Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-22
HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE
REV. TALMAGE SETS UP A
STANDARD FOR WOMEN.


sensible wife. Prof. Browne rendered on
the organ a soccato in D minor by Bach.
The congregation united in singing the
hymn: bad
BLOW. ye, the trumpet! Blow
The gladly solemn sound;
Let all the nations hear
70 earth's remotest bound
The text was | Samuel XIV, 8: "The
name OF MS wife, Abigail; and she was a
woman Of good understanding. and of a
beautiful countenanee." 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 be-
ing sheared. And i hear the grinding of
the iron blades together, and the bleating
of the flocRs, held between the knees Of
the shearers while the clipping goes on,
and the rustic laughter of the workmen.
Nabal aud his wife Abigail preside over
this homestead. David, the warrior, sends
a delegation to apply for aid at this pros
porous time of sheep-shearing, ana Nabal
peremptOriiy declines his reqdest. Re-
venge is the cry. IOnder over the rocks
come David and four hundred angry men
with one stroke to demolish Nabal and his
sheepfolds and vineyards. The regiment
LuAICA III uOlBiE tlulIks anu t0C bIOnGS VI
the mountain loosen androll down, as the
soldiers strike them with their swift feet,
and the cry of the commander is "For-
ward Forward"
Abigail, TO save her husband and his
property, bastens TO the foot of the hill.
She is armed, not with sword or spear,
but with her own beauty and selfsacrilice,
and when David sees her kneeliDg at the
base of the crag he cries: @Hold hold! ="
Abigail is the conqueress! One woman
in the right mightier than four hundred
men in the wrong! A hurricane stopped
at the sight OF waterlilyl A dewdrop
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 if she be godly aud prudent. and
self-sacrifieing ana vigilant, and devoted
10 the Interests of her husband, and at
tractive.
AS, Sabbath before last, ] TOOK the re.
sponsibility OF telling husbands hoW they
y ssuu WTY5s-u-ssyf. UtIUugu I
noticed that some Of them squirmed lit
tie in their pew, they endured it well-I
now take the responsibility of telling how
wives ought to treat their husbands.
hope your domestic alliance was so hap
PLY formed that, while married life may
have revealed in him some fraities that
eXcellencies that more than Overbalanced
them. ! suppose that ii | 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 a hundred Of
them would say: "At the other end of
this pew" Though sometimes you NAV
have snapped each other up little quick,
! think the most OF you are as well paired
Ts-Nn ~ ~ L
'The wife said to her husband: 81
have made up my mind to
be submissive, Notwithstanding all
the mistortunes that have come upon us. y
They had lost their children; he had lost
his health, and, hence. the income OF bis
profession, and the wife bad temporarily
lost her eyesight. 'Ies," said the hus-
band, 1--WE 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 each other; we can sub
NIT to that. Then we have food and raj
ment; we can submit u that. Then we
have a great many friends; we can sub
init to that. We have Heavenly Father
To provide for us" "otopi Stopw said
the wife, IL will talk no more about sub
mission"
hope, nv sister, you have married a
man as Christian and well-oalanced as
that. But even il YOU were wOrsted in
conjugal. bargain, you cannO. be worse of
than this Abigail in my text. Her hus.
band was coarse and ungrateful, an in
ebreiate, for on the very evening after her
heroic achievement ut the foot OF the bill,
where she captured whole regiment
with her genial aud strategic behaviour,
she returned home and found her husband
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 10 keep saying within Yourself as /
proceed; THAT is the way TO treat per-
feet husband;" for you are 70 remember
that no wife was ever worse swindled
than this Abigail OF my text. At the
other end OF her table sat mean, selfish.
snarling, contemplate sOt, aud II she
could do so well for a 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 a severe and terrific battle OF lie
her husband is engaged. Whetnerin pro-
fessiOnal or commercial, or artistic or
mechanical life, your husband, from
morning 10 night, is In a SOlfeTinO, If not
a Sedan. 10 ~ a wonder that your nus.
band has any nerves or patience OF
suavity left. To get living In this next
10 the last decade Of the nineteenth cen.
! tury is a struggle. II be come home and
ST. down preoecupied, you ought 20 ex.
cuse him. II be do not feel like going out
! that night FOR a walk or entertainment
remember he has been out all day. You
/ say be ought 70 leave al his place OF bust.
ness his annoyances and come nome
CHEEKY. But II a man has been betrayed
! by a business partner or "A customer has
| iOckeYed him out Of large bill Ol
/ goods, or protested note has been flung
| on his desk, or somebody has called him
n liar, and everything has gone wrong
| from morning 70 nignt, he must have great
genius and iorgetiulness II ho do not
/ bring some OF the perpleXity home with
him. When you tell me he ought 30 leave
! 10 all 40 the store, or bank, or shop, YOU
ght as well tell a storm on the Atlantic
10 stay out there aud not touch the coast,
! or ripple the harbor. Remember he is NOT
| OverwOrking 80 much for himself rs he ID
| overY0rkng for you and the children. II
| is the effect Of his success or defeat on the
l homestead that causes him The agitation
/ The most Of men after 10 years of age live
/ not for themselves. but for their families.
/ They begin 10 ask themselves anxiOusiy
| the question: GLOW IL | should give out.
what would become OF the folks ~ h0mel
/ Would my children ever get their oduca
! ti0ni Would my wife have 70 20 Outinto