Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-07-23
lLNAGE'S SERMON.

H.
LING yashti, the queen, before
Sins and the princes her beauty;
Vas fair TO look on. But the
asbti refused 10 come at the
y Commandment by his chamber
: therefore was the king very
and his anger burned in him.
,er lii.
stand amid the palaces of
han The ~pinnacles are aiame
,ne morning light. The columns
festooned and wreathed, the
~ of empires flashing from the
-. the ceilings adorned with inn
= bird and beast, and scenes of
- and conquest. The walls are
'e 9TH shields and emblazoned I'M
"aams that the whole round of
! IS is exhausted. Each arch is
my leap of architectural achieve
!. Golden stars, shining down on
',,s orabesaue. Hangiags of en-
,a,sd work, in which mingle the
aess of the sky the greenness of
us and the whiteness of the sea
! tapestries hung on silver rings,
=, ,ocather the pillars Of mar
psviIions reaching out in every
,t,on These for repose, filled with
ant couches, into which weary
! sink until all fatigue is sub
"a These for carousal, where
! drink down a kingdom at one
Law Amazing spectacle! Light
,ssr dripping down over stairs of
J an shields Of gold. Floors OF
- marble. sunset red and night
! and inlaid with cleaning pearl.
- 4 seems as If a heavenly Wis
I AMETHYST and jacinth and tapaz
.b~rysoprasus had descended and
,tad mon Shushan. 1t seems as il
OF celestial glory had dashed
orer heavens battlements upon
r,atropolis of Persia. In connec-
with this palace there is a garden,
70 the mighty men of foreign lands
coated at a banquet. Under the
a ~ oak and linden and acacia,
tables are arranged. The breath
oaeysuckle and frankincense nils
air. Fountains leap up into the
the spray struck through with
,ows falling in crystalline baptism
towering shrubs-then rolling
|, through channels of marble, and
ming ont here and there into pools
inc with the finny tribes of for
aouariums, bordered with scarlet
hypericums and many col.
r~anunculus. Meats of rarest bird
beast smoking up amid wreaths
INMATES. The vases filled with
OTIS and almonds. The baskets
m with apricots and dates and
and oranges and pomegranates.
rs tastefully twined with leaves
.aeia. The bright waters of Eu-
filling the urls aad sweating out
the rim in flashing beads amid
tnceries. Wine from the royal
Of Ispahan and ShiraZ. in bottles
lged she'll and lily-shaped cups of
: and iagons and tankards of
gold. The music rises higher and
breaks out into wilder
mort. and the wine has flushed
heck and touched the brain, and
r than all other voices are the
ugh of the inebriates. the gable
and the song of the drunk
part of the palace Queen
ii Is entertaining the Processes
ersia at a banquet. Drunken
uerus says TO his servants: You
and fetch Vashti from that BAN
with the women. and bring her TO
banquet with the men, and let
isplay her beauty" The servants
start TO obey the kings
nnd; but there was a rule In
tal society that no woman might
II In public without having her
yelled. Yet here was a mandate
no one dare dispute. demanding
yashti come i'm unveiled before
Multitude. However. there was in
lis soul a principle more regal
Ahasuerus. more brilliant than
Of Shushan. of more wealth
the realm of Persia. which com
her 10 disobey this order OF
ing; and so all the righteousness
holiness and modesty of her ma
up into one sublime refusal.
ays, Il will not go into the ban
unveiled" OF course Ahasuerus
lnfuriate: and Nashti. robbed OF
and her estate, Is driven
in poverty and in ruin To suffer
corn Of a nation, and yet 10 re-
the applause OF after generations
shall rise up to admire this
II TO kingly insolence. Well. the
'estige of that feast is gone; the
has faded: the last arch
allen: the last .ankard has been
,yed, and Shushan is a ruin; but
lg as the world stands there will
attitudes of men and women, IA
with the Bible. who will come
picture gallery of God and al
The divine portrait of Nashti the
!, 'ashti the yelled. Nashti the
Nashti the silent.
ne first place, l want you to look
'ashti the queen. A blue rib
aged with white. drawn around
orehead. indicated her queenly
IL was no small honor 10 be
Ia such a realm as that. Hank
{ rnstle of her robes, See the
Oh her jewels. And yet, my
y II Is not necessary TO have
|, and regal robe in order TO he
". When | see a woman with
iaith in God. putting her foor
al meanness and selfishness and
: display. going right forward
Ne Christ and the race by a grand
service, l say: THAT