The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-03-05
YALMAGE'S SERMON.
Seventh Sermon OF tho Series On
"The Marriage Ring"

Seventh Sermon OF the Series On
"The Marriage Ring"
The Wlfe's Duty to Her Hasband-ro Re-
member His Struggle In the Daily Bat
tie Of Life, and Keep Herself At.
Observation-Disclosures Murderer.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmags took for the
subject Of the seventh discourse Of his
series ON 1.-THE Marriage Ring" 1.-THE Du.
ties Of Wives TO Husbands" His text
was:
The name Of his wife, Abigail; aud she
was . woman Of good understanding, and
Of . beautiful countsnance.-L Samuel,
| xxv..3.
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 flocks, held between the knees Of the
shearers while the clipping goes on, and
the rustic laughter Of the workmen. Nabal
sud 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 Is, "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.sacrifice,
and when David sees her kneeling at tho
foot of the crag he cries: "Hold! Holdv
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 q wife can do il she be
godly 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 I
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 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, think the most of
you are as well paired as a couple
of whom l 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
u.s." They had lost their children, he had
lost his health, and hence, the income of
his profession, and the wife had tempo
rarity lost her eyesight. eyes," said the
husband, tive 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 Heavenly Father to provide for US
-" "Stop! Stop" said the wife, II will
talk no more about submission"
Hope, my sister, you have married .
man as Christian and as well-balanced as
that. But even il you were worsted in the
conjugal bargain, you can not be worse of
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 a whole regiment with
her genial and strategic behavior, she re.
turned home and found her husband 30
drunk that she could not tell him the story,
but had to postpone it until the next day.
So, my sister, do not want you to keep
saying within yourself as proceed: "That
is the way to treat q perfect husband;" for
you are to remember that no wife was ever
worse swindled than this Abigail of my
text. At the other end Of her table sat q
mean, selfish, snarling, contemplate sot,
and if 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 life:
counsel the wife to remember in what
q severe End terrific battle of life her hus-
band is engaged. Whether in professional
life, your husband from morning to night
is in a Solferino il not a Sedan. It is q
wonder that your husband has any nerves
or patience or suavity left. To get q liv.
ing in this next to the last decade Of the
nineteenth century is struggle.
II he come home and sit down
preoccupied, you ought to excuse him. II
he do not feel like going out that night for
a walk or entertainment, remember he has
been out all day. You say he ought to
leave at his place of business his annoy.
ance and come home CHEEKY. But if man
has been betrayed by a business partner,
or a customer has jockeyed him out Of
large bill Of goods, or protested note has
been flung on his desk, or somebody has
called him a liar, and everything has gone
wrong from morning to night, he must
have great genius and forgetfulness if he
do not bring some of the perplexity home
with him. When you tell ne he ought to
leave it all at the store or bank or shop,
Won might as we'll tell a storm on the At.
lantic to stay out there and not touch the
coast or ripple the harbor, Remember, he
is not over-working so much for himself as
he Is over-working for you and the chill
dren. 1t is the effect Of his success or de-
feat on the homestead that causes him the
agitation. The most of men after forty.