The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-13
The Story of Jezebel. Naboth and
the Vineyard.
wives Who Have Won Successes
a for Their Husbands.
Reinforcement and Inspiration That She
Can Give-Every Wife May Be
"A q Joan of Arc to Her
"a Husband.
.ocinI nIsn0ich 10 The Anneal.

I'D, preached the fifth OF his series oil
Sermons to Women of America, with
1 Important Hints for Men," The subject
was: "Wiiely Ambition, Good or Bad,
and the text was from l. Kings xxi, a
s-t.hrise, and eat bread and let thine heart
Il be merry. l will give thee the vineyard
4 Of Naboth." DIR. Talmage said:
\ One day King Ahab, looking ont OF the
window Of his palace ut Jezreel, said to
his wife Jezebel: ave ought to have these
royal gardens enlarged II we could only
get that fellow Naboth, who owns that
vineyard out there, to trade or sell, we
could make il kitchen garden for our
palace"
''Fetch in Naboth," says the King to
one Of his servants.
!, The plain gardener, wondering why he
should be called into the presence Of his
majesty, comes in, little downcast in
his modesty, and with very obsequious
manner bows TO the King.
Tho King says "Naboth, l want to
& trade vineyards with you. | want your
4 vineyard for a kitchen garden, and I will
give great deal better vineyard in place
a Of il, on II you prefer money for IL l will
give you cash"
~ - IN. no, says Naboth, ~ cannot trade
OIL my little place, nor can sell it. 1t Is
+ the old homestead got it OF my father
4 and he OF his iathcr, and cannot let the
old place 20 out OF my hands"
+. In great state of pctulancy King Ahab
' went into the house and flung himself on
The bed, and turned his face 10 the wall
in great pout.
~ Ills wife Jczebel comes in and she says
.what is the matter with you2 Are you
<oick 20
<' "oh, he says, al feel very blue. ] have
sct my heart on getting that kitchen garden
and Naboih will neither trade or sell, and
prfo be defeated by a common gardener II
.inore than can sland.D
"Oh, pshaw," says Jczcbel, don't 20 on
that way. Get up and eat your dinner and
tiop moping. will get for you that
Kitchen garden."
.| Then Jczebel borrowed her husbands
signet or seal, for then, as now, in thost
lands kings never signed their names but
had ring with the royal name engraved on
II, and that impressed on q royal letter o.
document was the signature. She stamped
her husbands name on proclamation
which resulted In getting Naboth tried fol
treason against the King, and two peruret
witnesses swore their souls away with III,
life OF Naboth, and he was stoned 10 death
and his property came TO the crown, ant
= 10 Jczcbel got for her husband and hcrsel
the kitchen garden.
m But while the wild street dogs were rcnd
ing the dead body OF poor Naboih, Elijah
the prophet, tells them Of other canine
n that will after while have a free banquet
saving: "Where dogs lick the blood o
Nnboth shall dos lick thy blood, eyeI
thine"
And sure enough, three years after, Ahab
wounded in battle. his chariot dripplnI
with the ccarnagc, donstood dunderitlappin
his LIES blood. And little afterward hi
wife, Jezcbel, who had been his chief nd
wiser in crime, stands at her palace windo'
and secs Jehu, the enemy, approaching b
take possession OF the palace. And 4
F. make herself look rs attractive as possibl
\ and quecnly 10 the very last, she deco
rated her person, and according 10 Oren
tal custom, closed her eyes and ran brus
dipped In black powder along the lon
eyelashes, and then from the window sh
glared her indignation upon Jehu. AS b
rode 10 tho gates IN his chariot bo shoutc
10 the slaves In her room: "Thro'
~ her down." But no doubt the slaves haltcl
n moment from such work OF assassination
vet, knowing Queen Jczebcl could be n
more 20 them and the conqueror Jeh
would be everything, as he shouted again
"Throw her down." they seized her an
bore her struggling and curing 10 th
window easement and hurled her forth III
abe came tumbling 20 the earth, striking
lust In time 10 let Jehu's horses tramnl
her and the chariot wheels roll over hei
While Jehu Is inside at thcsable rcfrcsl
ing himself after the excitement he order
his servants TO 90 out and bury the dea
auecn. But the wild street dog had ic
the third time appeared ON the scene, an
they had removed oil her body excel
those parts which In all ages dogs are by
strange instinct or brutal superstition kel
from touching after death-thc palms I
the hands and the solcs OF the feet.
All this appalling scene OF ancient ht
tory was the result OF wife's bad adyi'
20 n husband, OF wiie's struggle 10 NJ
vance her husbands interests by unlawfl
means. Ahab and Jczcbel got the kiichc
The trouble all began when this mistake
wife aroused her husband out Of his me
nncholy by the words OF tho text: "Aris
and eat bread, and let thino heart
merry; viii give thee the vineyard
Nabolh."
The influence suggested by this suhle
is an influence you never before heard dI
coursed on and may never hear again, b
most potent and semi-omnlpotent inf
encc, and decides the course oi indiu
~ uals, families, nations, centuries and etc
nitics speak OF wiicly ambition, 20,
and bad. How important that every vi
have her ambition, an elevated, righieo
and diyincly-approved ambition.
And here let me say. what /
most anxious for is that womaa
not waiting for the rights dcni
her or postponed, promptly and decisive
employ the rights she already has In ~
session. Some say she will be in fair "
90 get all her rights when she gets a RIG
~ The balIot.box. wish that ih. ssna