The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1888-04-20
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE's SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "wifcIy Ambition, Good
and Bad"

heart Be Blerrg; ! loiu giue thee the vineyard
Of Aatoth-'-I Kings, xxi, Z.
One day King Ahab, looking out of the
window Of his palace at Jezree, said TO his
wife Jezshel: I'VE ought TO have these royal
gardens enlarged. If We could only get that
fellow Naboth, who owns that vineyard out
there, TO trade or sell we could make it
kitchen garden for our palace.
Fetch in Naboth, " said the king TO enc of
his servants
The plain gardener, wondering why he
should he called into the presence OF His
Majesty, comes in, a little downcast in his
mOdesty and with very obsequious manner
bows 70 the King.
The King saws: .syaboth, | want 10 trade
vineyards with YOU. i want your vineyard
fof kitchen gar,ien. and will give great
deal better vineyard in place of it. or if you
prefer money for it, | will give you cash. ~
'-Oh. no, says NabOth, Al cannot trade of
my little place, nor can sell it 1t is the old
homestead got it Of my father and he of
his father, and l cannot let the Old place go
I out Of my hands"
{ In great state Of petulancy King Ahab
+ went INTO the house and flung himself on the
! bed. and turned his face 10 the wall in great
Pout
His wife Jezebel comes in and she says:
! a. u hat is the matter with you! Are you
/ sickln
ooh. he saws, 81 feel very blue. l have
and Naboth viii neither trade nor sell, and TO
be defeated by a common gardener is more
than can s.anin
'iOh, pshaw,p says Jezebel, don't go on
that way. Get up and eat your dinner and
stop mopins- will get for you that kitchen
garden
Then Jezebel borrowed her husbands signet
ring or seal, for then, as now, in those lands
kings never signed their names, but had
ring with the royal name engraved on it
and that impressed on royal letter or docu-
nent WIS the signature. She stamped her
husbands name on a proclamation which
resulted in getting Naboth tried for treason
against the king, and two perjured witnesses
swore their souls away with the life of
Naboth, and he was stoned to death and his
property came TO the crown, and so Jezebel
got for her husband and herself the kitchen
garden
But while the wild street dogs were rend-
ing the dead body Of poor Naboth, Elijah
the prophet, tells them Of other CANNES that
viii after while have a free banquet, say
ing: "W here dogs lick the blood OF Naboth
shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine
And, sure enough, three years after, Ahab,
wounded In battle, his chariot dripping with
the carnage, dog sstood under it tapping his
HES blood Ana little afterwarl his wife,
Jezebel, who had been his chief adviser in
crime stands at her palace window and sees
Jehu, the enemy, approaching TO take posses
sion Of the palace. And to make herself look
as attractive as possible and queenly to the
very last. she decorated her person and, ac-
cording TO Oriental custom, closed her ewes
and ran brush dipped in the black powder
along the long eyelashes, and then from the
window she gared her Indignation upon
JehG- As he rode 70 the gates In his chariot
he shoufei to the slaves in her room:
Throw her DOWN. But no doubt the |
slaves halted moment from such work of |
Assassination, yet knowing Queen Jezebel /
could Be no more to them and the conqueror |
Jehu would be everything, as he shouted |
again: Throw her down. they seized her |
and bore her struggling and cursing to the |
window easement and hurled her forth till /
ste came tumbling TO the earth striking it |
just In time 10 let Jehu's horses trample her |
aud the chariot wheels roll over her. While |
Jehn Is inside at the table refreshing himself /
after the excitement he orders his servants 10 |
go out and bury the dead queen But the |
Wild street dogs had for the third time ap- |
pearsd on the scene, and they removed all her |
body except those parts which in all ages |
dogs are by strange instinct or brutal su-
pefstiti0n kept from touching after death |
the palms Of the hands and the soles of the |
feet
All this appalling scene of ancient history |
was the result OF a wife's bad advice TO a hus- |
band. Of wifes struggle to advance her |
husbands interests By unlawful means
Ahab and Jehebel got the kitchen garden of /
Nabcth. but the dogs got them The trouble /
all began when the mistaken wife aroused
her husband out Of his melancholy by the 1
words Of the text; arise. and eat bread,
and lei thine heart be merry; will give thee
the vineyard Of SabotlI =
Tbs Influence suggested by this subject is
an ianEence you never before heard dis
courssi on and may never hear again, hut a
most potent and semi-omnipOtent influence.
and decides The course OF individuals fami-
bes. nations centuries and etefnities.
