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Elderly gave up busi ness and professional men who laid aside thelr avocations without having other interests or pursults to which to turn in plunged despondency or hurried into prema ture dotage. He did know any surer way of inducing premature men tal decay than for a of active habits to retire and nothing when just past the zenith of life; and, on the other hand, he did ne way of enjoying a green old age than to keep on working at something till the close, It had been sald that one of the re wards of philosophy was length of days, and a striking list might be pre- sented of men distinguished for their intellectual labors they had never laid aside, who had far exceed ed the allotted span of Luman life Galileo lived to 78, Newton 85, Franklin to 85, Buffon to 80, Faraday to 76. and Brewster to 84 years. 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Subject: “Woman Wronged"—Tessons Drawn From the Conduct of Vashi, the VelledThe Glory of Those Who Btaunch the Battle Wounds, As Florence Nightingale Did, Text: “Bring Vashti, the queen, before the king withthe crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty: for she was falr to look upon, But the Queen Vashti refused to come,” Esther {., 11, 12, We stand amid the palaces of Shushan. The plonacles are aflume with the morning Mght, The columns rise festooned and sreathed; the wealth of empires flashing rom the groves; the cellings adorned with images of bird and beast, and scenes of rowess and conquest, The walls are ng with shields, and emblazoned until it seems that the whole round of splendors is exhausted, arohiteoctural achievement, Golden stars shining down on glowing Hangings of embroidered work in which mingle the blueness of the sky, greenness of the grass and whiteness of the sea-foam, hung on silver rings, wedding together the pillars of marble. Pavillons reaching | out in every direction, These for repose, { filled with luxuriant couches, in ¥hion | merged, Those for carousal where kings | drink down a kingdom at one swallow, Amazing spectacle! Light of silver drip- i plong down over stairs of ivory on shields of gold. i red and piebt black, and inlaid | gleaming pearl, In connection with this palace there is a garden, where the mighty {| quet, Under the spread of onk and linden | and acacia the tables are arranged, The breath of honeysuckle and i fills the air. Fountains leap up into | light, the spray struck through with bows falling into erystalline bantism ug | lowering shrubs—then rolling down | through channels of marble, and widening { out here and there into pools swirling with the filuny tribes of foreign aqua- rdered with searlet anemones, , and many-colorad ranunecull, Ments of rarest bird and beast smoking up amid wreaths of aromatics, The vases { filled with apricots and almonds, The baskets piled up with a { oranges and poms fully twined wi bright waters of Enlmas fil drcpping outside the rim i amid the traceries, Wi f Ispahan and the rranates, } x * leavea of meacin, The vals of and flagons The mus | breaks out in wine the brain, are the hi ble of fools, and In another has there } Wot wine ! t i panded her ing; and » liness and modesty sublime £0 into the Ahasuerus was in- , robbed of her posi : r a orth Pp ye ot re. fr 1 of a a plause generations, wl hall rise | this marty kin jast garland | the last tankard bh Shushan is in ruil world stands thers men and women, f who will come into ti God and admire t : Vashtl the queen, Vashi] the the sacrifice {lay In the Vashti : whi { head, rate i was no small honor t red:m as that, Hark robes! Hea the bi | yet it is not necessary t regal robe in order to be I see a8 woman with st putting her foot upon all meanness selfishness and godless display, going right forwara to serve Christ and the race i by a grand and glorious service, 1 | “That woman i= a queen,” and the of Heaven look over the | be coronation; and whetl fiom the shanty on ¢} mansion of the {ashi ber with the sf up Iv insoleno vestige ALT first | neo tha ine Ani ERS ranks es ug or the What was thers fary tiand, or Elizabeth and, or Margaret of France, or C ol! Russia, npared with the worth gome of Christian them gone y glory mentioned in the § ail into the Lord's tre { thah's da r. who glory of Hee our * orof that w ssury? or of Jeph- made a demonstra- | who rescued the herds and | husband? or of Ru wi { A tropical { Naomi? f went at m wo as of Judson, who tion amid the darkness Hemaps, who poured out her Min words which will forever be associated with honter’'s horn, and captive’s chaip, hour, anl lute’s throb, and ell ot the “sing day? aad scores handreds of women, noknown on I, who have given water to the thirsty, sd bread to the hungry, and medicine to the sick, and smiles to the discouraged flocks of her +934 under idnight Crim kind staunch the battle ea? or Mrs, Adoniram the lights of salva. the aK | In government hospital, and in almshouss | corridor, and by prison. gate? There may be no royal robe--there way be no palatial surroundings, She doag not need them; for all charitable men Will unite with the eraskling lips of fever-struek hospitals and plaguo-biotched lazaretto in greeting her as she passes; “Halll Haill Queen Yashtil” | Again, I want you to consider Vashti the ! veiled, rus and his court on that day with her face ‘that would have despised her, Assoms flowers | tf | the shadow, and where the sun does pot seem to reach them, s0 God appoints to | most womanly natures a retiring and un- | sbtrusive spirit. God ones in & while does ; sall an Isabella to a