Of sin. He Is gradually gong
down. After awhile he viii nounder ane
struggle like a wild beast in the hunters net
farther away from God, farther away from
tho right. Soon the bright apparel OF the
children will turn to rags; soon the mousse
hold song will become the so5olng Oh d
broken heart. The old story over again.
Brutal centaurs breaking up tne h i.,i,
| IS pit The house Iull
OF outrage and cruelty and abomina-
tiop. while trudging forth from the
nalaee gate are Vashti and her chiidren.
, There are homes that are in danger OF
such breaking up. Oh, Ahasuerus, tnas'
you should stand in home, oy uiesips sho.
: life destroy the peace and comfort o, tnas
{ home. God forbid that your children should
ever have to wiring their hands AMI have peo-
ME point their finger at them as they pass
i down the street and say, There goes ,, a
s drunkard's child" God forbid that the ii'tie
feet should ever have to trudge the pain o.
: nnvertv and wretchedness Goa forbid that
q any evil spirit born of the wine cup OF tue
" brandy glass should come forth and uproot
J. that garden. and with lasting blisteriDg, All
;; consuming curse shut forever the paiace ea'e
q against vash,i and the children.
J. During the war went to HagerstoWh 70
u look Mt the army, and stood in the night on
g n hilltop and looked down upon them:
u saw the campfres all through the Valleys
10 and all over the hills. 1t was weird spec,
z; tacle, those campfres, and 1 stooo anu
~ watched them, and the soluiers WIZ VIZ
Oh gathering around them were, no doupt, taiK-
le ing of their homes and of the long marcn
I, they had taken and OF the battles they were
ia TO fight. But after awhile saw these camp
III fires begin to lower and they continued 10
- lower until they were all gone our ana Tue
OF army slept. 1t was imposing when saw
the canpfires; it was imposing in the DARK
en- mess when 1 thought OF that great host
-. asleep.
70 70 Well, God looks down from heaven, and
II, He sees the firesides of Christendom ana ,ne
na loved ones gathered around these hresides
nd These are the campflres where we warm our
,.s selves at the close OF the day and tax owe
u the battles of life we have fought ana the
, 20 battles that are yet to come. God grant ina
NC when at last these fires begin to go out anc
,a continue to lower, until finally they are OK
ie- tinguished and the ashes OF consumed nope
De- strew the hearth of the old homestead,
~ ~ may be because we have
of Gone to sleep that last long sleep
Of From which none ever wake to weep.
icy Now VIC are an army on the march OF LIE
ht- Then we will be an army bivouscked IN I'M
her tent of the grave.
al. Once more / want you to look at wasn't
IN the silent. You do not hear any cutlery iron
ne, this woman as she goes forth from the paiac
her gate. From the very dignity OF her nature
re- Sometimes in life it Is necessary to make
mo retort; sometimes in life it Is necessary
Siy resist, but there are cries when the mos
lat triumphant thing to do Is to keep silence
80: The philosopher, confident In his newly OILS
mas covered principle, waiting for the coming
But Yncra ;nteIlioan Generations. willing tina
De men should laugh at the lightning rod an
lar cotton gin and misunderstanding Tor lon
PC years through the scoffing OF PHILOSOPHERS
ine schools, in grand and magnificent silence
kt,n, fI0ia n
the scientists, carlcatured everywhere, yet wal
ing and watching with his telescope to Sc
pom the coming up of stellar Reinforcement.
'itn when the stars in their courses would mgr
ioi, for the Coperncau system, then sItttnguow
nali in complete blindness and deafness TO wa
,at. for the coming on of the generations VIII
the would build his monument and bow at b
,.a ~ grave
'e poraries fastened in pillory, the slow I'll
neT of public contempt burning under min
and ground under the cylinders Of the printin
rive Dress. vet calmly waiting for the day whe
Gus purity of soul and heroism Of character wi
~, get the sanction of earth and the plaudits
BAT heaven. Affection, enduring without an
lher complaint the sharpness OF the pang ana u
ON violence Of the storm, and the heft OF II
aoie chain and Of the darkness Of night. Wal
all! ing until a divine hand shall be put forth
On sootke the pang and hush the storm and
'eth lease the captive. wife, abused. persecut'
attn, and perpetual exile from every earth
o. comfort-waiting, waiting, until the Lo
OF shall gather all His dear childrenin heave
pan Iy home. and no poor Vashti will ever
~. thrust out from the palace gate. Jesus,
VI silence and answering not word, drlnkii
GIN the gall, bearing the cross. in prospect OF I
Ut raptuous consummation when
nm. Angels thronged His chariot wheel
less And bore Him to His throne,
Who Then swept their golden harps and SUI
nds The glorious work Is done.
son, oh, woman Does not this story of vasl
the the queen, vashti the yelled, Vashtl the 81
ans, riflce, WASN'T the silent move your soulP
nich sermon converges into the one absorb
lorn hope that none Of you may be smut out
and the palace gate of heaven. You can endu
ying the hardships. and the privations, and
men, cruelties, and the misfortunes Of this life
,r to you can only gain admission there. Throu
and the blood of the everlasting covenant you
dis through these gates or never go at all. q
lark forbid that you should at last be Danish
in from the society of angels and banished liz
ate2 the companionship OF your glorifled klndI
Y tie and banished forever. Through the ri
need grace of our Lord. Jesus Christ, may you
with enabled to initiate the example OF Ract
pital and Hannah and Abigail, and Deborah, a
ting Mary, and Esther, and Vashti. Amen.
1een
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