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T1IK VEIL OF MODESTY.
DR. TALMAGE'S FIFTH SERMON TO
THE WOMEN CF AMERICA.
i'lio ;rr:it l'r-n-li-r f-'iijH Tleit u Man's
lmi-:t-tT I l)-lir!iliii-.l ly IUh A -i,i-riali(ui
of W oman i ilit l--t lull ti
fix t'H An liver tint Must SlU-nt.
1!i:ooi.i-:yn, Feb. .". The annual jiew
letting in Drooklyii tain-mat I.; lias just
taken place, and the rental exceeds all
previous years. I'm- lh' be.- t pews live,
!:;, ht-ven an. I eight hundred dollars were
paid. Ihit par!.: of the house :iro l:ept
free, yxt I hat n one can truthfully Kiy
that lie cannot attend church here for
Jar!: of means.
If this immense structure were twice
sis la:;:'- it would not contain all who (let-ire
to wor hip here. I'.ythe time the
Kervici' liegins the directs art! blocked
with peopl.- giiin awav.
The K. v. T. lie Witt Talniage, I). I).,
the J :1 stor, preached this morning tho
Jilth ia lh ".'-'.lies ,f Seil.:o:is to the
Ai)i.r"u of America, with Imjiortant
Hints to Men." His subject was ''Tho
Veil of lode;ty," :ind his text: Esther
i, V2: ''The tjuccii Va-shti refused to
come. ",
If voij wiil accept my arm I will escort
you into a throne room. In this lifth
sermon of the series of .sermons there are
certain womanly excellencies which I
wili to commend, 1,::! instead of putting
til 'in hi dry ahsi raclio;i. 1 present you
their impt rso?ation in ore who seldom,
if ever, p'is .stniioiiii; recognition.
Yv'e stand ami. I the palacesof Shuslian.
The pinnacles are aflame with the morn
ing Hidst. Tin' ciiliii'is ih-e fesfoo.'ied and
wreathed, the weah!i of emtiires llashinii
from the grooves; 1 1 1 - c .nr;gs adorned
willi i:n:';e.; of bird ami beast, and scenes
of prowe.-s ;:od coo. ,ne-,( , The walls are
liimg with shields, and emblazoned until
it seems thai the hole round of splen
dors is i'xhau:-t"i!. 1 1; u . J i areli is a mighty
leap of aivhileel Ural achievement, (joldell
stars, f.l)i:iiia;-tl wn - l v ',vingarulos(uo.
Hangings of embroidered work in
which mingle the i lneue ;s of the sky,
the greenness of the ;-,ra s ami the white
ness of the : -a .foam. Tapestries hung
n siher rings, wedding together the pil
lar of marble, l'aviiious rear lung out
in every direction. These for repose,
tilled willi luxuriant com lies, ia which
weary limhs sink until all fatigue is sul
inergcd. These for carousal, where kings
drink down a kingdom at out; swallow.
Amazing spectacle! Iht of silver
'ripping iow:i
i.
over stairs of ivory on
shields of gold. I -'loojs oi stained luarhle.
sunse t red and ni;jht Mack, and inlaid
with gleaming pearl. Why, it seems as
if a iieavei:'y vi.-ion of amethyst, and
jacinth, :md topa.'.. and chrysopra.sus had
descended and .alighted Ujion Shurhan.