throne, a Miriam to ; #rike tho timbre! at the front of a Lost, or i Marie Antoinette to quell a Frenoh mob, ! or a Debornh to stand at the front of an | armed battalion, erying out, “Up! Up! } This ix the day in which the Lord will de { liver Sisera into thy bande.” And when { the women are called to such outdoor work i and to such heroic positions, God prepares them for it; and they have iron in their i oul, and lightnings in their ere, and whiriwinds in their breath, and the bor ; vawed strongth of the Lord Omuipotent in jo tir right arm. They walk through fur paces as though they were hedges of wild flowers, and cross seas as thoug:i they were shimmering sapphire; and all the harpies of hell down te their dungeon atthe stamp of womanly indignation, But these are the exceptions, Generally, Dorcas would rather make a garment for the poor boy; Rebecca would rather fill the trough of the camels; Hannah would rather make a coat for Sumuel; the Hebrew maid would rather give a prescription for Naa- man’s leprosy; the woman of Bareptu would rather gather a fow sticks to cook a meal for famished Elijuh; Phebe would rather enrry a letter for the inspired apostle; Mother Lois would rather educate Timothy fn the Beriptures. When I ses a woman going about her dally duty, with cheerful dignity presiding at the tabls, with kind and gentle but firm discipline presiding in the nursery, golug out into the world with. out any binst of trampets, following in the footsteps of Him who went sbout doing good—1 say: “This Is Vashti with a veil on." But when I sean woman of unblushing boldness, loud voleed, with a tongue of in- finite elitter-clatter, with arrogant look, prssing through the streets with the step of a walking-beam, gayly arrayed inn very When I see a woman trying to force her way on up to conspleuity, ami the masculine demagogues, who stand with swollen fists and bloodshot eyes and Jost her veil!” Lins wanting to go through the loaferism and defilement of popular sovereigns, who and vermin-coverad, to decide questions of justice and order and ecivilization—when I ses a woman, Irsay, who wants to press through all that horrible scum to get to “Ah, what ® pity! Vashti has lost her veil!” When I see a woman of comely features, if intellect, and endowed is ean do for her, and of Ligh soelal position, yet moving in society superciliousness and hauteur, place, and with an undefined cor of giggle and strut and rhodomo dowed with allopathic quantities ol but only homeopathic infinitesimals sense, the terror of dry-goods railroad conductors, discoverers of cant meanings in plain conversation, ’ signin fies “VYaushti has lost ber veil.” Again, I want you this morning glider Vasbti the sacrifice, Who Is 1 see coming ot ! Shushan? It #¢ her before, Ble friendless, 1 DOArs. to cor t s joss, nse equalatanceship, Vas! 3! you and I have ws , Bone #0 r gtragesnd ¢ trud «ls brandy proot that blistering, all ever the palace gale aga onsuming rae nst Vashti and il War l went to army, and I iooked d g aii during our Civ sok af the {he and the yrany singwhen I saw th sing in the darkness when I the he great host asleep, Well, God | n {from Heaven, of Coristend loved ones There are r wides and the fires wheres we warm ou rp and talk over the {fe we have fought and the battles ti re yot to come, God grant thal w ast these fires begin to go out, and con- ; to lower until finally they are ex ed, and the ashes i strew the hearth of the oid b stead, it may be because we have Latties at en at of {ions to sleap that last 3] sop, From which none ever wake {0 weep, Now we are an army on the mareh life. Then we shall be an army bivouacked do not hear any ouatery As sne goes forth from From the very dignity of know there will eiferation. Bometimes fu the silent, You from this womas the palace gate, be no ¥ ksop silence, a philosopher, confident iightniag rod and eotton-gin and steam. boat and telegraph waiting for years through the seoffing of philosophical gchool, in grand and magnificent silence, and eardinale, ecaricatured everywhere, yet waiting and watchiog with his telescope to sea the coming up of steliar reinforcements, whon the stars in their conrses would fight for the Coperni- ean system; then sitting down in complete bilndness and build his monument and bow at his grave, | The reformer, execrated by his contempo- | raries, fastened in a pillory, the siow fires of public contempt burning under him, ground uader the eylindersof the printing- | press, yet ealmly waiting for the day when purity of soul and heroism of character will get the sanction of earth and the plaudits of Heaven. Affliction enduring without any complaint the sharpness of the pang, and the violence of the storm, and the heft of the chain, and the darkness of the night—waitiug until a divine hand shall be put forth to soothe the pang, and hush the storm, and release the captive, A wifs almused, persecated, and a perpetual waiting, until thes Lord shall gather up His dear ehfldren ina Heavenly home, and no poor Vashti will ever be thrust oat from the palace gate, Jesus, in silesce and answering not a word, drinking the gall, and bearing the Cross, in prospset of the rapturous consummation when Angels thronged Iisa chariot wheel, And bore Him to His throne; Then swept their golden harps and sung, | "The glorious w+” is done!” Where Coal is Dearest and Cheapest, Conl is dearer in 9odth Africa than in any Sher | part of the world; it is cheapest in Stone in Her Stomach. Prom the Garette, Rlandinsvil’e, TL The wile of the Rev. A. BR. 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