Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-06
TALMAGIAN TALK.
The Tabernacle Thunderer's Lee
ture to Women.
A Plea for Growing Men.

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Last Sunday the Rev. DIR. Talmage
took for his text Samuel XIV, 81: Tho
name OF his wife was Abigail; and was
a woman Of good understanding and a
beautiful countenance." And he
pictured the ground in Carmal as
white, not with fallen snow, but the
wool from the backs Of 5000 sheep,
tor they are being sheared. And l
hear the grinding of the iron blades
together, and the bleating of the hocks,
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 a
delegation to apply for aid at this pros
porous time of strengthening, and
Nabal premptorily declines his request.
Revenge is the CRY. Yonder over tho
rocks come David and 400 hundred
angry men with n stroke to demolish
Nabal and his sheepfolds and viz O.
yards. 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
tho cry Of the commander is Forward!
Forward" Abigail, to save her hus-
band and his property, hastens to the
foot of the hill. She is armed, not
with q sword or spear, but with her
w beauty and self-sacrifice, and
when David sees her kneeling at tho
BAsE OF II CRAG,
be cries, Hold /! Hold !" Abigail is
the c~ongueress. One woman in the
right is mightier than 400 men in the
wrong! A hurricane stopped at the
sight of a water lily! A dew drop
dashed back Niagara BY her Prov
ess and tact she has saved her husband,
and saved her home, and put before all
ages en- illustrious specimen of what q
wife a do if she be cody and prudent
and self-sacriicirg and devoted to the
interests of her husband, and attract
i've. First, | counsel the wife to re-
member in what a severe and terrific
battle of life her husband is engaged.
Whether in professional or III
ial, or artistic or mechanical life, your
husband from morning to night is in a
Solferino, If not a Sedan. 1t is a
der that your husband has any nerves
or patience or suavity left. To get a
living in this next TO the last decade of
the nineteenth century is % struggle. Ii
he come home and sit down preoccu-
pied you ought to excuse him. If he
does not feel like going out that night
for a walk or entertainment, remem-
Der he has been out all day. You say
he ought to leave at his place Of bust
ness his annoyances and come home
CHEEKY. But if a man has been be-
trayed by a business partner, or a Gus
toner has jockeyed him out of a large
bill of goods. or a protested note has
been flung on his desk, or somebody
has called him a liar and everything
has gone wrong from morning to Light,
he must have great genius and forget
fulness if he did not bring some of the
perplexity home with him.
When you tell me he ought to leave
it all at the store, or bank, or shop,
You might as we'll tell a storm on the
Atlantic to stay out there and not
touch the coast or ripple tho harbor.
Remember he is not overworking SO
much for himself as he is overworking
for you and the children. 1t is the eff
feet of his success or defeat on tho
homestead that causes him the agita-
ton. Most of men after As years OF
age live not for themselves but for their
families. They begin to ask themselves
anxiously the question: "Now if l
should give out, what would become
of the folks at home? Would my chill
dren crc- Get their education? Would
my wife have 70 go out into the world
to earn bread for herself and our little
ones? My eyesight troubles me, how
if my eyes should failP My head gets
dizzy, how if ] should drop under APP
p~oplexyP" the high pressure of busi-
ness life, and mechanical life, and ag-
ricultural life is home pressure. l
charge also the wife to keep herself as
attractive after marriage as she was
before marriage. The reason that so
often q man ceases to love his wife is
because the wife ceases to be lovable.
In many cases what elaboration of
toilet before marriage and what
RECKLEssNESs OF APPEARANCE
after. The most disgusting thing On
earth is q slatternly woman. l mean q