It seems as if a lill'v of celostial glory
had dashed clear over heaven's battle
ments upon this leetreijiolisof Persia. In
connection with this palace there is a
gar-Ion. where the mighty men of foreign
lauds nre sealed at a banquet. Under
the spread of oak, r.nd linden, and
sicacia the tables are arranged. The
breath of honeysuckle :md frank
incense tills the air. Fountains leap
up into the li'-.ht. the spray struck
through v.U!i rail i hows falling in crystal
hue l:aptim upon flowering sl:ruls then
roiling down through channelsef marble,
itnd widening out here ar.d there into
pools swirling with the linny tribes of
foreim :::;:arh:ms. herd, red with j-.carlet
r.nemeae-, hyp -ricnus. and many e'cl
ivd ra::'.:nc::h:s. rieais of rarest bird
and boa.-1 via. king u; amid wreaths of
aromaii'-s. The va.-es filled with apricots
and almonds. The- basket-: piled up with
apricots, ar.d dates, and, figs, and orar.ges,
ami o:negran;:i: s. Vicious tasteiuily
twined v,i;ii leaves of acacia. The
bright w;,i.:s of T'ulaeus Idling the
urns, and sweating otitside the
rim in Hashing beads amid the
traceries. "Wine from tin royal vats
of I.-pahan and bhlraz, in liottles of
tingeil shell, and ILly shr. i d cui3 of sil
ver, and liagons a;'.d tankards of solid
gold. The mude rises higher, and the
revelry breaks oat i;:t- wilder transport,
and the wine b.s ilushiNl the cheek and
touched the brain, and louder than all
other v lets are the hiccough of the ine
briates, the gabble of fools and the song
.of the drunkards.
Ju am-ther part of the palace Queen
"athti is entertaining the princesses of
Persia at ;: 1 a!!;iiet. Drunken Ahasuerus
Pays to J ii servants: "You go out and
fetch Va-hti from that baiKjuet with the
women, and bring her to this lanquet
with the i.-e:i, ::nl !. t me display her
Ivauty." Tiie servants immediately start
to obey the Ling's command ; hut there
was a rule in oriental sKiety that no
woman might appear in public without
having he? k;vc veiled. Yet lu re was s
mandate that no one dare dispute, de
manding that Ya.-hli come in unveilea
Ivfore il.e lo.uhitude. Uowever, there
was i;i Yashti's sold a jirincijile incre
iegal than Ahasuerus. n? ore brilliant than
the gold of !ius'':an. of more wealth
thai the realm of irsia. which coin-mandc-d
her to li.-ol-ey this crdcr of tiie
king: r.nl so all the righteousness
and hoiiness and moiier;ty of her
nature rises up into one sublima
efu3f.l. iShesitys: ! v.-ill not go into
I ho banquet un veiled. "' Of course
Vh:isucrus was infjiri.t'Lo: and Yashti.
robh-i-d f her jKvii'oii :aid her estate, is
Alrivcn fortii in KvLriy and ruin to suf
fer the Kr.m of a nation, and yet to re
ceive the applause of after generations
who she.il rise up to admire this martyr
to kingly insolence. Weil, the last ves
tige of tho.t feast is gone: the last garland
has faded: the lr.st arch has fallen: the
last tankard has been destroyed, and
Shusha.ii is a ruin; but as long r.s the
world stands there will h multitudes of
jneu and women, familiar with the
Bible, who will come into this picture
gallery of Cod. and admire the divine
portrait of Yashti the queen, Yashti the
veiled, Yashti the sacrifice, Yashti the
eileiit.
In the first place. I want you to look
upon Yashti, the queen. A blue ribbon,
rayed with white, drawn round her fore
Jiead, indicated her queenly position. It
yras v.o small honor to be queen ia such a
realm as that. Hark to the rustle of her
rob-.s! See the blaze of her jewels! And
vet. my friends, it is not necessary to
ia e palace and regal rob in order to be
queenly. YVlirn I see a woman with
fctout faith in God, putting her foot upon
ali uieanneaa, and Bclnshness, and godless
display, going right forward to serve
Christ and the race by a grand and
glorious (service, I say: "That wo
man is a queen," and tho ranks of
heaven look over the lattleaicnts uon
tho coronation; and whether she come up
from the tdianty on tho commons or tho
mansion of the fashionable Kquare, I
greet her with the shout; "All hail!
