The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-24

you In my prayers. Let - see what -
can achieve bv having God in our hearts
and God IN our lives and God In our
homea Be on the side Of every thing
good Go ahead and do your best and
though every thing should turn out diff.
fersnt from what We have calculated, you
may always count on two who ars going
to help you. and God IL one and / am the
other" That man may have feeble health.
and may inset with many obstacles and
business trials, but he is coming glorious.
" through. for he 10 reinforced, and in.
spired, and spurrsd on BY woman's voice,
IS much ~ Was Barak BY Deborah, whom
Sisera with nine hundred iron chariots
came on to crush him and his army, and
Deborah shouted in the ear Of Barak:
up! for this il the day in which the
Lord hath delivered Sissra into thine
hands" And the enemy fell back aud
Sisera's chariot not getting along fast
enoughlinlthe retreat, the General jumped
! out and took Il afoot, and ran till he came
toa place where woman first gave him .
drink of milk and then sent . spike
through his skull, mailing him to the floor.
Some of Us could tell OF what influence
upon Us has been a wifely ambition con-
| secrated to righteousness. As my wife is
out Of town and will not shake her head
because say it in public, will state that
in my own professional life have often
| been called OF God, as thought, to run
| into the very teeth of public opinion, and
all outsiders with whom / advised told
| me / had better not, il would ruin ms and
ruin my church. and at the same time
was receiving nice little letters threaten
ing me with dirk and pistol and poison il
l persisted in attacking certain evils OF
the day, until the commissioner of po!ico
consid cred it his duty to take his place in
| our Sabbath services with forty officers
| scattered through the house for the
preservation of order, bat in my home
| there has Away been one voice to say:
eco ahead and divergs not an inch
| from the straight line, Who cares il only
God is on our side?"
And though sometimes It seemed as il
was going out against nine hundred iron
chariots, I went ahead, cheered By thu
domestic voice:
Cup! for this Is the day in which tho
Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine
hands"
A man is no better than his wife will let
him bs. o wives Of America, swing your
scepters Of wifely influence for God and
good homes! Do not urge your husbands
to annex Naboth's vineyard to your pal.
ace OF success, whether right or wrong.
lest the dogs that come out to destroy Ma
both come out also to devour you Right
eousness will pay best in lifs, will pay
best in death, will paw best in the judg-
ment will pay best through all eternity.
In our efforts to have the mother Of
every household appreciate her influences
over her children we are apt to forget the
| wife's influence over the husband. In
many households the influence upon the
husband is the only home influences. In .
great multitude of the best and most inn
portant and most talented families Of the
earth there have been no descendants.
There is no. child. or o grandchild. or
any remote descendant Of Washington,
| or Charles Sumner, or Shakespeare, or
Edmund Burke, or Pitt, or Lord Nelson,
or Cowper, or Pope, or Addison. or john
son. or Lord Chatham, or Grattan, or
| Isaac Newton. or Goldsmith, or Swift, or
Locke, or Gibbon. or Walpole. or Cam
ming. or Dryden, or Moore, or Chaucsr, "r
| Lord Byron, or Walter Scott, or Oliver
Cromwell, or Garrick, or Hogarth, or
Joshua Reynolds, or Spencer. or Lord
Bacon. or Macaulay. Multitudes OF
the finest families of the earth
are extinct. As though they had
done enough for the world BY their geni-
US, or wit, or patriotism. or invention, or
conservation, God withdrew them. In
multitudes Of cases all woman's oppor.
| tunity for usefulness is with her cotemp.
oraries. How important that it bs an
improved opportunity!
! While the French warriors on their
way to Rheims had about concluded to
give up attacking the castle at Troyes be-
cause it was so heavily garrisoned, joan
Of Arc entered the room and told them
they would be inside the castle in three
days.
Eve would willingly wait six days."
said ons OF the leaders.
"Sxw she cried out; ''you shall be in
| it Tomorrow" And. under her leader.
shin, on the morrow they entered. On
| smaller scale every man has garrisons to
! subdue and obs tacles to level, and every
wife may be an inspired Joan of Arc to
her hus band.
What a noble, wifely ambition, the de-
termination, God helping, to accompany
her companion across the stormy sea OF
this life and together gain the wharf Of
the Celestial City! Coax him along with
you! You can not drive him there. You
can not nag him there: but you can coax
him there. That is Gods plan. He coaxss.
US all the way-coaxes US out Of our sins.
coaxes Us to accept pardon, coaxss rs TO
Heaven. If we reach that blessed place
it will be through.a prolonged and divine
coaxing. By the same process take your
companion, and then you will get there as
well, and all your household. Do just the
opposite to your neighbor. Her wifely
ambition is all for this world, and dis
appointed and vexed and unhappy Great.
ure sLe will be all the way. Her resi-.
dence may be better than yours for tn,
few years Of earthly stay, but she will
move out of il as to her body into q house
about five and one-half feet long AMI
about three feet wide and two feet high,
and concerning her souls destiny you can
make your own Representation Her
husband and her sons and daughters,
who all, like her, live for this world.
will have about the same destiny
for the body and the soul Yo1
having had a sanctified and 1T.
vinely ennobled wifely ambition, will pass
up into palaces. and what becomes OF your
scafYo'ding. pulled down now that yonr
temple is done. You will stand in the
everlasting rest and see your husband
come in. and see your children come in, if
they have not preceded you. Giorifis1
Christian wifs! Pick up any crown y3u
choose from OF the Kings footstool and
wear it; it was promised you long ago,
and with it cover up all the scars Of your
earthly conflict
Sixteen miles from St Petersburg, Rms.
sia, was one of the royal palaces, and
there one night Catherine, the Empress.
entertained Prince Henry. 1t was severe