Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-07-02
A QUEEN DETHRONED.
DR.. TALMAGE TELLS THE STORY or
THE BEAUTIFUL vASHTL.

A 0ueenly Martyr to Kingly Insolenoe.
A Woman to Initiate.
copyright. 1898. by American Press Asso-
ciaton.l
WASHINGTON, July 3.-Dr. Talmage
in this discussion tells the story Of a
beautiful queen dethroned, and draws
practical lessons for all conditions and
all times; text, Esther /, 11-l2, "Bring
Vashti, the queen, before the king with
the crown royal, to show the people and
the princes her beauty for she was fair
to look upon. But the Queen Vaskei re-
fused to come. "
We stand amid the palaces Of Shu-
shan. The pinnaclcs are afame 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 prowess and
conquest. The walls are hung with
shields and emblazoned until it seems
that the whole round of splendors is ex-
hausted. Each arch is mighty leaf Of
architectural achievement. Golden stars
shining down on glowing arabesque.
Hangings Of embroidered work in which
mingle the blueness Of the sky, the
greenness of the grass and the white
ness 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, in which
weary limbs sink until all fatigue is
submerged. Those for carousal where
kings drink down kingdom at one
swallow. Amazing spectacle! Light Of
silver dripping down over stairs of
ivory on shields of gold. Floors of stain
ed marble, sunset red and night black.
and inlaid with cleaning pearl. In
connection with this palace there is
garden where the mighty men Of for
eign lands are seated at a banquet. Un-
der the spread of oak and linden and
acacia the tables are arranged. The
breath of honeysuclzle and franlSinccnse
fills the air. Fountains leap up into the
light, the spray struck through with
rainbows falling into crystalline bap-
tism upon Towering shrubs-then roll
ing down through channels of marble
and widening out here and there into
pools swirling with the finny tribes OF
foreign aquarjums, bordered with scar
let anemones, hypericums and many
colored ranunculi.
Meats of rarest bird and beast smok-
ing up amid wreaths of aromatics. The
vases filled with apricots and almonds.
The baskets piled up with apricots and
figs and oranges and pomegranates.
Melons tastefully twined with leaves OF
acacia. The bright waters of EulTus
filing the urns and dropping outside the
rim in flashing beads amid the traceries
Wine from the royal watts of lspahan and
Shiraz in bottles of tinged shell aud lily
shaped cups of silver and flagons and
tankards of solid gold. The music rises
higher, and the rcvelry breaks out into
wilder transport, and the wine has
flushed the cheek and touched the brain,
and louder than all other voices are the
hiccough of the inebriates, the gable OF
| fools and tho song of the drunkards.
Bidden to the Banquet.
In another part of the palace Queen
Vashti is entertaining the Princess or
Persia at banquet. Drunken Ahasuerus
saws to his servants lyon go and fetch
Vashti from that banquet with the wom-
On and bring her to this banquet with
the men and let me display her beauty. "
The servants Immediately start to obey
She kings command, but there WIS a
rule In oriental society that no woman
might appear In public without having
her face yelled, yet here was a mandate
that no one dare dispute demanding that
Vashti come in unveiled before the null
titude. However, there was III WASN'T
soul q principle more regal than Ahasue'
rms. moro brilliant than the gold OF
Shushan, of more wealth than the realm
of Persia, which commanded her to DIS
obey this order Of the king, and so all
the Righteousness and holiness and mod
esty of her nature rise up into one sub
lime refusal. She says, II Will not &c
in to the banquet unveiled. " AhasueruS
was infuriate, and Fashti, robbed OF hel
position and her estate, is driven forth
in poverty and ruin to suffer tho scofl
of a nation and yet to receive the ap
plause of after generations, VINO shal
rise ND to admire this martyr to klnSly
insolence Well. the last vestige OF thai
feast is gone. The last garland has RACED
the last arch has fallen, the last tankart
has been destroyed, and Shusllan Is
ruin. but as long as the world stands
thnre will be multitudes OF men ans
women, familiar with the Bible, VINO
will como into this picture gallery o.
God and admire the divine portrait q
Vashti tho queen, Vashtl the velled
Vashti the sacrifice, Vashtl the sllehC'
vashti the Queen.
In the first place, want you TO iooi
unon Vashti the queen. A blue ribbon
rayed with white, drawn around ne
forehead, indicated her queenly posi-
t;on IT was no small honor to be queer
in such a realm as that. Hank to tn
hustle of her robes. See the blaze o
her Jewels. And yet it is not necessar.
to have place and regal robe IN oroef u
he oueenly. When l see woman VIII
! stout faith in God, putting her 100
upon all meanness and selilshness AM
, podless display, going right forward q
,, serve Christ and the race by Rrah'
and a glorious service, say, Una
woman is a queen" and the ranks
heaven look over the battlements upol
!. the coronation, and whether she come
hp from tho shanty on the commons o
tho mansion of tic fashionable square
8 n,oo+ har with the shout, "All hail