(.jMiccn Yashti." What glory was there
on the brow of Mary of Scotland, or
Elizaleth of England, or Margaret of
France, or Catherine of Russia, compared
with the worth of some of our Christian
mothers, many of them gone into glory?
or of Hint woman mentioned in the
ScripturoH, who put her all into the Ixird's
treasury? or of Jephthah's daughter,
who made a demonstration of unselfish
Kit riot ism? or of Abigail, who rescued
the herds and flocks of her husband? or
of Kuth, who toiled under a tropical sun
for poor, old, helpless Naomi? or of
Mrs. Adomrain Judson, who kindled tho
lights of salvation amid tho darkness of
of IJurmah? or of Mrs. Ilemans,
who poured out her holy soul in
words which will for ever le
associated with hunter's horn, and cap
tive's chain, and bridal hour, and lute's
throb, and curfew's knell at the dying
day? and scores and hundreds of
women, unknown on earth, who have
given water to the thirsty, and bread to
the hungry, and medicine to the sick,
and smiles to the discouraged their
footstejw heard along dark lane, and in
government hospital, and in almshouse
corridor, and by prison gate? There
may Ik no royal rolie there may be no
palatial surroundings. She doc3 not
need them; for all charitable men will
unite with tho crackling lips of fever
struck hospital and plague blotched laz
aretto in greeting her as she passes:
"Hail! hail! Queen Yashti."
Among tho queens whom I honor are
the female day school teachers of this
land. I put upon their brow the coronet.
They are the sisters and the daughters of
our towns and cities, selected out of a
v:ist number of applicants, because, of
their especial intellectual and moral en
dowments. There are in none of your
homes women nioro worthy. These jter
sons, some of them, come out from afflu
ent homes, chooiing teaching as a useful
profession; others, finding tiiat father is
older than he used to le, and that his
eyesight and strength are not as good as
once, go to teaching to lighten his load.
Hut I tell you the history of the majority
of tho female teachers in the public
schools when I say: 4 "Father is dead."
After tho estate was settled the family,
that were comfortable before, are thrown
on their own resources.
It is hard for men to earn a living in
this day, but it is harder for women
their health not so rugged, their nrrns
not so strong, their opiHirtunities fewer.
These iorsons, after trembingly going
through the ordeal of an examination as
to their qualifications to teach, half be
wildered step over the sill of the public
school to do two things instruct the
young and earn their own bread. Her
work is wearing to the last degree. The
management of forty or fifty fidgety and
intractable children, the suppression of
their vices and the development of their
excellencies, the management of
rewards and punishments, the swid
inir of so manv bars of soap and fine
tooth combs on benignant ministry, the
breaking of so many wild colts for the
harness of life, sends her home at night
weak, neuralgic, unstrung; so that of all
the weary people in your cities for five
nights of the week there are none more
weary than the public school teachers.
Now, for God's sake, give them a fair
chance. Throw no olstacles in the way.
If they come out ahead in the race,
cheer them. If you want to smite any,
smite the male teachers; they can take
up the cudgels for themselves. But keep
jour hands off of defenseless women.
Father may be dead, but there are
enough brothers left to demand and see
that they get justice.
Within a stone's throw of this building
there died years ago one of the principals
of our public schools. She had been
twenty -five years at that post. She had
left the touch of refinement on a multi
tude of the young. She had, out of her
slender purse, given literally thousands
of dollars for the destitute who came
under her observation as a school teacher.
A deceased sister's children were thrown
upon her hands, and she took care of
them. She was a kind mother to them,
while she mothered a whole school.
Worn out with nursing in the sick and
dying room of one of the household, she
herself came to die. She closed tho
school book and at the same time the
volume of her Christian fidelity; and
when she went through the gates they
cried: "These are they who came out of
great tribulation, and had their robes
washed and made white in the blood of
the lamb."
