Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-22
Woman's Great Power for Good or
Evil in That Graudest Of Spheres,
the Home Circle,
The Husbands Intelligent Helper and
Companion "A Married Gossip
Ruin TO all Peace.
rho samo OF His wife AbIgaii-she Was q
woman of Good Understanding and
ola Beautiful Countenance.
TIE rAnKRNAcLE sERMoN.

in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the seventh
Of his series OF sermons on "Thc Mar
riagc Ring" the subject being "Duties Of
Wives 70 Husbands Before the sermon
he read and expounded the last chapter OF
Proverbs, descriptive Of a prudent and
sensible wife. Prof. Browne rem
dered on the organ soccato in ID minor
by Bach. Tho congregation united in
singing the hymn;
I" BLOW, yo, the trumpet Blow
The gladly solemn sound;
Let all the nations hear
To eRrth's reno est bound"
The text was Samuel XIV, 3 "rhe
name Of his wife, Abigail; and she was
woman OF good understanding, and OF a
beautiful countcnance.n Following Is
the sermon:
The ground in Carmel is white, not
with fallen snow, but the wool from the
backs Of three thousand sheep, for they
are being shearcd. And hear the grind
ing OF the iron blades together, and the
bleatlng Of the iiocks, 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 homestead. David, the
warrior, sends delegation TO apply for
aid At this prosperous time OF sheep
shearlng and Nabal peremptorily declines
his request Revenge is the cry Yonder over
the rocks come David and four hundred an
cry men with one stroke to demolish Nabal
and his sheepfelds and vineyards The regI-
ment march In double quick, and the
stones OF the mountain loosen and roll
down, as the soldiers strike them with
their swift feet, aud the cry of the com
mander Is "Forward Forward"
Abigail, TO save her husband aud his
property, hastens TO the foot OF the hill
She Is armed, not with sword or spear,
but with her own beauty aud scf-sncri-
lice, and when David sees her kneeling at
the base of the crag, he cries: "Holdl
HoldP Abigail Is the conqueTessl One
woman in the right is mightier than four
hundred men in the wrongl hurricane
stopped at the sight Of water-liy a
dew-drop dashed back Nlagaral BY her
prowess and tact she has saved her hus-
band, and saved her home, and put before
all ages mn illustrious specimen OF what u
wife can do II she be godly and prudent
and self-sacriiclng and ylgilant and de-
voted to the interests ofher husband, and
attractive
AZ Sabbath before last | took the re-
Sponsibility OF telling husbands how they
notice that some of them squirmed a
little IN their pew, they endured IL 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
nave revealed In him some frailties that
you did not suspect, IL has also displayed
eXcellencies that more than overbalanced
them. suppose that II could look into
the heart OF hundred wives here present
ana ask them where Ia the kindest and
best man thoy know Of, and they dared
speak out, ninety-nlne out OF hundred
OF them would say; eat the other end of
THIS pew" Though sometimes you may
nave snapped each other up little quick,
think the most OF you are as we'll paired
as couple OF whom l have read
lie 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 temporarily
lost her eyesight. "Yes,n said the hus.
band, 1--WE ought TO be submissive, Let
me see what we have to submit TO. First,
we have home; we can submit to that
Then we have each other; we can sub.
init 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" "Stopl
Stopi" said the wife, 81 will talk no
more about submission
hope, my sister, you have married II
man as christian and as well-balanced as
that But even II you We're worsted In
coniugal bargain, you cannot be worse off
than this Abigail In my text. Her hus-
band was coarse and ungrateful, an in
ehriste, for on the very evening after her
heroic achievement at the foot OF the hill,
whore she captured whole regiment with
her genial and stragetlc behavior, she re.
turned home and found her husband so
drunk that she could not tell him the story
but had TO postpone II until the next day
So, my sister, do not want you TO keep
saying within yourself as | proceed /;
"That IL the way TO treat a perfect hus-
band;p 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 n mean, selfish, snarllng,
contemplate sot, and n 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?
First, | counsel the wife TO remember
In what q severe and terrific battle OF life
her husband is engaged. Whether In pro.
fessional or commercial or artistic
or mechanical life, your husband,
from morning To night, is In
Solferino II not Sedan
IL is wonder that your husband has any
nerves OF patience or suayity left. To
get q living In this next to the last de-
cade OF the nineteenth century Is strug-
gle. II he come home and sit down pre-
occupied, you ought to excuse him. II
he do not feel like going out that night
for walk or entertainment, remember
he has been out all day. You say he
ought to leave at his place OF business
his annoyance, and come home choery.
But II a man has been betrayed by a
business partner, or a customerihas jock
eyed him out Of large bill OF goods, or
a protested note has been flung on his
desk, or somebody has called him liar
and everything has gone wrong from