- oil - I
How important that every wife have her
ambition aneleyated, righteous and divinely
approved ambition
And here let me say, that what am most
anxious for Is that woman, not waiting for
the rights denied her or postponed, promptly
and decisiveiy employ the rights she already
has in possessieD- Some says she viii he in a
FAR way TO get ali rights when she gets the
right 70 the ballot box. / wish that the ex-
pertinent might be tried and settled
would ike 10 see all women vote,
and then vat n the result do
anFthing Tor the better Most wives and
dlaghters and sisters would vote as their
husbands and fathers and brothers voted
Nearly all the families that | know are sol
idly Republican or Democratic or Prohibi-
ton 1h0se families all voting would make
more votes, but no difference in the result.
Besides that. now at the poles men are
bought up by the thousands, women would
b. bought up by the thousands The more
voters, the more opportunity for political
eorruption- We have several million more
voters now than are for public good.
We are told that female suffrage would
correct fNo evils-the rum business and the
ifsufficiency OF woman's wages About the !
rum business | have TO say that multitudes
Of women drink. and II Is no unusual thing
70 them in the restaurants 50 ogerpow-
cred With vine and beer that they can
hardly Sit up. while there are many so
called respectable restaurants where they can
20 and take their champagne and hot toddy
all alone Mighty temperance voters those
Noinen WoEid makei Besides that the
wives u the rum sellers would have to vote
IN tbs Interests OF their husbands business. or
have = time The inverse of felicitious. Be
sides that. millions OF respectable aid re-
fined women in American would not
vote AZ al. because they did not care to
20 % the polls and. on the other hand
Homanly rorghs woaid all go to the polls,
and that might make more womans vote on
the wrong side There is not, in my mind.
much prospect OF the expulsion Of drunken
ntzs b female suffrage
As to woinans wages 20 be corrected by
ut5uan's vote have not much faith in that
Women are harder on women than men are
Masculine employers are mean enough in
trezfsnenf II women. bat II you want to hear
beating down OF prices and wages in perfec-
ton. Listed how some No9ncu If-aal NaSuer-
women and dressmakers and female servants.
Mr. Sbyiock IS more merciless than Mr.
ShYIo-k Women. I fear, will never get
r ghfeols wages through w9mans vote, and
A. 70 unfarfunate woInarhood, woman are
lar more cruel and unforLiving than men
ar. After a woman has made shipwreok OF
her ci7nractar men generally drop her, but
women Do not - much drop Der as hurl her
y ifh the force d a cafapult clear out and
o. aud down and under.
I have MT m1cn faith that women VIII
errr get tnerciful consideration and justice
through woman suffrage. yet | Ike expert
insrlts an some Of my friends in whose judg-
uleuf I hsEe coB6dence are &C certain that al
.-rlaron would c-.,ii- ny sucn process that 1
Eoui1 II ] had the power. put in every
rTa-nan's hand the vote. ] cannot see what
rirf.f rdu have 70 make a woman pay
iarss % her property 70 help support city,
STATE and nsfionsi government and yet deny
.isr tie opportunity OF helping 70 decide who
.1iaiI r. mayor governor or president. But
- every uife. MT IA ting for the vote she
may never es-f. ar getting u, find il outhal-
aro-.s by aarne other vote not fit 10 he cast
ari.e ..aw IN the might Of the eternal God
ani sid fiis power Of the sanctliiei wifely
ainhitiou for good apprcrirnating the in
Gnife
Nn one can - inspire man 10 noble pur-
.<-.s A. , noble woman. and no one 50 thor
nu.hlr de.,rada a man as a wife Of unworthy