Queens are all 6uch, and whether the
world acknowledges them or not. heaven
acknowledges them. When Scarron,
the wit and ecclesiastic, as poor as he
was brilliant, was about to marry Mme.
de Maintenon, he was asked by the notary
what he proposed to settle upon madem
oiselle. The reply was: "Immortality!
The names of the wives of kings die
with them ; the name of the wife of Scar
ron will live always." In a higher and
better sense, upon all women who do
their duty, God will settle immortality!
Not the immortality of cart lily fame,
which is mortal, but the immor
tality celestial. And they shall reign
forever and ever. Oh, the opportu
nity which every woman has of being
a queen! The longer I live the more I
admire good womanhood. And I have
come to form my opinion of the charac
ter of a man by liis appreciation or non
appreciation of woman. If a man
have a depressed idea of womanly
character he is a bad man, and there is
no exception to the rule. The writings
of Goethe can never have any such at
tractions for me as Shakesj)eare, because
nearly all the womanly characters of the
great German have some kind of turpi
tude. There is his Mariana, with her
clandestine scheming, and his Mignon, or
evil parentage, yet worse than her ances
tors, and his Theresa, the brazen, and
his Aurelia of many intrigues, and his
Philina, the termagant, and his Melina,
tho tarnished, and his Baroness, aud his
Countess, and there Is seldom a wcuianiy
cliaracter in all his voluminous writ
ings that would be worthy of resi
dence in a respectable coal cellar, yet
pictured and dramatized and emblazoned
till all the literary world is compelled to
Fee. No! no! Give me William Shnkes
jieare's idea of woman and 1 see it in
Uesdemona, and Cordelia, and Rosalind,
raid Imogen, and Helena, and il rmione.
and Viola, and Isal-ella. and Sylvia, ami
; I'erdita, all of them with -cnou'di faults
! to prove them human, but enough kindly
j characteristics to give us the author.;
j idea of wonianhxl, his l-'idy Maelx-th
only a uarh; background to i rmg out ti.e
supreme loveliness of hi.i other female
characters.
Oh, women of America! rise to yim
opportunity. l!e no slave to p:id', or
v.-orldliness, or sin. V'hy ever crr.wl in
the dust when you can mount a throne?
Bo queens unto God forever. Hail
Yashti!
Again: I want you to consider Yashti
the veiled. Had sht? appeared before
Ahasuerus and his court on that day,
with her face uncovered, she would have
shocked all the delicacies of Oriental
society, and the very men who in their
intoxication demanded that she come, in
their solier moments would have despised
her. As somo flowers seem to thrive
lK'st in the dark lane and in the shadow,
and where the sun does not seem to
read i them, 5.0 God appoints to most
womanly natures a. retiring and unol
trusive spirit. God once in a while
does call an IsalicIIa to the throne,
or a Miriam to strike the timbrel at
the front of a host, or a Marie Antoinette
to quell a French mob, or a Deborah to
stand at the front of an anml battalion,
crying out: "Up! up! This is the day
in which the Lord will deliver Sisera into
thy hands." And when women are called
to such outdoor work and to such heroic
positions, God prepares them for it; and
they have iron in their soul, and light
nings in their eye, and whirlwinds in
their breath, and the borrowed strength
of the Lord omnipotent in their right
arm. They walk through furnaces as
though they were hedges of wild
flowers, anil cross seas as though
they were shimmering sapphire, and
all the harpies of hell sink clown
to their dungeon at the stamp of their
womanly indignation. But these are
exceptions. Generally, Dorcas would
rather make a garment for the poor
l)oy; Rebecca would rather fill the
trough for the camels; Hannah would
rather make a coat for Samuel; tin;
Hebrew maid would rather give a
prescription for Naaman's leprosy;
tho woman of Saropta would rather
gather a few sticks to cook a meal for
famished Elijah; l'hebe would rather
carry a letter for the inspired
apostle; Mother Lois would rather
educate Timothy in the Scriptures. When
I see a woman going about her daily
duly with cheerful dignity presiding at
the table; with kind and gentle, but
firm, discipline presiding in the nursery,
going out into the world without any
blast cf trumpets, following in the fixit
stcps of him w ho went about doing good
I say: "This is Yashti with a veil on."
