The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-07-09
NaSsti the Yelled, VaShti the Sacr-
feed, YaShi the Silent.
Rev. I. he WIN TslmAge Cemmends Mod
esty In Woman and Draws a Useful Les
son Prom the story Of Drunken
AhAsuerus aud His Lovely Queen.

and beast and scenes of prowess and
conquest The walls are hung with
shields and emblazoned until it seems
the whole round Of splendors is ex.
hausted. Each arch is q mighty leaf OF
architectural achievement Golden
stars shining on glowing arabesque.
Hangings of embroidered work In
which mingle the blueness Of the sky,
the greenness Of the grass and the
whiteness of the sea foam The tapes
tries hung on silver rings, wedding to-
gether the pillars of marble. Pavil-
ions reaching out in every direction
These for repose, filed with luxuriant
eouches, in which weary limbs sink
until all fatigue is submerged. Those
for ~carousal where kings drink down
a kingdom at one swallow. Amaz-
ing spectacle Light of silver drip
ping down over stairs of ivory on
shields Of gold. Floors Of stained mar
Bile, sunset red and night black and in
laid with cleaning pearl In connec-
ton with this palace there is a 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 honeysuckle and frankincense fills
the air. Fountains leap,up into the
light, the spray struck through with
rainbows falling with cryptalline bap-
tisn upon Towering shrubs, then roll
ing down through channels Of marble
and widening put here and there into
pools swirling with inny tribes Of
foreign aquariums, ,bordered with
scarlet anemones, %hypericums and
many colored ranunculi.
Meats of rarest bird and beast smok-
ing up amid wreaths Of aromatics
The vases filed with apricots and al
monds, The baskets piled up with
apricots and figs and oranges and POM
egranates. Melons tastefully twined
with leaves of acacia The bright wa
ters OF Eulsus filing the urrs and
dropping outside the rim in flashing
beads amid the traceries. 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 revelry 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 the song OF the
orunkards
In another part OF the palace Queen
Vasbti is entertaining the princess of
Persia at a banquet Drunken Alias
uerus says TO his servants. You 60
and fetch Vashti from that banquet
with the women and bring her TO this
banquet with the men and let me dis.
play her beauty The servants i'm
mediately start to obey the kings
command, but there was a rule in
Oriental society that no woman might
sppear In public without having her
face yelled. Yet here is 4 mandate
that no n dare dispute, demanding
that VAshti come in unveiled before
the multitude. However, there was In
Vashti's soul a principle more regal
thar Ahasuerus, more brilliant than
the gold of Shushan, Of more wealth
than the realm of Persia, which com.
handed her to disobey this order
of the king, and 30 all the righteous
ness and holiness and modesty OF her
nature rise up into one sublime re.
fusal She says: Il will not go into
the banquet unveiled Ahasuerus was
infuriste, and Vashti, robbed of her
position and her estate, is driven forth
in poverty and ruin to suffer the seorn
OF a nation. and yet 10 receive the APP
planse OF after generations, who shall
rhe up to admire this martyr to king
~ insolenee. Well, the last vestige of
that feast is gone, the last garland
has faded, heSlast arch has fallen. the
last tankard has been destroyed, and
Shushan is a ruin, but Is long as the
world stands there will be muititudes
Of men and women familiar with the
Bible who will come into this picture
gallery Of God and admire the divine
portrait of Vashti the queen, Vashti
the yelled, Vashu the sacrifice, Vashti
the silent
In the first place | want you to look
upon Vashu the queen. A blue ribbon,
rayed with white. drawn around
her forehead, indicated her queenly
position. 1t was no sman honor TO be
queen in such a realm as that. Hark
to the rustic of her robes! See the
blaze Of her jewels, and yet II is not
necessary TO have place and regal
robe ia order to be queenly. When /
See Il woman with stout faith in GoS
putting her foot upon all
and selishness aad Goddess display,
going right forward 20 serve Christ
and the race by a grand and glorious
service, ! say, that woman is a
queen" and the ranks Of Heaven look
over the battlements upon the corona
ton, and whether she comes up from
the shanty an the commons or the
mansion Of the fashionable square l
greet her with the shout, ''all hail.
Queen Vashtil'
What glory was there ON tins brow Of
Mary Of Scotland, or Elizabeth OF
England, or Margaret of France, or
CsthArine of Russia compared with
the worth Of some Of our Christian
mothers. many Of them gone into
glory; or Of that woman mentioned in
the Scriptures who pat her all into the
Lords treasury; ~ o. Jephthah's
daughter, who made 8 demonstration
Of unselAsh patriotism; VI Of Abigail,
who rescued the herds and hockS Of
her husband, or Of Ruth, who toiled
under a tropical sun for poor, old,
helpless Naomi; or Of Florence Night
ingale, who went at midnight oStanch
the battle wounds Of the Crimea; or Of
Mrs. Adoniram Judson, who kindled
the lights Of EalYatioa amid the
darkness Of Burma; or vi Mrs
Hemans, who poured out her holy soal
in words which will forever be
associated with hunters horn,
and captive's chain, and bridal hour.
and inies throb, and curfew's knell at
the dying day, and scores aud hun
dreds OF women unknown on earth
who have giVea water TO the thirsty,
and bread 10 the hungry, and medicine
TO the sick, and smiles 70 the discour-
aged, their footsteps heard along dark
lane and in government hospital aAd in
hlmshouse corridor and by DriSon Qate3
There may be no royal robe. There
may be no palatial surroundings. She
does not need them, for all charitable
men will unite with the cracking lips
Of fever struck hospital and plague
blotched lazaretto In greeting her as
She passes; HALL HALL Queen Vsshtli"
Again, ] want you L consider Wash,
h.the yelled. Had she appeared before
Ahasuerus and his court on that day
with her face uncovered she would
have shocked all the delieacies of orr.