The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-20

and topsy-turvy. The dinner looked like
it had been thrown ON the table. The husband
was detected, and the children not cared for. As
went away / said .That is the unhappiest
homo ever saw" And . few months later
went home from meetin' with good woman and
saw her house in perfect order, her children
laughing and playing about her, and everything
all right, and said: THAT is the happiest home
/ lever saw" But. bless your soul. that was the
same home and the only difference was that this
time the wife was well and was making her
home and her family happy Get the ideai
Sister. you 20 home, full Of religion, and
stay there and behave yourself, and in
week your husband will call in the
neighbcrs to identify you-you will be 30
changed that he will scarcely recognize you.
One woman left this hall yesterday, and went
home, and got down the Bible, and prayed, and
said, 81 start out on my religious life to-day"
and if that is all the good have done in Indian
apolis, I am more than satisfied. To make at
least one home happy there is the secret OF the
evangelist's pay The consciousness that have
made homes happy is worth all the world to me-
get so many letters saying. "Our home has
been like Eden since you were here Every time
get letter like that think of my poor pale
wife and my desolate home, thirteen years ago,
and thank God that His blessed religion came
to redeem me. Shortly after Brother Small was
converted got sweet letter from his wife, and
she said: 'If you don't do anything else, this is
pay enough for all the troubles and trials you
that man goin' about doin' things like that
should be abused, and maligned, and slanderedf
Why half the people in indianapolis don't know
whether | am fool, a crank, or dog
A Voice. think you are Gods servant
Mr. Jones-lf thought was not would be
the most miserable man in this city. Thank
God, He understands and does me Justice
Let wife get full of religion, and her hus-
band will either soon fall into line apply for
divorce. Sister, il you will call halt in your
war hos will ral1 halt f0n
Get right yourself and your husband will get
right. Next to good mother the greatest
blessing man can have is good wife She
can do with love and prayer what she can't do
with anything else. Some women take it out in
fussin'. God pity the man who has forked
tongued wifei You want love at home. Tears
are better than quarrels. Sister, you can shoot
that fellow down with a good round tear,
and keep him down; you can that Let love
be supreme let your love gush out like a river
to him to whom you plighted vows of con
stancy.
I'll tell you another thing. When anything
but love rules home you have got bad home.
Love won't set down and hear anything bad said
about husband. Of all the people in this world
that do despise it is those who set about talk
ing between husband and wife. A good wife
won't allow her husband to be talked about. God
pity the woman who becomes jealous of her hus-
band, for jealousy is the most awful passion that
ever burned in human breast. and it can burn
where there is love- Gods grace leads as right.
Wives. never do anything to your husbands that
you will have cause to regret when they are dead
don't do it. The sweetest eptaph | ever saw on
the tombstone of a wife was ''She made her home
pleasant Let us make our homes the most pleas
ant places earth. I've known husbands to
come home, worn out with business cares, and
co met there by a cross, ill-natured wife, and
he wishes he was dead. Wonder if any of you
if to say, I'm hittn you now. Be to your hus-
bands cheerful friend, good associate, one
that biesses him and sets him Christian exam
pie. Do right in everything.
Sister, when you go home to-day, If there is
anything intoxicating in your house, you throw
it out Never help the devil lay your husband
in q drunkard's grave. The hardest thing / can
say and say itin all Kindness is that the biggest
fool God ever looked at is wife who stirs
teddy for husband. Sisters, let me warn you
by every drunken husband. father and son in the
land. that he became SO through taking drains.
and many of them by drinking toddies stirred by
their wives. You 60 home and empty out those
closets.
women who drink lager beer. My! Myl My!
Did you hear what Brother Price said about
beer the other day2 He said that it agreed with
the Dutch stomach but that it didn't agree with
the human stomach The idea of women drink
ing lager beer Why, if you would take some>pf
that stuff and put it in your hog trough, and
didn't sweeten it or anything, there isn't a poor,
half starved hog in the lot that would touch it.
Laughter Ii you did deceive some poor hog
into drinking it, as soon as he got sober he would
leave this town and you couldn't drive him back.
I've heard women saw that they drink beer for
their health When my wife and children can't live
without drinking beer l am ready to preach
their funeral sermons-do you hear that l say
the only hope of America to-day is in the fact
that we have sober mothers and wives. and if
the women should be debauched into drinking
like the men do, we would soon become nation
Of hopeless drunkards. Now have talked to
you for more than an hour, although / am tired
in mind and body, and sick besides, and 1 leave
you with the hope that some OF the truths l have
told you you may take home to make you
blessed
In response to the request for all who wanted
to lead better lives to arise many stood up, after
which the benediction was pronounced.