But when I see a woman of unblushing
boldness, loud voiced, with a tongue of
infinite clitter clatter, with arrogant
look, passing through the streets with a
masculine swing, gayly arrayed in a
verj- hurricane of millinery, I cry out :
"Yashti has lost her veil." 'When I see
a woman struggling for political
preferment, and rejecting the duties
of home as insignificant, and thinking
the offices of wife, mother and daughter
of no importance, and trying to force her
way 011 up into conspicuity, Isny: "Ah,
what a pity; Yashti has long lost her
veil." When I o?e a woman of comely
features, and of adroitness of intellect,
and endowed .with all that the schools can
do for one, and of high sociel position,
yet moving in society with supercilious
ness and hauteur, as though she would
have people know their place, and an un
defined combination of giggle, and strut,
and rodomontade, endowed with allo
pathic quantities of talk, but only home
opathic infinitesimals of sense, the terror
of dry goods clerks and railroad con
ductors, discoverers of significant mean
ings in plain conversation, prodigies of
badness and innuendo I say: "Yashti ha3
lost her veil."
But do not misinterpret what I say
into a depreciation of the work of those
glorious and divinely called women who
will not be understood till after they are
dead, women like Susan B. Anthony,
who are giving, their life for the be! ter-
: mcnt of the condition of their sex. Those
of you who think that women have
under the law of this country an equal
chance with men are ignorant of the laws.
A gentleman writes me from Maryland,
saying: "Take the laws of this state. A
man and wife start out in life full cf
hope in every respect by their joint ef
forts, and, as is frequently the case,
through the economic ideas of the wife,
succeed in accumulating a fortune, but
they have no children; thev reach old
age together, and then the husband dit-s.
What does the law of this state do then ? It
says to the widow, hands oil your late
husband's property, do not touch it: the
state will find others to whom it will give
that, but you, tho widow, must not
touch it, only so much as will keep life
within your aged ho ly, that you may
live to see those others enjoy what right
fully should be your own. " Ar.d the
state seeks the relatives of the deceased
husband, whether they lie near. or far,
whether they were ever heard of before
or not, and transfers to them, singly or
collectively, the estate of tho deceased
husband and living widow.
Now, that is a specimen of unjust laws
in all the states concerning womanhood.
Instead cf flying off to the discussion as
to whether or not the giving of the right
of voting to women will correct thcsL'
laws, let me say to men, be gallant
enough, and fair enough, and honest
enough, and righteous enough, and God
loving enough to correct these wrongs
against women by your own masculine
votes. Do not wait for woman suffrage
to come, if it ever does come, 1 ut eo far
as you can touch ballot boxes, and legis
latures, and congre-sses liegin the refor
mation. But until justice is el one to
your sex by tba laws of all the states, and
women of America take the platforms
anel the pulpits, and no honorable man
will charge Yashti with having lost her
veil.
Again, I want you this morning to
consider Yashti the sacrifice. Who is
this that I see coming out cf that palace
gate of Shuslian? It seems to mo that I
have seen her before. She comes home
less, houseless, friendless, trudging alor.g
with a broken heart. Who is the? It is
Vashti the sacrifice. Oh, what a clianga
it was from regal . position to a- v.ay-
farrr's crust.' A little while ago approved
ana tougni ior; now none so H,r sut
t ark 110 w h i! jn her aeouaintaiieeshiii.
