The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-04-02
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Seventh Sermon Of the Series On
"The Marriage Ring.

RI. yyifc.s Duty to Her Husband-To Re-
member His Struggle in the Daily Bat
tie of Life, and Keep Herself At
tractive-Ante.Natal Murderers.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage took for the
subiect of the seventh discourse ct his
series on ssThe Marriage Ring" "The Du-
ties of Wives TO Husbands" His text
was:
The name OF his wife, Abigail; and she
was a woman OF good understanding, ana
OF a beautiful countenance.-L samuel.
XIV. 8.
The ground in Carmel is white, not with
fallen snow, but the.wool from the backs
of three thousand sheep, for they are be-
ing sheared. And hear the grinding OF
the iron blades together, and the bleating
of the fiocks, held between the knees OF the
shearers while the clipping goes on, and
the rustic laughter of the. workmen. Nabal
and his wife Abigail preside over this home
stead. David, the warrior, sends dele
CATION to apply for aid at this prosperous
time of sheep -shearing, and Nabal per-
emptorily declines his request. Revenge
is the cry. Yonder over the rocks come
David and four hundred angry men with
one stroke to demolish Nabal and his
sheepfolds and vineyards. The regiment
march in double quick, and the stones of
| the mountain loosen and roll down as the
soldiers strike them with their swift feet,
and the cry of the commander il, "For-
ward! Forwardw
Abigail, to save her husband and his
property, hastens to the foot of the hill.
| She is armed, not with sword or spear, but
with her own beauty and self-sacrince,
| and when David sees her kneeling at the
| foot of the crag he cries: "Holdl Holdw
Abigail is the conqueress! One woman in
| the right mightier than four hundred men
| in the wrong! A hurricane stopped at the
sight of a water-lily! A dew-drop dashed
back Niagara! By her prowess and tact
she has saved her husband and saved her
home, and put before all ages an illustrious
| specimen of what a wife can do il she be
| cody and prudent, and self-sacrificing
| and vigilant, and devoted to the interests
| Of her husband, and attractive.
As, Sabbath before last, took the re-
sponsibility of telling husbands how they
ought to treat their wives-and, though
noticed that some of them squirmed in
| their pews, they endured it WE'LL now
take the responsibility Of telling how
| wives ought to treat their husbands. hope
| your domestic alliance was so happily
formed that while married life may
| have revealed in him some frailties
| that you did not suspect, it has also dis
played excellences that more than over
balanced them. suppose that il could
| look into the heart Of q hundred wives
| here present and ask them where Is the
kindest and best man they know OF, and
they dared speak out, ninety-nine out
| of hundred of them would say: "At
the other end of this pew" Though
sometimes you may have snapped each
| other up little quick, I think the most of
| you are NJ well paired as . couple
Of whom have read. The wife said
| to her husband: 81 have made up my
mind to be submissive notwithstanding
all the misfortunes that have come upon
lost his health, and hence, the income OF
his profession, and the wife had tempo
rarily lost her eyesight. "Yes,n said the
husband, i've ought to be submissive.
Let me see what we have to submit to.
First, we have a home; we can submit to
that. Then we have food and raiment; we
can submit to that. Then we have great
many friends; we can submit to that. We
have Q Heavenly Father to provide for M
- eStop! Stop.n said the wife, 81 will
talk no more about submission"
hope, my sister, you have married q
man as Christian and as well-balanced q,
that. But even il you were worsted in the
conjugal bargain, you can not be worse on
than this Abigail in my text. Her hus
band was coarse and ungrateful, an in
ebriate, for on the very evening after her
heroic achievement at the foot Of the hill
where she captured whole regiment with
her genial and strategic behavior, she re-
turned home and found her husband %
drunk that she could not tell him the story
but had to postpone il until the next day.
So, my sister, do not want you to keep
saying within yourself rs proceed: ssThai
II the way to treat perfect husband !" for
you are to remember that no wife was eveI
worse swindled than this Abigail Of my
text. At the other end OF her table sat q
mean, selfish, snarling, contemplate sot,
and il she could do SO well for . bastard
how ought You to do with that princely
and splendid man with whom you are to
walk the path Of lifei
/ counsel the wife toremember in what
. severe and terrific battle Of life her hus-
band IL engaged. Whether in professional
or commercial or artistic or mechanical
life, your husband from morning to night
u in Solferino II mot Sedan. II il q
wonder that your husband has any nerves
or patience or suavity left. To get . liv.
ing in this next to the last decade Of the
nineteenth century IL struggle.
II he come home and sit dowr
preoccupied, you ought to excuse him. L
he do not feel like going ont that nigh. fol
wax or entertainment, remember he hs,
been out all day. You say he ought ts
leave ct his place Of business his annoy.
ance and come homo CHEEKY. But II maj
has been betrayed by business partner
or customer has jockeyed him out Of /
large bill Of goods, or . protested note hal
been flung ON his desk, or somebody hal
called him liar, and everything has gon,