Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-07-10

Vashti the Yelled. the Silent and the
Rirhteous-The Bold Woman and the
Modest woman-w Waiting For the Di.
vine Hand to soothe.
WASHINGTON, July 5.-In his sermon to-
day starting from a brilliant Bible scene,
DR. Talmagc discourses upon woman's OPP
portunities and the wrongs she sometimes
suffers. His text was Esther /, H. ~: "1o
bring Vashti the queen before the king
with tho crown royal TO show the people
and the princes her beauty, for she was fair
TO look ON. But the queen Vashti refused
TO come at the kings commandment by
his chamberlains, therefore was the king
very wroth and his anger burned in him. -
We stand amid the palaces of Shushan
The pinnacles are aflane with the morning
light The columns rise festOOned and
wreathed, the wealth Of empires flashing
( from the grooves the ceilings adorned with
/ images Of bird and beast and scenes Of
! prOwcss and conquest The walls are hung
with shields and emblazoned until it seems
that the whole round Of splondors is ex-
hausted Each arch is a mighty leap of
architectural achievements Golden stars,
shining down on glowing arabesque.
/ Hangings of embroidered work in which
mingle the blueness of the sky, the green
ness Of the grass, and the whitcncss of the
sea foam Tapestries hung on silver rings,
wedding together the pillars of marble
Pavilions reaching out in every direction
These for repose, filed with luxuriant
couches, into which weary limbs sink I'M
til all fatigue Is submerged. These for ca
rousal, where kings drink down king
dom at ono swallow. Amazing spectaclel
Light of silver 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 heavenly vision Of amethyst
and iacinth and topaz and chrysoprasus
had descended and alighted upon Shushan.
1t seems as if u billOw of celestial glory had
dashed clear over heavens battlemcnts
upon this metropolis of Persia.
In connection with this palace there is
garden where the mighty men of foreign
lands are seated at a banquet Under the
spread Of oak and linden and acacia the
tables are arranged The breath of honey
suckle and franlincense fills the air
Fountains leap up into the light, tho spray
struck through with rainbOws falling in
crystalline baptism upon towering shrubs,
then rolling down through channels of
marble and widening out here and there
into pools swirling with the finny tribes of
foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet
anemones, hyperieums and many colOred
ranunculus. Meats of rlrest bird and :
beast smoking up amid wreaths Of arc /
MATES. The vases filled with apricots and /
almonds The baskets piled up with |
npicrots and dates and figs and oranges |
and pomogranates. Melons tastefully |
twined with leaves of acacia. The bright /
waters of Eul;eus filling the urns and |
sweating outside the rim in flashing beads |
amid the trslceries Wine from the royal |
watts of Ispahan and Shiraz in bottles of |
tinged shell and lily shaped cups of silver
and flagons and tankards Of solid gold
The music rises higher, and the reyelry
breaks out into wilder transport and tho
wine has flushed the cheek and touched
the BRAIN and louder than all other voices
arc the hiccough of the inebriates, the gab-
BILE of fools and the song Of the drunllards.
U,ahfI Tho Sacrificed