Yashti the sacrifice. Ah. vou and I have
seen it many a time, lb-re is a home
e;:t!pala. ( d with beauty. Ali that leline
m sit. a::d books, and wealth eau do for
that h iyi" h.is la'cii done; but A hasiierus,
tho husband and the father, is taking
h! 1 0:1, paths of sin. lie i". -jradnady j
g.'ing down. Afttr a while he will'
lhiuudcr and struggle like a wi'd Iieasi in
a homer's net- further away from God,
furl h r away from the right. .S.-on tlx; j
bright apparel of the iuldivn will turn i
to rags: soon the hoiuvhold song will be-
come the sobbing of a Lrok'-n l art. The 1
old story over again. I'.iiitd Centaurs J
breaking up the inarriagi feast of Lh
piih.'.o. Tiie hon-e lull of outrage, and 1
c!'ii'-ity, aii'I aiHiiiuna; 1011, while trudging
forth from the j.al.-ic gate a"o Vashti
ai.d her children. There are honvs rep-rese.ite-d
in this hou.-.o this mor.iing thai
are i:i danger of sivh a breaking
up. Oh Ahasuerus, that yea should
f-ta.od in a home, by a di.-sipated
life destroying tiie peace and comfort
of that home. Cod forbid that your
children should evr have to wring their
hands, and have people point their linger
at them as ihey pass down th street ami
say: " There' goes a drunkard's child."
God f orbit 1 that the liltlo feet should ever
have to trudge th" path of jxtverty smd
wretchedness. God forbid that tiny evil
spirit, liorn of the wine cup or the brandy
flask, should come forth and uproot that
garden, and, with a blasting, bli.-tering,
all consuming curse, shut for ever the
palace gate against Vashti and the chil
dren. Oh, the woni! 11 and liie men 01 sacri
fice; are going to take the brightest coro
nals of heaven! This woman of the text
gave up palatial resilience, gave up all for
what she considered right. Sacrifice!
Is there anything more sublime? A
steamer called the Prairie Belle, burning
on the Mississippi liver, Bludso, th'engi
nivr, declared he would keep tin; bow of
tiie boat, to the shore till all were off, and
he kept his promise. At his post, scorched
and blackened, be perished, but lie saved
all the passengers. Two verses of pa
thetic poetry elesciilw the scene1, but the
verses are a little rough, and so I changed
a word eir two:
Tl rt.i:tr!i t'y licit Muck biv.it h of tho burning
Jim Lthulsi.'s voiei; was heard.
Ami they s:!! h:al trust in his stubbornness,
Ami knew he wouH lavi hi:; wool.
Ami sure's you're born they all j.:ol oir
Af jre tin; smokcsO'.-l.-s fWI:
Ai:il IJlailao's fcho-,1 went ti; above,
In the siaoht; of the Prairie H::!!f.
He weren't 110 sr.ii:!. but r.t Judgment
I'll ruu my ehiiiii-e with Jim,
I.O!isii!e of s-o'i'.e inns g'-nt leiircn
That wouldn't shakt h;en'.s with h:in.
Ile'tl seen iiis I'nty. a l--;d sure tiling.
And went f ir it there and then.
And Christ, is not poimj to be too hard
Oti a man that died for inea.
Once more: I want you to look at
Vashti the silent. You do not hear any
outcry from this woman as she goes feii th
from the palace gate. IVemi the very
dignity cf her nature you know- there will
be no vociferation. Sometime's m life it
is ne e-essnry to make a retort; sometime -s
in life it is necessary to resist: but there
are crises when the most triumphant
thing to elo is to keep silence. The phil
osopher, confident in bis newly discov
ecvd principle, waited for the coming of
meire intelligent generatioijs, willing that
men should laugh at the lightning rod,
and cotton gin and steamboat waiting for
long years through the scotting of philo
sophical schools, in grand and magnificent
silence. Galileo, condemned by matl.e
matieians, and monks, nnel cardinals,
caricatured everywhere, yi't waiting and
watching with his Ic-losce-pe. to see the
coming up of stellar le-enfore-eio.ents.
wheh the stars in tin ir courses would
fight for the Copcrniean system: Jhen
silting down in complete blindne.-a and
deafness to wait for the coming on fif
the generations who weiu'.el build bis
monument and bow
reformer, e-xcerated
at his
rrav.
