Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-03-02
TALMAGE ON THE DUTIES OF
WIVES TO HUSBANDS.
Some Things Wives Forget They
Should Most Remember.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Feb. 21.-[Spe
cial Rev. Il. Dewitt Talmage, u
d., preached to-day in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, the seventh of his seriei
of sermons OH "The Marriage Ring,
the subject being "Duties of Wives
to Husbands"
The text was 1. Samuel, XIV, 3
"The name of his wife, Abigail ant
she was woman of good under.
standing, and of a beautiful counte
NANCE" Following is the sermon:
The ground in Carmel is white, moi
with fallen snow, but the wool from
the backs of 5000 sheep, for they are
being sheared. And hear the grind.
ing of the iron blades together, and
the bleating of the flocks, held be-
tween lhe knees of the shearers while
the clipping goes on, and the rustic
laughter of the workmen. Nabal and
his wife Abigail preside over the
homestead. DaYid, the warrior,
sends delegation TO apply for aid at
such q prosperous time of sheep
shearing, and Nabal peremptorily de-
clines his request. Revenge is the
cry. Yonder over the rocks come
David and 400 angry men with one
stroke to demolish Nabal and his
sheep-folds and vineyards. The reg
iment 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 Forward !
Forward !"
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 the base of the
crag he cries "IIold Holdp Abigail
is the conqueress One woman in
the right mighticr than 400 men in
the wrong! A hurricane stopped at
the sight of water lily! A dew
drop dashed back Niagara. BY her
proves and tact she has saved her
husband, and saved her home, and
put before all ages an illustrious
specimen of what wife can do if
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
responsibility Of telling husbands
how they ought to treat their wives
and, though l notice that some of
them squirmed little in their pew,
they endured it'll now take the re-
sponslbility of telling how wives
ought TO treat their husbands. /
hope your domestic alliance was SO
happily formed that while married
life may have revealed III him some
frailties that you did not suspect, il
has also displayed excellencies that
more than overbalanced them. l
suppose that if could look into the
heart of hundred wives here pres
ent aud ask them where is the kind
est and best man they know Of, if they
dared speak out, ninety-nine out of a
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 have read. The
wife said to her husband: 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
rarily lost her eyesight. "Yes," said |
the husband, 1--WE ought to be sub
Let me see what we have |
to submit TO. First, we have a home
we can submit to that, Then we
have each other; we can submit to
that. Then we haye food and raj
ment; we can submit TO that. Then
we have a great many friends; we
can submit to that. We have a Heav-
cnly father 10 provide for US"
"Stop! stopW said the wife, 81 will
talk no more about submission"
l hope, my sister, you have mar
ried man as Christian and as well
balanced as that. But even if you
were worsted in the conjugal bargain
you cannot be worse off than this
Abigail in my text. Her husband
was coarse and ungrateful an ine-
briate, for on the very evening after
her heroic achievement at the foot of
the hill, where she captured whole
regiment with her genial and STRAIT
getic behavior, she returned home
and found him so 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 perfect
husband" for you are to remember
that no wife was ever worse swindled
than this Abigail in my text. AT
the other end of her table sat a mean,
selfish, snarling, contemptible sol, land
If she could do so well for bastard,
how ought you to do with that
princely and splendid man with
whom you are 10 walk the path of
life?
: |. counsel the wife to remember
in what severe and terrific battle
Of life her husband is engaged.
Whether in professional or CONNER
cial of artistic or mechanical life,
your husband from morning to night,
Is in Solferino if not a Sedan. 1t is
a wonder that your husband has any
nerves or patience or suavity left. 10
get a living in this next to the last
decade of the nineteenth century is a
struggle, If he come home and sit
down pre-oocupied, you ought to ex-
,use him. If he do not feel like GO
ing out that night for walk or en-
tertainment, remember he has been
out all day. You say he ought to
cave at his place of business his an
ioyances and come home CHEEKY.
But if man has been betrayed by a
business partner, or a customer has
ockeyed him out of a large bill of
goods, or a protested note has been
lung on his desk or somebody has
,alled him liar and everything has
gone wrong from morning to night,
ne must have great genius and for
getfulness if he do not bring some of
he perplexity home with him.
When you tell me he ought to leave