bv his contemno-
raries. fastened in a pillory, the slow
fires of public contempt burning under
hi:n, ground under iho cylinders of the.
printing press, yet calmly waiting for the
day when purity of soul and heroism ot
chart.oter will get tin sanction of earth
alio tho-piauditi of heaven
e;:, luring without any ro;
Afliiction
.hunt te.v
sharpns ; ot the pang, and tii violence
of the storm, and the heft of the chain,
and the el:irkiKss oZ the night waiting
until a divine hand shall be put forth to
soothe the pang, and hush the storm, and
rckase the captive. A wife abused, p.-r-secuted.
and a perpetual e-xile from eve ry
earthly comfort waiting, waiting, until
the Lord shall gather up hiselear chi'eirc .1
in a heavenly home, and no poor Yashti
wni ever be tnrust out from the pa!a?e
gate. Jesus in silence, and answering
not a word, drinking the gall, bearing
the. cross, in prospect of the rapturous
consummation when
Angels thrunrrocl liis chariot wheel.
And !;i.'ii to iji.-s throat';
Then svvo;it t heirr.liicn harps and 1:2.7
The glorious v. er!c is dor.u.
An Arctic explorer found a ship float
ing helplessly about among the icebergs,
ar.d going on board he found that the
captain was frozen at his logbtxik. and
tlie helmsman was frozen at the whoc-i,
and the men vn the lookout were fro::rn
in their places. That was awful, but
magnificent. All tho Arctic blast? and
all the icebergs could not drive them
from their duty. Their silence was
louder than thunder. And this dd ship
of a world has many at their pests in the
awful e Jiiil cf negiect, and frozen of tho
world :s scorn, and their silence siiall bo
the eulogy of the tkie .;, and be rewarded
long afier this weather Karen craft of a
planet shall have made i:.s l.i.-t voyage.
I thank God that tho mightiest in
fluences are the most sikut. Tlie fires in
a furnace of a factory cr of a steamship
ro;r though they only move a few shut
tles or a few the-usand tons, but the sun
that warms a world rises and sets with
out a crackle or faintest sound. Trav
elers visiting Mount Etna, having heard
of the glories of sunrise 011 that p-eak,
went up to spend the night there and see
the sun rise next morning, but when it
came up it was so far behind their an
ticipations they actually Insscd it. The
mightiest influences today are like thy
planetary system completely tilent.
Don't hiss the sun!
Ch, woman; docs not this story of
Vashii th? queen, Yashti the veiled,
Yashti tho sacrifice, Yashti the silent,
move your eouI? My ecrmon con verge's
into the ore absorbing hope that none of
you may be shut cut of the palace gate
of heaven. You can endure the hard-
' hip and the frivations, and the cruel-
ties, and the misfortunes of this life, if
vou' can onlv eain admission (here.
gam
Through the blood of the everlasting
cininant, you go through t host; gates or
iiev, r go at all.
When I'oine was besieged t he daughter
of i'.s ruler saw the golden braeelets on
the I f t arms of the enemy, and she sent
v. or 1 to theiii that she would betray her
ily anil surrender it to them if they
would only give her those bracelets 011
their left arms. Tln v accepted the prof-
for, arid by night this daughter of the!
ruler of the city opeiieil one of the
gates.. The army entered, and, keep
ing their promise, threw upon her
iht ir bracelets, and also their shields,
until under weight she died. Alas,
that all through tiie ages the same folly
has been repeated, and for the trinkets
and glittering treasures of this world men
and women swing open the portals of
their immortal soul for an everlasting
surrender, and die under the shining
Mibiucrgonient.
Through the rich grace of our IiOrd
Jesus Christ may you hi; enabled to imi
tate the example of Uache i, and I lannah,
and Abigail, and lvlxrah, and Mary,
and Yashti. Amen !
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